People are not looking for preserverance, they are looking for consumption. Today most of the "content" is created for consumption rather than as creative and artistic endavours. This is why there are recipies for content making like Netflix recipie despite they have some creative movies and series here and there most of their movies and shows follows a strict recipie.

As I said, I get that. What I don't get is people paying for a shitty shady streaming service that's broken and insignificantly cheaper than e.g. Netflix.

Paying for things like VPN, torrent trackers etc makes sense because:

- You can get anything you want. Not just Netflix' catalog which is small these days

- You can keep what you download, even when you stop paying you still own it.

I think you misread. I did say the same thing!

A pretty effective genocide and cleansing campaign. Bomb crowded camps, target valuable people who glues the people together, doctors, academicians, engineers. Watch the society disintegrates.

Turkish guy is part of Turkish Space Program efforts run by Turkish Space Agency. He is a military pilot selected among many applicants to be first astronaut from Turkey. Also they are running to be the sixth country to land on moon with the help of SpaceX.

Human level AI is unlikely but near human level will do just like every other prodcut engineered to do its thing around us. In theory a programmable entity that feels would have infinite applications but an entity that can quantize feelings can cover lets say 90% of those applications.

Despite the article is on US data, it is no different in other countries, which many of them don't have the structures regularly held responsible for in the US. It is by the nature of the very system we have in common; central government. Law enforcement is primary goal of police, not crime prevention, it is nuanced and magnified in practice by the sophistication of our societies and more grift nature of everyday violent crimes.

They have pulled airpods as a "norm". In olden times leaving your earphones/headphones in you ear/head was a very rude thing to do, especially around people you know, in idle time; now it is almost norm. Especially it is marketed as a norm to the younger folk. They will try and there is no reason them to fail.

It is survival of the fittest kind of thing for online communities, or survivorship bias. Darwin would like to have a word or two.

You assume they have plans in the first place.

I've definitely gotten the sense that this is a potential significant factor in this "clown car crash". Kind of feels like Reddit has been able to raise insane amounts of money for years, but, with the sudden appearance of (and gold rush-style interest in) ChatGPT combined with Fed moves on interest rates, the taps have 'suddenly' been closed. And, apparently, there was no ... real plan (even though they hired a CFO back in 2021 and have been signaling plans to IPO since around that time).

Of course, this underscores the stupidity of the whole thing. Given that THE 'google-hack du jour' is adding reddit to search terms (with articles in MSM showing up since at least Jan 2022) AND the value of Reddit's 'corpus' (as Huffman himself put it back in April) to companies like GOOGLE (trying to not only build ChatGPT-style ML, but relevant up-to-date search capabilities based around ChatGPT-style 'agents'), you'd think they'd be able to convert these stories into reasonable financial health and successful IPO w/o wading into brand-destroying PR debacles...

... but, apparently not.

So they are getting enough clicks to keep going.

Martial arts for the projects, street figthters for the products. Good engineers are always valuable but everyone shines differently in different situations.