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…there is a light at the end of the tunnelgangplank.

Fixed that for you.

(As a joke, not seriously.)

Albeit in many countries, Twitter never really had the same impact as in the US. Where I live, Telegram is the source for notifications, updates and news.

Twitter has always been an also-ran in social media circles.

Twitter purports to be a world-scope social media site. These are the numbers for October of 2023 (the most recent I have info for):

Twitter is behind three local-scope social media sites (WeChat, Douyin, and Kuaishou) and running neck-in-neck with a fourth (that is locally largely considered a failure).

Note that: a “global” site is not just behind, but FAR behind in one case, several locally-scoped sites. And it barely registers against other world-scoped sites.

And this is in late 2023 before Apartheid Manchild opened the doors to reveal his batshit insanity and stupidity even more.

Just like the Spinning Jenny back then, AI is as bad as it’s ever going to be today. It’s only going to get better and jobs will be made redundant, I’ll put my money on that. It’s a real fear that many people have, whether they’ll admit it or not.

It’s also as good as its ever going to be today (or the near future).

Degenerative AI has already dropped off in usage to the point that major stakeholders in it are terrified. It’s going to go into the same winter that every previous “no really this time we’ve got it right” AI crazes went.

I’m assessing whether your “guess” is wild SF-inspired imagination or grounded in anything, you know, actually factual.

You’ve answered.

Sportsmanlike behaviour in the modern age?

That IS weird! 🤣

How adorable.

Just the high-speed trains here carry just under 3 billion passengers per year. Divide it by respective populations (land area is roughly equivalent) and you’ve got the equivalent of the USA carrying 735 million passengers annually.

And that’s just high-speed trains.

If you factor in regular rail we can add about 730 million extra passengers (183 million extra passengers for US population adjustment).

The USA has a whole lot of work to do before it catches up even on regular rail, not to mention high-speed.

This is “Single-Bamboo Drifting” (独竹漂), a traditional sport of the Miao peoples in Guizhou.

You stand on a broad bamboo trunk and steer/propel with a thin bamboo stick. Often combining it with complicated dance. It requires a lot more balance than I could ever have managed at any point in my life.

Judging by later messages, this is a True Believer. Which when translated to English is “idiot”.

You seem both nice and very bright.