the CRA website? I’ve been able to access it on Firefox (through Linux) without being hassled.

Same here.

Maybe they’ve got some privacy plug-ins that are preventing the CRA website from functioning properly?

In the past, I have had to add my bank and some government websites to my whitelist

The problem is, you don’t always know thwy will do this until after you pay your money for them.

They already have - having Nukes.

That only defends against a sane leadership with a military chain of command that isn’t compromised.

See: Regulations around building structures on private property.

Even those are based on people doing it wrong in the past and endangering themselves and others.

Maybe not, but it is a default app, and the vast majority of people can’t be bothered to install something better.

Google scans YouTube videos for information about what products appear in them

Yes, but not specifically looking for products. They’re scanning to try to learn everything about the video with the goal of better matching suggestions to the interests (as determined by watch history) of viewers.

The intention is (as always) to increase viewer session time because the more time viewers spend on the platform, the more ads they see and ultimately the more money YouTube makes.

Of course, that scanning and view history can also be used to target ads with the goal of increasing ad click-thru and conversion (ultimately also driving the profit goal)

No one is telling you to power wash or scrub

No, but some people get some carried away ideas when they hear “clean that machine”.

Your FBI agent

I thought Musk fired them?

All of them in the UK.

At my former job, I saved a ridiculous number of email chains that showed my objections and the management reply to just do it in a folder I creatively named “CYA”.

Thw 100k word part is relatively easy.

The coherent story part is not possible with today’s LLMs, even with a much smaller word count.

Hell, lots of human writers fail at making their stories coherent.

but I think they have had issues with filtering neonazis

Any platform that proclaims itself to be a censorship free zone is going to attract nazis and other undesirables.

Presumably because it’s much cheaper.

There are reasons why it’s cheaper, and none of them improve your life.

should keep the rest of the world entrained.

Sorry, but you guys stopped being fun to watch a while ago.

It’s now gone well beyond train-wreck levels of horrified “can’t look away” viewing.

Why isn’t that benefitting the working class? These are real questions. Trump has all the wrong answers

The existance of people like Trump and Musk are the answer.

We can hope not to repeat the plague, but with Trump empowering anti-vaxxers, even that can’t be taken for granted.

However, due to the smaller size you do lose a lot of the activity in more niche communities and the sheer volume of posts/comments compared to Reddit.

That also leads to a lack of diversity of opinions.

And the author is getting paid.

Any of those should have sunk a normal person’s political ambitions.

The fact that Trump somehow seems to be immune from the normal realities of society is frustrating.

He died in jail.

Maybe Trump could follow in his footsteps?