Pour one out for the customer service teams of affected businesses instead

A few tens of thousands of British troops - Over 200 years of the British Raj on average there were 60,000 to 70,000 British troops stationed in India - would have been absolutely slaughtered by the hundreds of millions of Indians (1857 population estimated at 250-300 million).

By the time Gandhi came into the picture, the British empire was overextended - any half decent uprising would have been successful..... unless you convinced the natives to give up on any physical form of dissent and sit down, protest and get beaten up as a virtuous slave.

Truly one of the greatest psyops ever.

They intuit that some parasitic entity or entities has latched on to Science and is co-opting it for it's own gain to achieve it's own purposes which run counter to the interests of the people.

The heavy handed Covid response and censorship is a prime example of that.

The whole system has been corrupted and therefore it is not possible to have a de-facto assumption of good faith of the actors.

"create a javascript function to count any letter in any word. Run this function for the letter "r" and the word "strawberry" and print the count"

ChatGPT-4o => Output is 3. Passed

Claude3.5 => Output is 2. Failed. Told it the count is wrong. It apologised and then fixed the issue in the code. Output is now 3. Useless if the human does not spot the error.

llama3.1-70b(local) => Output is 2. Failed.

llama3.1-70b(Groq) => Output is 2. Failed.

Gemma2-9b-lt(local) => Output is 2. Failed.

Curiously all the ones that failed had this code (or some near identical version of it)

```javascript

function countLetter(letter, word) {

  // Convert both letter and word to lowercase to make the search case-insensitive

  const lowerCaseWord = word.toLowerCase();

  const lowerCaseLetter = letter.toLowerCase();


  // Use the split() method with the letter as the separator to get an array of substrings separated by the letter

  const substrings = lowerCaseWord.split(lowerCaseLetter);

  // The count of the letter is the number of splits minus one (because there are n-1 spaces between n items)

  return substrings.length - 1;

// Test the function with "r" and "strawberry"

console.log(countLetter("r", "strawberry")); // Output: 2 ```