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War crimes are extremely violent crimes, and it's not "poor people" giving the orders.

How many war crimes are committed every year in Berlin?

PSA for anyone reading this, you should probably use polkit instead of sudo if you just want to grant systemd-related permissions, like restarting a service, to an unprivileged user.

It's roughly the same complexity (one drop-in file) to implement.


China is probably the among the best countries in the world to handle so-called "demographic collapse". Elders are relatively healthy and multigenerational households more common. Leader in robotics. News flash: you don't need a billion hard-working peasants in 2026 to be productive.

People in general don't seem to look at how much "productive" population you need in the real economy to support a given population. Things look pretty fine by those metrics and if the AI claims are to believed about to rapidly get even better. How to motivate and compensate that small number of people in the real economy that supports human welfare is a different question.

Also people appear to be blind to the real material limits that really start to be pushed by large populations. You could end up making life materially worse by trying to "fix" the demographics by adding more humans.


Those same elevated controls are used to steal PII and sell to data brokers. Again, it's the companies that are trying to force apps on their users. If it were genuinely a much better UX, they wouldn't have to do that.

I don’t think you are correct, but I could be wrong. For example, can you replicate the functionality of TikTok - autoplay unmuted videos as the user scroll down to new videos? It’s the experience that the user expects.

I've probably deleted 15 apps from my phone in the past year as I steadily move over to the web for everything.

My chat agent, file transfer tool, Grubhub, Amazon, YouTube, news, weather are all deleted in favor of a set of armored browsers that suppress the trash and clean up the experience. Its been an amazing change, as those companies no longer get a free advertisement on the application grid of my phone, making my use of them much more intentional.


Sure, once the user interacts with the first video.

If third party native apps were installed and run without user interaction the same as cross-origin redirects, I would expect the same limitations with native apps.


I use FB via my web browser (Firefox on Android) and when I look at Shorts, it has this exact functionality. Web browsers on mobile can do this, clearly.

The Android Browser isn't as crippled as the iOS one. Watch a full screen video on Safari and tap a few times on different places on the screen and you will get a notification about "Typing is not allowed in Full-Screen" or some other nonsense

Yes I literally worked on a PWA with this exact feature.

I believe you can see it working on TikTok web as well.

You just can’t have the first video unmuted on initial load, although I wonder if this can be relaxed when user installs a PWA.


I'm sorry but why do you think this can't be done in a website?

The autopilot analogy is good because level 4-5 are essentially vaporware outside of success in controlled environments backed by massive investment and engineering.

> MS Access for the web with an SSO

This is essentially Rails and Django and so on


That's not even remotely close to the idea. It's conceptually entirely different.

I'll note that Access existed in a completely usable form before the www even existed.


How is it conceptually different? RDBMS ORM-based web frameworks (with built-in Admin GUIs) ate the web-oriented crowd, and the rest are happy managing their data in Excel. That doesn't leave much room for MS Access.

Try building a complex report or even a printable invoice output in Rails or Django.

I assure you generating PDFs is not something that Microsoft has a moat around.

Snowflake and Databricks provide data storage and pipeline features and therefore have extraordinary lock-in potential, which allows them to have sustainable business models.

GPU compute is essentially fungible. That's quite a stretch to compare those business models. Snowflake and Databricks don't necessarily have the best "value-add" and they don't need to.


Israel was car bombing Iran less than a year ago, with the open intention of destroying the state through terrorism. Yet violent agitation is a bridge too far?

What is "going after [...] the people who vote" supposed to mean?

Boycotts of businesses, cutting off family and friends, etc

I said "we" as in the people not the government


> Boycotts of businesses, cutting off family and friends, etc

You'd think that, after the last decade, people would've learned that demonizing and ostracizing your political opposition is not a great way to get them to join your side.


That's exactly what the Republican party did and they now control all three parts of the US government.

There are many reasons why you can have violence in the streets, especially in a climate of enormous foreign manipulation. An enemy state was setting off car bombs just a year ago...

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