I cannot agree with this after reading transcripts of Trump's speeches. It does make sense in some scenarios, but writing like one speaks only works for people who speak clearly and effectively; unfortunately most people are terrible communicators.
Maybe more an effective rhetorician than communicator. I suppose his communication does match the clarity of thought though... it's just that the thoughts are so jumbled he says 3 things that contradict each other in the same breath.
the point of rhetoric is persuasion or flattery, the point of communication (or argument as its usually framed going all the way back to Plato) is to accurately convey an idea or concept. In your average Trump speech the point is usually to evoke an emotion in his audience, not so much arguing anything in particular.
> I hate how he talks, but he seems to be an effective communicator if you only judge by results
Looking at Iran situation, absolutely not, results of Trumps communications are pure disaster. Looking at tariffs situation, absolutely not, results of Trumps communications are pure disaster. His communication is masterpiece of ineffective communication.
On the plus side, he is emotionally pleasing to certain kind of people and he is effective in bullying and humiliating close ones. If those are the goal, yes he is effective. But, he cant do much else.
Bot traffic is crazy even for smaller sites, but still manageable. I was getting 2,000 visitors a day on my infrequently updated website, but after I blocked all the bots via Cloudflare it went back to the normal double digit visitor count.
and how often are those 6M pages changing? how often are those bots finding anything new? why are the bot makers not noticing no difference and just slowing the request down for essentially stale content to them
In March 2025, Drew DeVault wrote a blog post called "Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face"[1]. I think that is a pretty good guess as to why these bots do not care about frequency of changes, it costs to much.
Every run is basically a fresh run, no state stored, every page is just feed into the machine a new. At least that's my theory.
The AI companies need a full copy of your page, every time they retrain a model. Now they could store that in their own datacenters, but that's a full copy of the internet, in a market where storage costs are already pretty high. So instead, they just externalize the storage cost. If you run a website, a public Gitlab instance, Forgejo, a wiki, a forum, whatever, you basically functions as free offsite storage for the AI companies.
On the platform at my work they scrape the same page multiple times, over and over. They do not care to cache anything. And it’s ridiculous to account for because for example for our properties, everything is news-based so warming the cache was as simple as loading the first X articles to get them into cache. But with AI that is not viable because they scrape as much as possible, articles from 2018, 2017. Management doesn’t want to block them though. It’s just suffering through the endless barrage. I was able to do a lot for this like heavier caching even with pgpool but it’s so crazy that this small subset of bots effectively accounts for like 60%+ of our spend.
Many are using residential proxies now. It's impossible to block them. Not even Google Analytics succeeds. People are sitting on reports thinking their website is suddenly very popular, but it's all random ips, from random locations across the world requesting 1 page at a time, at random times of the day.
Coming to the part about issuing fines to the registered owner, you can nominate a different driver online here, when replying to the fine. The person nominated need to accept this as well before it is taken off the person to whom the vehicle is registered to.
Right, many other countries let you point the finger at someone else. The problem is that in the US the government is not legally allowed to even issue a ticket unless they can prove that the person they are prosecuting is the guilty party. Merely being the owner of the car is not enough.
Right. I am completely aware that it works that way in many parts of the world, but in the United States of America it is unconstitutional _unless_ the state law makes it a completely civil infraction that is settled using a fine only. No points, no suspensions, no police interaction at all. Under Florida’s laws it is explicitly a misdemeanor for the _driver_ of a car to run a red light, so it is unconstitutional for a police officer or court to assume without proof that the _owner_ of the car was driving at the time the red–light camera took a photograph of the car.
I understand that this blows people’s mind. People in other parts of the world tend to think that they are just as protected from their government as we are in the USA, but the truth is that in practice their governments get away with a lot of crap that doesn’t fly over here. Sometimes our government gets away with some crap for a time, until the courts catch up. Sometimes the courts even make obviously wrong rulings. Judges are only human, so that is to be expected. But on the whole it’s a pretty good system.
> People in other parts of the world tend to think that they are just as protected from their government as we are in the USA
No one in a modern democratic country thinks this way. US is not a benchmark in any form other than grandstanding about rights. Government snooping and overreach is as much a problem in US compared to other countries.
The difference is that something as simple as a traffic rule violation is not linked to constitutional rights because the repercussions of over speeding and jumping a signal is a catastrophic and could lead to deadly accidents. The problem that was solved with the linked verdict was that the process of proving innocence was not easy and this could have been easily solved with process change, without all the legal wrangling. It is just legalese porn and an over complication.
Really like this translation approach and I had written about it just couple of days back (more from a testing and validation context). To see folks take that approach to something complex is pretty amazing!
https://balanarayan.com/2026/02/20/gen-ai-time-to-focus-on-l...
I was able to tame it on Instagram by actively blocking 3-4 accounts every day and then engaging with accounts of just one topic; I picked Cricket. That said, I don't use the discovery section much so when I revisit after a few weeks it resets to filth. So the way it works is if I go to the discovery tab and like a couple of random cricket videos. It keeps it sane to an extent. Facebook is a different story though
I haven't reinstalled Windows in years in my PC. The only place I see this issue is in my work laptop, but that also has multiple anti-virus, endpoint detection and other security things hogging memory in the background in the most inefficient way possible.
You could create a separate pricing for demanding businesses that need to track multiple products/brands that come under its umbrella, while retaining the existing pricing for smaller businesses and individuals
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