Possibly intelligence and propaganda reasons. Russians have been linked to alt-right propaganda campaigns and the last thing the secret services want is for those efforts to integrate further into their country's society. A vacation visa also implies that the Russians will go back and the same security agencies would be all kinds of paranoid about what happens in the meantime

I'm not sure which open index the EU is planning on using but I sure hope it's not the Open Web Index because when I last had to use that it turns out that they forgot to embed the links that were contained in the texts they scanned

As for why that's bad: hyperlinks are basically THE best way to figure out which content is relevant compared to other content. PageRank, the algorithm that got Google famous, is based on articles linking to each other to figure out which articles are the most valuable (it's the articles that the most people link to, similar to how in science, the most important papers are usually the ones with the most citations). Open Web Index doesn't have any of that information, it's all just text, combined with the link where the crawler scanned that text

Depends very much on the language you're using. Haskell and ocaml do fall into that category, whereas erlang and scheme are also functional languages with fairly weak typing.

If there is one thing that connects functional programming as a whole, it is that in FP, program flow is managed mostly through function application, instead of if statements and for/while loops.

I don't have much if an opinion on the rest of your argument but:

probably before most people started realizing it was being trained off stolen artwork as well as a lot of the other problems with AI.

This is the equivalent to those Tesla owners pasting "I bought this before Elon went crazy" stickers. Especially the creative industries were very quick to point out the problematic part of stuff like Dall-E and stable diffusion. Generative Graphical AI has never been approved of by the gamedevs I know.

You feel like reality around you is changing

The word URINE echoes around you...

Time for me to turn into Rene Descartes

Idk after enough very hot peppers their taste buds are probably pretty fried

Hit the uvula!

Also the mere concept of a front panel HDMI port

Oh yeah was a bit sleepy and thought you could just put arbitrary expressions in the numerator instead of just the type.

But consider this: heterogeneous propositional equality type of types x and b under equivalence relation a, which is bound somewhere else in the aether that we can't see in the screenshot

Constructors of this equality type? No fucking clue but I'm sure there exist some to make the need for an equivalence relation make sense

quotient equivalence under an equivalence relation "a" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotient_type

I think it's just easy to bait the steam group into having any game you want, have any rating you want. If it's obscure enough