Agree with all your points.

It's possible I might have missed these, but they're also major considerations with COVID:

1. It causes scarring of tissue, especially heart tissue. That's why COVID sufferers often had severe blood clots in their bloodstream. Scarring of the heart increases risk of heart attacks, but there's obviously not much data on by how much, from COVID. Yet.

2. It causes brain damage in all who have been infected. Again, we have very little idea of how much, but from what I've read, there may be an increased risk of strokes in later life.

3. Viral load is known to cause fossil viruses in DNA to reactivate silenced portions. This can lead to cancer. Viral load has also been linked to multiple sclerosis and chronic fatigue, but it's possible COVID was the wrong sort of virus. These things can take decades to develop.

I would expect a drop in life expectancy, sometimes in the 2040-2050 timeframe, from life-shortening damage from COVID, but the probability depends on how much damage even mild sufferers sustained and what medicine can do to mitigate it by then. The first, as far as I know, has not been looked at nearly as much as long COVID has - which is fair. The second is obviously unknowable.

I'm hoping I'm being overly anxious, my worry is that I might not be anxious enough.

If it pays the bills

Folks gonna play the game.

Rules for thee, not for me.

of all possible timelines.

That would be Cory Doctorow.

Can I reserve a tank 1/3 back from the screen?

Next on 60 Minutes: Andy Rooney with What Really Grinds My Gears

Brazil (1985) office intro scene.
Lovely choreography!

https://youtu.be/mu1iND6vtcE?s...

Yeah, I have probably seen my last in-theater film, unless Silver Pixel Cloud opens up a drive-in near me.

Same for flying; I have no desire to go near one of those sardine cans.

No no no, see, these regulations are working exactly as intended.

Google/Alphabet is looking for ways to extract more and more "Value(tm)" for their shareholders, and since they have already plumbed the legal avenues for revenue generation, the only options left are grey, and outright illegal methods of generating it, as it concerns user privacy, and as it relates to monopolistic business practices.

The "Innovation!!" that this, and other large companies are screaming about, is the "NEW! and AMAZING, MONEY MAKING OPPORTUNITIES!" presented by Flagrantly violating consumer and market ethics, and they are OH, SO VERY UPSET by this.

The pointed response to this, is to ask google, bluntly, what exactly it has really brought in terms of USEFUL PRODUCT in the past decade, because search is DEMONSTRABLY inferior to what it was in the past (which is enshitification, not innovation), and Google Play services are just a walled garden pretending to be open by comparison with apple's white-plastic-dystopia.

The only thing it's really invested in, is in new and increasingly awful ways to fuck over users of their platform for profit. (The a-fore mentioned Grey and Illegal practices I mentioned)

EU regulation is doing EXACTLY what it is supposed to be doing, and Google needs to be FUCKING TOLD THIS, VERY VERY FUCKING PUBLICLY.

Sadly, our regulators here are so bought and paid for by these trolls, that such a missive will be a very long day coming, but hopefully EU stands firm in actually fucking protecting their citizenry, as opposed to the fucking gilded age horseshit we have over here in the states about these matters.

Shorter centuries.

"Here's my cat, Grand Torino. She just painted this self portrait"

"That picture looks like it was painted by a dolphin."

"Don't you oppress my cat people you pickup driving mouth breather!"

We had NASA tv back in the mid-90s, on cable.

My latest vaccine shots had the 6G upgrade, to take advantage of the higher-speed web access when the networks upgrade, but if they're selling those frequencies to high-power carriers, then I won't be able to walk into any area that handles AT&T or Verizon. :P

Seriously, this will totally wreck the 6G/WiFi6 specification, utterly ruin the planned 7G/WiFi7 update, and cause no end of problems to those already using WiFi6 equipment - basically, people with working gear may well find their hardware simply no longer operates, which is really NOT what no vendor or customer wants to hear. Vendors with existing gear will need to do a recall, which won't be popular, and the replacement products simply aren't going to do even a fraction as well as the customers were promised - which, again, won't go down well. And it won't be the politicians who get the blame, despite it being the politicians who are at fault.