There was a new development in japan less than a year ago. Downside is all your teeth fall out and all regrow

That’s how it starts… A year later and you are starting your fifth army and you haven’t finished painting the first one

I didn’t see a single top level comment be the devil’s advocate so I will give it a try.

Humanity moves forward. Standards are always shifting. New technologies and needs are created everyday and people want to raise their standard of living to accommodate for new things. Also, global population has been growing since we stabilized food production in the 1800’s.

If companies don’t grow at least with population, that means tomorrow we will have less than today. If companies don’t also grow with raising standards of living, that means someone stays poor. If companies don’t also grow to match the complexities of producing new technology, that means we stopped in time technologically.

In a competitive system such as capitalism, you don’t wait for more competitors to show up and fill this new ever-growing demand; you take that demand for yourself. So everyone seeks growth.

When a society does not grow (i.e. japan) for too long, capitalism doesn’t break down immediately, but you clearly see it stagnates. Japan’s population is not stable and their economy is facing major problems.

Whether growth is organic or fabricated is a related, but different, topic

The end goal was always to deprive us of alternatives

A tariff is not a tax on exit, it is on entry. US decides to charge tax on the coffee

I am not worried abou the launch codes, I’m worried some incompetent middle manager will replace key staff at a water treatment plant or something (because the CEO told them to put AI somewhere or be fired). Then the fucking AI will have a meltdown after it reads data 10 times in a row and will poison the water supply of millions. Nobody will catch it because quality control analysis was also replaced by the same AI and it decided to delete the alert system for some reason (it had to do something, that is how it works).

I’m not worried about AI being good, I’m worried about the people that think it is good (which already proves they are stupid af) giving it a shot at anything critical

Isn’t menopause the clock?

This is big, these algorithms are useful for a ton of things (and can get very expensive in big sets)

This slap question was a big meme several years ago, and when that video came out (years after the meme), it was an instant hit.

The fact that this discussion is still going shows how popular it is

“somedays I don’t even eat”

Mf getting all their calories from OJ

You have a lot of faith in people’s logic level. Most people read at 6th grade level. There is a person saying “I think this”, do you really think everyone in there thought “I’m completely unaware of what the deceased thought”

I knew half of the answers would be “just use linux”

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/13/us/citizen-nasa-engineer-detained-at-border-trnd/index.html

2017? Maybe earlier?

If a doctor clears you, they can’t deny it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli

He is talking about the “oh, you” format

What part of it is malicious? From what I understood, it is a illegal music downloading platform, and they say it opens its users to “legal action”.

Are we calling pirating-enabling software malicious now? Because pirating is ilegal?

Try being in one of the many countries where whatsapp is the only path to get service from companies (banks, utilities, etc).

Even better, try living a modern life as a tourist abroad without a phone number. You can’t get transportation, even public (and there is no physical payment option), you can’t order delivery, you can’t pay with credit cards online because you need to auth with sms. Everything requires an account and everything requires sms.

It’s not just about privacy of your personal texts. People are putting entire societies in the hands of tech/telecom and demanding we identify through unsecure methods. Having a smartphone with a phone number and whatever is the main local app is now mandatory. Single point of failure everywhere.

Btd6 is the most well maintained td game out there, super competitive, and you pay like 1 dollar once and can have literally everything unlocked. You only pay for cheats to use in single player. It is one the best monetization I have seen in a game.

But you do you, I guess

Only think I know is that fragment size can’t be too small, maybe you can argue that a nail is untested and thus can make micro fragments? Curious to know why this wouldn’t be allowed

Edit: looks like there is a general ban on “unnecessary suffering or superfluous wounds”, so if the nails are strong enough to injure but not kill, they are prohibited.