Well, they'll find a way to get people who don't even want to engage in the stupid stuff.

"Want to sell your used crap? Well, we killed off craigslist and all other competition, so we're the only game in town. Now that you're logged in to sell your rollerblades, here's a ragebait post that will anger you enough to respond to".

I don't even think it's about addiction.

Give someone anything appealing, they'll want it. Be it tasty food, or comfort shorts videos. You suck them in to eat the whole bag of chips, or spend 2 hours swiping down. I don't know whether that's addiction, or hypnosis, or pandering to a procrastination and not wanting do to something, so you just "kill time".

And now that Facebook Marketplace pretty much killed off craigslist, I have to submit a full head scan to facebook to open an account to sell my used bicycle.

Quite the reality we're building for ourselves, like you said, Papiere bitte.

The warning is from you yourself using social media. If you cannot figure out the dangers, then you shouldn't have the responsibility of raising a kid.

Oh well, you capitalized the wrong word in your sick burn... it was a good try, though, for you.

You know you're free not to use Apple Maps.

What's that? Apple built a service that's very useful to you? Almost irreplaceable? One would imagine they should be able to profit from it. But alas, you want to tell them how much they should be able to profit from it.

Well, you can already do that, by not using Apple Maps. Like with your iPhone SE, vote with your wallet instead of heavy handedly deciding everyone's compensation.

How 'bout if I buy now and pay after I die?

sounds like the plots of a cheap SF movie.

They shouldn't be trying such a desperate solution without trying chlorox and ivermectin first.

Just don't leave the country after you participate.

For that matter, you may suffer remote retaliation even if you stay home. I would leave this to the military or other government branch.

Also there is the question of legality, government operation or not. It sounds to me like vigilante justice. And countries who like their anti-American cybercriminals will certainly treat it as illegal. (Hence the advice not to leave the country.)

We certainly need a way to stop cybercrime, international or otherwise. But this doesn't strike me as a good way to go about it.

Finally a prediction: in the not too distant future, one or more offshoots from this will turn into unmanageable domestic criminal organizations.

New air traffic controller hires would all be in the 21-31 years old bracket. The PS3 and Xbox 360 released 20 years ago. These are people who grew up with video games being around them.

I don't understand why they're promoting that they're "hiring gamers" (it's what the gamers would call a "weird flex") but it's not that surprising that new hires would be "gamers" if you define "gamers" loosely enough to include anyone who plays video games somewhat routinely.

And, to be quite frank, the skills that make a good gamer (good hand-eye coordination, ability to keep calm under pressure, routine use of voice chat) likely translate to someone who would be good as an air traffic controller.

Hiring gamers to increase the total number of air traffic controllers certainly seems better than the previous administration's solution, which was nothing.

But in any case, it's not really clear to me that "hiring gamers" is that meaningfully different from "hiring people who are 21-31 and grew up with video games all around them."

Even Batman's job is threatened by AI.

It's just ET trying to phone home. Probably dialed the wrong number.

Ideology vetos reality, news at 11.

A lot of people behave pretty ghastly when it comes to money.