The only way these agencies in the US are going to update their software and hardware, is if someone takes a proverbial baseball bat and whacks them in the face with it.

Such as a US government agency exploiting their way in and wreaking absolute havoc on a select few sites as an example to the others. Overspeed a few SCADA controllers, snap off the valves on a few floodgates, cause a few small town power generation stations to burn up the turbines?

The walk across the street to Congress and say, "Yes. We did this. And if you don't poop out 20 billion dollars in infrastructure cash, then it will be the Chinese doing it. And they won't be doing it to East Bumfart, Montana."

I can answer that.

It's because people are very, very stupid.

People have used the 9-1-1 function of the Spot Personal Locator to call for "help", because they were hungry and wanted a snack, their water was salty, they were tired of walking, and a whole host of other stupid reasons.

They did it so much, that the USCG and Army National Guard had to start charging people for any dispatch that wasn't actually an emergency.

They're talking about Aerobraking.

If you want to see what it would be like, check out the film 2010: The Year We Make Contact.

I was 48 years old, overweight, with a bad knee, very little stamina, tertiary edema that made my legs hurt after strenuous exercise, and I was throwing down so hard at his 2016 Greensboro NC show that the kids were in awe.

The sweat was pouring off me like a river, my shirt was plastered to my moobs, and the belly blubber was flying faster than a greased porpoise in a sea of snot.

And I kept it up, too! I had one woman come up to me, give me a kiss, and put a glitter star on my hat.

All for the bass.

Since Lorin turned out to be a $#!+heel, the realm of bass just hasn't been the same.

Yes, getting rid of your jet makes it more difficult for people to track you.

Though somehow, I highly doubt he's worried about "competitors" as he put it. He's an obscenely wealthy man, with some very questionable ties to extremely bad people.

He's got a few sets of crosshairs on his noggin, and he wants to clear some of them off his back.

...and human jobs aren't in that much danger.

Restaurants are going to have to hire someone specifically to clean the robot's protective coverings, not to mention clean up the very impressive amount of splashed oil and spilled product it flings all over everything.

And I'm sure that the owner/inventor is quite correct?

Yes, it does free up the rest of the kitchen workers to do other tasks. But not having the finesse and physical dexterity of a human means kitchen workers are going to have just as much work to do cleaning up after the thing.

Indeed, I'd argue they're going to have even more work to do, because I saw that thing flinging a LOT of grease. And if you've ever experienced the unmitigated joy of cleaning a deep fryer, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

Seeing Peter Thiel's name attached to something makes my bottom pucker.

He's the kind of libertarian that makes other libertarians nervous, because they all know he'd run them all through a meat grinder if there's a profit in it. He is the last person you want in charge, of anything!

If this goes through, I promise you, every single one of you will have your cellphones, email, Instagram, Meta, Twitter, TikTok, Tinder, Grindr, and Growlr accounts penetrated within seventy-two hours.

Your every exploit, every meeting, every Tweet, message, post, like, swipe, purchase, solicitation and clandestine meeting with male, female, child and animal prostitutes WILL be on the front page of every newspaper, website, message service and more.

It will be swift.

It will be merciless.

Your every moment will be exposed to the scrutiny of the entire planet, and you will not have a single iota of privacy, dignity or security unless you abandon your electronic devices in the rubbish tip, make a beeline for Platform 9 3/4 in King's Cross Station, and hop on the Hogwart's Express.

Which is to say, you will have none of those things, ever again.

This is not a threat? This is a guarantee. A promise. An assurance of what will happen the moment our security is compromised.

...and the users of Twitter are very happy to have them.

Likewise, the users are also very relieved that you never had to brains to figure that out.

I remember all the effort that has been put into making "signs" that will be understood in the future, so people can know that the stuff buried here is deadly and/or dangerous. There's even a Wikipedia article about it.

Just kill the intruders.

When they seal up the repository, place high-level waste in the seal itself. Anyone who gets too close dies.

One thing that humans will always understand, and will never ignore, is IMMEDIATE consequences.

Nobody walks through a minefield more than once.