But China isn’t spending trillions on their AI…

Why do we need to spend trillions to stay ahead of someone who is only spending billions? Might be worth looking into whatever leak in the system is extracting so much money we need to spend 1000x what our competitors are spending just to keep up. We could start by looking at people who have hundreds of billions of dollars at the heads of the AI companies, looks like a few hundred billions might have slipped into their wallets by accident. I’m sure they’ll be happy to give it back to the people.

I work in transportation regulation. I understand your fear and frustration. What is happening with self driving cars is probably as stupid as you believe. However regulations are pretty reactive and in some ways good regulations should be. You can’t regulate what you don’t understand and you can’t understand what has never been done before.

The best approach is to start small and work directly with a regulator to create an initial trial and evolve the regulatory framework that ensures safety for the trial period. Then that framework can be used for future trials by other companies before being finessed into an official regulation. Then you have something which you know CAN be successfully implemented by companies AND does produce good safety outcomes.

Is that what’s happening? It probably was, initially. But as you said the public service is gutted and now corpos are having a wild west free run at this AI car thing. Good luck on the streets, we’re soon all gonna need it.

Israel is trying to figure out what victims snitched so they can kill them and their families. They’re not stupid enough to think they could win money, they just want discovery so they can teach those Palestinians a lesson for speaking to the media.

Very cool use case. Even though I hate it on the whole, I love to see what can be used from it like improving accessibility for neurodivergence.

3d printable IUD! Who’s first?

That’s a very interesting use case. Can you tell me more about it? Sometimes I write emails and then ask llms to “rewrite this like an nt”… But I never imagined using it in dating.

Look, not everyone has the desire and capability to fight. I will say that I’ve had good success these last few years being vulnerable with other “woke” men and it’s been very freeing to share things I thought I experienced alone but to see that other men have gone through similar things.

I haven’t had a lot of success being vulnerable with women, but I’m getting to the point where that is a boundary for me. I’m not going to pursue friendships with people who can’t accept me for who I am and who reinforce toxic gender roles.

I’ve personally witnessed a lot of progress on this end and I’m excited to seeing more and being part of it when I can.

I’m glad you have a therapist, everyone needs someone they can share with.

Sorry you haven’t met someone who isn’t an asshole on this front.

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Yeah that’s what toxic masculinity is. People (men and women) hold toxic views of what a man should be, and punish men for staying from this ideal.

You were a victim of toxic masculinity when you shared your feelings and were then victimised because of it. The people you shared your feelings with were toxic assholes.

I actually didn’t believe you but it’s literally true. First post, immediate apology.

You don’t find and report bugs because the open source project is the highest bidder… You report to contribute to the project. Miss me with that free market mindset!

I love the idea. The math works out a bit different though. After 100 days it’s a 63% chance of getting caught so the fine would be 100/0.63= 159 million plus the additional fee. After 1 day the fine would be 1 million /0.01= 100 million plus the additional fee.

I love the actuarial precision of the fine so that all the probability of profit is priced in. Calculating that probability will be complex though because they could argue there is a 100% chance of getting caught after you caught them lol.

This is a total disaster, like 2 days ago… I guess we’re going right back to the first map.

https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/04/france-backpedals-and-cancels-low-emission-zones-for-cars/

The UK already has laws that cover all the crimes you described. We don’t need to add a label of “terrorist” which takes every crime and scales the sentence an order of magnitude. Especially when it’s added secretly and the jury doesn’t even know what they’re finding them guilty of. Especially when they’re not even allowed to describe the reason for their actions to the jury.

This is a sham court!

You can see the satellites. Pretty much all satellite orbits are public due to the nature of satellites being in space where we can all see them. When a country’s military satellites pass over a specific location multiple times then that location gets precision bombed everyone knows exactly what happened.

water.fanack.com/desalination-plants-water-weapon-gulf/

The American Israeli coalition directly and intentionally destroyed a desalination plant in Iran. Barhain’s desalination plant was damaged by debris from a drone strike on another target. Those are very different statements and very different levels of destruction.

But yes, they’re soft targets if the people attacking you are complete degenerates willing to commit way crimes!

Except the whole point is that it’s free and you’re not selling anything anyways.

It’s not “taking down” the elite in Europe though. Frankly losing your job is a completely inadequate punishment for raping and torturing kids.

But from the point of view of “at least they’re getting SOMETHING”, it’s better than nothing.

http://andywibbels.com/privacy-email-cloud/

Back when email was new, server storage was tiny and you downloaded your emails frequently. That’s when this law was passed.

Nowadays with gmail etc… no one downloads their emails. They stay on the server forever, and government agencies are free to take them without a warrant.

If you seriously think the doctor’s notes about the patient’s symptoms don’t include the doctor’s diagnostic instincts then I can’t help you.

The symptom questions ARE the diagnostic work. Your doctor doesn’t ask you every possible question. You show up and you say “my stomach hurts”. The Doctor asks questions to rule things out until there is only one likely diagnosis then they stop and prescribe you a solution if available. They don’t just ask a random set of questions. If you give the AI the notes JUST BEFORE the diagnosis and treatment it’s completely trivial to diagnose because the diagnostic work is already complete.

God you AI people literally don’t even understand what skill, craft, trade, and art are and you think you can emulate them with a text predictor.