Amanda

The public are usually very for that after it’s been implemented. They hate it before, assuming you include people who live outside the area where it’s being built but imagine they might want to some say drive there in “the public”. It’s much more of a mixed bag if you don’t.

Did not see “faster than Commodore 64!” coming!

Japan has in general done so so little to make up for all the unspeakable atrocities they did. This includes the history of the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party, which is neither liberal nor democratic and which was, and I swear I’m not making this up, at one point a front for the CIA, which was actively involved in getting terrible war criminals in power and torturing leftists because of the red scare and all that.

Oh, and Nobusuke Kishi, CIA-rehabilitated war criminal and former prime minister, is literally the favourite grandfather of later prime minister Shinzo Abe. It’s as if Operation Paperclip had spirited away Göbbels from war crime allegations and a later prime minister of Germany would have been his grandkid. It’s wild.

It’s even funnier that none of this was related to Shinzo Abe’s assassination, for the record.

So they’re drilling for oil into a tanker?

This is a really good idea actually

Like lojban!

I have the same situation almost. We have fiber from Telia delivered to the basement of our apartment building where it’s converted to cable by Tele2, who rents access to Telia’s fiber. Neither of them were willing to sell me or the organisation that owns the building access to fiber, even though it would have required only activating an outlet on whatever fiber switch thing they have in the basement.

Tele2 also has a monopoly on internet access; it’s that or 4G/5G.

This led to the absurd situation where we have a special coax outlet, followed by a cable modem right next to the fiber switch to supply the intercom system with very very expensive and terribly slow internet.

I’m not in the US and I also get most of my retirement in stock market casino chips

I was worrying about precisely this. I’d be ok with blocking search engines if there was a better way of searching but AFAICT there isn’t federated search of any kind?

Also don’t do large, dense farming

Ugh, BORING! They apparently passed up on the opportunity to do real life The Andromeda Strain!

I think this is right on the money. The fitness function optimised is “does this convince humans”, and so we have something that’s doing primarily that.

I’m imagining him going on to do the same thing there and just going “why am I the John McClain of cybersecurity? How can this happen AGAIN???”

This may be the germanest thing I’ve ever seen. An island named “jam” infested with rich people? Said rich people being literal gentry? And also literal nazis? And also there being a flock of the dirtiest, most disgusting punks you’ve seen to protest them? And the worst rags you’ve ever heard of being there to publicise the spectacle?

I’m not sure Germany is capable of doing anything to a normal degree.

This is funnier than it has any right to be

Seems like it worked in this case (if you beat a random guy in the streets I’m not sure what else to call you)

Hasn’t this been posted five thousand times already?

This summary is completely incomprehensible

I looked at getting a 5G router and I’m not surprised to see the whole thing not kicking off given how insanely expensive they are

Sounds like we may have an easier conclusion to draw here