Most of us would be content if they stopped at making their own personal decision. The problem is that they tend to prosthelytize and when they induce enough people into their foolishness, they create a public health hazard. Now add a dash of political tribalism to the mixâ¦

I'm unaware of any time when Apple told you up-front when your hardware will no longer be able to upgrade to a future OS.

The concept of free speech and the "marketplace of ideas" depend on participants acting in good faith. Peddlers of misinformation and disinformation, bad-faith actors, are a far greater danger to free speech than institutions attempting to establish some guard rails for discussions happening on their own property.

Aside from that, there is long judicial precedent which excludes things like incitement, criminal conspiracy, and endangering public safety from free speech protections.

Except the audience, by and large, is full of fools and idiots who canâ(TM)t see misinformation for what it is, and we end up with people taking fish tank cleaner and horse dewormer thinking they are COVID treatments.

By who? And the more pertinent follow-up question, under what legal authority?

You dont see how a headline like that can lead a reader to a specific conclusion? And can you not conceive that might be intentional? Iâ(TM)m also going to guess that there was no follow-up front page story âoeVaccine not cause of doctorâ(TM)s deathâ.

The totality of these things forms a narrative that a reasonable person can find suspect. At the very least its bad journalism.

If you donâ(TM)t think there are scientific means at doctorsâ(TM) disposal to determine cause of death, perhaps your lack of success is due to something other than bad luck.

The only suggestion I've received for my particular dilemma is to bug the user even more insistently to run the updates, which they never do anyway.

At least Microsoft isn't making it impossible to manage updates on new devices like Apple is.

It really is just like that.

We see/hear the reaction all the time at my astronomy club's public observation events. Kids and adults alike are equally astounded.

Define "few" in the context of almost 4.5 million people having died from the disease. I'm guessing it's the sort of thing a sociopath argues.

Your "reward" is not getting a tube shoved down your throat that's hooked up to a machine that breathes for you.

Yeah when I want unimpeachable authoritative data on anything, I go to some guy on Twitter.

This is the sort of dumb shit you say when you just ignore the data showing the partisan breakdown of vaccine-deniers.

This isnâ(TM)t a tragedy. Itâ(TM)s natural selection. Iâ(TM)m not going to shed a tear for people stubbornly determined to kill themselves and their children. The rest of us bear no responsibility.