I think the OP might be self-diagnosing

No none of it is a law, just implicit rules. The worst that could happen is someone annoyed saying “excuse me”

The road traffic rules dominate. Driving and walking is on the right. Trains might be on the left but that doesn’t influence walking at all. Trams are also on the right. And most metros.

That’s not the way it works in the EU

Not yet. Because they don’t have the mechanism.

And it’s not about Sánchez and his government. I don’t think they would do it. But governments change, sooner or later someone else will win elections. Someone who might not agree with criticism.

And don’t try to convince me “it would never happen in the EU”. We have more than enough examples that eventually every country has a brush with authoritarianism. Even in the EU currently (eg Hungary). Prevention is always better than trying to fix it later.

Hating on tech billionaires - Yes
Government control of communications - No

Those things are not mutually exclusive

Having a social life is the key. It’s more likely to meet someone you get along with if you keep hanging out with a larger group of people you get along with. Rather than relying on an almost random app algorithm.

And in the end it really turns out to be the knife alien

This one of those local things that makes possible to distinguish different ethnicities. Humans propagate physical traits genetically, therefore if a group of people has similar origins they will have some facial features in common as well.

Sure, but if you didn’t have to work to survive which one would you be?
Work is the surest way to suppress personality, real you only comes up when you don’t struggle to survive.

Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, George Soros. I had a period where I appreciated people who played the system to get rich. Before I understood the system itself is the problem.

The world is divided between Jeffrey Epstein types and Charlie Sheen types, change my mind.

(horseshoe theory is in full swing here)

Folding maps were the USB-A of it’s age. We would always fold it wrong the first time.

So he decided to ruin his one successful company. Which is successful because he wasn’t involved in running it until now.

Depends if you count porn as prostitution. They are doing it for money but not with you as the final customer.

Not a fan of actual person-to-person prostitution, however it shouldn’t be illegal. That being said, forced prostitution is a huge problem that must be addressed.

Government is the people. By that I mean people who are the government are a subset of people. They don’t have any additional insight into the world than a voter, although they might have more information.

Also voters are not a monolith, everyone wants something different. Sometimes very opposite things.

The best that can be done is trying to find a good way to achieve what the majority of voters want while not completely screwing over those who disagree.

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Yes but I’m not sure LLMs would be the focus. Back in 2018-2019 we were already in an AI craze. Investors were throwing billions at it (compared to trillions now).

However LLMs were seen as little more than interesting toys by researchers. Conversational models were secondary compared to image recognition and generation which was considered way more cool than text.

Betteridge’s law of headlines

Somebody listed a bag for $50k on eBay. Listed doesn’t mean sold.
Also Trader Joe’s is a brand of Aldi, a German company, hardly an example of pure Americana.

Aka how can we sell more dolls without actually designing and building anything new. As the article says there are now blind and diabetic Barbies too.
Mattel ❤️ invisible disabilities

Yes it’s fiction, but how would that even work? She would have to say every thought out loud. And even then how does she have emotions without any internal thoughts?