Its also worthy of note that you need not refer to them as conspiracy theories if they are openly discussed by the conspirators and/or there is direct record of them happening or having happened. They're just conspiracies then.

I think that it is a potential benefit not to attract those types of developers. A growing body of evidence is showing that users of LLM tools suffer cognitively.

He also said "Covfefe". I personally dont believe either one.

Its not, but it does beg a lot of reliability questions. Cars today have many single points of failure in the electrical system, and have made things like the turn signal dependent on them, as well. The old turn signal had about as few components as an electrical circuit could have. Today's has all of those but one, then like 20 more in the form of the computer and CAN bus. This can be said for many, many functions in a modern car. If there were material benefits to the end-user, maybe there'd be an argument for the added order of magnitude in complexity, but there are not. You get a token amount more diagnostic information, wheelbarrows full of privacy invasion, dramatically increased cost, and poorer reliability.

This, multiplied by every system in the car that has been subjected to this Rube Goldberg, is why even the new shitboxes cost a year's pay.

I had thought all this time that he and others had never even publicly entertained the idea of breaking with Israel on policy due to a combination of a steady stream of bribes and a dossier of compromising information on many prominent figures with the implicit threat of intentional leak.

I guess we might be about to see if that was true!

You mean they're trying to learn stuff?

My daughter made me this one! She even grabbed some pieces from another set and made him a cigar.

She said they made a horrible oversight she had to fix! 😂

Unless they specifically say they don't, they do.

I had read the Foundation series before watching Futurama and I noticed right away! Its in the episode called "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings" and "Parasites Lost" (both top tier hilarious episodes!).

In "Parasites Lost", Leela even makes a comment really similar to one in Foundation and Empire (the one where you meet a certain very important character) about how only a few people in the universe can play it, and even they aren't very good at it.

I just dont see any useful results before then. For practically my whole life, the situation in the Middle-east has been unstable. It seems to me that the reason for this is because Israel has continually agitated its neighbors from behind a metaphorical force field provided by their larger international allies. The "force field" seems completely unearned, and is the result of diabolical lobbying/bribery and blackmail of powerful foreign politicians in the USA and elsewhere.

Until the circumstances change, I dont see a ton of reason to expect the conditions to, either. Moves will be made as always, but I expect more of this ineffectual war-play: retreat from hill today, re-take same hill tomorrow, repeat forever. All the while the waste and corruption in the military operations continue to flow.

I too hope for a return to prosperity for the Iranian people that I have seen from the 1970s and before, but I dont see that happening until the unconditional military pact with Israel starts getting some conditions.

Not the OP, but I think this issue will continue to rise in temperature until it is more heavily influential on US domestic politics. I believe at some point, support of Israel on these recent events will become politically suicidal, and slowly the compromised politicians rendered unable to break with Israel will get drummed out of office by primary or normal election.

Then, US will officially drop support and the math in the middle east gets a lot less complex for them.

Lots of people have never gotten a job on LinkedIn. Like another poster said, unless you're a specialist searching for a fortune 500 placement, it is not at all critical to the hiring process.

He's talking about the creep. The current legal battles are to establish the framework for all transactions of all kinds to be logged and processed digitally. A precursor to that is establishing a national digital ID.

First its optional and you can avoid things that use it. Then, slowly more things are on it and more and more people capitulate and get one.

Last, they require it for everything, and since they've already got most people to get one, resistance is lukewarm and they get their way.

I dont think its at all feasible to confirm or deny that claim. I currently have the best job I've ever had and I did not use LinkedIn. Could I have gotten a better one if I had used it? Impossible to say.

Also, anyone that accepts a job from somewhere other than LinkedIn, even if they are also using it, isn't taking a worse offer; they just got the best one from somewhere else.

True, but to even insinuate that it is a requirement to get gainful employment, which you seem to have done, is false.

It sucks that Microsoft is turning the platform worse by the month, and that some employers fish in that pond, but it is not by any means the only way to get a great job.

Some people have the luxury of favorable job prospects, and they can be more discerning about what they put themselves through to get in front of potential employers. That isn't something they're doing wrong or deserve admonishment for.

Sorry, its just a dumb old saying.

I think that some people, even more in the past, have more available opportunities than they need, so they may not really be missing out if they dont look under every stone and around every corner.

Everyone has a finite amount of time, energy, and overall human bandwidth to commit to their lives, and those without a lot to spare are not likely to keep looking once they've found something really good that they're satisfied with.

For example, I'm sure I dont have the best, most rewarding, most high-paying job I could possibly have, but I do have a good one. I believe that the opportunity cost of finding a better one is higher than the benefit gained vs. the current one. The better someone's current job is relative to their talents, the more likely they, too will come to the same conclusion.

So, maybe LinkedIn can help a lot of job-serkers, but a ton of people also think it sucks eggs and has egregious privacy concerns, so of they can get by without it, it is not hard to imagine why they would.

And if I had 2 wheels, you could call me a bicycle.

If they're young enough to be in college, they were the other kind of phones.

While that's true, I don't believe it to be a fundamental property of the medium or federation in general. I think what we are experiencing is the result of lack of mainstream attention and traffic.

The people here are much less demographically diverse than the public at large, and have intentionally sought out this space and others like it, so they have more of a sense of ownership and community about it. The more attention it gets, the more the demographics will change to reflect the broader public, and the more it will become like a public space, complete with all the ills that come with that, like advertisers vying for attention, shills posing as enthusiasts, and influencers saying what will get them the most followers, rather than what they think.

I believe it would take extensive moderation and amazing tools to keep places like this the same as they gain users. I haven't ever seen a community survive that kind of growth and retain its original spirit, but I also haven't seen one with no profit motive. If we can get the moderation tools where they need to be, there could be hope!

Something's got to give at some point here. Everything from computers to phones to cash registers to traffic signals need these components and are costing more due to the shortages, despite production remaining high.

The world is going to have to decide if it is worth putting the entire modern world on a pricing hold to funnel all the memory into speculative markets.