That’s my kind of humor

Trumps own head of intelligence says they’re years away.

Newer devices have been designed and made in the decades since.
Are cars more sophisticated today then they were in the 1940s?

After world war two, Europe was busy putting itself back together. It left an opening that the US stepped into. And who wouldn’t like to be the big dog in the yard.

Ask them questions. Have them explain how, why. When you find contradictions or confusion, ask how they resolve them.

Gender isn’t biological. You’re conflating with sex

Unless you’re actively being targeted for some specific reason (NSA kind of reason) in practical terms it’s unheard of.

The United Federation of Planets

That’s partly true.
Religion was the original way to explain the natural world.

Eventually, religion led philosophy, which in turn led to science.

The key difference between religions and cults, is the level of restrictions on outside information.

On that scale cults are at one end, religion in the middle, and science at the other end.

It sounds like you’re thinking there is no way to compete with Reddit. If you charge, people will use Reddit. If you have ads, people will use Reddit. People are only here because there aren’t ads and it’s free?

If you charge, you also have to offer a better experience than the free options. There’s no reason instances can’t use ads for people unwilling or unable to pay. For me I’ll gladly pay for an ad-free experience.

That’s not really how it works. If it was made to work that way, it would still be a relatively small group donating their own compute resources to subsidize everyone else. Which is what we already have, and isn’t very scalable.

The only real option is to charge people.
Hosting isn’t free. It costs money to host a website. That money needs to come from somewhere. If it doesn’t come from advertisers, it must come from users.

There could be a verity options for that. But I like the simple annual subscription. Each and every user pays. Spread out the cost as much as possible. It’s only fair.

I’ve had success imagining the reaction a bully is looking for, or expecting; Then giving them a reaction that confounds whatever they had in mind. Don’t play their game. Make a new game for you to play. One they won’t understand.

My first thought in this case, is to stop by and give him a list of requests you’d like him to play the next morning. If he immediately refuses, just ignore what he says and thank him, because his sound system is way better than yours. That interaction will confuse the hell out of him. He might just stop. If he does or not, go back the next day and ask why he didn’t play your request list. If he did play your list, go back and thank him. Then give him another list of music from someone else in your family.

That’s just off the top of my head, maybe you can come up with something better. Just remember to make it your game, not his.

They aren’t direct synonyms. As one refers to an event, while the other refers to a state of being. However the confusion is easy, as either invariably involves the other, they can both safely inferred.

Not when you’re cold and need to start a fire

Of course if one truly can’t afford it, paying for search can seem a luxury.

However I would argue as a counterpoint; If there’s any online service one would consider paying for, it should be search. Search is most literally our “front page to the internet”. It’s our first stop in any quest for information. Even the founders of Google knew early on, that putting adds in search creates a perverse incentive against the best results, favoring instead worse results, so people perform more searches, creating more opportunities to show people adds.

$5 a month isn’t much to know your query will give the results you want, instead of the results advertisers want.

Haven’t been able to find a copy of Big Shark by Tommy Wiseau.

Do you mean Reddit the company, or the Reddit the community?

I think the answers are “No”, and “A little. It often gets deleted when mentioned.”