The U.S. was created out of the Enlightenment which rejected religion as being simply politics but with a mystical angle to fool the proles.

Nice one! Mar-a-Lago: where corruption is a sport.

Near as I can tell (I'm a Mac user), MS keeps business people on it by integrating their apps together. This is a godsend to the C-Suite who have other things to dork around with than their computer. Office contains just about anything they want to use. They do not know anything else and they do not want to know anything else.

I periodically have runins with Office on a Mac because the management really likes bullet points and needs to lift them from our docs lest they be forced to think for themselves. Their idea of a Pooperpoint window means a bloody mess of smaller and smaller type several layers deep (populated by bullet points) or with some diagram contains several different kinds of arrows. They feel this helps organize their thoughts. However, a well-constructed Pooperpoint slide deck can be done, it requires one do more than know Pooperpoint. Organizing one's thoughts so others can understand the flow is not easy. Pooperpoint gives the management the idea all they need is to slap bulletpoints and arrows on slides and Presto, Instant Pudding. If you go more than two layers deep in bullet points, your audience is lost. And only a sparse few on a window enough to guide your talk over. If you are using Pooperpoint for something else, you might want to consider using something else.

The rest of the apps to me seem like garbage, including the mechanics of Pooperpoint. I'm happy doing documents in Latex including pictures and diagrams. Word is just too painful, but requires no thinking as long as your formatting is simple. But then I only write math and logic and am not about to spend days poking symbols into fucking Word. Doing slide decks is then easy for Latex (using the Beamer package). I can just cut and paste from my other documents. Latex (and Beamer) makes making whizzy things in slide decks hard, but then whizzy things should not be in slide decks.

US: Hey MS, we just wanna type in a text file, which app do I use?

MS: Well, you can use our AI Powered PowerText-to-SuperFile app. It does it all, writes your text for you.

US: No, no, no. We want to write the text.

MS: That's not the AI-Way, you really want to use our AI Powered app, it will answer any questions you have while it writes your text.

US: Errrrmmmm.....cannot I just write text file on my own?

MS: Uh-oh, I guess not. We do not have an AI Powered app to do that.

US: Nevermind, Linux and MacOS will do just fine. Now go away.

MS: Ooops, too late, our AI Powered Agent has already accessed you bank account and transferred the required sum into our coffers for wanting to use an un-AI Powered app.

US: Eat death!

MS: So you want to commit suicide. May we suggest our AI Powered Schedule-Your-Death app?

Or, we can continue to pump CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and *hope* it does no harm even though our physics says it will. Please explain your physics scientist credentials to us so that we may not merely assume you are just another nutjob who likes to float unsupported in a sea of ignorance.

CERN is only smashing small ions together. At most, a black hole created would have the collective mass of these plus the energy needed to accelerate them into ion punishing speed. That's a might small black hole and not a threat to anyone. It would probably disappear quite quickly due to Hawking radiation. A brief google brings up:

        https://angelsanddemons.web.ce...

As they mention, some cosmic rays have more energy that what is created at CERN and if ion irritation black holes were forming, there's multitudes of them. And if they were dangerous, we'd all be dead.

No one claimed the vaccine was a 100% miracle cure except the anti-vaxxer's claims about the vaxxers. Nice projection, do you do this often? You can help, you know.

I think the plan is for AI-bots to buy all the shit for which we used to have money. It allows the rich to bypass the dirty proles. It will be one giant, mutually recursive backscratching exercise.

So, you read the headline and somehow the entire report was bleeding obvious? As test321 below noted, please inform us about what aspects of the report you found obvious.

See the bottom line? Start firing to meet it, don't figure out how to properly run the business.

So instead we need to allow a compromised federal government to enrich el Bunko; there are a lot of energy projects in need of federal approval, each of which will cost them dearly and allow el Bunko to peg his Grift-O-Meter again.

You seem to be assuming that el Bunko is doing this for something other than money. Look at the list of "contributors" to his East Wing destruction: Apple, nVidia, Oracle, etc. They are all big tech companies and they all love H1-Bs. I don't know if el Bunko is paying them back or doing it in expectation of future contributions to his whims (most importantly his wealth). My guess is both. Why H1-Bs? Because he wants whatever he wants NOW, he doesn't give a flying rat's ass about investing in the future like increasing money available for education. That would take planning and implementation that takes years, nothing he is good at (is he good at anything beyond collecting rent by shaking down people lower on power curve than he?); his attention span is akin to a gnat's and so he cannot fathom it.

As usual with el Bunko, when in doubt, set the Grift-O-Meter bar as low as you can and he'll find a way to limbo under it. And never forget that those in his "businesses" widely admit he cannot read a balance sheet. That explains his bankruptcies (how does one bankrupt casinos? Who knows but he found a way.) It also explains him honking on about how he's collected over $19 Trillion in tariffs. If you do not understand the ludicrousness of that number, you missed the last 50 years, go back and start over.

I doubt that would ever come to pass. The insurance companies will do a "deal" with car manufacturers to include a data collection thingy defaulting to on, and then you will get charged by the insurance company for getting it turned off.

As always with el Bunko, look for the trail of bread crumbs back to his pocket. I guess Constellation hasn't heard the number 1 rule of el Bunko: he destroys everything he touches.

Also, consider missing with your shot and hitting a little girl merrily going on her way to school, store, etc. And be sure to keep your lawyer on retainer should you do this. And do not forget basic gun safety, keep it locked up and away from your kids. And also keep aware of your mental health as a gun can represent a quick escape from the world. So go buy a Glock, hell buy one for yourself and 10 of your friends. They'll be friends of yours for life, yes?