That some deaf people are emotionally attached to a MEASURABLE FUNCTIONAL DISADVANTAGE due to craving affirmation does not make deafness useful. Modern society is simply better able to cater to the hearing-impaired as it is the blind, the lame and the halt.

That doesn't make functional improvements intrinsically wrong.

As human labor becomes worthless there will be no need for an underclass thus no incentive for less capable humans to reproduce for economic reasons.

Bringing new life into the world to exploit its labor is common and cruel. Unwanted life, often females for economic reasons, is often sold into de-facto slavery, prostitution etc. Who does not exist does not suffer.
Free humanity of economic incentives to spew out defectives then humans can make informed choices.

Make those humans increasingly intelligent and they'll be more capable of acquiring wisdom. Of course eugenics will be abused to some extent, and of course those ideologically committed to lowering all humanity to the same level will be offended, but if they're out-competed by their betters nothing of value is prevented.

We evolved to cling to life and suffer as long as possible, but old age is fucking horrible (I'm old) and modern refusal to face that is degenerate. In more practical times easy deaths were appreciated.

In other news, heart attacks aren't a bad way to croak (I've had one). Instead of pretending we should fight death so we can suffer longer and die anyway, a more nuanced view is wise.

The original Trek cast are only mourned because they're a token of viewers long death youth. Their work is long finished. It's OK for fans to let go.

Data centers squander increasingly valuable common resources and do not need to be located where they burden local communities or aquifers.

AI data centers are not a public good. NIMBY in this is legitimate.
Sacrificing resources to serve corporate masters is silly while general opposition is logical and wise.

Epstein class investors can put data centers distant from anything that matters. When the hardware then later the structures go obsolete that distance keeps them where they can (as many will be) left basically abandoned with nil community impact.

Reasons do not exist for the public to support the rich getting richer off community water supplies. Reasons do not exist to trust the Epstein class to be good stewards.

Democracy includes the right to oppose social parasites for any legal reason. There are no personal negative consequences for opposing AI data centers as fraud, waste and abuse they are. Just say no.

There are plenty of places to put them where they aren't serious public burdens. The US isn't short of unoccupied land (see night time satellite images if in doubt).

The mods give zero fucks yet remain employed after many years of same, effectively preventing recurrence of the old Slashdot effect.

That can only be deliberate since they never address that reality.

Neocon warmongering does not invalidate NeoSoviet Putinist warmongering, preceding post-Soviet, Soviet and or Tsarist warmongering.

The Russian body count is vastly higher among their own people and those they invaded. Note that Russians fleeing NeoSoviet imperialist conscription hauled arse for NATO countries, and that formerly neutral Sweden and Finland joined NATO in response to standard Russian behaviours.

"Taking the piss" is a coarse way of saying "personalized water conservation". Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter

Employee catheterization and stoma output harvesting are communal ways Google can proactively involve staff and even local communities in resource reharvesting, plumbing being a solved problem.

The more global consumers are alienated by US software and others business practices the more all customers benefit from alternatives. The US is free to compete or not as it chooses.

US culture is now inherently anti-consumer, pro-kleptarchy and anti-personal freedom. As a USian that does me zero good while FOSS does me and other informed users much good, in my case since early this century.

US exports mostly enrich the kleptarchy while US milfare mostly enabled US economic competitors thus facilitating offshoring and domestic job destruction in other than miltary and related businesses.

The US is free to end restrictive arms sale conditions and behave like adults. Weapons sales should not come with a leash unless the objective is domestic job destruction.

I buy mostly buy used hardware, there being no need for perpetual performance improvement unless profit is at stake. No one needs a "new" gaming toy because it's a toy therefore a discretionary purchase.

The retro gaming community especially remains well served and adaptable as do "home lab" enthusiasts typically running business class used hardware, new tiny and SFF PCs etc.

Hardware used to be expensive yet the PC revolution carried on.
Games do not require constant performance improvement to be enjoyable.

Humor isn't your strong suit. The audience are not the issue.

Everything from which Russia derives tech benefits assists its current and future wars. The EU can afford its own space programs without enemy involvement.

ISS should be deorbited and replaced. There is no need to pretend it's irreplaceable or that space missions using ISS hardware are somehow urgent.

Humanity has millennia to explore space. Russia is a permanent threat to Europe and actively genociding the Ukrainian people. It should not be assisted in any way. If a Eurocentric replacement is wanted the EU can easily afford to build it.

Businesses want captive audiences so they act accordingly.

That's why their assertions should be seen as malicious.

US tech is a threat to everyone not of the Epstein class who control it. The US is a business, not a country, and stands for nothing but profit.

That has many practical rewards but no reasons exist to subordinate one's own nation and people to the American kleptarchy which is best kept at a distance.

Ukraine is defending its right not to be enslaved (again) by the current version of the Russian empire.

European civilization cannot avoid dealing with its eternal, existential Russian enemy. That requires a credible military deterrent because the only thing Russians respect is superior brute force. They are not a society with an ephemeral enemy government, they are an enemy society whose governments are symptoms.

Russia must be contained and that requires war(s).

I don't know why people imagine it is. Storage has been cheap for many years.

The oldest 1TB spinner I've info for was a mere $80.55 in 2013. Multiple drives were also common then even in notebooks like the T61 with UltraBay I used it in. Both still function fine.

My first 1TB Samsung Evo was $330 in 2017. They sold very well and were not considered overly expensive.