Come on, it's a prank.

As in Tim Apple pranked them out of 3.5k.

What % of profits do you get if the game is a success?

He's not a moron. He's a very rich psychopath.

Here's what I think happened: we got used to shitload of content and personal pages couldn't keep up.

My first experience with the internet was a dial-up modelm. It wasn't cheap so we were basically counting minutes. In a short session I would check my email, download new winamp skin, open a link some friend send me and maybe visit some chatroom. That's it. Back then each page was a gem because the content was super rare. For example I could download all the Monty Python sketches. Where would you find them if not on some obscure website? They didn't have it in the library.

Then broadband happened so you could spend hours online. People started forming small communities and curating content. bash.org and similar pages happened. We started getting used to opening a link daily and seeing new funny pics and memes.

Finally corporations realized that to keep people on a page it has to show something new every fucking second and social media happened. Today we spend more time online than offline and refresh some pages every 15 minutes to see what's new. Static, personal pages can't keep up. Yes, you can create a Melisandre fan page, paste couple of pictures and start writing some fan fiction but who will read it? 30 years ago if I found such website I would save every single pick to disk and put a link to the page on www.myhomepage.com/links but today? It's pointless. It's all already on IMDB, one ddg search away. Personal pages are not the rare gems they used to be.

That's were all the pages are...

Except you get a pretty shitty work-life balance during your whole career. You know many careers that give you 0 hours of life over 44 years?

Let's face it, we lost the fun, early web long time ago. It was all taken over by corporations and when Mozilla dies (and that's not if) they will finish locking it up and the only way to browse it will be by using official, ad filled tools. Best thing we can do is to prepare ourselves for the world without web (www?). We'll still have apps and communicators and of course will still use websites at work but the days of 'browsing' will soon (well, hopefully not very soon) be over.

Nothing. 6.6.6 was already released.

You're soooo behind the schedule. That was the anti-EV talking point 5 years ago. You were supposed to move to 'but did they factor in the battery production??' (which they do) and now use one of 'but is the grid ready for so many EV?' or 'there are no EVs below $30.000'!!. You're welcome.

They are 13 and/or stupid. How about now?

The infuriating thing is not that Saudis are doing this. The infuriating part is that the west still treats then like allies and protects them.

I would say it a combination of two things:

1. People walked around for around ~300.000 years before inventing agriculture. That's a lot of time to find out things by accident. We learned about antibiotics by accident. I'm sure also stumbled upon many inventions by pure luck.
2. Caveman were smart. As smart as we are. Average person is not going to invent electronic watches but there's always this 1% that's more curious and intelligent that will experiment and discover things.

Combine this and you have 300.000 years of very slow but steady progress fuelled by chance discoveries and occasional geniuses.

I don't use signal to hide from the CIA. I use it to hide my data from Meta. Do you have any proof or even suspect signal of selling data to Meta/google/amazon? If not I don't care.