a measure of how fast a person can understand, abstract, and apply new information.

And that’s a best case scenario for it. It can also be just a measure of how well can you solve very specific type of puzzles at this very moment. And the evidence of it being the latter are actually quite convincing.

this ones, right?

Oh, wait, no, those actually Russians that attacked Ukraine.
Oh, maybe this one?

Damn, no, it’s also Russian one.

are able to be mass produced by Capital

So are soldiers, to be fair.

Regarding the edit, you don’t need to announce your political allegiance this explicitly, it was already obvious who you are from the original unedited comment

Most of the casualties were from bombers for a long time already, this is that but one step removed.
It’s bad for a different reason, you in this case don’t exist anymore. We used to have people killing people, now there are autonomous robots doing this, and that’s a new, completely different class of warfare.

Fun part is, they did so much it’s unbelievable. They were handled severely broken justice system, a bunch of judges that were appointed by the same person they tried to persecute, a bunch mechanisms and systems were completely dismantled, the majority of supreme court are outright taking orders from a outside organisation.
In less than 3 years, they managed to gather all the insurrection perpetrators, used smaller ones as a fodder to persecute bigger ones, overcame all the corruption and bullshit, got cases such tight, they even managed to “al-capone” the biggest one, to the point that was actually convicted of 34 cases. By the standards of the American judicial system, doing so much to a conservative bunch with ties, money, and power, is probably unprecedented.
But then America decided that they would rather have that convicted felon in charge again, and all this hard work went to shit.
Do I think it’s good or fair? Absolutely not. But given the system they had to operate in, Democrats in general did a good job. The obvious answer is, the system is shit and needs to be dismantled and reorganised, but that’s not what Democratic party is, and it’s not what it was elected to do.

I doubt they’ll go after the system as it is unless we get more progressive candidates in.

Absolutely correct.

What should they be doing? They are an action camera company, they make action cameras. Do you think they needed to branch out to do energy drinks and lunchables or whatever?

If by meaningful you mean socialist revolution, then no, and nobody expects them to. However there are things to be done better within the system and it’s something we need to do anyway

Yeah, because crypto is not that. The problems with it as a payment system are numerous and make it unusable. It’s barely better than lugging suitcases full of twenties as a payment system for doing crimes, but only barely. The only thing it’s really good for is scamming people and gambling

That was so szmer thing to answer

“Just”

Thus prolonging the war they were trying to deescalate.

France and Germany still have functioning democracy, however imperfect. What people think has a lot of bearing, it’s just it’s not immediate.

My definition of “encrypted” means that something is encrypted. You know, using cryptography.
Your definition of encrypted means that something is end-to-end encrypted, with only two corresponding people having keys. And we actually have a term for that, it’s end-to-end encryption.
I understand where you’re coming from, but only one of us using this word correctly.

I detect way more vitriol in that comment

You know, if you end-to-end encrypted, but mishandle keys, it’s actually demonstrably worse than if you client-to-server encrypted but there was no confirmed cases of anything leaked.
Nobody is misleading you because you have deeply held ideas on what words should mean.

That’s just your misunderstanding of the term. The chat is encrypted, no lies about it, it’s not end-to-end encrypted. Last time I checked they were quite explicit about that.
So far, Telegram worked exactly as it was advertised, it’s just people for some reason have weird ideas about what words mean and how stuff should work, but that’s not on them to be honest.
Plenty to criticize Telegram for, but lack of privacy isn’t it.

It’s just the first one with extra steps

Your anger is severely misplaced.

There are two possible explanation to this phenomenon come to mind. Either everyone is stupid zombie, and you’re the only one smart, intelligent, capable, uniquely so. Or, you, like a significant portion of non-qualified interviewers, suck at conducting the interview process which gives you an illusion that everyone is stupid and you’re smart, and you don’t want to do anything about it because being uniquely smart gives you good feelings that you don’t want to shatter.