The only part I disagree with you on is calling an AI girlfriend an “abandoned friend”. Extending the idea of friendship to a program that is mimicking human responses (let’s ignore it’s likely spyware for now) is at best a proxy for friendship, as there can not be a connective bond between 2 individuals when one is incapable of genuine emotional attachment.

I’m using the word “friend “in a distinct way: this is not some Facebook friend who you never see, occasionally may chat with, and ultimately ignore. I think it best, AI fulfills that role. I can’t imagine anyone choosing a masturbatory AI app instead of a real partner.

That’s not the future. That’s really unhealthy.

The word you’re looking for is “addiction”.

…the simpler explanation is that he’s just unironically stupid and a bad businessman.

Occam’s Razor.

Stalinist. Makes sense - twist away. Blocked.

It was a cease fire proposal - you have to start somewhere. But Russia and China think it’s better to use Gazans a political pawns in the upcoming US elections, so surprise, surprise - some would disagree.

China and Russia just blocked a truce in Gaza. Makes sense.

And this is an actual thing - spokespeople are generally female now as we as humans have a greater capacity for empathy and more inherent respect for women. At one point spokes people were all men… And nowadays, even the most evil companies push the women out front so that they can be a bit more evil for a just a little bit longer before the shit hits the fan.

Basically evil people, male and female, will still do the same shit, lying dishonest job, so long as they are paid for it. We just cut the women a lot more slack.

That’s quite true. That all these narcissistic strong men want to look like Sonic the Hedgehog is … suspicious

Yeah. Lying does that.