I vaguely recall caterpillar (CAT) made one in the earlier days of smartphones, super rugged!

The difference is AI companies are cannibalising Wikipedia to inflate a dangerous bubble and make a handful of twats even richer.

Wikipedia cannibalised Britanicca, but in order to benefit even more people and provide a public good.

there are plenty of very safe countries where police don't carry guns

Who even gives a shit! The biggest danger to UK citizens is from the UK Government not another one on the other side of the planet.

Over 50 million enslaved people lay at the feet of Capitalism.

Just sayin'...

Where do you draw the line?

The answer to this question is always, "somewhere. You draw the line somewhere"

It is the job of a lot of people (legislators, regulators, non-profits, academics, etc.) to come up with the line and they do it for all sorts of things all of the time.

Strange that even though Europe 'creates' less 'wealth' but it's people are far better off in every respect (happiness, health, safety, future prospects, education, environment, etc.) than the majority of USA citizens.

Is it ironic that this whole post reads like shrill propaganda?

it's not printing unlimited money. It's printing money until all the productive capacity is filled, then you stop. If you've got unemployed people who want jobs, under-utilised resources, things that need to be done--then printing money and getting that stuff done will not cause out of control inflation.

But sure, if you just print it forever you're right.

It was sold on that racist premise. The actual outcome, like almost all of the pro-Brexit narrative, was the opposite. We get a lot less Europeans, but now a lot more people from Asia and Africa. If you're not a racist, this is a blessing and the reason that the country hasn't collapsed already.

It didn't help that rich cunts who control a lot of the media (I wish we'd ban foreign ownership of that stuff, that ghoul Murdoch as a prime example) go hell-for-leather pushing narratives designed to enrich them whilst emmiserating the poor, but at the same time convincing normal people that things like the EU or Immigrants are the source of their problems. In reality it is wealth inequality and out-of-control capitalism that's ruining lives.

The scanning would most certainly be destructive!

The best sci-fi versions I've heard of this where you don't die is where small parts of the brain are gradually replaced by electrical/mechanical equivalents, so eventually your whole brain is artificial and then you're functionally immortal; and your mind can just be removed and popped in a server rack or new body.

Employment is a voluntary arrangement

That's a very generous (or gaslighting) way of describing "employment at will" which is a fancy way of saying you have zero protections against abusive management, and can be fired for any reason or no reason at all. In a country where your job is tied heavily to your ability to access healthcare, this creates a huge amount of fear and precariousness for a lot of people.

very sad

and this is entirely due to the privatisation of water companies :|

No new reservoirs built or infrastructure improved since 'we' decided to make rich cunts richer. we get enough rain in this country that water should never be a problem.

Germany has the sovereign tech fund (STF) that pumps money into open source, and the EU is looking at an EU-wide version of the same thing!