The point of RCV isn’t to ensure your chosen candidate wins; it’s to ensure that whoever does win has at least some amount of approval from the majority of voters.

It does still have flaws, but it’s still far superior to the current system the US uses.

I did say I use Firefox. I was asking those who don’t.

Yes, I already do.

I asked because I don’t know if anyone who does use a Chromium browser has noticed an uptick in ads.

Last I checked Alphabet had something like $60 billion in profit.

At this point, they probably consider YouTube to be a loss leader while they siphon up everyone’s data.

I use Firefox. Is Ublock Origin still effective on YouTube since Google shoved out Manifest V3 onto Chromium-based browsers?

I had no idea hard disks came ribbed for her pleasure.

This sums it up:

AI can’t tell you what’s true or not, so it can’t tell you when you’re wrong.

This is exactly how YouTube’s DMCA takedown system works, and how media companies have been abusing it since it’s inception. Someone claims copyright on your video, and Google immediately takes it down. You then can contest the claim and Youtube will put it back up. But the claimant can contest your contest, and Google will then tell you that you can’t have it up and have to settle in court with the claimant. Oh, and you get a strike to boot.

The whole process is automated, because there’s so much content now it’s impractical for every single takedown request to be addressed by a human. And because there is no punishment for bad-faith takedown requests, there is no incentive for the claimants to ensure their IP is really being infringed.

Given his track record with real rockets and real rocket scientists, I would consider it a win for him to make it off the launchpad and back in one piece. 😂

No, he cares for Twitter.

SpaceX lets him pretend he’s some great tech genius, but Twitter is what gives him the validation he craves. All the pro-Elon bots and stans there who fellate him feed his narcissistic desire to be loved.

That’s why he “sold” Twitter to xAI. So if Tesla does tank hard enough and he gets margin called, he can’t be forced to sell Twitter to cover it.

Tesla could literally never sell another car again, and it wouldn’t matter as long as people continue to buy the stock.

It’s been wildly over priced for a very long time, so clearly the people who are keeping it afloat aren’t interested in whether the company is actually profitable or not.

Well this is just flat out wrong.

The fact that people started appending “Reddit” to their search terms to find answers to what they wanted to know would probably be a gigantic indicator that Google’s results without it were less than helpful.

A useful search engine returns the most relevant result the user wants as fast as possible. An advertising company wants its users to look at as many ads as they can for as long as they’ll tolerate them. Thus it’s apparent the goals of Google (the search engine) are diametrically opposed to the goals of Alphabet (the advertising company).

So yes, it’s in the best interest of Google’s bottom line to figure out how many ads they can show you (read: before you stop using Google altogether) until they show what might be relevant to you.

They said “useful,” they didn’t say “relevant.”

In this case, “useful” means “the most results we can get paid to show you without you going to a different website.”

An attack on the brand is an attack on them.

Thus it ever is with Conservatives. They make $whatever their whole identity, and so take any critique of $whatever as a personal attack against themselves.

I blame evangelical religions’ need for martyrdom for this.

Yes, but a corporation complying with the law is sadly what passes for good news in the US these days.

As the saying goes, “orbit is halfway to anywhere.”

Getting into and out of gravity wells takes far more fuel than moving between planetary bodies. A space elevator that can take cargo from lunar orbit to the surface and back removes one difficulty, while being slightly less sci-fi-ish than a terrestrial elevator.

And now Firefox is requiring you to hand over your data to them.

If you’re talking about the most recent news about the Terms of Service, that is a gross misreading of what they said.

Hadn’t been invented, or just hadn’t been discovered yet?

For what it was spec’d at originally, I think more people would have been willing to consider it than would like to admit,

I’ll admit it: a $30k EV with 600 miles of range? You’d be an idiot to not consider that, until it was proven to be bullshit and Elon was proven to be a full-on fascist.

Man who never earned anything a day in his life continues streak by not earning video game achievements.