... a new particle. To carry the property of mass across space. And bend space-time to produce the emergent field which we call gravity. One with a very long, but not infinite lifetime. So that its decay across space produces the non uniformity that we observe.

Sorry, but the Higgs boson cannot be responsible for mass directly. It has too short a lifetime to even be directly observable in the LHC. Never mind moving across galaxies or the universe like photons do.

But we shouldn't do anything different about this one then we did with the last.

Yeah. But a unicycle?

... due to someone dumping PFAs in that ocean to begin with, would it?

What part of "No! No! Don't do that!" did they not understand?

You assume that corporations are assigned shares on the same crap servers that consumers are given.

That'swhat the "Download Ubuntu" button is for.

Do not stare long into an abyss ....

There is a branch of neuroscience (and criminal forensics) that can detect brain patterns involved with recognition. Your brain responds differently if you are shown a picture of something you know.

Forensics (although with no more standing than lie detectors) uses this by hooking people up to a scanner and putting images of a crime scene, weapon or that cute, dead co-ed in front of you.

If the ploy is to put the band on your head and then show a picture or play a sound for you, you might not recognize the procedure for what it is. They told you it was just an aid to meditation, right?

... unlocks it. Right thumb wipes the storage. The cops came at me holding my phone. I tried to stuff my right hand in my pocket. They grabbed it and put my thumb on the scanner.

I tried to assist them by keeping my right thumb away from the phone.

The "know your customer" system.

So if I run a seedy, money laundering, tax dodging business and I see my companies name on this list, it's time to launch a new corporate identity and begin moving my funds through that.

The whole World-Check database scheme is just thinly veiled blackmail anyway. You suspect someone of violating financial laws or regulations, you file a complaint with the appropriate authorities. A case is taken to court and the suspect is found either guilty or innocent. If it's the latter, no NGO should be able to restrain their ability to do business without legal recourse (anti-trust issues arise).

You're a bit late to the show.

... Google found a way to get workers to return to the office.

... where you harvest your training data. Particularly once the trolls have discovered where you are getting it.

So, running for president when?