I think thereâ(TM)s another layer missing: in the decades/half-century before AI, media (including porn) gradually became âoethe worldâ to more and more people. Iâ(TM)d argue that âoemedia worldâ has been devouring our real world ever-more-efficiently in that time (though obviously, slowly accelerating since writing and later the printing press). I think this all went hand in hand with recent financialization (and has happened in the past as empires financialized). And I canâ(TM)t help but notice that everything the author labels âoeworld-destroyingâ basically is basically AI automating âoemedia worldâ work. Best case, I hope AI leads us to rethink our real worldâ(TM)s relationship with âoemedia world,â because itâ(TM)s been destroying our real world since long before AI. Worst case, we let âoeAI media worldâ destroy our real world even faster than the non-AI version could.

"People who make $100,000+ a year, but not $300,000+, like my entire workforce, will no longer be able to pay cheap workers the bare minimum to clean their houses and mow their lawns so they can work 60-80+ hour weeks for me. So then, my pissant employees might demand higher pay. And that would mean my already-unfathomable net worth might actually have to increase slightly more slowly! WE CANNOT AFFORD THIS!!!!"

It's like they have faith in their government taking their money and using it for the public good rather than allowing them to hoard it for themselves. I think your statement is meant to be an indictment of communism. But all you've demonstrated is that individuals who hoard money are bad and that the people need to be empowered to enforce redistribution of wealth, with force as a deterrent for this type of behavior.

So, while we're running out of fossil fuels, and nuclear plants are closing due to told age (and new ones aren't getting built in the US), we're creating an excuse for people to leave their TVs on??

We had an ice storm when I was a kid; we were later told that we could have powered the thermostat or furnace solenoid off a car battery, and since the gas furnace was in the basement and the registers were in the floors, the heat theoretically would have risen up into the living space via convection.

We also had a gas stove/oven and iirc a gas/wood fireplace.
And the water heater ran on gas.

IRS too; look up "1031 Exchange".

Hot / Smart / Sane -- Choose TWO

and SuperCapacitors.

And extreme changes to the thermostat settings, refusing to lower the burner on the stove because somehow boiling water at a rapid boil cooks faster than a moderate one, ...

Point of note: EDUBlogs uses WordPress.

Wordpress has various caching modules/plugins so I don't know for sure what was in use, but if they are using memcached it could certainly explain why the content was still in 'the memory store'.

ServerBeach should have verified that the takedown notice was (still) accurate before taking further action.

ServerBeach is owned by Peer1.

Peer1 is a fairly highly-rated ISP for Co-Lo, etc.
I hope they issue an apology.

My company has been a Peer1 (and ServerBeach) customer for many years (I'm not sure exactly when Peer1 bought our previous provider, but more than 7 years ago).
We have received 2 takedown notices (due to our customers' content), and both times, Peer1 contacted me directly rather than doing something stupid.

I hope they will see the error of their ways, or I will be looking to move elsewhere.

Apparently 757's are known to create severe turbulence, but they In-N-Out pilots were not told the plane ahead of them was a 757.
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-01-22/news/mn-14297_1_wake-turbulence-warnings

Happened again in 1993 in Orange County; a private jet for In-N-Out burgers crashed on approach to John Wayne, killing their top 2 executives, a consultant, and both pilots. A 757 was ahead of them.
https://www.google.com/search?q=in-n-out+plane+crash+john+wayne

1. Get your 'decent digital camera' and take pictures of the documents. (point a directional (reading) lamp at them)

2. Copy the pictures from the camera to your PC.

3. ????

4. Profit!

You didn't mention OCR, so I assume you don't care.
If you want PDFs, there are many options for 'printing' the images to PDF, or you could use ImageMagik or some other program to do it in batches.

I have never been to Mongolia, just made that assessment based on something I read and must have misinterpretted. Thanks for correcting me!