While I get your point AI detection websites are not a solution.

If AI (or any algorithm for that matter) could actually detect AI created images properly, the very same AI could produce images not showing the markers it used to detect them.

It’s the Dunning-Kruger base idea about metacognition all over again, just not for humans this time.

Does it matter where the non-existent technology that is actually never really build comes from? Starting to build SMRs soon™ is like fusion being ready soon™…

PS: You may want to take a look at Axel Springer’s newspapers/brands

And “taking a look” here means blocking them all so your poor adblockers don’t need to bother…

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TheBlockList/Blocklist/master/axel-springer

“Even when better options for commuting are available, people usually don’t make the switch.”

Interesting working hypothesis… Sadly the article and the “studies” cited are total bullshit.

It’s full of second-hand conclusions based on studying only tangentially related topics to build the narrative how people wouldn’t change their commuting habits anyway.

That’s basically the whole actual content: people are creatures of habit so we can assume that they would not easily change those habits. We haven’t actually checked because their is basically no representative area with better commuting options… but we areclaiming it anyway to keep those alternative options neglected. 👏

More than half of the voters are senile and will vote for the same conservative party again and again. Which can only do two things: lie and enrich themselves and their coporate buddies if in government or block and obstruct if not.

The rest has 3 options: ignore politics in silence as the country is obviously lost, leave the obviously country or vote for insane extremists as any change is perceived to be better than more decades of slow and steady decay to make the 1% richer.

And thanks to a constant onslaught of social media brain-rot and propaganda a lot of the less educated pick the latter one.

To give you a proper perspective: the same party leading the government for the vast majority in the last decades is in power again. They campaigned on the same lies as they do every 4 years, they broke every single of their promises within weeks after being elected again. They spend most of their time spouting nonsensical culture war bullshit to divert from all their corruption scandals (often dating back several terms) again. And at the same time they barely lost 2% in polls. Because their voters are just brain-dead.

Also -as all conservatives nowadays are embracing Trumpism- they are the far-rights biggest helpers happily pushing populism, culture war and xenophobia as a way to divert from their constant money grabs… while also constantly moving further to the right to get the extremist voters back (they don’t…) while alienating every other democratic party.

Their whole modus operandi is basically you either do what we say or we will block everything. And unless there is a sudden increase in old age mortality they will go on like this forever until the country is so broken that the next fascist government and the rubble thereafter will be an improvement indeed.

But the bear referenced there is not the animal but the constellation…

Arctic = towards the bear, so north

Antarctic = the opposite (=ant[i]) direction

Middle and High school kids are flashing ROMs on their phone by themselves these days

No.

Some do. They other 98% are absolutely clueless and wouldn’t even know that there are alternatives to the stock OS. In fact they wouldn’t even know what an OS is or that “Android” isn’t a device brand.

cares about anything other than students committing violence

Many are just like bad police. They care about showing off how well they work by catching someone. Doesn’t matter that there wasn’t a problem in the first place or that there are actual real problems that could use the ressources. As long as they can catch and punish someone (for purely imaginary stuff even…) to pretend how well they are doing their job they are happy.

Yes, they often do… implicitly.

Every time someone pretends that it’s a Linux problem that he had to look up and install a certain driver because it “wouldn’t work properly out-of-the-box” he is basically lying because guess what… Windows doesn’t work properly without the right (externally downloaded) driver, too. Or it required you to install the newest DirectX version for decades before you could even start any game… Yet somehow I never read complains about Windows being unfinished and needing to improve because you could not start gaming out-of-the-box.