i used opera for a good while years ago and i both loved it and hated it. it brought up very interesting features and stupid ideas alike, and its engineering was a bit hit and miss, very effcient but glitchy. that said, at least they were original and doing something different, competition is good. i'm no longer interested, but i wouldn't say it is garbage.

regarding this ai thing, this mass hysteria of integrating ai into everything, specifically the browser, is just dumb. ai is just too rapidly evolving and browser integration has too little value to add to make it worth the effort. but everyone wants a share, either for fomo or to desperately stay relevant. i wish them luck with their new business model and the roughly $1990/month of potential revenue from all its 100 users ...

i don't think so. in the long run, yes, probably (possibly?), but fossil use is still increasing and hasn't spiked yet. actually, it's getting a boost for several reasons: geopolitics, various domestic economic woes and last but not least, profit.

caveat: you say "need". and in that regard you are absolutely right. we wouldn't really have so much "need" for it if spurious interest weren't involved, but here we are. so that's a whish, not the reality.

for one, this one is very easily shot down by simply not buying that crap, but ..

indeed, imbalance of power has been our main issue since we started farming i guess. i've come to believe that all our conflicts are just expressions and artifacts of the single underlying class war. this is ages old but technology is announcing grim prospects indeed.

agreed. i'm ready to fully forfeit my privacy if it is done universally, no exceptions.

about individual preferences, asahi is super drinkable along a bowl of hot spicy ramen (for anything else, warm average quality table sake is perfect). if consumed alone, just give me the strongest and thickest beer you got, and don't worry a bit about the temperature, any will do. weissbier will always do the trick. that's what i'm having just now, btw, in case it wasn't evident ...

well, they call asahi "beer", and consume it at prices of old wine (bold exaggeration for fun). should tell you something (about us influence).

now, japanese are incredibly efficient, dedicated and sophisticated, in most if not all aspects of life. i doubt you find that same work ethics (and ethics in general) anywhere in the world. however, if you manage to throw a wrench into that machine .... you're in for some hilarity.

also, this is about us msm. it seems us population is finally awakening. in the eu we're still merrily sleepwalking our way to the abyss.

dunno. the impression i get from this very forum msm is still very much the gospel for way more than 28%. but, wait ... wtf ... has someone just farted?

make that 2060+, we still have to get there.

how? we already know that it is very possible that there's life out there somewhere, it's about the first thing that started to happen on our planet as soon as conditions were favorable, which was very soon. we also know with reasonable certainty that there can't be any anywhere in practical reach. now, a one way trip to enceladus is just over decade, that's pretty near all considering. observing in what different ways life can form and evolve would no doubt be very, very interesting but while the chances of such a discovery having transformative impact aren't zero, i'm curious why you take that for granted.

user interface design is a serious, necessary and surprisingly difficult discipline. "ux" was just a pompous name introduced as the field started to get taken over by a generation of charlatans. this has happened across the board in software disciplines, but user interface land seems to have been the more sensible and vulnerable target. i mean, you can shout "but it's web scale!" all day long but when stuff breaks shit gets serious and some sanity is brought back in. if that happens in an ui you just piss off millions of lousy users for which there tends to be high tolerance, ods are you can get away with it by just throwing a few more radically new fancy concepts at ceos.

we mine and thrash it

we build a death star.

so selfish! it will take generations to bring democracy to that barbaric outer space. and bots. lots of bots.

i will consider it. let's wait and see. but i'd rather go to china.

no problem, it shouldn't make a difference where i'm from.

but it stood out to me that you needed to capitalize "democratic". adjectives aren't capitalized yet it appears that you are aware of the rules of capitalization.

maybe a freudian slip? gratuituous glorification? the need to stress a myth? to remind yourself that you are still on the good and shiny side? to help glossing over that in the last decades "democratic" regimes have systematically been toppling governments around the planet, invalidated election results they didn't like, exerting economic bullying and financial coercion, waging inumerable illegal wars, supporting genocide, supressing freedom of speech and ... well, fundamental democratic rights and values? complicated world full of contradiction.

i'm not a brit, you insensitive clod!

spain isn't doing bad, comparatively, but nothing in spain is ever what it seems, it has structural problems of its own. spanish leaders are just as incompetent and sold out as any other current western leader and while it isn't enthusiastic about eu agenda it will follow orders nevertheless, to the letter.

negative consequences are plenty, but there is at least one positive consequence in the long run: getting rid of german and french warmongers which helped by the noble baltics are going to suck the whole eu into disaster. colonial supremacy or nothing! so rather nothing. too bad that uk elite has exactly the same agenda on its own so, yeah, brexit was not a good deal.

time to emigrate and i just fucking bought a gorgeus small but cozy house in the countryside. fuck me.