why?

Because investors will cut you a blank check now that we’re in the middle of an inflationary hype cycle

Excited to see a “No AI” aisle at Best Buy that looks like the “Organic” section of the grocery store

Nor does it cut into the corporate revenues. They get paid for the ads either way. The odds of you clicking an ad (presumably) go down, though, so the click-through revenue the company would hypothetically get if you clicked on ads will be theoretically diminished assuming you believe the big tech companies aren’t lying about that data to their advertisers as well.

Everyone Hates Epic

I gotta say, I’ve had a very different experience on two fronts.

Firstly, Epic is consistently the least bad EMR. I’ve yet to see a physician come of Centricity or Allscripts and insist they were the preferable alternative.

Secondly, while nobody likes implementation, the staff I’ve talked with generally seemed to like the additional functionality afforded by integrated diagnose and prescription services. Also, huge fans of the electronic medical records for tracking patient history

I remember Hexbear admins flirting with a system to throttle new accounts, because they experienced a similar problem (troll accounts posting “Fuck Tankies!” as many times as possible before they get booted).

I know a few forums simply won’t let you create an account without an admin’s permission, which seems heavy handed.

Feels like there should be a good technical framework for addressing this. Idk what that is, though.

callously handwaving away rape and diappearances as a tool of governmental control

Why do you hate America?

Like the number of prties is an indicator if how good you’re doing democracy

“Iran only has one party and that’s bad”

“The number of parties doesn’t matter, aktuly, and you’re stupid if you thought so”

:-/

You should be ashamed to defend such a brutal regime

Wipe the Saudi light sweet crude off your lips before you try to deliver that line in earnest.

I suspect your definition of “brutal regime” is “they won’t let me jerk it to women in bikinis”. There’s no real concern for Iranians assassinated by the Mossad or bombed by the Americans or starved through international sanctions. Nevermind the native expats hounded by western anti-immigration police or scientists who were kidnapped and tortured or civilians shot out of the sky for no reason at all.

You only seem to understand “brutality” as a White Man’s Burden to resolve. So long as westerners get to exploit the labor and livelihood of a Middle Eastern people, Islamic Despots don’t seem to bother you in the slightest.

Iran isn’t democratic. It’s a single party theocracy

I count four major coalitions of parties, and a healthy batch of independents, which is more than can be said of any American, Canadian, or UK government. I don’t know how you get “single party” out of that. Hell, the Reformist coalition just took the Presidency a year ago for the first time.

jails or murders it’s people for saying mean stuff about the unelected leader that was supposedly chosen by god

You seem to have Iran confused with the US. It’s always fucking projection with you guys.

Western Press do be like that. The Saudi government is experiencing the same water crisis, but somehow remains beyond repute.

I hughly doubt their uranium is civilian

It is at least as civilian as any French nuclear plant. To date, there is no evidence of plutonium enrichment or bomb construction, which is more than can be said of their Israeli neighbors.

Do you mean the Guardian Council of Islamic Jurists? The populist leaders that lead the revolution against the Shah’s military dictatorship in 1979 and retain enormous popularity within Iran’s conservative religious community?

They’ve got about as much “absolute power” as any unelected SCOTUS judges. The power is entirely derived from the Iranian bureaucracy’s loyalty to the Council over the Presidency.

Iranians have a more democratic society than any other country you could name in the region.

What they are is under siege. The eleven day war with Israel crippled their domestic infrastructure. And the ongoing sanctions placed by the US prevented them from rebuilding in a timely manner.

people in power are myopic and prioritize short term benefice over long term thonking

I’m not sure “maintaining adequate levels of domestic crop yield” is a short-term benefit. They’re stretched for water because they’re in a historic drought during a climate catastrophe. This is a no-win situation, exacerbated by the constant threat of military invasion by nuclear superpowers and their rabid fascist local proxies.

The Iranian government can’t summon rain from the heavens any easier than their Saudi or Qatari neighbors. Those states just have the benefit of access to western markets and engineering firms for enormous desalination plants. Meanwhile, Iranians’ energy infrastructure - necessary to run the pumps and pipelines that irrigate much of the country - have been subject to repeated bombardment by Israeli and US aircraft. Most notably, their civilian nuclear program was crippled by Trump’s B-2 bombing run in June. But this is just the tail end of the damage inflicted by the eleven day shootout with Israel.

It’s up to the authors how they want to license it.

Plus or minus some amount of piracy, sure

I mean, look what happened with TCP/IP.

A fucking disaster for humanity on a global scale

It’s not post-apocalyptic when 1% own 99% of the wealth.

It’s post-apocalyptic when your municipal utilities are all shut down and the only potable water sources are surrounded by armed goons.

See Palestine

Palestinians are being mass murdered the old fashioned way. All the talk of Lavender AI and autonomous drones and the like obscures the far more banal reality of IDF troops walking through the center of towns and shooting anyone they see with their rifles.

Thinking we’re going to have comically resource intensive and technically complex machines in the post apocalyptic future is so optimistic.

They create the economic activity.

You have to go back and actually read Kapital.

More people living in an area means there’s more to do and more people to do it.

Visit a refugee camp and explain that to the locals

They need economic activity to be livable. Shoving broke people onto a reservation doesn’t accomplish that.