Way too many trolls and other forms of bad actors on the Web who intentionally or unintentionally use ad hominems or other toxic communication, it’s so hopelessly divisive and draining.

How exactly would id verification help against that. Do you want “toxic speech” to become a crime and punished by a court of law?

Only european governments should have access to europeans’ data.

So the government is gonna give me a robot gf?

I’m sure you can vibe code it in like 5 minutes

The entire selling point of AI is that I’d does things faster than humans. This advantage is rendered null if you require manual validation since it reintroduces human in the loop. The only way to “effectively” use AI is to adopt YOLO mindset and accept the consequences. This is what AI companies promote.

Clipboard is provided by the OS, but application chooses how to integrate with it.

When you select text and hit ctrl-c or click copy in the context menu, it’s all done by the application. And it may choose to remove/disable this feature.

That’s exactly why shower/sink pissers do it. They love the smell.

The advantage of Visa/Mastercard is that they work anywhere.

Europeans are rich and like to travel all over the world, so they want their cards to work everywhere too. Or order stuff online from abroad. Why bother using some local payment processor that barely works if you can just use your Visa card?

Independent payment systems only work in countries that are poor (where people don’t travel or buy stuff from abroad) and/or isolated by sanctions or internal restrictions.