I quit trusting, buying or playing any Ubisoft games years ago. Saw how they were devolving, found better games, better studios, better sources. I should actually thank Ubisoft, though I won't, for pointedly reminding me that games makers and sellers aren't trustworthy, and anything they claim should be taken crunchy with salt. I'm a better being for it.

Bravo! If Elon and Trump want a nice rocket ride, I'll contribute substantially to paying for their seats on the first launch to Mars. They'll save all that the flight would cost them, and can use it to pay their mounting legal bills and the people they've hurt. Sounds like a win for everyone, they get a free trip to Mars, and decent people get paid. Gotta love that. "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."Â -Isaac Asimov

I can't make myself give a hoot about celebs. If they paid well, *maybe* I'd help them with that, but I'd never do it if it cost me anything. Scientists, any truly altruistic human, if I could help I would. Celebs, they'd be paying me plenty even to change their tire on the road. I'd be more likely to stop and moon them.

I was immediately struck by that. Terminate the ==accused?== Oh sure, what could go wrong? Unplug their intertubes? Given the necessity for internet conx today, to disco someone not convicted by a court is evil. Damn, I'm grateful to be old today, the future's gonna SUCK like disco! Good luck, kids!

Like Lvdata said so well. I'll add only that I never waste the $$ buying new vehicles. Used has always been saving a lot of money, even knowing that most used have a few problems that'll need to be addressed, judicious selection matters. All the needless electronic crap added to the new cars today makes me even more reluctant to buy new or recent used cars. They're going to suck either way. A used EV? Not a chance, then I not only have no trust of the electronics, and all the shit that controls, I'll have no expectation of even the batteries lasting, or being replaceable at anything like a reasonable cost. Nope, I'll have none of it. Good luck, kids!

So, when the plastic parts of something start to crumble, we at least know why. The microbes would never reach space station bits, airplane parts, or seals for something toxic AF, or other, worser, ungood scenarios. Nope, never happen, can't do that, we're safe, nothing can go wrong! Comforting, huh?

I DVR the few things I GAF about, nuffin live. DVR, I can skip the ads. Only power I have is not buying anything I see ads for. I'll pay the Amazone more, rather just give 'em the $ and not have to see ads. That or just stop seeing media. it all sucks anyway. Bastards.

Gross!

Before the 'net was a thing, they managed to operate public and private utilities and systems and governments well with little more than wireline phones. Infrastructure of all sorts, the same. I know having all of that stuff connected has a few advantages, but the more we surrender to the wild internet, nobody takes responsibility to say 'Stop!' We're trusting our lives to this stuff, trusting strings to secure the gates, and asking the threat actors to please don't mess with this? I'm pprofoundly grateful to be old today, because our future looks medieval. Nasty, brutish, and short.

Sad to hear they've chosen to deorbit ISS, was hoping it would be somehow repurposed. All that investment of resources and $$ to build it, and such an ignominious demise. It deserves better. I propose, instead, that if SpaceX is doing the deorbit, it should be stipulated that Musk must personally ride it down, performing final fine guidance, the way Slim Pickens did in Dr. Strangelove.

There's a name for those persons and businesses that raise the prices of essentials like water when it's miserably hot, or bread when people are hungry, or gasoline when there's an emergency. Yep, there's a name for them. There's a legal name for it, of course, but what comes to mind I'll not say in /. Curiously, I can't manage to note even faux surprise when told Wallyworld's doing it. -I'm so happy to be old today!

I urge anyone disappointed/angry with Mozilla to contact them, and wake the community. I'm jone single human, and all I can unilaterally do is remove Firefox from my PCs, and urge my friends and colleagues to do the same. We need to get loud, and let Mo know we're pissed. The fam and I've used Mozilla browsers exclusively since the beginning, and really don't want to stop. I trusted Firefox. Who else can I trust now that even Firefox/Mozilla's bent over for Putin?

The entire industry lost sight of its purpose years ago. The purpose today is to reward shareholders and pay the talent and crew as lightly as they can get away with. Venues sell their souls to TM/LN. Artists accept earning peanuts for their recorded work, and still get far too little of what fans pay to see them. The system is broken. I'm safe though, since anyone I'd pay that much to see is dead. A small compensation for being old.

What troubles me is why any critical stuff needs to be connected. Pre-'net, actual persons went to the sites, performed what they needed to do, and as necessary to coordinate, harmonize, match frequencies, or just nod, smile, and listen to the boss, in person, fax, or by POTS-line voice phones. Things got done, by actual people that earned a paycheck and cared enough to get it right. So, sure, the internet made some stuff easier, arguably ~better, but what's the price of your soul? Or your job? Or your water, electricity, telecoms, or anything else that was put at proven risk by connecting to the 'net? Can anyone, ever, be made safer by adding more code and/or techno-crap in an attempt to "fix" the problem? How much safer is it when we're running this rat race, and the rats are simply growing smarter, and evil-er. Rats never killed anyone for fun. Gonna give it to AI to fix? Taylor Swift, perhaps? Trump? Heh, good luck with that one too. More reasons I'm profoundly grateful to be old today. Your future scares me, kids.

Ahhh, that was a thing. It's been years since a simple search got a simple response. Search for whatever today, even within quotes, and before(if) you see anything like what you requested, you get a lot of useless celebrities, ads, and similar shi... stuff. I block ads, trackers, cookies, bugs, all the malodorous malware I can, but nothing allows a simple, specific, search. So good on Google for their choice to give folks what they want. Unfortunately, it's Google. I'll wait til DuckDuckGo returns to its roots. Guck Foogle.