Your life must be hectic, im guessing you must also check the company and maintenance of every lift/ elevator / aircraft you use? By your rationale, itd be your fault if you were to be involved in an accident due to a company not maintaining equipment properly?

So here you’re referencing using Google that all privacy conscious consumers would be losing their mind at… so I guess this proves my point that it shouldn’t be solely up to the individual to protect themselves.

Chief, if you needed to make an informed decision about every decision in life, there’d be no time for life. That’s why other people specialize in jobs so that within reason, confidence can be placed to their decision. I’m not saying you blindly agree and follow everything, but people can’t be responsible for every decision. For example, who made the seatbelt in your car? What research did you personally do to verify the safety of your seatbelt. What maintenance have you done to it to ensure that it works as intended? Pretty important life saving bit of equipment.

Edit: my presumption is that you(or the vast majority of the population) haven’t done any research into your seatbelt because you trust in the car company and the safety rating requirements of your nation to ensure adequate protection.

People can’t take increase responsibility for every single aspect of life. It seems straightforward to you because you’re likely tech literate. Do you know every process around how the mechanic services your vehicle, how medicines are made that you consume, how food is curated that you consume, how energy is generated that you consume? People can’t have intimate knowledge of every aspect of life, therefore if a company says “this is E2EE” you should be able to believe that at face value and rely on consumer protection agencies to follow up if it’s inaccurate.

What other part of the American government has fought his illegal actions ? I can’t think of any meaningful ones. Supreme Court he ignores, Congress he ignores. So what makes you so confident that elections will run if he stops them?

It’s a relative thing if something is sustainable or not. When people are talking about Earth being expected to exist for enough time to be more afraid of global warming…

Global warming is already having impacts on marine life, weather patterns etc. I’m not quite sure if I understand your point here.

So what you said is true, but dotcoms also were a bubble.

Yes they were, and a lot of money was lost. Much like AI. Many companies are pumping atronomical amounts of money into AI. They won’t all succeed. There will be a significant loss of capital. AI will definitely stay in this world, but to what degree is the question… enough to warrant over half the GDP of Australia being spent in a year by one company? Probably not.

Open AI has announced over $1trillion dollars in infrastructure spending. I think you’ll find near on everyone agrees it’s a bubble, just not agreeable how big or the timeline of the burst.

A worthy watch about vpns, obviously just one opinion. https://youtu.be/vQmLMGcCO3I

Ctrl C doesn’t work in the terminal because that’s how you terminate programs. You need to use Ctrl shift c, control shift v etc.

It’s cute that you think they won’t make presidential immunity retrospective. That man will never be charged for a thing

Surely if you want to force manufacturing back to a country via tarrifs you need to be smart and have a graduated tarrif over say 15 years increasing annually. That puts the market on notice but more importantly gives time for infrastructure and skills to be developed without immediately fucking over the population