I have two daughters and one is a hard worker, one isn't. Twins, Identical... One will do ok in life, I worry for the other... The lazy one knows what's what. She doesn't care. It will serve her less well than she probably intends.

That is his plan, actually. Young people today think that moaning and blaming other people IS the solution. Complain enough and SOMEONE will do something... Someone, not them, but someone.

All you have to do to be wildly successful is work your @ss off. Literally wake up and get going. Keep going all day, and don't stop until bed. Do that for like a month and you'll achieve things you never thought possible... Or, you can play Xbox every day after school/work and all night collecting gear for your game of choice. It's why Elon Musk and Donald Trump are so successful, neither of them sleep and they work relentlessly, non-stop.

Or you could hire someone to do it on Fiverr or TaskRabbit.

They'll do the task they were paid to do so that they can get a five-star review.

Ukraine did something similar for the 2025-06-01 drone raid on Russian airfields. The truck drivers who delivered the drones had no idea what cargo they were carrying or why. They were just told where to go and where to park when they got there.

Here's a non-paywalled article:

Hackers can tamper with train brakes using just a radio

The obvious reason is to remotely stop a runaway train.

The stupid part is that there is no authentication or encryption.

Another option would be to use a deadman switch, which the engineer has to periodically reset to keep the brakes open. Most trains have some kinda deadman switch.

Believing in having personal/individual rights the government shouldn't touch isn't boot licking (for fuck's sake, use your brain). Acknowledging the fact that income taxes are robbery is also not boot licking. The definitive boot lickers are the Communists apparatchiks in the Politburos. Left wingers like you love government and lick the boots of the authorities, just like you did during CV19. Freedom lovers inherently distrust government once it's big enough to threaten their rights.

“I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.” -Thomas Sewell

Love the fact-free "rebuttal". Did you stick your tongue out too?

Globalists - who are of course out of their GDed minds.

That is who let this happen. It all stems from the same anti-nationalist mentality that emerged after the second world war and was allowed to take over western academia.

The thinking goes if everyone depends on everyone else nobody will fight any more. Of course reality is not all dependence is created equal. Leaders like Xi understand depending on a consumer market is different then depending on supplier. Sure if they decided to start WWIII we'd quit buying, all those factors can focus on making weapons until the smoke clears, on the other hand no matter how much you want to use the defense production act, you are not getting any shells or aircraft produced in those Glodman Sachs office, McDonalds restaurants, or CVS pharmacies.

National security is a game to these people. Oh the US governemnt contract says everyone has to be a citizen with a clearance or directly supervised by one. Never mind why the rule exists or what it was supposed to accomplish, Microsoft upper management knows perfectly well in this case the latter practice can't be very effective, they just don't give a F*** they can win the bid, that is all they care about.

Is it?

I'd say it's some random journalist's conjecture about what investors are demanding.

Apple's share price is declining because of Trump's tariffs on China, where most Apple products are manufactured.

That's a much bigger problem for Apple than AI.

Apple is listed on NASDAQ, not the NYSE.

No private corporation has ever sent men with guns to my house in the middle of the night to pound on my door.

My government has.

TFA doesn't say that.

There's no technical reason the identifiers need to be unchangeable.

The app could be designed to issue a different confirmation code for each transaction.

Congress made the internet commercial in 1992.

I mean, the way things are currently going, it appears they will in fact be stopped in Ukraine.

Oh, you meant *voluntarily* stop? Nevermind then.

Carbon dioxide is a red herring here, completely insignificant compared to the other environmental costs of burning coal, let alone all the other costs of manufacturing solar panels in a country with no effective environmental regulations at all. Just China's terrible mining practices, for example, do more environmental harm in a single year, than all the carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels in the entire history of China, possibly in the entire history of the world. And then you have what they're doing to their water and air.

Are solar panels made in China still a net win for the environment? I don't know, honestly. But I do know, if you're only looking at the CO2, you aren't even a little bit serious about enviornmental impact, you're just mindlessly virtue signaling your partisan politics.

Eh. In practice, what you really need to know here is that this disease isn't realistically ever going to be an epidemic in the modern developed world, *even* if it develops a strain that is 100% resistant to all antibiotics (which thus far hasn't quite happened). The conditions for massive spreading just aren't there. It was a large problem in the medieval world, but conditions were very different then. The plague doesn't normally spread from person-to-person directly, in the manner of something like an influenza or a coronavirus. I'm not saying that can't ever happen at all, but it's far too unusual to ever result in any kind of epidemic. To have a bubonic plague epidemic, you have to have a completely out-of-control population of intermediate carriers (principally, rodents) living in close proximity to the human population, and a lot of biting insects (principally, fleas) that routinely prey on both. We're talking full-on Monty-Python-and-the-Holy-Grail levels of societal poverty here, people laying down in straw beds because that's what's available, dealing with flea bites by scratching, grain stored in burlap sacks, rats everywhere, mice everywhere, the whole nine yards. If you clean up your society and control the vermin, ipso facto, the plague is mostly contained and hardly spreads at all.

Sure, it's not completely extinct. But it doesn't need to be, because it doesn't spread that readily. You're five thousand times more likely to be killed by a drunk driver, than to be infected by the plague bacterium. (This is assuming you live in America; yes, I looked up the actual numbers.) And most people who do get infected, don't die, because it's treatable these days, because, you know, modern medicine and stuff.

Cholera, similarly, is not an epidemic threat if you have anything resembling modern sewage treatment. So you can cross that one off your panic-immediately-if-there-is-one-case list as well.

The one that would be all kinds of scary if it ever got loose in the human population again, is smallpox. That thing spreads almost as readily as influenza, and most countries haven't vaccinated for it in decades. In America, routine vaccination was stopped more than fifty years ago, so most of the population, has not been vaccinated. We do *have* quite effective vaccines for it, but in the event of an epidemic, I doubt whether we could ramp up production fast enough, to keep up with the terrifying rate at which smallpox spreads. The one notable piece of good news is, it doesn't mutate much, so once any given patient is vaccinated against smallpox, they won't need the vaccine again. Booster shots not required, thank God. If that weren't the case, we'd probably still be losing a double-digit percentage of the human population to it every generation or so.