Great point. It's much better to be able to prepare for this miserable end, than to discover it suddenly upon us.

I could not agree more. The impossibly high value placed on human life gets in the way of reason to the extent that too many of us are alive, but not living, the tail end of our existence.

I hope the black pill (black pillow?) is an option for me when the drool starts to pour out the side of my mouth. We are so much kinder to our furry companions when a dignified end is required.

RTFA, and although there are treatments for Alzheimer's that may slow the disease's progression, diagnosing the condition is currently more valuable if you don't have it... then physicians can look for another cause of your cognitive decline.

It seems as if you've decided to be anti-anty, in rather the same fashion that many of us knee-jerk to the anti-Walmart position.

Mira. Walmart is guilty of many instances of questionable policy: paying living wages low enough that employees qualify for assistance, and bullying vendors into razor thin profit margins to keep their goods in the aisle, come to mind.

On this front though, expecting store policy and employee policing to curb the fraudulent use of these gift cards and burner phones, that have users with perfectly legal intentions most of the time, is a bit of a stretch, no?

What of the gargantuan malevolent banking institutions that do nothing to prevent the lil ole lady from withdrawing the stacks of cash to begin with? /s

Damnit! Another wet keyboard.

You win the internet today.

At 180 decibels, I suppose Big Wail might be equally appropriate.

You make an idiot-proof algorithm and then they make a little bit better idiot.

When you're playing a game of technological one-upmanship against an entity with no financial constraints, rest assured they'll eventually confound the adblocker you switch to.

Youtube adfree is like five USian dollars a calendar month. If you can't justify that, maybe your life won't suck much at all in its absence.

Thanks for your interesting perspective.

It may well be that mankind's mental superiority over other creatures is not quite as wide a chasm as we've been taught.

As you may already suspect, both sides are the problem. Politicians, by and large, are an unsavory lot... they vote and pontificate in a manner that pleases the folks who vote for them.

Sadly, this registers as a problem with us, the voters, so cleaning house in Washington doesn't begin to fix things.

Maybe you're onto something there, but then, Shell might well ask, "What were all those political contributions for?"

Next, you'll want them to pay a fair amount of Income Tax.

I think it is fair to say, as long as contributions by the wealthy fuel political ambitions, this game of writing your own rules will continue. Anyone for term limits and government funding of political campaigns?

If all that's required for AI systems to create a marvelous plague for their human designers is an underwhelming amount of insightful government attention, well, we are already doomed.

Our fearless leaders have already won their race to the bottom.

I have to imagine this is to avoid the heavy tippers associated with previous robotic employee deployment.

I don't begin to suggest that violence in video games desensitizes people to violence in the Real World, but analytically, it doesn't likely make people more attuned to courtesy and uncommon decency, either.

I know for sure every young man was trying to box outside the theatre after watching the 1st Rocky movie. I remember when carjacking & school shootings didn't exist, and then someone did one with full media coverage, and there were many more to follow.

Everything I needed to know, I learned in Kindergarten. Monkey see, monkey do.

The brick shithouse is an interesting unit of measurement, as it is also used to describe the build of a young lady with impeccable physical characteristics.

I sure hate it when one of the best posts is last.