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Hell no. In fact California ought to sue the FDA for not banning these dangerous foods. And residents should sue the state of California for not suing the NDA sooner. Then the FDA can sue universities for not doing timely research on this, and the universities can sue the food manufacturers. It's lawsuits all the way down.

Quoted against the censor trolls.

My take is that young impressionable people are especially good at learning to think like machines. I even think that is not a good thing, no matter what the generative AI tells me.

Why are you propagating the vacuous Subject? Also masks your point, though I can't really figure out what it is.

Did remind me of a twisted joke. The US basically started on a negative foot. The focus was on rejecting the king. It actually took a while to start developing positive philosophies. I think the best effort was Lincoln's "government of the people, by the people, and for the people".

There was a transitional period when it became government of the corporations, by the lawyers, for the richest 0.1%, but now we are moving to government of a few giant corporate cancers with AIs, by the Donald, for the (mostly shadowy) puppeteers. Or maybe the first and third are reversed? Too soon to figure out what sort of mess we've gotten ourselves into.

My version of optimism about that thar' veep:

"He couldn't sell candy to a baby. But he might be able to steal the baby's candy if he catches it napping."

It's like the YOB can't stop shooting himself in the foot. Then he blames the shoe company and takes ownership! Even though he never wore that brand of shoe. "The light was better over here!"

To make it a proper joke for Slashdot I have to note that the YOB shot himself in the foot using his preferred programming language. But then I'm stumped because I cannot imagine the YOB writing a program of any sort. Which language is best for shooting senile self in foot?

(I say YOB because I reject the brand as poison. Like Exxon and Amazon. How many guesses do you need for YUGE Orange Buffoon?)

Kind of sad that so little interest was aroused. I'd add a comment related to the local police and their concerns with PI, but the story is at the bottom of the top page now, so effectively about to expire.

NIMBY so no one cares? (I'm in Japan, so I can sort of regard South Korea as close to my back yard? (But this is not the joke I was looking for.))

Mod parent funny and file it in the set of sets that do not contain themselves.

Not a bad FP branch, but no explicit mention of "moral education", which I think is a that crux of it. It's not just that they want them (= the masses?) to obey orders. It's not even that they want them to obey illegal orders. It's more that they want them too naive to know the difference between good and bad.

Poorly trained monkeys with nuclear weapons and rockets. What could possibly go wrong?

...consider listening to One Person Found This Helpful", a BBC radio comedy show about absurd reviews for often even more absurd products. Surprisingly good show.

For anyone not from the UK...not sure if you can access it, but even if you can you're going to need to make your way through a full-on Birmingham accent. Godspeed, you brave intrepid souls.

My (otherwise excellent) network provider to this day does not support IPv6

Quoted against censor trolls, but also lack of moderators with funny bones. You were going for Funny, right? Just another case of Poe's Law.

You don't go far enough. Fighting and control to what end? Much of the fighting is sheer competition to grab more. More land and resources, to support more children. As for fighting, no, most people have the sense not to willingly risk their lives in deadly combat. Most would rather move into empty lands, or failing that, clear out the current occupants through genocide. If easy genocide is not possible either because the occupants can and will fight back, some will choose war, but only if it looks easy.

Religion is rather orthogonal to this. Been used as much or more to justify fighting as to discourage fighting.

Tell them, "I got an invention that'll eliminate half of all the jobs in the world, then my investors get to keep all the money we used to pay them!"

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