Same. They're generally "not useful" for any practical purpose. But they look nice to a higher level audience that does not require much technical understanding. "These guys drew a diagram, they must know what they're doing", right?
Whether "we're there yet" on translation technology is still debated, but at some point we'll consider it "good enough" for most practical use cases, truly removing the linguistic barrier. This is actually both terrifying and exciting, because then it'll definitely start influencing spoken language to at least some degree.
It depends how much tolerance you have for mistakes. For a waiter or asking directions or things like that, 100% this works great. For a diplomatic discussion where nuance is very important however... It also doesn't work great for translating works of art where the translation itself is open-ended and can be done in a bunch of different ways and requires a lot of editorial/artistic decisions from the translator.
When I was 16 I had full afro. When I was 20 I had like one tenth of an afro, and since then, I just shave my head. Looks good actually, the only problem is that shaving can be annoying.
The biggest problem is that we'd like our leaders to be exceptionally smart in order to efficiently govern the country, but at the same time we don't want the leaders to outsmart the voters. These two expectations are mutually exclusive, and most democracies just end up praying that whatever politicians get elected, they turn out to be benevolent, instead of focuing on self-interest. Whoever wields the power, how do we keep them in check, and what kind of power do we use for that?
In the US they have the check & balances mechanism to ensure against "Who will watch the watchmen" problem. Still with the current president they are already being put through their paces. The constitution could be weakened by amendments or even disregarded if you have enough power in your grip.
That's cool. To me grapheneos is kind of the minimum reasonable level of security I think is ok (and I'm also worried about data leaking to google itself). To each their own acceptable security profile.
It's incredible to think that for many people this is a real problem that needs a real solution, because personally, I struggle to maintain social life. A few months ago I organized a party for the first time in my life, and probably it'll happen twice a year at most in the very optimistic scenario. This means that whatever new trendy way of inviting people is hip, it's not worth the effort to learn it, and it's just way more effective to use the methods I do know and I'm used to (physical conversations and texting).
1. The quality of pictures is lower than on Twitter, which I was using mostly for porn
2. Blocking someone prevents that person from even seeing your posts, which means that from the perspective of a lurker, it's best not to follow anyone, not to engage with anyone at all, not to make anyone aware of your existence, because 1% of people you follow will block you just because they're having a bad day
2. Don’t almost all blocks behave that way? Twitter’s always did. Seems Elon, in his infinite social acuity, has confused “block” with “mute?” Vast majority of users want to be able to actually “block” people
That's how Twitter's block always worked before the advent of Naughty Old Mr Car. It's also how the block on every social media thing I can think of works.
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