Oh, get in the bin. Conflating Israeli-sanctioned malevolence with "Jewish people" is incredibly unhelpful to the discussion.

It was not sold on one thing.

Immigration was definitely a factor, but there were a lot of people —despite strong expert opposition— saying it would be an economic golden age. Being able to trade with everyone on our own terms. Being free our exporters of red tape while maintaining our existing trade and supply routes.

Of course this was wrong. 49% of the country was screaming it was wrong. But there were enough people swayed on moderate promises that things could be better.

It was bad if you had a Nokia smartphone, or a Blackberry. Lots of people felt they weren't ready to give up their keyboards.

It's hard to make objective judgment when you're in one tribe's trench.

It got a lot harder to text while driving with the loss of physical keyboards. I used to write messages without needing to take my eyes off the road.

At least now I can leave people long, rambling voice notes with the excuse that I'm behind the wheel!

The post clearly says the intention is to get a formal spec for formal integration.

To leave their experimental phase they have to define some goals to meet and that requires making some architectural choices that still aren't decided.

It's not just about fun. We are beaten into believing we need an education, a career, a home, stability before we have children.

We're having kids in our 40s when our parents started in their 20s. We're naturally less able to have as many because menopause kicks in.

There are no easy answers here. Younger pregnancy limits education and careers.

Is it really so bizarre that people might be against a technical revolution that threatens their livelihoods? "AI" even in its current regurgative state can do so much stuff that people are paid to do.

Or that we're all talking to an LLM when we think we're talking to other humans (eg in here).

Or that kids are demonstrably taking the easy way out instead of actually learning. Cheating isn't new, but the level of disengagement is biblically awesome. Between that and the stagnant junior jobs market, what hope do they have?

Honestly, what is there to celebrate? Toil is a necessary component of human satisfaction, and we're shifting everything we do to a LLM.

> they might eventually

That seems like a long series of pessimistic stretches.

I don't love churn but this slow plumbing unification around systemd is delivering a better experience for most. And I don't recognise the push away from copyleft, certainly not in this context.

Because if it were civil and paid for for centrally, it'd be Big C Communism marching in. Let the army do it and it's eagle-riding patriotism.

But also if you do declare some sort of emergency that allows this, otherwise frustrating checks and committees can be bypassed. Probably not a bad thing.

Iran just killed thousands of protesters. As far as the US has fallen, they're not quite there yet.

That's what we need. More children in prison. Now two lives are ruined. Just for the sake of retribution.

Redeemable children can make horrific mistakes. The job of parents, and pastoral adults is to maintain an environment where kids can exist without making irreparable, life-destroying mistakes. Let them learn, but limit the damage they can accidentally cajole themselves into doing.

That means limiting access to social media, phones and cameras. Turning the school clock back to 1995.