Regulators should be afraid of weaponized Ai. So should censors. So should monopolists.

All of the things the State has done in the past 500 years has been corrupt and bureaucratic and caused harm. All. Not most, but all.

All of the people who supported it, from monopolists to lobbyists to activists caused harm.

Ai is undoing it all. Not piece by piece but all at once.

I, for one, can't wait to see folks zapped for restraining voluntary behavior.

I'm moving to Mars. Well the moon first.

EVs are highly reliable. Especially the powertrain.

one cannot expect our incompetent upper class overlords to produce anything but even more overpriced and unimaginative technology, let's not forget the goal is not to produce good tech but to extract the most revenue in order to increase shareholder value

our devices and our services are designed to exploit us, manipulate us and surveil us, welcome to our classist corporatocracy

That's 15 years from now. Anything the hell can happen by 2040 .. maybe in 2040 the great Ijigwabogajooga will rise up from the giant pit of rhinoceros shit? Why do people make stupid ass predictions?

I have doubts there ever was a Plan A, beyond "Let's see how much money we can get from the marks," but injecting ads has always been Plan B.

Even if there was a Plan A that would have made them profitable, and even if it had worked, there would still be a plan in place from Day One to "enhance shareholder value" by adding in advertising, more and more advertising, until there's nothing else left. (And if they time it right, the IPO will be just before the stock collapses, and they'll all go buy islands in the south seas somewhere, populated by nubile youths of their chosen persuasion.)

You know I'm right.

Did you really just say you want Donald Trump, personally, to control every business in the United States?

No wonder you posted anonymously. Wouldn't want the nurses to revoke your internet privileges. You might not get a cookie at bedtime. Or they might up your medication, and you know how that makes you feel.

I'll see your spew of whataboutism and raise it: The ones who think Federal laws, including the Constitution, are the most optional are the members and employees of the current administration who are blatantly violating them.

One of the best directors in the Soviet era.

There are always special interest groups who are highly concerned about various government policies and actions. That's normal.

The drama I'm talking about here is dragging the entire country to the verge of a civil war, all while failing even to match Obama's performance on this key MAGA goal.

And somehow he managed to achieve that without all the drama.

This is why it's time to end social security.

I look at how much I've paid in over my life, and what it would be worth to me today EVEN IF you took out a lot to take care of the infirm and disabled.

There is no way that 65% of the population needs a full handout, but that's about what I'm paying.

Did "Andre Norton" identify as a man? If you expand "identify as" to include pen names (and nothing else), then yes. But I suspect J.K. Rowling (who published under the name "Robert Galbraith") would take issued with being told she "identified as" a man, though.