Best of the Funny, though the story had many more opportunities.

However if you were trying to persuade a buffoon you didn't get there. That's why buffoons love the YOB so much. They worship their YUGE Orange Buffoon/Baby/Bollocks.

Loyalty over competence.

But I was hoping to see more Funny for the target-rich story.

Okay for the FP branch, but... I wonder if the rude Subject limited the scope of the discussion.

My take is that "love of money" is basically evil and always destroys any philosophic principles that get in the way. Love of money is a fake problem because there is no solution. There is no amount of money that can cure the sick "need" for infinite money. But only people with that sick love can wind up with the kind of sick money the richest people (claim to) have these years.

I do think "pandering" is a better kernel of the analysis, however. That's what destroyed the "Don't be evil" google, though they were initially just trying to pander to the users by providing the "most useful" search results. It took the "profitable" business model of advertising to drive that approach into the cesspool it has reached today. The advertisers CAN handle the truth, by destroying the truth, and the "brand new branded" truth shall make you an addict of whatever snake oil they are pushing. Or dependent on widgets like smartphones if you don't like the drug analogy, though I think chemical addiction is the closest comparison.

Me? Fortunately I seem to be immune to the effects. Like Spock and the purring of the tribbles? My contacts with generative AIs just make me more and more angry--even though I acknowledge they can produce "useful" artifacts. Maybe "time" is more important than "pandering" as the root of the analysis? The real threat might be that whatever they do, the genAIs and LLMs do it so much faster than humans can?

Philosophic tangent time? Naw. Slashdot don't feel worth it no more. I've been turned into a newt and I ain't expecting to get no better. So just give me Funny? But not much Funny to be found these years, even in the depths of Slashdot.

Really? That's the only Funny on this rich target? And doesn't even strike me as especially funny. Maybe later?

But now I can't even remember if the real FBI director's passing got a mention on today's Slashdot.

I'm not questioning you. I'd read it just on the author if it was available around here. Rather you should file it as among my personal problems. First, I'm trying to get rid of all of my books, not buy new ones. Second, I choose to live in Japan where the libraries basically treat English books as an afterthought. (By using lots of libraries I'm able to find enough good stuff to read, and I'm reading more and more Japanese books these years.) Third, my second and final Amazon purchase was decades ago...

So I ran the narrow search and got zilch, even in Japanese. Then on my mistake with Levy's book I ran that search, too. Still nothing. The broad search on "house" overflowed, but not just with some silly book about a prairie...

So now I'm off to search for Steven Levy books.

I use a meta-search that covers about 25 local library systems, and couldn't find any. (However I didn't fully expand some of the libraries that I don't have cards for. Depends on the local rules.)

Whoops. I should check but I trust you and know I've read that book, too. My bad.

Not an excuse, but the explanation is that both books were years ago and both authors write well. (But not difficult to write much better than I do.)

Actually I think you should have been more explicit. I'd guess the later Chamberlain, part of the appeasement thing, but I'd have to websearch and expose myself to AI to find out.

At this point I think the only way I would donate money to support Mozilla is if they promised NOT to change and break anything for some period of time.

And I think the only peace we're going to find around this world may be the peace of the grave.

This story is obviously a red herring. What they are worried about is the screens getting used too much and burning images into them.

Why would they care about burning out humans. Pesky nuisances whose main virtue is how cheap they are. But what do you expect when they are mass produced in such quantities but such unskilled labor?

Didn't dislike the FP, but the Subject was vacuous and should have at least hinted if you [Junta] were going for serious or funny. I'm definitely going for Funny, but it's funny I should say that when that trick never works. But I'll still check the Funny comments on the theory that finding the jokes was part of the moderators' job.

Trick that never works.

But I am personally offended by the original sloppy and vacuous Subject, apparently motivated by the lust to FP because of something Colbert said that made the rest of us laugh. Probably at the actual Insight, to be contrasted to whatever idiocy that motivated some moderator to designate such an FP as insightful.

A hug? Thanks? Or no thanks? Mostly seems like it's too late for that trick to help much.

I'd propose a solution approach, but the moderators have already declared this a no-Funny zone.

Congratulations. You have fed the troll and propagated its vacuous Subject. You can collect your prize... In Canada!

Japan's postal service uses lots of electric vehicles, both vans and motorcycles. Seem to work well enough, so I'm not really getting the target of your Funny. The YOB appointed a guy with a vested interest in destroying the postal service, and he seems to be accomplishing his mission.

Solutions? On Slashdot? ROFLMAO.

But what if we used email to make postal mail more convenient? A user-controlled linkage between email and physical address? Naw, that trick would never work.

And this is the only comment moderated Funny on the rich target story? Seems to be evidence that your joke is too true to be funny.

I actually have a funny idea about a solution, but it wouldn't be funny to waste much time on it given the current state of the Slashdot. But going for brevity, I think much of what ails us is confusion between "free" in the monetary sense and "freedom" in the important sense of allowing for new and innovative thoughts. From that perspective, the First Amendment needs a rewrite. Something to distinguish non-profit free speech from for-profit free speech with the profits subject to taxation. Dare I say progressive taxation? Or how about a higher tax rate if the profits are based on proven lies? Some of the tax revenue could even be used to compensate victims when the lies hurt people... Then consider it in light of copyright... With a higher tax rate for plagiarism? And what about persistent liars who aren't in it for the money? Religious fanatics come to mind. Already lost in the complexities. Yet another simplistic solution joke "trick that never works" in here somewhere.

Oh yeah. About the story. Reddit must be making money somehow or it would have gone away by now. But I've never found any value there, even before the AI slop arrived. I've looked the website many times going back many years, but I am unable to remember any examples of good or useful information that I got there. Some of it sounded interesting, but generally the more interesting the less plausible.