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Its weird that american people never protest anything in big masses, or at least its very rare and almost never happens for core livelihood issues (wars, cost of living, corrupt politics...). It's so different compared to Europe, and I was always wondering why. Is it better propaganda machine or?

Americans are too busy working for all that. Their GDP per capita is almost double leading EU countries, except for a couple of outliers like Ireland and Switzerland.

You can complain about what you don't have, or you can work to produce it.

Then again, Americans are sometimes called workaholics, working far more hours. So in some ways this is just a lifestyle choice.


Europe contains Britain and several other countries who hardly ever protest anything. We're not all France.

The No Kings rallies are pretty massive

Not just massive, they were the largest single-day protests in US history, each exceeding the last.

The problem is that they didn’t move the needle at all, politically - the Oct 2025 protest, for example, was followed immediately by the embarrassing capitulation by the Dems on the shutdown. This is the real reason protest in the US is relatively rare: the political class has thoroughly insulated itself from it.


So we get actual mega useful tech banned for minors before we get ultimate useless brain damaging tech (social networks) banned for minors.

What makes you think AI isn’t damaging for kids? Teaching them to outsource their thinking to AI can’t be a good thing.

Nothing can be as bad as modern social networks. Unless they start pushing manipulation, brain rot, gambling and porn into each AI answer.

I'd say nothing damaged me more than the 90s unrestricted internet and extreme sites.

How soon until someone earns a PhD for studying the harms of goatse?

I find both arguments asinine: why would socials for adults or outsourcing thinking by adults be good?

I agree with you - but there's also a lot of people that think AI is just brainrot - maybe worse, so, there's that...

Indeed, and then there are dozens of grieving families from folks driven mad by LLM helping murder their children.

LLM use makes people feel more productive, but provably most lose 17% of their core skills performance. Also, homework cheats improved scores at some schools, but saw 35% drop in exam scores. LLM literally makes young people dumber.

We should never kink shame adult cognitive dildo choices. As the same folks sound like a tobacco lobbyist marketing kicker. =3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots


Easy solution is to never ever use anything from Google unless you really must. They are the worst company by far in just starting stuff and abandoning them and providing zero support.


I was going to say the exact same thing. The only thing you might be able to count on is GMail, and I'm not sure even it won't go away someday.


Fastmail if you like shiny. If you use a client anyway just purelymail.


I would have said the same about search, but, well…


I can replace everything, except google earth / streetview.


Sadly Hague is only for people from small and non powerful countries.


With how many countries Iran started direct war with, even with this religious rulers in power?

With how many countries Israel started direct war with? With how many countries USA started direct war with? (thousand of miles away and contents apart)


When has Iran attacked the USA?


For my grug brain can somebody translate this to ELIgrug terms?

Does this mean I would be able to run 500b model on my 48gb macbook without loosing quality?


KV cache compression, so how much memory the model needs to use for extending its context. Does not affect the weight size.


I wrote this more intuitive explanation. I think you might find it helpful!

https://prabal.ca/posts/google-long-context-cheaper/


Next took a very bad turn and double downed on it. Coupled with years of terrible bugs its beyond repair for me unless they rewind a bunch of core changes they did.

There are several much better options right now. My favourite is Tanstack Start. No magice, great DX


+1 for Tanstack start. I just setup a new project with it and like the whole ecosystem. Only slight disadvantage is most third party documentation and automatic setup with packages aren't setup for Tanstack Start yet.


Lost me at "use workflow" directive. This and Next16 expanding the set of directives just makes me question if I'm the mad man for thinking they are absolutely terrible.


I'm sure Google and Bing don't show Russian websites including Yandex in results /s


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