This is not about stopping bot-scrapers, it’s about charging them.

What are you even talking about!? Nobody gives a shit if they bomb or kill people. Raising gas prices will bring more military consequences in a week than you’d get for a hundred years of genocide.

The scary thing is if you could get 5 SCOTUS judges who buy “the constitution is just for white people”, then it becomes true.

Well, you’d just need 3. Thomas and Alito are already on board no doubt.

This isn’t cooperation, this is rivalry. The point is for you to use Edge instead of Chrome.

Just another skirmish in the war for what matters most: which tech-giant is the default choice.

Sure, but if you think Walz was wrong to order an assassination, then aren’t you implying that killing a Democrat is wrong or bad in some way?

Just look at how much better Afghanistan is after we toppled the Taliban.

The best way to defend Israel is to do regime change to them, not for them.

It’s time to cut Israel loose and let them deal with the consequences of the shit they’ve done.

Thousands and thousands of people line up every day to wait in long, slow moving lines just to get to the barrier around the Mona Lisa to photograph it.

The Mona Lisa might be the most reproduced image in all of history. And the people who get the opportunity to see it in person can only think to photograph it one more time.

It’s almost if that were the point. Taking a selfie with Lisa is the correct way to experience this art. If your camera broke, there is no reason to wait on line just to what, see the painting?

Capitalists are so fucking innovative that they’re trying to replace unpaid human labor with robots that are worse and cost money.

Your argument is more out of date than Vista. Windows is not the default because people like their software, or would choose it over anything else. It’s because they’ve positioned themselves as the default monopoly since the goddamn 1980s.

To see what happens when Microsoft has to compete on quality of software, just ask yourself why Copilot and Recall aren’t being rolled out on Windows phones.

Of course a suicide would have advance knowledge of their own death. It’s not unusual for suicidal people to lie about their own mental health. Especially to their closest loved ones.

What you point out could only support a vague suspicion; a motive to look for compelling evidence. Hanging a whole murder conspiracy on evidence this thin is not the product of critical thought.

This must have been planned well before the strike on Russian airbases (which itself was in the works for over a year).

American hegemony is probably the worst example of enshitification in history. Our cultural exports used to be Hollywood movies and McDonalds. Now it’s our alienation, right wing ideology, and ultra-violence that crosses boarders and ignores local social policy.

No disrespect to Ron Pearlman, but, because of drones, war has changed.

The problem is that the distinction between the pigs and soldiers is academic. But didn’t we always know that the skills learned in Iraq and Afghanistan would be applied at home?

What’s ironic is the same people warning of Sharia law and a Muslim takeover conspiracies are the same people actively clawing back women’s rights in the West TODAY!.

Stop pretending that bigotry and chauvinism are products of critical thought or rationality.

It’s a tool that has gone from interesting (GPT3) to terrifying (Veo 3)

It’s ironic that you describe your impression of LLMs in emotional terms.

This is just absurd. Even if Chrome-Dome was feasible (it isn’t), or a good idea (it isn’t), How TF to you propose to protect Detroit, Cleveland, Rochester, and Buffalo… but not Toronto?

Nobody is arguing that the government is too moral to do such a thing. They’re saying that contrails are a well understood phenomena and would be a lousy way to distribute chemical weapons.

If your a history buff, check out footage of ‘agent orange’. Did they spray that from B52s at the roof of the troposphere? No, cargo planes flying low. (and slow)

Discharge from fossil fuel processing and power generation is known to cause health problems in humans and that junk is dispersed a few hundred meters into the air to keep ground levels below pollution thresholds.

Chemtrails is a stupid idea that could only satisfy the least curious mind.