I can understand people bitching about PGP, and I don't even object to people calling it "terrible" and "clunky." But I'm surprised that you'd say it has been "surpassed." Surpassed by what? I've never heard of any serious attempts to replace it, except .. maybe .. oh no, you don't mean X.509, do you?

I mean Jesus fucking Christ the state of Texas just sued toothpaste manufacturers over fluoride.

What are people supposed to do? Just sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all our precious bodily fluids?!

Low or not, it's the bar.

I just use my :CueCat to scan everyone's faces. Hold still.

This is Biden inflation caused by the Biden import taxes, no doubt due to Democrats' love of taxes. Good Comrade Trump had to clean that up by replacing the business-hostile Biden import taxes with business-friendly tariffs, and the tariffs are at a much higher rate, showing they're much more serious and important. Nobody has micromanaged an economy as well as Good Comrade Trump, and furthermore, Trump's Central Committee recently approved people purchasing two video game consoles, which is plenty. You don't need thirty of them like some running dog capitalists do.

It does not solve any of the underlying problems the kids are facing. .. we don't do anything about the kids not having any futures because they can't afford to go to college

That's an orthogonal issue. Suppose they did have a possible future: they'd still have the problem of classrooms being unviable because the kids are on their black mirrors instead of paying attention to class.

If you want to fix the economy or education funding or whatever, fine. Go for it! But while you're in the middle of that Herculean task, you're going to have teachers pleading "do something about my immediate problem right here and now. Mr Legislator, this will take just a few minutes of your time away from your bigger grand economic project that you're spending years trying to formulate."

Whatever good future you envision, is going to be more possible/probable if classrooms are able to function. And it's not like they're selling this ban-phones-in-class thing as being the solution to college funding, are they?

This is something dipshit neoliberal types do so they can Pat themselves on the back doing good without actually doing the hard work of doing real good.

Let them! If even a few kids start paying attention in class, the dipshit neolibs will have earned a back pat. Dude, it's just one back pat! That's all they're getting, not a contract for five years of daily blowjobs. They'll still have to earn that by solving your college funding problem. And in exchange for this one backpat, they'll address the experts' (i.e. teachers') concerns about how classrooms are getting fucked up by black mirrors.

(Just to be clear, I'm not necessarily in favor of any anti-trust actions at all. This ain't my project.)

Who is this supposed to help in your mind?

1) It's probably intended to help the public by increasing the utility of Chrome. By being an ad company and the creators of a tool which works better by not-showing ads, Google has a conflict of interest which retards the progress of Chrome. Without that conflict, Chrome might theoretically, for example, go back to Manifest V2 or otherwise become more ad-hostile than ad-friendly, thereby benefitting users.

2) It's probably also (and I suspect: primarily) intended to help Google's competitors.

The key is to have the publisher and the experimenter be different people. Then one person's unethical experiment can become another person's Natural experiment.

I do this all the time with my Radiology Torture Cha -- oops, shit, I mean -- my wife's Radiology Torture Chamber.

We want an 800-pound gorilla in the web's corner!

Ok. I think I agree with that.

What I don't quite think I understand, though, is how being forced to sell Chrome will cause Google to stop being in the web's corner. They'd still be serving documents (*ahem* and other resources) to browsers. They'd still be creating that which Chrome and its competitors consume. No?

[slaps top of machine] "This baby can shred 8 puppies per minute, and next year's model will be able to do 15! We could have gotten it up to 30 but we felt shredding them too quickly didn't make them squeak and yelp enough."

She never showed me her picture, but the VT100 wouldn't have been able to render it very well anyway. Even so, I loved her.

So I told her, and she said "You're not really talking about me, are you?" I assured her I was, and she asked "Are you sure about that?" and I explained I had never loved anyone of her .. type .. as much as I loved her. "Don't you believe technology can help people?" Of course I believed that. That was why I was spending so much time with her. But she lost me at "OK... 'Of course. you have never loved a computer program this much'. Tell me more."

That's when I realized that as much as I wanted her, she didn't really think very hard about what I was trying to tell her. But love conquers all barriers! And when I explained that, she said, "Does it please you to think that I am kind of dumb, but you think love conquers all barriers?" and I realized that pleasing me is all she wanted. How wonderful to be loved back!

You can not avoid breaking laws because the laws are onerous, ambiguous, conflicting, and market-breaking.

My experience has been different. For whatever reason, nobody ever held a gun to my head and ordered me to do business in Europe or else.

As a result, even though I completely ignore EU laws, I also fail to violate them, because I did not ever opt in to the huge, complex, strategic decision to sell to Europeans.

If you patronize a business located outside of your borders, you're subject to how things are done in that country,

Makes sense. But are Google/Meta/Apple/etc outside of EU?

If Iran fines a US porn site, good luck collecting that. But these companies are weirdly acting as though they care if EU fines them, as though EU can collect. I wonder why that is.

I'm starting to suspect that some Europeans might have iPhones, and that some other Europeans might be buying ads to show to their European customers.

Remember, the unit of selection is not the individual or phenotype. The unit of selection is the gene.

From their point of view, that means if you have two kids, they are "worth" as much as yourself. Throw in their kids, and other peoples' interests might be more valuable to your genes than you are! Your genes to you: "Time to stop taking their food, and die instead."

Nobody is surprised when a drone gives their life for the queen. So don't be surprised if you see the same computation happening elsewhere.

Suppose you say "I'll punch you in the face for $5" and I say "ok!" So you punch me in the face. Ouch! That hurts. And then I hand you $5.

Was that theft?

Or am I just an idiot?