In the scenario of a virus that kills most people (i.e. more than 50% of the worldwide human population), I expect the entire world political and economic system to collapse, probably including most or all of these companies, though not only them.

COVID didn’t kill most people, not even most people who got it.

Without context, I’d understand that as asking whether I like to eat fish.

I remember watching a YouTube video where someone tried the same thing with different strategies, like always replying “OK” or telling the scammer they already have the money.

Replying “yes” to questions that can’t be answered yes will always remind me of the guy in Pacifdlog Town in the Pokémon games who asks where we are from and we have the option to answer yes or no.

Yeah, also what I was going to comment on. Pope is literally an elected position.

North Africa is mostly Arab Muslims just like the Middle East, so for many purposes it makes some sense to talk about those regions as a group.

Mastodon is a source for links to post to Lemmy. :P

I’m not yet even close to 40, yet I still believe I am one of the “people who built the World Wide Web”, in the sense that I’ve been posting to it for more than 20 years (there are still old forum posts online that I wrote at the age of 10), i.e. before it was something the general public did a lot.

I’m on the one hand proud of how much it has grown and how much more popular it has become; and on the other hand, worried that this has caused governments around the world to pay a lot more attention to it and limit our freedom on it through age verification laws and similar…

In my first language, we often use a word that more precisely translates to “believe” for situations like that.

Yes. But it was a massive source of humor for me some months ago when I asked AI chatbots to generate metro map diagrams of my city.

Sometimes the station names they wrote on them somewhat resembled real ones, but were humorously misspelled and in completely incorrect positions and orders. Other times, the overall shape of the network was roughly ok, but the station names were completely nonsensical.

Idk but Trump has been obsessed with “winning” indeterminate things since long before AI was widely talked about. During his 2016 campaign he sometimes shouted things like “there will be so much winning that you will get tired of winning”.

At least when they generate text directly. When they generate images of text, that is a different story.

The president of the US is the head of the federal executive branch. Anything done by the executive branch, you could undo, including release people detained by the executive branch. I don’t know enough details about which illegally detained people you’re referring to to answer the question more completely.

How many countries are there whose current (or recent) head of state or government is named “Trump”?

No, some places do have end to end encryption.

multiple operating systems, I’m not so sure but I can’t imagine that it’s impossible

The keyword is virtualization.

??? Highly unclear what exactly you are imagining.

TIL albums were sometimes released on floppy disks.

I currently use an external optical drive. If someone doesn’t own one, they could always buy one later…

OK, “won’t be injured” wasn’t exactly true; but they are still in a lot less danger than someone in the same situation on a plane. A train or bus can stop anywhere on its route if there is a dangerous situation, a plane cannot, so in my mind it makes a lot of sense that there are security checks before boarding a plane, but not when boarding a train or bus.