I think we should be at least several decades past looking at the USA as a particularly functional democratic system...

The US constitution, despite its biblical status in their culture, manages to be more of a distracting throw-word ("LOOK at how this bill helping provide healthcare OBSTRUCTS your CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to NOT CARE ABOUT THE POOR!" (Ok, not a great example)) than a functional constitution that limits institutional overreach.

Your opinion is fine and all, but it's moot to this point.

The exact same things are happening in the EU, as evident by this very legislation this thread is concerning.

Classic "missed 100% of the point" literature phenomenon

Wealth inequality; too much of the wealth that exists is concentrated where it is worth the least.

I think AI evangelists avoid talking about search because AI is why every internet search engine sucks. I use DuckDuckGo and Startpage, and when trying to find answers to nontrivial questions I get ONLY AI spam sites as results. (Come up with 1500 semi-specific SEO-friendly articles vaguely relating to subject the theme of website N. Then repeat until N=100

And shortly enough, AI is not even going to help with searching – it will eat its own s*t and offer that as answers. Unless the AI giants find some >99.99% way to filter out their own toxic waste from the training data.

There was a period I remember fondly when the SEO slop was still mostly human generated because AI couldn't quite do it yet, and I was getting much better results from DDG than from Google. Now it's all despair-inducing.

What you're saying is totally correct about AI slop polluting the web, but the reason they don't want to talk about it is because the second they frame "AI" as slightly better search, it invites all sorts of unfavorable financial comparisons. It also deflates the hype because now you're talking about a better version of a thing everyone is familiar with instead of some magical new buzzword like "agent" or "RAG" or whatever we're going to be talking about next year when agents don't work.

Could say, the goal is an OK photo every time, even if it means you only get really good photos by accident.

A version with better UI for mobile could be super neat.

And I don't mean that it needs to be a Flutter app that launches in 3 business days and eats battery like a horse, just that it didn't look like it's from 2012. (Some of the UI design elements are also frankly confusing)

I'm pretty quick to never-again a company which advertises in a way that makes me sick. A certain electronics store chain that operates here in the Nordics, which someone is bound to recognise, is on my ban list for psychedelic surrealist shock advertising.

Not that I see much ads any more anyway, what with Ublock Origin, Blokada 5 and Youtube ReVanced.

That's awesome, I'm Finnish but when at school in England I was very quickly one of the best spellers in my class.

Imagine having a language with no issues cobbling together significant portions of vocabulary from at least 8 different languages, and then ending up with the same pronoun for plural and singular, in both the 2nd and 3rd persons...

Might as well go full way and adopt also we for both singular and plural.

Or imagine dropping "thou" and using "you" for both singular and plural. Crazy!

It's why we have y'all

In my area it's "youse".

Outrageous! How dare things keep evolving after I’m done evolving?

the pluralis majestatis is really a missed opportunity.

Yeah, and it's a matter of getting used to it for most. A bit like when text has an accent written out.