Maybe 30 years ago.

But in the last 20 years there has been a lot of of funding towards prevention and researching a cure.

https://avac.org/project/resource-tracking/

An HIV vaccine has proven itself to be an extremely elusive target.

But with recent developments in biotechnology, it may not be much longer before we finally have get one.

And by they, you mean the right wind politicians in power.

The people who vote for them are constantly voting against their immediate interests.

If we had some sort of ranked choice, a lot of these one-issue voters might actually have a choice in their representation. Which would be good for all of us.

WinAeroTweaker will let you decide what junk you want to disable.

Twitter was already struggling with nearly unfettered access to every internet-connected user. (sans heavily censored countries)

If Musk cut off 25%-50% of users, the platform, which relies on eyeballs seeing advertisements, would certainly spiral into oblivion.

That is legitimately a problem.

For some reason, YouTube’s algorithm heavily favors extremist content if you show even a casual interest in related material.

It’s probably as simple as “shocking content gets more clicks”, but still, it’s not good for our society to have entertainment platforms recommending extremist views.

In the old days, you’d have to seek out this kind of fringe content on your own. And you’d get pushback from your community if you started talking nonsense.

Nowadays, my aunt is getting blasted with reptilian democrat stuff after showing an interest in typical conservative lady content years ago. And there is not much of a community left to help her out. The algorithms just amplify all the worst shit.

Just pick a mid-sized instance and there’s a 99% chance it’s more stable than Lemmy.world right now.

Look at users who don’t sound insane and see where they’re posting from.

I think it’s good for USB standards to move slow.

Finally just about every device I buy has USB-C now. If they release a new connector that’ll just mean using 2 different cables for everything again.

If it does get crazy, we’re all going to suffer as the government cracks down hard on domestic terrorism.

And just like in 2001, “domestic terrorism” will mean whatever they want it to mean.

We had decades of low union activity that gave corporations the chance to show how well they would take care of us on their own.

And they super fucked entire generations of workers.

Now people must unionize, or their dirt salaries will lose them their rented homes and starve their kids. So we’re seeing a blossoming of union activity in many sectors.

It’s time for workers to have a tiny slice of those mega-profits corporations have been earning off our backs.

Unionize America!

How does nuking multiple cities not contribute to the American war effort?

There are 1000 decision making paths you can follow in regards to the atomic bombing of Japan, which wasn’t decided lightly, but ultimately the prevailing understanding is correct.

This “holier than thou” alternate history thing you have going on is, sorry to say, it’s delusional.

I’m just guessing here, but due to the expensive safety, security, disposaal, and political requirements, big reactors are likely going to be the most cost effective for a long time.

Plenty of real people are quite aware of our current issues, they just get drowned out online.

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The Twitter branding and userbase were the only value in Twitter.

Now old users are going to have no attachment to this weird new look and name.

And new users are not going to come, because they’re going to think “it’s still Twitter, why would I care about that?”

Lemmy.world got way too big too fast and the small team behind it can’t handle it all.

Everyone should disperse to a random stable instance, or make their own, and it’ll be better for the health of the network.

I hate to ever give law enforcement any leeway as abuse is so common, but if someone is hurting children I don’t care how you stop it.

Is this satire? Because that’s exactly the excuse government has been giving for hundreds of years, to take your freedoms away.

It’s never about the children. The Catholic church operating with near total immunity, after all these millennia of abuse, is proof of that.

And guess who’s got a lot of funding to run honey pot nodes?

Where’s the limit on acceptable surveillance on your own property?

Should the state be able to check for unlicensed structures by drone?

What about sending investigators into your backyard? Into your house?

Just because people break rules doesn’t give the state the right to inspect their citizens any way they please.

NHTSA estimates that approximately 96 percent of model year 2013 passenger cars and light-duty vehicles were already equipped with EDR capability. The significance of this measure is in the specifics of what data it requires such devices to collect and its guidelines for how the data should be accessed. - Black Box 101: Understanding Event Data Recorders

Event Data Recorder - Supported Vehicle List

I will debate part of what the previous poster said, in that EDRs are technically optional, as there doesn’t seem to be any US law that requires them.

But automakers benefit from the data they provide, so I’d expect just about every new car contains one.

We know for a fact Tesla, for example, uses Video Event Data Recorders, and they have near total access to any footage recorded by the vehicle at any time. That’s one big reason I’d never buy one.

As a corporation they are always going to be greedy, but calling them dumb is an extreme underestimation.