I don't see anything wrong with what you wrote. And what the hell is "western chauvinism" really? Eastern Europe and Western Europe are simply not THAT different culturally.
The only thing I would actually add to your comment (which would obviously get me banned) would be to say that vetoes should not be a thing in NATO...for ANY country.
Less "playing" and more "bug testing". In the final stages of developing an aircraft for XPlane 11/12 and have been putting in a lot of hours in flight looking for graphical glitches, system bugs, etc...
This is the only response that I feel obligated to respond to, because yeah ... I know it's an unpopular opinion and that websites suck. We're talking chicken and egg, do websites have to be that shitty because they need to milk as much as they can from the few people that still click? Or do fewer people click because it's that shitty.
Which came first...did ad-blocking lead to more aggressive advertisements, or did more aggressive advertisements lead to ad-blockers...
I get that. I don't take offense to any who disagree with me because I see that point.
What I DO feel the need to respond to is the notion that we don't need human writers anymore.
A.I. doesn't "produce" content. It aggregates it from other sources. If A.I. just aggregates from other A.I content, it's an ourobouros eating it's own tail; there's nothing new being added.
So when you say a "1 sentence piece of news", an A.I. can't collect that and add it to the internet. It has to already exist from a human writer in order for the A.I to actually have something to scrape.
I appreciate that people have differing opinions on the monetization of websites, but no offense, saying that human writers aren't providing a service anymore is the dumbest of dumb takes.
Let's see how much news gets shared when A.I.s are just scraping from other A.I.s...
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I'm simply stating that the "year of the Linux desktop" hasn't really arrived because most of its increase in market share comes from something that isn't used as a desktop at all by 99.9% of people.
This War of Mine
Look....I use Linux. I love Linux. But let's be honest. That 4 percent is largely due to the steam deck; a gaming handheld where the vast majority of users don't know (or care) what operating system it uses as long as they can play their steam games on the go.
That's not "year of the Linux desktop", because it's not a desktop. It just has one hidden under the hood if you want to dig past the steam layer (which, as I said...the vast majority of users never will)
The year of the Linux desktop won't arrive until there is sufficient market share that software manufacturers are inclined to support us natively. That won't happen with a gaming handheld because no one would want to use a gaming handheld as a daily driver.
Sorry to be a wet blanket, folks. Downvote away....
Occam's Razor is a philosophical thought experiment, nothing more.
That's why the important part of the phrase (that people tend to ignore) is "...all things being equal".
It means "if these multiple answers/solutions were to exist in a vacuum, and context was of no importance, the simplest answer/solution is probably the right one."
Here in the real, non philosophical world, absolutely nothing exists in a vacuum. Context always plays a role no matter how innocuous or silly the decision might be.
At it's simplest, I can say "Do I want to eat an Apple or an Orange right now."
Occam's razor tells me that the Apple is closer, so that's what I should eat.
But WHY is the apple closer? Did someone take it out of the fridge and leave it, so now it's spoiled?
Is it in a fruit bowl that happens to be out of oranges? That means someone might have eaten the last one, so getting up and going to the fridge to retrieve and orange could lead to disappointment and wasted time.
etc... etc...
Nothing is simple. Anyone who says it is is trying to sell you something.
If we can get rid of social media but keep things like Wikipedia, then sure, keep a few things.
But if it's all or nothing, fuck it, i'd happily pull out my old Samsung flip phone and paper day planner.
Anything is better than the miserable corporate nightmare that social media has turned the world into.
Elon is just absolutely desperate to be a part of ANY conversation at all, isn't he?
He can't stand the idea of one single popular topic du jour that he doesn't have things to spout off about.
"They also keep getting classified documents due to typos in army.mil email addresses and similar ;)"
Government of Mali: "We should be taking advantage of this more than we are..."