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Comment Re:Too Sticky to be legal (Score 1) 24

So why are you enforcing these echo chambers, google?

Google is an advertising company first, last, and always. You're the product they're selling. Advertisers don't give a damn what you're looking for, only what they want to show you. And they only want to pay for people who might be potential customers to see their ads, and that is why the science of demographics exists. Group people by measurable characteristics that are relevant to how they spend money.

Google isn't doing this to benefit you, the eyeballs they're selling to advertisers. They're doing this because it enforces echo chambers. It concentrates people using their search engine into more saleable demographic groups.

They've tried from day 1 to develop an AI that can accurately provide targeted ads based on what you're interested in, and like all AI, it sucks horribly. So, like most AI companies these days, they're going the mechanical Turk route - if they can't properly sort you into the proper demographic groups for their advertisers (their actual customers), they'll get you to do it for them.

That's how advertising works. They're damned good at it. (And by "damned," I mean "burn in the eternal fires of hell because that's how it works when you sell your soul to the devil.")

Comment Re:MOAR (Score 1) 35

There's no "clutter" in space. There are 316,700 bald eagles just in the continental USA -- presumably about a 1/20th of them would be in the air at a given time. Would you say the sky is cluttered with bald eagles? Even if they were on the exact same orbital plane (they aren't) they are many miles from each other. If there's one washing machine size object in San Francisco the other would be over San Jose. There are 5000 commercial airplanes in the air over the USA at any given time (over 20x more than the number of Starlink satellites there'll be after the full constellation is built). Is the sky cluttered with airplanes??

Comment There's no clutter in space (Score 1) 35

There's no "clutter" in space. There are 316,700 bald eagles just in the continental USA -- presumably about a 1/20th of them would be in the air at a given time. Would you say the sky is cluttered with bald eagles? Even if they were on the exact same orbital plane (they aren't) they are many miles from each other. If there's one washing machine size object in San Francisco the other would be over San Jose. There are 5000 commercial airplanes in the air over the USA at any given time (over 20x more than the number of Starlink satellites there'll be after the full constellation is built). Is the sky cluttered with airplanes?

Comment Re: A valuable life lesson (Score 1) 61

For whatever reason he couldn't wrap his head around the fact that I literally had it installed inside of a VM to reverse engineer it, I just refuse to install adware shit on my bare metal OS just to bind keys to an already expensive mouse.

Classic Dunning-Kruger. Or, by analogy to Gresham's Law, bad thinking drives out good. It's a serious social problem.

Comment Re:Better Results (Score 0) 205

Are you anti-vaxx and flat-earth as well?

An oddly inconsistent prompt.

Anti-vaxx - obviously, yes. The human immune systems are not well enough understood to risk your life on an attempt to jog its arm while it's working.
Flat-earth - obviously, no. I've seen the photos, and no more evidence is needed.

Comment Re:Gotta love a reality show host for Prez!! (Score 3) 149

Reagan was in pretty serious cognitive decline during his second term, which his Cabinet basically concealed. This is the American system, where even obvious signs that someone is cognitively compromised isn't enough to remove them. Basically the only time the 25th Amendment could ever work is if the President's brain falls out of his head, but the brainstem stays intact and keeps informing the heart to pump. Other than that, the Cabinet and Congressional leaders will do everything in their power to keep even severely mentally ill or delusional people in office.

What a fucking moronic system.

Comment Re:Gotta love a reality show host for Prez!! (Score 5, Interesting) 149

I urge you to head over to Conservative gathering places like r/Conservative and see how they think these theatrics in inability to even stay on his own message are signs of his political genius,.

MAGA is a religion, a sort of neo-Pharaohism, where Trump is given the same god-like powers as kings like Ramses or Alexander the Great. He is incapable in their eyes of anything short of complete brilliance, so that even when it's clear he's a moron, they take that evidence of intense terminal stupidity as a sign of just how powerful his brilliance is.

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