Always sounds like "droppings" to me. You know, something you drop.

Not very good for marketing ...

What, all of them? All the different classes? With very different chemical compositions and mechanisms?

Even if the correlation were valid - and I'm dubious - that doesn't make any sense. You have to have a mechanism, not just some correlation.

That the use of very different sweeteners had some correlation suggests some confounding factor - something else these people are doing, or some characteristic of them - not some biochemical action caused by these very different sweeteners.

Out of one side of your mouth, you want all groups to have the same outcomes, but out of the other side, you don't want to dumb down the SAT.

I'm afraid you can't have both ...

Shrug ... I was there when it all happened. And I'm a web programmer, so knowing the browsers and those who use them is my business.

I didn't say that Google is holy and noble; just that Chrome won the browser wars by being a better browser.

As for shady tactics, they are pikers compared to Microsoft. (And Firefox is no stranger to shady tactics; they are just laughably bad at it.)

Too true.

Chesterton's fence applies here. You'd better have a super solid and deep understanding of why that fence is there before you even think about taking it down. "I don't know why it's even there" isn't good enough.

It's a confirmed winner. It literally dethroned a monopoly of Internet Explorer being preinstalled on approximately everybody's computer and pushed in their face by the operating system. (Heck, you still have to go download it.)

I prefer Firefox myself, but I can't argue that Chrome hasn't got it's current position fair and square.

But enough about Stanford ...

Bizarre complaint on your part. What these groups lack - and why they fail - is literally the organized monopoly on violence that is the police.

"Buy" is just Amazon's preferred pronoun for "rent".

Amazon's rentals "identify" as a purchase.

Problem solved!

(What, no? Are you some kind of bigot??)

Eh, what?

Some people enjoy listening to music performed live. Some don't. (Me? I would, if only I could be one of very few in the audience ... I don't like crowds.)

Just as a practical matter, most music isn't listened to live anymore. I mean I like bagpipes a lot, but there are not many pipe bands around me ...

For most people, music is just pleasing patterns of sound that they listen to for fun and pleasure. I won't be surprised that a big percentage of it becomes AI generated.

Yes, of course music will survive. Did somebody think it wouldn't? But the music business is sure likely to profoundly change.

It's ironic how many people have an unhealthy obsession with being against psychiatric medication, lol

Nobody sits around saying "we prescribe too many heart medications these days! We didn't do that 30 years ago! Big pharma! Pill poppers! And I know; I'm an expert because I have this armchair!"

No, I'm the one who actually would like to do something about it.

Preventing police from having lethal force available isn't a real alternative. Giving real, painful sentences to swatters is.