"Access this article for 1 day for: £50 / $60/ €56 (excludes VAT)"
Man, the scientific publishing cartel is something else. Note that author will generally get exactly £0 / $0 / €0 for his text.
I guess you can't imagine a free, open democratic state with rule of law either. Because when broad, independent, quality journalism with a wide audience is gone, all you'll have to worry about is that poor cat in a tree in Ottawa.
Unfortunately that is almost never enough. If your competition is populist media financed by state-level/billionaire agendas, it is impossible to compete in the long term. We would need a complete and general ban on political financing across all media to sustain such a market.
> if we don't support truly independent, objective, investigative journalism, who will?
Like Eric Schmidt, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, George Soros and countless other billionaires through their "charities"? https://theguardian.org/
Just because they are liberal and non-profit doesn't mean they are independent, that only appears this way if you only think in the narrow confines of the Overton Window between "conservative" and "liberal" of mainstream discourse.
Average person in US reducing his/her meat intake by 1/4 would do much, much more for environment compared with completely scrapping entire AI infrastructure worldwide. For some reason people concerned with environmental impact of AI get really angry whenever I point this out.
> I guess that kind of thinking got us liquid glass - which everyone hates.
Except, ironically enough, enough people involved with both macOS and iOS at Apple didn't hate it enough — until it made it to launch.
Either there's a massive hierarchy issue there, or Apple is starting to suffer from groupthink that negatively affects a lot of their customers' experiences.
I'm sorry but if elimination of crippling disease sounds like eugenics to you, then you should deeply think about your moral compass. Comparing autism (I guess some mild form since you put it next to ADHD) and ADHD to Down's syndrome shows that you are completely clueless. I'm sorry for the harsh tone but your comment is absolutely awful and has zero empathy towards people (and their caretakers) suffering from condition much worse than what you are going through.
For where this gets complex, you can look at the Deaf community.
Crippling disease? Or normal variation in humanity? There's significant debate, and a lot of Deaf people really bristle at the idea of eliminating their identity.
The problem is that there is a deliberate lack of information that clearly distinguishes the "technically a product" category from the "someone put effort into this" category. Price doesn't do it, brand doesn't do it, name recognition doesn't do it because companies are constantly enshittifying existing products, too.
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