Look up grid computing. It never really took off.

really? I mean there's this little book company called Amazon who will let you use their interweb computers for a few dollars per hour. They'll sell you coffee as well.

"But if not, then it raises the question of why do we even have this "extra" consciousness"

Keep chipping away Dawkins, you might arrive at God eventually.

Try being rude to them, they will usually respond back politely.

Someone that has recently dies has pretty much the same biology as when they were alive. The conciseness is the main difference, I would say.

Indeed, doing a first aid course we were pointed out that sleeping is different from being unconscious. You can wake someone from sleep pretty quickly. You can't bring an unconscious person back in the same way.

It's literally the only thing you can be certain of, your own conciseness.

You can only be certain you perceive it and you can't be certain others perceive it (or if others exist at all of course).

The only thing you can really tell is "I perceive myself in some sort of feedback loop manner". Which to me it even sounds like it has "arisen" from underlying mechanisms.

We can't even tell about the feedback loop. LLMs shows why: we have no way of telling if our active memory is true or if the present moment I'd the only thing that have ever existed for us.

Okay. But what is the perceiver? That thing is real if nothingelse is.

I have seen youtube videos saying that if you put some tape over your licence plates the cameras won't read them. I think it was tape to make a skateboard grip better.

How do I vote Ursula out?

By voting out the conservative governments that appointed her - the same way you vote the US president out by voting out the electors that appointed him.

The AfD came out against chat control in a 2023 press release via one of their MPs. Their 2025 platform reads well at first glance (against surveillance, pro open source, against censorship, in favor of individual data sovereignty), but it is relatively vague and feels a bit buzzwordy.

In addition to that, the AfD is not known for being predictable.

The party lacks a strong institutional core. It is shaped by competing factions, with a weak internal agenda-setting process and a tendency to align with whatever the decision maker closest to making a statement currently perceives as fitting their brand. Positions often shift as a result.

For example, they made a strong commitment to protecting cash, then later pushed for a mandatory payment card system for refugees, explicitly to tighten financial control over that group. In practice, that dramatically helps to normalize financial control through payment systems.

So, TL;DR: no one really knows. They’re inconsistent and hard to forecast.