I am not sure anything about that is good.

I mean it's good and bad, basically AI is finding a bunch of serious zero days... which is causing a lot of updates to need to be happening now, and that is kind of open source philosophy of security by obscurity isn't the goal.

I agree on the general concept that, the party needs better controls, and to laude the fact that they get rid of bad leaders, rather than just that be seen as a weakness...

Biden and Platner are 2 solid examples of that where IMO the concept is a stregnth... though in biden's case, the major mistake was not doing it from the start... IE only holding a sham primary to begin with, and him holding on until the debate where he completely shit the bed.

Platner I feel there was some major mistakes in not seeing it sooner, IMO the hint of alegations of being abusive, and the history of being in black rock should have been bigger red flags than they were to people. But the speed at which his resignation was pushed, and the party stepped in to replace him, at least bodes in the right direction

Of course the voters are open to change... however we need a non First past the post system to even dip our toes in change, and in order to get that in place we need a majority from... that's the real hinderance with fixing politics in general is the people who currently are in charge are the ones who have to change it. It's like if in a sport we needed to pass a ban of a steroid that's been rampant in a sport for 50 years... and all rule changes must go through the currently seated champions of the sport.

It's such a sad state of affairs, my local next door forum is full of things like, headlines of people getting slap on the wrist punishments for sexual assault of a minor and then people responding with "this is what socialism is doing to this country".

Umm yeah, I'm sure mandami winning mayor in new york this year is why this bright red state, with a bright red state senate and bright red state house of representatives has had such lax laws that haven't been updated in 30 years.

But like, how can it be wise to lean so heavily on an individual? Is it a symptom of how 'high stakes" US elections are?

I agree with that, but also see why the problem exists. We as the left hate having a single point of failure like a leader, but occupy wallstreet I think was the biggest demonstration of what happens without it. IE when the movement is a large group, the media says "OK there's no leader so anyone we talk to in the group speaks for the group, therefore we can look for the person in the crowd who looks the least capable of making an arguement, interview them and declare the whole movement as aimless".

I'm guessing just like real-debrid etc... with very little knowledge of even what it is beyond what I can see on it's page, my guess is it's like one company that buys a bunch of premium subscriptions to say keep2share and all the other premium file services. Then basically works as a proxy. Downloading and re-giving them out. (which yeah no question it has to be paid to do so)

It’s amazing the amount of things we’ve never observed before suddenly having endless videos now that AI sludge is clogging up the world.

Remember the old meme of "paranormal/bigfoot sightings" per year timeline... with a point where there's an enormous drop at "camera invented", and then bounces back with "photoshop invented".

I do believe I used to watch a documentary about a Coyote in the desert, and quite a bit of that involved it on a paved road as well. I do believe it understood more complicated things than just pressing crosswalk buttons, if I recall it flat out knew how to place orders from an Acme Catalog an assemble quite a few fairly complex machines.

I can agree with the concept that yes making fun of the people is a different matter than the issue. but to be fair their metaphors on all climate change and environment issues in the early seasons, were almost always universally put with something that flat out doesn't exist. Hence why their semi-correction episode that came out years later, specifically involved admitting it did. IE the message from that episode wasn't "Al gore is going about this in the wrong way". it was "there is no right way because he's chasing nothing". Seconds in a different episode where the kids destroyed a dam, blamed it on global warming, and all the scientifically minded characters blindly listened.

IE you can compare that to say how Sally Struthers was treated in the "Starvin Marvin" plot, or the anti-bully organizations etc... where they didn't pretend that the activists were hallucinating/fabricating the problem.... but did attack the hell out of them for the directions of their solutions.

They have very different ways they handle "bad solutions to real problems", and "the problem isn't even real".

I'd say they are a mixed bag with how they handle handle things. Obviously they are a very mixed bag on LGBT+, They have little bits of support here and there, and huge mockery and issues at other points. Climate change and environmental issues, they fell straight into the liberterian hole of "it's all a hoax". With every character who believed it being a complete idiot or a manipulative monster. Though I do have to give them props for eventually realizing their mistakes and making newer episodes basically mocking their former view. I have far more support for a group that can realize their own mistakes and take the time to communicate a correction in their format.

Explanation for those who don't watch south park. One of the most famous ones is Manbearpig. Basically in the episode Al Gore was constantly leading the kids into danger and causing destruction trying to protect everyone from a monster he called manbearpig. Which is basically implied in the episode that it's all in al gore's head.

Several years later they did a different episode in which, manbearpig actually appears and starts wrecking the city, and everyone stands around either saying that they don't believe manbearpig is real (right in front of wakes of destruction and death), to immidiately saying "oh no manbearpig is real, but it's too late to do anything so we just have to watch him destroy everything"

Not even just unrealistic, if I recall it regularly was posting the same handful of things multiple times

So... while congress is attacking the hell out of a guy, because they think he might have known something about the possibility of people slightly modifying a disease in china... and not wanting to put it as the primary way the disease spread. Meanwhile we're doing something 100x worse, on systems that the owners claim to have multiple cases of it accidentally reaching out and launching attacks on other companies undirected. I don't see the problem here.