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It’s not open-source, but I enjoy using Affinity, especially the updated version after it was acquired by Canva.

Then present your evidence, so we can have a substantive debate and draw informed conclusions.

See retired test pilot Robert Johnson’s analysis of what led to the crash for a different perspective: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrtfUZRk5h4&ra=m

In Scandinavia in particular, there’s a tendency of pescatarians to refer to themselves as vegetarian for social convenience, but that hasn’t changed the definition of “vegetarian”…

No idea? Really? You’re an intelligent mammal, your biological makeup encoded in DNA. So are all other people, who largely share that same DNA. You’re conscious. It’s not a big lea…

Tougher adblocking is the best argument I’ve heard.

Are we talking about laptops in grades advanced enough for students to waste time on Reddit, or smartphones in the hands of young children? My contention is that it's feasible to u…

That anecdote sounds like a problem with discipline and ethics, not with technology.

That’s a fair objection. Having ruminated on it some more, I’ll admit it might be tenable. As for achieving an effective ban, occupational collapse might be the stronger motivator …

Get this point across to those leading the charge, if not every person everywhere.

The challenge is that enforcing a ban would presumably require strict incursions into personal freedoms organized at a scale where AI-based solutions would be particularly effectiv…

That's interpreting a failure to fight to preserve ethics as an internal rejection when it could be explained by a lack of fighting spirit, either because the fight seems impossibl…

Contra proferentem or caveat aleator? That is the question.