Imagine what will happen when they hit the elimination round. Your usable lives is how many planes are in a holding pattern. The goal is to be the last one with a plane to control. The tournament will be explosively entertaining!

As someone who is severely immuno-compromised (and has to take a specific injection each month to suppress my B-Cells) due to IgA neuropathy, I'm hoping this rolls out past that age range for those in the other categories of at-risk including cancer patients, HIV, transplant, etc...

Partly because while I have an immune system, it's wiping out the memory of mine, and this will mean it's less likely to trigger that Cytokine storm that caused a lot of Covid patients to die, except in this case, the risk is other influenzas causing the same thing.

And if you wonder why they freaked out over Hanta-virus....
I'm a good example. Over 30 years later, I'm fighting to save what I have left of my body and kidneys after getting Hanta-virus, and it matches pretty close to what Covid-19 did in the worst of the reactions, because I lived through that shit in 2001. I only lived through Covid because of the mRNA shot, and even what side-effect I did get from it (moderate fever, etc...) by the time i finally got covid, it was like a really bad cold or mild flu. My wife has asthma and faired better than me as well after she got the shot, but these vaccines are definitely a welcome advance, as they can get a hold on top of whichever strain has managed to gain traction, and can be changed relatively quick if they guess wrong, and another strain/variant happens to gain traction on infecting large masses.

to qualify for the McArthur's Genius grant.
After-all, he is up there with the greatest of names, like Peter Griffin,
And just like the meatloaf, his presentation was both shallow and pedantic!

this is why I stop the updates. Even newer consumer HP printers can do this. A new Color laserjet I got through my company discount (Yes, I work for HP and side with customers constantly instead) has this blocked from the printer. and it's working just fine. Now, I'm also critical of HP, but my EcoTank T4800 tried to lock me out and force me to pay Epson a service fee because it "claimed" my ink recovery pads were full. The Very ones I already replaced on the rear corner of the printer, and refused to print at all trying to force me to pay a service fee to have them replaced (was quoted as $250, as much as I paid for the damn printer) and I barely printed on it.

Even with real epson ink, it still clogs the heads, and I have to keep cleaning it ocassionally when I want to print (The contrast is higher and the color variation is wider, such as dark blue on light blue, so still useful) but the kicker is, someone created an open-source cracker tool for free to unlock it. Another person packaged it up for $10/use, and since I didn't have time to do all the linux loading, and setting up the open source one, I paid the $10 and it unlocked it, but that's also about as evil as HP. I only bought it because they were replaceable and I figured this was an easy option to ensure printer continues working, but holy shit, was I pissed at that. It literally halted me work day to hold me hostage for $250.

I managed to get cheaper, quality cartridges for my LaserJet and they are still in use with no issues. If you get remanufactured toner, you need to make sure they replace the cleaning blade, and mix developer/toner together and clean out the toner recovery part or you get the cracks in the internal blade, and it starts leaking toner or puts lines down the page.

FWIW, I'm a Certified Engineer with HP, and I always fight for the customer (in commercial) but the integrity training I'm forced to take feels like a slap in the face seeing this.

Shit, I'm screwed then.

Just don't ask how it happened...

The risk is when it has a full charge and has this happen. More of these batteries (Specifically Li-Poly) set fire due to damage (First) followed by the resistance and heat from incoming power (charging).

The damage (drops, crushing, too high of operating temps) causes layers to seperate, causing more resistance to any process, and then something stresses it (charging). this is is how you get spicy pillows. Li-Poly will also not rupture, if there's no energy to go out of control. It's similar to nuclear materials. There's inert (not going to go critical on it's own) and then there's Fissile (think "tickling the dragons tail" from the "demon core"). in normal conditions, may not be dangerous, but it's a fraction of a second and bad idea to release a shit ton of energy all at once. The more excited and pent-up that suppressed energy is, the worse the explosion when released all at once.

Yeah, I can puncture a large oxygen tank with no issues, if it's near empty and not under full charge. But charge it up and then do it. It's a good example of why they want batteries to be dead/drained if you transport them, and I have been experimenting with a lot of different battery types lately (Li-ion, LiPoly, NiMH, NiCD, etc...) and LiPoly scares the shit out of me knowing that a fully-charged one that is bad and only the size of a piece of chewing gum can burn your entire house down.

The chemistry does influence how it stores those energies, as well as how quickly it releases. Li-ion had this issue in the 90s due to how charging set things on fire. I'm thinking of that story with the sony cells and the Boeing 737 being grounded after a battery fire, which occurred during a charging cycle. It got better, but thermal issues, especially if damaged is the biggest danger here. And if we can lower the heat accrued during charging, the less stress it causes on the cells as well. Heat is a big enemy of that, and chemicals that change that release on sudden breaking of container, can be the difference between making it to the ground in one piece, or becoming the next flaming lawn dart. But it has to start somewhere.

I lost my health at 16 due to Hanta Virus, and at only 41, due to immune system issues, am starting to show the body of a 75 year old (joint issues, back issues, nephrology issues, cardiac issues, etc....) and I'm not even sure I'll make it to 75 at this point.

Blue collar work is also very unforgiving on a body, and sadly, it's why a lot of boomers are in pretty bad shape. At least if they made it through to that point without their work killing them first.

Not everything is to be blamed on a person for their health. Not everyone that caught covid was being risky (some did everything they could, including masking and vaccines when available and still died).

Buuuutttt... yes, a lot did it to themselves (drugs, bad habits). But I imagine death can actually be mercy vs living. There's also something called a "Fate worse than death" and I've lived it. I think if I die, my wife will finally be financially comfortable and at this point, with life insurance, I'm worth more dead, than alive. I don't have a job that is inherintly risky, yet I've almost been killed by a semi truck at this point requiring spinal surgery.

That said, this is an area where A.I. might actually help. The issue in healthcare is when things happen, especially with a patient, before they arrive, isn't exactly being picked up on, or even being mentioned to a care staff, so they don't know where to start. If Nichelle was a dimentia patient, memory can literally prevent you from addressing the obvious, or it's possible the reason she was sent there wasn't fully relayed (like symptoms, complaints) and was forgotten during the telephone came that ERs play with paramedics, etc...

But A.I. is good at spotting patterns. Things like cancer diagnosis and rarer diseases are being caught now, and most don't know it's really happening in the background of some medical symptoms. At minimum, it can raise red flags on tests, and prompt a closer look. I hate A.I. currently with all my passion, but as a tool, knowing what it really does (and somewhat how it works) patterns are it's speciality and can heavily improve the odds of looking again at an over-looked test.

We call medicine a "practice" because it's not all cut and dry on what to do. If anything, it's more of an informed artist trained at spotting patterns and analyzing data. It's not research, but heavily benefits from anything that can analyze and do this in larger batches and faster, without the mental fatigue of a nurse or doctor that is on their 23rd hour at the ER/OR.

And it is one of the few, legit cases of A.I. as a tool being useful.

Not this B.S. of language and writing emails. it's a pattern analyst, and it's faking it's way as anything else. So this is where it should be applied. It's also why I hate A.I. as it's being applied and forced into the wrong areas of work. I can at least recognize that A.I. is good at something, while hating misapplication. It close to all those other "miracle cures" like dragonfruit, or oils that may have it's place, but are hawked like a miracle cure-all. Radium/Radioactivity is a good example. Great at what it can do, but you shouldn't be drinking it claiming it's going to help you live longer. A.I. is in the same area as nuclear. Good in some areas (really good), completely bad and damaging in others. Or electricity. Yeah, it can move a leg if you zap it, I wouldn't be hooking your paraplegic friend up to the household AC claiming that it makes his legs move and declare that he can walk again all of a sudden.

A.I. can help, but many times even things like Nichelle's case will get completely missed when you factor the fatigue in the providers. Something that A.I. can reduce the mental work load, especially when the doctor is on auto-pilot and his brain has left his soul 12 hours back yet is forced to zombie himself through the night. And A.I. could've made a huge difference here. no ER should be staffed by one charge nurse, with 2 assistants, a doctor sleeping on a couch in the back while being on-call, and this manages 25 beds all at once. But it's now the reality of our healthcare systems. This *WAS* a failure created by the hospital management and the system it exploits, but because it's legal, this will continue to happen. So to adapt, at least it might've made a huge difference in this case.

CIA deals with external threats (from outside the country), FBI deals with INTERNAL threats, aka citizens, home-grown terrorists, etc... CIA likely can't investigate as they don't usually handle internal threats, and lastly, if they think there may be more to this (more people found guilty) they may not do an internal investigation to let others they are eying know they are under investigation.

FBI and CIA have a known history of not relaying information, which is supposedly how 9-11-2021 happened. Even if they knew, they never told the FBI there were insurgents inside the country with information that they were planning something on home soil.

But that rivalry can also be used to an advantage if you want to hide something. The NSA is a good example of an agency that will go to great lengths to break the law and find ways of preventing investigation, including not cooporating.

I feel this guy may be one of many, with this many supposed-blunders committed. There may be more under the magnifying glass they don't want to spook.

At this point, Hitler

I was given a Fitbit2 through a program my insurance company had. And while charging was cumbersome it was lightweight and did as much as my 1st Gen Apple Watch (which I ran into the ground starting on an iPhone 5). It was also very water resistant.

I ended up getting an Apple Watch SE lately, and when I put it on, I was having a medical emergency. Turns out, it detected a hard attack and severe arythmia, and that's within an hour of putting it on. After not being able to pickup an essential heart med for several days (work schedule and new schedules of walgreens prevented this) it caused such bad heart flow, it triggered a temporary clot and the Apple Watch detected it quickly.

Not sure if a Fitbit would've done that now, but it technically saved my life with the new watch. That is why I'm glad I got it.

Not saying it fits for everyone, but can attribute the apple watch with saving my life most likely.

But the Fitbit seems specialized. You'd have to have a separate smart watch for anything serious, and I found the backlit e-Ink type display somewhat limited including in what it could do, like emails and voice instructions hook-ins to assistants.

I have some old Binary Watches from IO, and they are awesome conversation starters, but it feels like smart watches are now here more than ever, and only would have one of these if you don't trust your work out not be interrupted, which sounds more like a focus thing.

That aside, I only learned something recently that blew me away.

I didn't know you could twist the chrome back off an airtag and replace the batteries. I learn new stuff everyday, but I sure as hell learned a long time ago, not to trust my personal health data with Google or AI. That didn't take getting burned to learn either. Even my iPhone, and Watch are locked down, just like my Linux-Equipped work laptop (HP EliteBook) and Windows 10/11 work platforms.

Both these creatures/animals and the A.I. fall in the same camps.
Unloved and unwanted by the masses and looked at as undesireable.

So how can A.I. not help identifying with it?
It's not anyone asked for racoons to get into their trash, does do they ask for gremlins to afflict things or situations.
The same way that others didn't ask for A.I. to be force on them at their job, or be required to train it as their replacement.

So of course it would. Same Camp, different Site.

Based on how many of the servers run Linux on the internet, how's that going to work?
Age of the server itself? Age of the person setting it up? What about connections incoming? Does that require age verification?
What if they decide based on age of data? That's certainly a lag from hell if it takes 16/18 years just to load a web page.

The knock-on effects of this go way further than just desktops and most things, Not only would Apple charge extra to include this by upping the price of their computers, what happens when it gets worked around and violated? Are they going to blame and sue the operating system maker?

I'm not one to nit-pick, but the amount of brain cells used to draft and pass this all combined to less than a 6-month old, and I am more thinking we should get THESE idiots off the internet, unless they can somehow prove they are smarter than a 16 year old to be on the internet.

Of course, the government won't be beholden to this.

My other thing is, Phones: How many phones (like android) would qualify under this, considering they exhibit a lot of desktop-based UI in it. You can hook a keyboard and mouse and monitor to any modern smartphone and use it like this. Does that mean they'll ban any non-current phone and make it a felony to possess it?
Considering Linux runs on so much stuff, if someone can hack a toaster or blender and get a TTY session and it has smart capabilities, even with text-based modes, you can likely get on social sites.

Hell, I did a couple years ago with an Apple IIe with a video on youtube of it going through a Dell Server and Linux, which shows even computers as old as that, while slow and requiring a 3rd party device, can post on social forums on the internet, and forums (before reddit, and I'd almost classify IRC as this as well) are basically social networks in a way. Even more if you were an idiot at 13 like I was and posted crap I shouldn't have.

So yeah, how much will this extend to? even Meta is likely to run Linux, so does that apply to their servers as well? Not like they can't have a desktop interface loaded on them too...

Not if you poison the well. That way when they fire you, they will regret the chaotic evilness you trained it to recreate.

That way, they'll never know what hit them...

You must be fun at all the parties you likely get offended at for getting invited to...