No, but a lot of people simply don't know what else to do. Plus: in many cases, there isn't anything else to do because chronically underfunded and understaffed city and state agencies just can't keep up.

So 911 operators wind up spending a substantial amount of their time redirecting people, e.g., "wait until business hours and then call XYZ". Or they forward calls. Or they do the best they can to help out (sometimes very upset) people who've called 911 because they're desperate.

In a better world, we'd tax the hell out of billionaires -- sufficiently that there would be no billionaires, because no society or country needs them -- and we'd use that money to provide federal, state, county, and city services in sufficient quantity and quality to (mostly) make these kinds of problems go away. We'd hire enough people, train enough people, and pay enough people to respond to problem reports and fix them, whether they're heart attacks or potholes or anything else. None of this constitutes an arcane/insoluble problem: almost all of it is straightforward given enough money.

This has ripple effects, because some of their students will go with them -- and when they do, that means some of the next generation -- the people will reach mid-career between 2050 and 2060 -- will be gone. Canada is of course not the only country doing this; the entire EU, the UK, Australia, NZ, Japan, and others are doing the same thing because they see a golden opportunity right in front of them.

The consequences go far beyond academia: basic scientific research is THE engine behind engineering, medicine, and industry. The US has enjoyed amazing economic success since WW II because it recognized that there's no better investment not just in terms of monetary ROI, but societal ROI. And now it's being systematically destroyed by one psychotic senile moron who couldn't even name the planets or tell you the difference between a bacteria and a virus.

This is both maddening and depressing. The US spent 75 years becoming one of the best, if not the best, scientific countries in the world and now, in just a few short years, it's rapidly undoing much of that.

So much of security comes down to the authority to say no by the security team. When that happens things can be very secure for much less money spent. When companies realize that making things secure very frequently diverges from making people happy, then there can be security. So with that said, why the FUCK does this equipment even need to be connected? It should be air gapped and PLC programming laptops and others should also be sequestered and kept offline and free from any pluggable drives as well. But even with that said, most of the time issues come from C level. They are the ones that refuse to be told they can't do things on company equipment. I worked for a company that fell under DHS chemsec level 2, and even with those requirements they refused to do what the requirements said and the government was toothless for any ramifications for not doing it. When people grow a spine and start setting security to the absolute bare minimums necessary for specific company usage, then security things will keep happening. Again security is surprisingly easy when you run systems as pure whitelist and only for vetted and confirmed business need rather than letting people do whatever the fuck they want to.

Meta is a Nazi company that banned people for posting #NeverAgain and links to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (the British government's official Holocaust Memorial Day organizing office and remembrance agency).

It's absolutely no surprise that a Nazi company run by Nazi Zuck would do things like this article describes either.

Your racism showed itself, KlanBitchDot. String yourself up with a rope you Nazi KlanBitchLyingWhoreshit.

Re: Anthony, I think the constitutional right to a fair trial should have been respected. That the numerous clear violations of process require a ruling of mistrial, removal of the prior judge, and a retrial.

That's not a "left" thing, that's a CONSTITUTIONAL thing. Don't you claim you love the Constitution? OH RIGHT... YOU RETARDICAN KLANWHOREFUCKS burn crosses because you're Constitution-hating Shit-eating Trailer Trash Klan Inbreds.

Re: Clancy, insane people may be supporting her and making wild claims but again, that's not "the left." In fact, most of her donations are coming from Right-Wing Antivaccination DumbShit Retardican groups.

What your rant has told us is that YOU are an insane KlanBitchWhore-bred DumbFuck Retardican with delusions of humanity.

You Klanfuckwit Inbredshitbitch Retardican GOP Trash need to stop lying. YOU are the Crossburning Fuckwit Inbred Shit Trash Criminals.

Legal challenges, run them out of money, BAN their tactics from the USA as unconstitutional. EVERYTHING needs to happen to make Flock cease to exist.

This is getting stupid. It's like saying "we checked your travel time and we suspect you didn't walk under your own power for the entire journey". Who gives a fuck?

Dude, Robert, drink some raw milk, relax, and go back to filming the Real Food Show. Everything will be fine, friend. And if it's not, why not try to eat some roadkill bear? It'll undoubtedly make you feel better.

See they're pretending that those songs were creatio ex nihilo and contain absolutely no musical themes, patterns, or likenesses of roughly two thousand years of Western musical works. So those completely unique and totally in no way derivative works deserve exclusive copyright protection and ownership by immortal corporations. The only fair duration would be until the heat death of the universe. Also you should pay them fees for even thinking about those songs.

People on ALL social media NEED to see what the other side says just as much as their own. Echo chambers make everything worse for everyone.

I like your perspective overall, but you're fundamentally wrong about the use of a driver's license during a traffic stop -- it's used to identify you, so they can also run you for warrants. It's not just about whether or not you're currently licensed to drive.

Amodei, and Musk, and Altman, and Zuckerberg, and all of the rest are vicious, dangerous thugs who don't care who they hurt or kill, or what they damage or destroy, as long as they can satiate their egos and their greed. They're utterly devoid of conscience, of compassion, of ethics, of responsibility, of everything that it means to be a functioning human being in a society. They are raw, pure evil -- and they keep proving it to us every time they speak or write.

Only a moron would trust people like this, and I use the term people loosely here.

We didn't make them this way: they chose to become this way. And now they're whining about the consequences of their decisions. Well, guess what: every time throughout history that sociopaths have done this, have put their gratification and enrichment ahead of the people, the people eventually decided en masse that they'd had enough and that it was time to put a stop to this nonsense. I see no reason why this time will be different -- or should be different.

By Anthropic's description, if I write thousands of words of my own work and ask Claude to check for any spelling mistakes, and Claude says "one typo, you wrote CIa instead of CIA, fixed" what comes back has the watermark.