kassiopaea

AI is the tool that capitalism needed to actually kill it. Before that, the internet was never on any trajectory into unusability as long as you has money and fortitude to deal with ads and privacy invasions (or an ad blocker).

Now writing absolute garbage is so cheap that the internet is being flooded with it, diluting all the correct and useful information to the point that it can actually be hard to sift through and find it.

Ok, but have you used Linux?

idk, I feel like the phone and the mobile service operator could qualify as two different layers of scam.

Since it seems like most of the comments are along the lines of "haha stupid maga idiot 😂😂😂", I'd like to make it clear that 404 Media is actually a pretty left-leaning publication which appears to be reporting on trump mobile from the standpoint of "wow, let's see how bad this actually is". Their reporting is mostly tech-focused, so this is in their wheelhouse.

That said, if it were coming from any other source I'd be laughing my ass off.

I didn't know that was a thing, but my interest in the thing was completely lost after the first 4 minutes of bland AI slop writing and narration.

Being physically healthy makes it much easier to be mentally/emotionally healthy, but they still don't just get better unless you actively work on them.

They took "self-improvement" to mean physical health while completely ignoring mental and emotional health.

Looks more like a pelvis than a head to me. 🤷

i prefer to do mine in the czech republic, personally

The guy he's attributing the concept of "untethered empathy" to is a hardcore fascist that believes that having "too much" empathy is a sin because it allows people to be swayed by emotion as opposed to holding strong in their values. Their values, in this case, also include forcing them onto society for "their own good".

My claim is that alternatives with minimal drawbacks are going to be required in industrialized societies, yes, because plastic is very deeply ingrained in our industry, and has been critical to many of the advances that we've had in the last few decades (especially medicine and healthcare).

If we're talking about just the food supply chains, that's a little bit different because people are more willing to suffer inconvenience if the perceived health risk is large enough (because health depends on our diets). The problem is that the perceived risk, for the vast majority of people, is fairly small. Plastic ingestion poses chronic issues, not acute ones (mostly). This means that we've already addressed most of the more acute toxicity concerns, and the chronic concerns are going to require more conclusive data to persuade people to care now and not dismiss it by saying "I'll worry about that later, we have more important problems now".

That said, I never said we were "doomed". In fact I think that we're going to develop better and safer technologies, and plastic and how it reacts with living organisms will be better understood. But, I think that's going to take some time. In the mean time, I think we're going to start to go back to older materials (particularly in the food supply chains) where the additional cost is manageable. Plastic isn't going to go away completely though. Not now, not ever. The best we can do is make it safer, and mandate other materials where it's most important.

I did not at any point advocate for the status quo or claim that there isn't mounting evidence that microplastics are toxic. Please don't mischaracterize my statement.