hadn’t been held back by lazy MS et al.

MS is not lazy but working hard to maintain their lead.

edit: Just noticed that my phrasing is bad and could be seen as praise. OP is right, MS is holding everybody back.

I meant to say that they abuse their market domination to maintain their lead.

Look at MS Teams. It was free until Slack was done as a competitor.

MS did things but that’s inevitable. The crucial part are the things that they prevented.

It’s increadible that OP is even downvoted.

Easiest trick: Show two options, let people pick a side and then pitch them against each other.

The problem is complex enough that both options are hammers that won’t help to repair a watch.

It’s two quotes. Miners don’t throw coal into furnaces.

My liberal friends were saying, ‘You can’t expect them to be able to do that,’” Biden told his New Hampshire audience. “Anybody who can go down 300 to 3,000 feet in a mine, sure in hell can learn to program as well, but we don’t think of it that way,” he said.

“Gimme a break! Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program for God’s sake.”

However, the only strategically significant rival we have that utilizes those shopping lanes are Russia, whom the administration wants to buddy up too.

If that doesn’t play out, Putin will be dropped like Saddam.

Better than being a hopeless doomer about everything.

How can any change happen if there is only a limited willingness to perveive reality and analyze it?

They’re clearly referring to when it became easily accessible to the masses.

When have you been to the moon?

Only if the summary is included in the training data.

After all, it’d be much easier to press on a button that’d kill 10 000 people living 10 000 km away from you than to stab one person to death.

That could be the result of our training. After all, people die for our way of life and we have to cope.

Don’t use the Zimbardo prison experiment. From your link:

Certain critics have described the study as unscientific and fraudulent.[6][7] In particular, Thibault Le Texier has established that the guards were asked directly to behave in certain ways in order to confirm Zimbardo’s conclusions, which were largely written in advance of the experiment.

I know the UK banned women’s orgasms

Why? To prevent British women from having expectations?

It could be. So you agree that the surveillance laws don’t make much sense?

Why else would it be introduced? If they don’t plan to lock down the entire internet, the age verification is useless. It could be security theater but it receives full media attention. So it is important. What else but war could be so important that it demands so much power over civil liberty?

This is going to happen. The European age verification and messenger surveillance are preparations to control any remaining opposition for that war.

Sure, that’s all obviously true. But Europe’s situation is still not “essentially the same as” China’s.

Of course, the law is not active yet. Once activated, what would be different?

If you can’t verify your age you can’t access those services. That’s the same as

Chinese citizens may soon find themselves dependent on government-issued digital credentials for even the most basic freedoms

The thing that Europe cannot do is associate users to accounts in a convenient way. But everybody who doesn’t use a VPN can be identified by their IP address and everybody else in the same way TOR users can be identified.

Add the planned access to messenger service E2E encryption as well as the planned huge military spending and we must be heading towards funny times.

Children can be protected by other means.

Meanwhile the EU is creating consensus for an anonymous age verification infrastructure.

The social networks won’t know the names of the users but the EU will be able to block people from accessing all social networks by blocking their age verification account.

It’s essentially the same.

Tankies perceive the old Tibet like the West perceives Iran, as an abusive Theocracy. That changes the evaluation.