Public libraries are run by states and cities and universities and NGOs and such, which would limit their ability scale. After all, the American Library Association is actually just a non-profit. At best they could buy a subscription service or something, like Kagi.

On the other hand the Post Office has a Federal mandate, which gives it a lot more power and potential funding. The Post Office could actually build the infrastructure needed to become a useful search tool, rather than rely on public-private partnership.

That's because Qatar and other Gulf states are actually proxies, they are dependent on the US.

Israel isn't like that because it's an extension of the US. The US doesn't control Israel, it is Israel. Israel doesn't control the US, it is the US. They're two heads on the same hydra. If the tides shifted so far that Israel was looking towards Russia or China, that probably means the US is in full collapse and we'd also see Texas join BRICS or some shit.

The US obviously doesn't just obey the demands of every nuclear armed country, so something else must be happening.

Israel is an extension of the US, it's part of the US rather than a puppet of the US. Israel is no more a proxy than Texas is.

"Publicly funded" as in government funded, like the Post Office.

... in fact, in the US it should literally be run by the Post Office.

Why wouldn't the unsinkable aircraft carrier have nukes?

We need a publicly funded and democratically controlled search engine. As long as there's a profit motive, enshitification will follow.

The DNA damage comes from the formaldehyde that the body produces when metabolizing aspartame, but guess what? The body makes formaldehyde anyway, just from its natural metabolic processes. As long as you don't consume too much it's fine.

The problem is over-consumption, which is the basis of having a consumer economy. If everyone ate less the food industry would collapse. They need us to overeat and if we ever stopped they'd have to reconcile with the fact that they can't just keep growing their profits infinitely. Plus, when we overeat, they can make even more money by treating the sicknesses it causes. Win/Win!

Sugar isn't harmless.

Working as intended.

That's why I wanted to highlight the absurdity of "We made an AI to tell us AI is good!" because it shows their nature: a snake eating its own ass.

I absolutely believe bullshit jobs are threatened by AI, I'm just skeptical about simulations being produced by pro-business private schools that have every incentive to flatter their corporate sponsors. MIT has received over two hundred million dollars of investments from IBM for AI research and is seeking an additional billion dollars to build out its AI campus. They're beneficiaries of the bubble.

They have a lot of incentives to lie, here. It sounds like they just built a simulation to tell them what they wanted to hear.

10 years before the first illiterate college grad.