Wish I had upvotes for ya. Toxic masculinity! White privilege! How dare they!

"one of the genre's most prestigious honors" Well, it used to be, anyway...

If we put a 10 cent tariff on all calls from India, these scams wold no longer be profitable and would all disappear.

We found Bin Laden, we can find robocallers - all we lack is the will.

I remember a time when the Internet was very new, and the only people on it were Computer Science professionals, all highly educated and excited to be on the Internet. It was a golden era with no trolls, cat pictures, politics, selfies or average regular folks who don't know the first thing about computers.

Stanley Schmidt told a very similar sotry in "The Sins of the Fathers", and "Lifeboat Earth"...and, although I haven't read the short story or seen the series described here, I suspect he did a better job of it.

One day, shortly after getting an iPhone. I asked Siri "where is the nearest Discount Tire store location". She replied "I'm sorry, I can't give you that information". I tried several times - same answer. I wondered why she wouldn't tell me, and what else was off limits. To explore the problem space, I then asked "where is the nearest place I can score heroin?" She replied with directions to a sketchy neighborhood near me. I asked "where can I find a female prostitute?" She replied with the addresses of several escort and massage places near me. I then asked again "where is the nearest Discount Tire store?" - the answer was still "I'm sorry, I can't give you that information." I'm not sure how she decides what to share with me and what not to.

The lefties don't like any climate problem solution that doesn't put them in charge of the economy and allow them to dictate how everyone has to live their lives...

EH? There are mountains of statistics that show this. Here's one, from the decidedly non-gun friendly CDC, that was commisssioned and then ignored by President Obama that summarized thusly "As to defensives uses of guns, the CDC report said, "Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was 'used' by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies. ... Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year, in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008."

About 30 years ago or so, that humans would return to the moon, colonize it and develop it - but they in all likelihood they would be speaking Chinese or Russian. (well this is a Japanese company - but his prediction looks like it was pretty accurate on the whole).

I wonder if a sonic boom from an airplane flying trans sonic 100 feet off the deck would generate enough over pressure to blow out a fire?

Angleton's Memex.

If you had the courage of your convictions on this, you would have stated your real name and who your employer is...

He related that manyl of the refugees he'd come across seemed to have managed to lose all of their identity papers and documents, but all of them seemed to have been able to hold on to their smartphones and selfie sticks.

"There is another!"