Boogeymen drive votes. (Boogypeople?)

I believe courts have interpreted it to mean people on US territories or citizens (even when abroad). Conservative courts have also assigned corporations and organizations many person-like legal qualities, which liberals often balk at because it gives them a potentially overly large voice on political issues traditionally considered only to be rights for individuals.

It can only make some plausible extrapolations and it can make these less well than a competent human. All the current hype AI has brought us is texts that sound good but often are bullshit and now pictures that look sharp but are not. You know, better sounding or better looking crap. Still crap.

Visual hallucinations, essentially.

No, but I can read. You should try it some time. It is not even that hard, to you may be able to master that skill!

But in line with their overall product quality and respect for their users.

I moved away some years ago, when it started to just be annoying. Short-term thinking moron in control, obviously. Although all of Google is advancing in Enshittification, search is clearly the worst.

Refunding is really only for crappy games and ones you do not like from the start. Although, with a good reason you can ask for a refund later and I have done that successfully several times. Essentially what Valve does is pretty fair and pretty sane.

Indeed. Also, diamonds? These are almost worthless, except for scarcity. Well, having diamond-based grinding equipment is nice for some cutting jobs.

Just because people are useless they won't lie down and die quietly.

Twice so in a country that has more guns than people.

I'll sign it without hesitation. Non-competes are illegal in my jurisdiction, and illegal clauses in contracts are void.

Startups around here get hoovered up including the former owners as "consultants". Basically that means you get money for doing nothing, at least as long as you don't try to start a competitor because guess what "consultation" is no longer needed should you try that...

C'mon. Please. When has the free market ever tied the hands of corporations? If that ever happens (and yes, there is indeed that nonzero chance that we're heading into an employer market, at least in some fields), rest assured that the game will be rigged some more in your disadvantage.

The only reason that corporations were fine with government letting "the market" sort it out was that until now, they had you by the balls. Let's wait what's gonna happen should this change.

Here's the thing, though: I am needed. But unfortunately, I'm one of the few.

But that's besides the point. What matters is that the replacement rate of young people vs. old people is only at about 80%. And that's not gonna change in the near future. For every 5 people leaving the workforce, only 4 will join it. Save immigration, of course, but let's face it, you only need so many goat-herders...

And that's the point. It's not just the burger flippers and shelf stockers that retire. It's also the researchers and doctors, the finance gurus and the engineers. Yes, there has never been a shortage of unskilled idiots. And that shortage sure isn't in any danger of growing, considering that the bar to enter the workforce sure rises yet again with AI taking over more and more unskilled jobs. So I don't fear for the low level jobs that they may go unfilled.

What I fear is that high level, senior positions will be hard to fill. For two reasons: First, the aforementioned 80% replacement rate. But even with 100% replacement rate, if we replace our juniors with AI, where should they get the experience to become those hard to find and highly sought seniors?

How about this one?

When BattleBots escape