"Innovation" - that's a funny way of spelling profits

Even if the current Government was as pure as driven snow, a future Government can easily misuse identity cards. The first and overriding priority in contemplating identity card or the like is setting up protection from misuse, overseeing their use by a fully accountable body, subjecting all access to public freedom of information and future-proofing all of this from misuse.

Trump and the Republicans seem to love America, they just hate Americans

Remember, they're "targets", for God's sake don't ever think of them as "people" and an AI is just what you need to be able to forget that what you're doing is killing living breathing people with wives/husbands, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters who, if you actually met them, you might just get on with them.

But at least no microplastics - yet!

If there are people stupid enough to buy it Christie's are perfectly happy to make a buck from selling it. That's why they exist.

Will they revisit breaking up Micro$oft or were the bribes^Wdonations big enough?

I'm sure the UBI sceptics can make a very good case for bringing in/back (depending on your country) workhouses to "look after" the poor.

Kenny Everett (a UK radio DJ) used to have a list of the "worst records" (https://www.discogs.com/release/1331195-Kenny-Everett-The-Worlds-Worst-Record-Show). I've always wanted to get hold of them all, play them loudly on my 'phone, shove in a pair of earplugs and sit back and read a book.

... and non-repairable

"Oh no not again" - a bowl of petunias

It's not that long ago Translate missed "" in Greek to English so "Don't turn the current on" became "Turn the current on" :). It's somewhat better now but the Greek -> English still frequently needs a lot of imagination to make sense of the English.

Just one of the reasons why you should join a union. Just because you sit at a desk doesn't mean you aren't a worker.

Of course the US and UK would never dream of interfering in another country's electoral process ....

Sounds like a way of finding the lowest common denominator in beer flavour and then making all beers taste just like that. I'll stick to home-brew.