MrSkelter

The point seems to be of how epically hard this was but it’s basically the same as the US system with minor differences.

As a native Brit with advanced degrees who’d been imported to California by an American employer I did the same things.

I have no criminal record in any country, no ill health, no other barriers at all, and was very well qualified.

Yet I had to fly to London for a chest X-ray and get letters from the local police in every country I lived in attesting to my character among other things.

Worst of all, unlike other countries, a US citizenship acquired post birth is second class. I cannot run for the highest political office. Denaturalization is a real possibility. I am expected to be fully American but am not equal to other Americans, including my children and their American mother.

Immigration is very broken in many countries.

They aren’t the best because they are identified so often. They are the most brazen and reckless.

The wig fallacy is in full effect here.

Look to the Netherlands, UK, Scandinavia and others for governments who aren’t getting caught doing this.

You comment makes it clear that you either think protest and direct action are ineffective, which is provably wrong if you look at the history of social change in the west from suffrage to civil rights, or you think her cause isn’t just.

I suspect the latter due to your use of communist as a pejorative, a reliable indicator someone knows nothing about it as an idea but is keen to talk about Stalin.

What’s happening in Gaza is described by the majority of Israeli Holocaust scholars as genocide. Opposing it isn’t radical. Supporting it is perverse.

Your bias is showing.

This is a huge positive and not hard to understand.

Massive increases in efficiency across the board. It’s hard to find non condensing dryers nowadays, almost every boiler heats water in demand, and our very old housing stock is increasingly being triple glazed and insulated.

Very high energy costs due to energy privatization accelerated things. People cannot afford to waste energy in the UK.

The US is learning that lesson now for similar reasons. Trump is doing more to drive efficiency than any number of “green” candidates.

A cavalier attitude to things like this is the problem. Not slow change and correction.

In my English school sports teachers watched us change and shower, I saw one re-locate a dislocated hip on the rugby field. We would stop midway through a cross country run to to press-ups on snowy ground and classroom misbehavior could result in a letter home or “the slipper” (a leather paddle) at the child’s discretion.

For all this my school wasn’t a hotbed of abuse and paedophilia. However many were. The current restrictions were designed to deal with that, the bigger issue, the abuse of kids by adults.

Decrying all the work that’s been done to make schools safer for children from predators is incredibly short sighted.

I use Adobe products because the dirty secret is they are without equal in many areas, as well as being the industry standards.

I am not a fan of the subscription model, but remember when the suite came in a box big enough to put shoes in and cost $2K. If you upgraded every couple of years the subscription are cheaper.

The truth is that replicating apps like photoshop isn’t enough. The work required means they can’t be free for any significant period and you gain nothing by switching. To be useful the new apps have to be significantly better and more performant. Then they need to be cheaper and to demonstrate they will stay the course.

We’ve had high quality competitors to photoshop a long time and they are still niche choices for people who don’t need to interact professionally on a broad basis.

Forget their poor performance. For a vibe coded alternative, or any, to pull users away it needs to be significantly better than what’s there now. That is extremely difficult and impossible to achieve via cloning.

You seem to be confusing lobbying with political organizing.

Political organizing is the democratic process of building agreement amongst voters and then pushing for change from the ground up. It revolves around action, protest, nomination and election.

Lobbying is a system whereby people and groups with money, spend those funds to influence politicians and policy without the need to build a coalition of supportive voters. Its aim is to turn money into influence.

I think the point is that Mars isn’t an extension of what we tend to imagine in terms of exploration. We aren’t going to establish a beachhead and expand. It’s hostile in ways that mean we will never be more than visitors on a knife edge.

Put it this way, the Antarctic is vastly friendlier. Paradise by comparison. Breathable air and unlimited water. Yet we can’t even self sustain there.

This is actually the second generation of shitty interfaces. For years now people have been using frameworks on the web and then mass copying iconic innovations like “Snowfall” and whatever Apple does. The machines trained in this and now deliver lowest common denominator blandness by default because people think it’s “classy”.

It’s great because real human UX has a lot to kick against.

Europe have ASML. The US cannot compete.

The UK had (damnit) ARM. Arguably the heart of modern computing.

Europe produced the web.

The idea Europe is a technical backwater is cope. The truth is because the capital is elsewhere European innovations get hijacked by (primarily) American companies.

You elide the fact that the term “military target” has been stretched so far by countries like Israel that it’s meaningless in their hands.

They now claim that any area with a sufficient large number of people they deem are “terrorists” is a legitimate target.

They use that to “legitimately” target villages, hospitals and schools.

These are crimes. The point of defining war crimes is to compel state not to take “opportunities” at the cost of innocent lives. It’s never okay.

The irony of course being that Israel deeply embedded me military facilities in cities and civilian areas itself.

Why is a long form conversation about techs influence on politics flagged here? How is it not relevant?

Being able to draw what you can describe, or steal from prior art, isn’t a solution to real world challenges. The hard part is coming up with novel design solutions.

On top of this good design requires control of every line and curve (G2, G3, radius?)

The things these tools do for you and don’t allow you to easily control ruin their work.

If you do manually edit the output for precision they aren’t actually providing any value.

They are the drafting equivalent of clip art.

This really misses the forest for the trees.

The point is that a single company is making a deliberate effort to create a false impression about a technology which is now a key part of the US economy.

This is equivalent to overt stock market manipulation.

The technological aspects are much less important than knowing it’s the result of a single company.

That the company is Israeli and likely has ties to that government is just another layer of alarms - given that countries existential reliance on US aid which requires ongoing leverage to apply to US governments.

Roundabouts do not need more space.

You can draw a circle on the road and have “roundabout rules” without the need for any car to even turn their wheels.