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What's the progress of the Human Connectome Project?

I remember what the standardising committee did to XMPP: users wanted to share photos, send files, and make audio/video calls; XMPP said "we're not going to standardize that, but each application can use its own extensions"... then it all went to hell.

Banks are allowed to use fractional reserve to lend several times more than they are required to warrant themselves, governments only force banks to have an entity who will pinky swear to write down up to a certain amount in everyone's accounts in case the banks can't. Neither skill nor labor produce money, central banks produce money as a loan with a repayment obligation, skill and labor only shift around the fractional obligations created by banks from thin air. Crypto is actually generated as an effect of the skill and labor required to secure its own ledger. People use golf courses to claim carbon offsets they sell in get-rich-quick schemes, or stamp collections, or digital collectibles, or natural gas extraction plants, or a thousand other schemes; everything can be, and is being used to scam someone somewhere at every moment, doesn't mean everything is a scam.

Someone had real gold in their coffer full of gold coins, then someone convinced them that credit written down as a number on some slips of paper had the same value, that they could trust the bank's computers with keeping track of the total value, and everyone clapped.

You don't. That's on purpose, to test your blind unwavering faith, and you won't know your score until after you're dead. Just follow without question whatever your spiritual leader says in order to maximize your chances... ain't that convenient?

Recently saw a report on cocaine, apparently the prices haven't changed since the 1990s... just the purity has gone down and it now comes laced with fentanyl.

From what it looks like, North, East and West, are more of a "for sure" than a "maybe".

I also understand why people choose to die at home, it's somewhat harder to understand why anyone with a chance to live would willingly stay in the area, since all of Gaza has been reeking of "death camp" for well over a decade.

Shining light on a problem is a good step to make people realize there is a problem in the first place.

What the fuck are you going to do about it?

Start a meme campaign targeted at countries with privacy legislations, aimed at making their future governments ask for ~~higher bribes~~ more lobbying before signing away taxpayer money to Microsoft contracts...

I mean, ideally have Microsoft rethink its approach, like Meta is rethinking its with Instagram, but let's start with something simple.

Too late, it already has learned it:

Default (GPT-3.5)

User: Translate the following text into Esperanto: "I'm just going to start posting in Esperanto. Even AI won't be interested in learning Esperanto."

ChatGPT: "Mi ĵus komencos afiŝi en Esperanto. Eĉ la intelekta artifiko ne estos interesita lerni Esperanton."

Didn't Mozilla get most of its funding from Google for promoting its search engine? Or has that changed?

Calling ethnic discrimination "racial", doesn't make ethnicities into races.

well-known and accepted definition of race

That in itself, is racist.

Feel free to learn more: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)

encrypted body of the message

Encrypted what? LinkedIn lets you add a key/cert to send you encrypted emails?