With permanent DST we won't get the stories twice a year.

No kidding... gee, I wonder how they know quasi-monopolistic consortiums "will have leverage to demand higher retransmission fees"? Where could they have seen that play out before? Oh right, that's their own usiness plan.

They'll need the money to settle all the resulting lawsuits.

This. Fox News did the same to engineer doubt about the 2020 election. Always be suspicious of the framing of "a growing number of people think...".

Don't have to be a profit^w prophet to see that coming.

IQ measurements keep going up.
Autism diagnoses keep going up.
The price of food keeps going up.
People get a year older every year.

Something fishy is going on.

Are they going to chip you, or control your brain by more direct means?

Yeah, got to generate a steady stream of promising headlines to prop up the stock price while each new traunch of SPCX shares gets dumped on the bagholders^h^h^h^h^h^h retail investor.

Yes, but think how great the fire sale is going to be for everyone else.

Well, some people think AI will extinctify us within four years, whereas if the IRGC gets nukes they'll figure out like everyone else that they can't actually use them except in self defense without getting erased, so the only difference will be that we won't be able to try crush them anymore.

Yes, tell us how easy the current effort is turning out to be. Someone grabbed a tiger by the tail and can neither subdue it nor let go. The IRGC is probably laughing its ass off.

In a worse case scenario, AI superintelligence would be like giving hostile genius aliens root access to most every computer in the world. In a relatively "happy" scenario, white collar work is nearly eliminated in 1 or 2 decades and the billionaires hide in their bunkers while everyone else is just expected to rot. It can get a lot worse than Iran having nukes (which would be concerning for Israel and the Saudis).

Informed recommendations for Excel alternatives, like this. The only reason I lingered on this post. Thanks.

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Don't be naive, this is just the foot in the door. And it requires you to have a relationship with Google or Apple, which itself is not anonymous.

Said every Native American ever.