I think that, instead of trying to force anyone to obey you, it would be more effective to educate people and then just get out of their way so they can solve the problem themselves.

I'm probably not the first person in the comments to say "No shit, Sherlock", but did anyone actually not think this was happenning from day one with these companies? I mean come on. You're sending your DNA off in the mail to some random corporation so they can analyse it. There's a huge incentive there for them to give access to that information to anyone and everyone with a checkbook or a billy club. The icing on the cake is that the DNA is actually paying them to do this. This is a human-race epic self own.

Nature is immunizing us against those things, with measles. Unfortunately, it's taking down some of the rest of us too.

I don't know, man. This sounds like someone who needs research funding, sees that the military has lots of money to burn, and therefore comes up with something they will buy into, in order to get the money. Additionally, you can't feel threatened by a threat you don't know about, so why expend effort thinking up new ways to scare people? Funding a bunch of paranoid researchers to run around and think up ways to kill lots of people in New York sounds like a really bad idea to me.

This. And glass bottles used to be a thing too. I remember hunting the neighbourhood for glass soft drink bottles when I was a kid. Got a dime for the small ones and a quarter for the big ones. they would be sent to back to the bottler to be washed and refilled. Ever wonder why they had those five little bumps on the bottom ridge? Every time they were reused, one of those bumps was ground off. When they were all gone, the bottle was melted down to make new bottles. oh yeah, and back in those days, you got your groceries in paper bags and then reused them as trash bags. Stores sold things packaged in paper boxes. There was Tupperware, and some of my toys and Magic Markers were made of nice chewy plastic (and toluene :/ ), but there was a lot less single use stuff and other wasteful plastic. Wooden ice cream spoons, wax paper cups (real wax that you could scrape off the cup), aluminum and steel cans with no plastic liner, so you had to watch out for old or damaged cans. Grandma had a basement full of Mason jars she filled from her garden. It's not rocket science; we just need to give more of a fuck and maybe remember how to do things like we used to. Also, +1 for correct usage of "worse comes to worst". Faith in humanity subtly restored.

For some reason, this made me think of the design of modern web browsers. Instead of using and supporting existing resources, they're internally re-implementing what they need.

Yeah right. Next they'll be trying to get you to believe that Daft Punk are just two dudes in motorcycle helmets.

Wait, what? Barney isn't a six foot penis? How can a dinosaur be purple or your best friend? That makes absolutely no sense.

Forget Yellowstone. Kill two birds with the nuclear stone. Eject dark particulate matter into the upper atmosphere and, at the same time, decommission a lot of the carbon producing infrastructure via prudent target selection.

No way, man! Almost every Microsoft product ever produced sucks hard. There's no reason to believe that would change for sex toys.

Yeah, they really do. If you're an American, you need to be voting in your state. If you can't vote because of some administrative issue, that's a serious problem, which needs to be addressed. Maybe you spelled your name wrong. Fine. Fill out a provisional ballot, and get if fixed. Maybe you don't have a street address. That's a bigger problem, and it's not yours; it's the state's problem, and it sure as fuck needs to be addressed.

Or conversely...

Proposition: feelings are orthoganal to veracity.

Not sure how finicky the facial recognition is on these things, but couldn't you just stick out your tongue or something when registering your face ID? Whenever you wanted to unlock the phone, you would stick out your tongue again. If someone pointed your phone at you in an attempt to unlock it, you could just sit there and do nothing, and the phone would register a failed attempt, right?

Zeno would disagree with you, I think.

+1 for entropy (no pun intended), but I think a technical solution won't be about reducing the amount to heat people are generating. The sun is by far the dominant energy driver in this system; the heat generated by people is miniscule by comparison. Any solution will have to be one that alters the equilibrium point between energy absorbed and energy radiated. That's how we got here, and that's our only proven technology for altering the balance.