Is it harmless? That's an opinion. Not one I share either.

Is the change an overreaction? That's also an opinion. My answer is, it is no more an "over reaction" than people clammoring for the change in the first place is .

Why is it NOT an overreaction when a feather needs to be changed because someone somewhere was offended, and removing it offends someone else? Who's Offense Matters MORE? Is it offensive or is it honoring? That is the real question and who gets to decide?

And Who gets to decide who decides? Thats the real problem.

the whole purpose of the Darwin Awards was to recognize people who, through their own stupidity, removed themselves from the gene pool.

No, that's most of the point, but definitely isn't the whole point.

Some of the point is to make fun of people for doing something stupid. They don't have to die or be prevented from reproducing, for their stupidity to provide smug entertainment.

This'll be a fun exercise, I suppose, and will generate some laughs.

Ah, you do get it.

Dutch Tulips!

Nothing new under the sun. This is the same same. I view most Crypto currencies this way. They are mostly worthless, with people waiting to rug each other.

Yeah but if you only used $50 in electricity to power the LLM for writing the book to get infringed, that's still $2950 profit.

Republicans' rejection of Chesterton's Fence has finally made Lenin/Stalin's vision possible here in America. This is what allowed us to inaugurate Comrade Trump, by far the leftmost president in US history, making FDR look like a reactionary. But people keep forgetting this is relatively recent.

What I'm getting at, is that this extreme level of instability is to be expected, temporarily. (C'mon, you can go a mere 3-5 years without income from a job! Just ask your parents for money.)

Everyone knew it was coming, but only since November 2024, so things are just getting started. The government is now going to be forcing its way into all private businesses, to try to plan everything in accordance with the politiburo's design under Comrade Trump's brilliant leadership, but it takes time to get everyone onboard with the new reality of centralized planning.

Nobody said communism would be easy!

(And this isn't even real communism; it's just an attempt to adopt all the best aspects of Soviet-style communism, but where the means of production will still technically be "owned" by private parties. The catch is just that regardless of whether or not you "own" a business, you need to run it exactly how your government wants you to, so you'll have about all the capitalism that a 1938 USSR business has.)

Anyway, we and our fellow comrades will adjust to the new rules of Soviet America, and eventually the instability will diminish. When Republicans sing Stalin's praises, you need to remember Stalin had difficulty too (we'll have our own version(s) of 1922) and it took a while for the Soviet Union to become the shining example of an economic powerhouse that you knew by 1990. Think long-term.

America will eventually be the economic envy of the world, on par with today's Russia, clearly the strongest nation on the planet and worthy for all Americans to emulate. Listen to the Republicans. They can bring about this change. Communism may not be easy, but it can win if Republicans can unite us to turn away from the excesses of America's past. Vote Republican and I promise you, by 2032 the average American will be as filthy rich as today's average Russian!

Don't listen to conservatives like AOC! Those idiots will ruin everything with their attachment to stability, tradition, old America, and free markets. Dems just don't offer the same level of prosperity that that left offers.

I don't remember anyone telling me that.

Indeed, all I remember is about a century's worth of science fiction telling me that it will happen.

I'd be fine with this. Recently Audible removed a book from my library and essentially told me to kick rocks. I'd listened to it when I first got it, and although I wanted to go back and check something in one of the chapters (which is how I found the book was no longer available), it's not the end of the world: it's just $15 they stole from me.

I'm glad you got to have kids and watch them grow from birth. I never got to do that; I married a gal and the boys were already ten and eleven years old when I entered their life.

I agree. I think a second benefit could be that interested high school (or college) students now get a data source that doesn't change locations from administration to administration. It is mildly frustrating to me that many government websites simply change where things are each year. Worse is when a department goes through the amazingly beneficial operation of name change. /s

Apparently this was a new test, essentially A B testing. The only difference in the two sets of email were that one set had links to ActBlue and the other set had links to WinRed. The complaint is that the WinRed linking emails were marked as spam but the ActBlue linking emails were not.

"Stolen" clearly indicates you are just repeating the MSM cover lies to cover up their "all the hallmarks of Russian Disinformation".

It was NOT stolen, it was ABANDONED by Mr Biden (the crack addict) at a repair shop.

Guilible is believing 51 Intelligence Agents trying to debunk a crack addict's laptop. But that was the exact case that actuallly swayed an election. In fact, it was called "Russian disinformation" at the time, when it wasn't.

The real disinformation came from our own government, our MSM, our social media.

Russia is a nothing country with Nukes. That is the ONLY thing that gives them any strength. Pakistan might have just as much influence as Russia at this point for the same reason.

If you think Russia propaganda has any influence on 162 Million voters enough to change anything (2024), please keep spewing that opinion.

In Korea, only old people use phones.

Don't tell the text-looker-upper that you want to kill yourself, and it won't look up and give you text it found, about how to kill yourself.

At least at first glance, this looks a lot like user error.

The next time you want to kill yourself, try asking OpenAI's product about the best way to pet a puppy. I bet that will get you much safer advice.