Can you post the evidence against Proton?

Russian intelligence is pretty famous for the amount of blackmail and extortion they unleash on people that they want to turn into assets.

What would you have done to resist that?

Or that scene from Kids in the Hall, Brain Candy.
Several of them.

You are technically correct; people can absolutely be racist against white people.

Now I’ll explain why you’re being downvoted anyway.

“Black Lives Matter” became a slogan because police disproportionately target black people. They stop and question black people at a far higher rate than is warranted by actual crimes, they arrest people at a far higher rate than white people, and they kill black people at a far higher rate than they kill black people.

The statement is very obviously not just a literal statement on the value of human life; it’s an accusation that police seem to think black lives don’t matter. “All Lives Matter” simply pretends to be ignorant of the entire background and reasoning behind the phrase.

Israeli’s have been massacring Palestinians and leveling their cities. They have inflicted orders of magnitude more suffering on Palestinians in the last years than Hamas has during its entire existence. The only way to equate the two is if you believe that Palestinian lives are worth significantly less than Israeli lives, and yes, that would be racist.

I wasn’t able to find the article on Google Scholar or Kagi either. Given that “Li” is the second most common surname in the world, it would be nice to have a bit more for a reference.

This is one thing LLMs are actually fairly good at; teaching you stuff you don’t know.

While AI’s are much worse teachers than humans are, they’re far better than trying to figure out complicated things on your own.

I’ve gone through many iterations of “Hey LLM, teach me how to do XYZ.” Then I try it. If it works, I ask for more, if it doesn’t I tell it to fix it.

That’s not always a viable path (eg don’t try to learn medicine or stunt driving that way) but when mistakes are safe and cheap, it’s great.

Great question.

If your dark enough you may just be able to pass as Mexican. I’m half Chinese and that seems to be good enough for a lot of people to guess that I’m Mexican.

If your white white you may need some extra steps for True Authenticity ™. You should probably buy whole corn kernels directly from a fair trade farm in Yucatan and hand grind it in a traditional mortar and pestel. If you don’t get blisters, it won’t taste right.

Most of them. I assume they also have some well-traveled food snobs that make fun of it when their friends suggest it.

"Man that Texmex joint sucks. You can only get authentic tortillas in Tijuana. "

My wife and I went to India with a mission to try as much different food as possible.

For the most part, India delivered but one day we decided to try a place that “Lonely Planet” recommended as the hot dining option for young people in the area. It turned out to be a Tex-Mex diner.

You know how people complain about American’s screwing up foreign (including Indian) food? India can give as good as it gets. We asked to get their most popular items and they were all huge misses. The quesadilla tasted like the chef had once seen a picture of a quesadilla and rolled with it.

It’s interesting that users on the Kagi forums report different answers. It seems that both US and Canadian customers may see either Lake Ontario or Lake America.

That would suggest that pulling from MapBox is orthogonal to the decision of what to show the end user.

I wish it did but that doesn’t really help me.

I’d rather a few services are good rather than that every service sinks to lowest level.

I was sadly surprised to find out that Kagi maps follwed Trumps lead on misnaming both the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario.

I’m likely to ditch them over this. It’s not just a matter of principal. If I can’t trust them to stand up to Trumps temper tantrums on this, how can I trust that any of their other results haven’t been tampered with?

It has some grains of truth but it’s mingled with too much personal opinion.

There are studies on how much water humans really need. If you want to calculate it the scientific way, you need to factor in at least lean muscle mass, total mass, surface area, ambient temperature and humidity, activity levels, and diet. There’s no magic number of ounces that’s correct for everyone.

Fortunately we’ve evolved a really awesome mechanism. When your body needs more water, you get thirsty.

So if you want to stay properly hydrated, drink whenever you feel even a little thirsty.

I like summer and if that racist shithead Michael Richards disagrees I’m doubling down.

It takes work to turn them into useful search engines. Set up librewolf. Drop in at least a search and a fetch agent. Wrap it in a some prompts to make sure you get actual links.

On my extremely non-scientific scale I’d rate that setup somewhere between barebones Kagi and pre-enshitified Google in terms of results.

I’m hopeful that an actual agent framework will do a better job that’s significantly more work. If you just log onto a SaaS LLM you’ll get very unpredictable search results.

Such as…

How about food then? About 50% of the food on earth relies on the Haber Bosch process.
Are we willing to give up half our food?

You’re absolutely correct that there are many environmentally beneficial choices we can make with minimal impact on our welfare. It’s a lie to pretend that any significant amount of it can be done at no cost. We just need to be willing to pay that cost.

I’m curious why you see my comment as a defense of shareholders?

The beneficiaries of faster transportation, abundant food, and vast material wealth are the consumers. The shareholders only benefit indirectly in that they can take their money and consume goods and services that others have produced.

That’s a tradeoff that happens no matter what economic system we choose. I’m also not even suggesting that we pull back on addressing climate change; I’m saying that this is an ineffective way to advocate for it.

Right. I forgot that Americans think anything older than 100 years is ancient history.

No they absolutely weren’t. Commonwealth only worked to promote cooperation between member states. It was not like it had any real power over any of the member states.

How would you categorize the status of Canada vis a vis Britain before the Balfour declaration?

No because if they tried, it wouldn’t work. Which makes Canada NOT a vassal state. And it wasn’t not even in theory.

Do you realize that’s exactly what, “For all practical purposes…” means?