I think it is also to compete with/belittle other women. It's why they scream "slut!" at each other.

Because people assume committing crime is more difficult in an illuminated area, than in a dimly-lit area. In other words, people assume it can't happen to them because street-lighting.

Yes, there's always one drug addict willing to try that.

It's got nothing to do with hiding in the dark but this year, in my town, the homeless have been more anti-social and more threatening, than usual. I wonder if it's the higher cost of living.

Police data reveals more crimes happen near street lighting than in dark alleys. Street lighting indicates a high activity area, with crime being proportional to the level of activity, not the ability to hide.

It's normal for franchisers to offer a monopoly: This would be McDonalds breaching their own contract. The most likely outcome is one restaurant cannibalizes another restaurant, with total sales remaining constant. The biggest consequence would be franchisees suing McDonalds for lost sales. It's important to remember McDonalds really sells to small business owners, and here, McDonalds plans to piss on their customers.

So, this would be Clippy 4.0, I guess. While a few workers talk of work-flow and streamlining, no-one talks about the just-do-it power of the current versions of word generators.

Yes, placing an 'AI' that that can't be switched-off inside the operating system, is more than an abuse of privacy: It is peak stupidity.

Alabama has a history of ignoring its youth to the point of child abuse. Even its new voucher-based education is seen as a way to prioritise religious and private schools over a standardized syllabus. None of this money will be used for child education, safety, or health.

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In many US cities, communications corporations have monopolies on cable pit/post access: The local government enabled that. During CoViD, councils decided to allow the population to be mask-free and some, forced schools to be mask-free, contradicting a national health response. Last year was the Mystic River tragedy where the local council both allowed living quarters to be built on a flood 'plain' and refused to install flooding-event alarms. Local councils across the USA do things that endanger their local residents and do them without those locals loudly complaining.

There's a reason why the party of billionaires is also the party of 'small government' and it's not to help the local residents.

The party of "small government" strikes again, demanding federal control of cities. Paradoxically, the USA needs to move many infrastructure-based decisions away from the "small" end of government, to the state or federal level. The problem is, many federal departments do not have that authority, partly because of the US constitution, and mostly, and ironically, because the GOP prevented the federal government from gaining that control. As a result, the GOP's own sabotage will be used against the GOP, again.

Children are thinking about machines for space again, like in the 1960s, not about creating a push-button government or massive unemployment.

We just had an article declaring 'the [Palintir] AI did it', and I'm sure the next generation is taking notes. Maybe, children don't literally see it but they recognize a disconnect exists between the 1960s dream of robot maids and the modern reality of humans taking orders from a 'robot' manager.

"If you use Meta AI, we may ..."

/p. ... steal that data to increase corporate profits by letting visitors perve on your images and video. If you have images of naked people we may report you to state police because we don't want to be blamed for our part in spreading kiddie 'porn'.

They''re called technocrats and they've been around for 90 years. But the US government got really complex in the 1940s, so the machines of the day couldn't create a push-button administration. The hope is, that modern AI will and the ruling class will once again use religious morality to control and kill the working class.

It's a matter of inconvenience that the US voter is overpowered by propaganda and misinformation, a powerful AI algorithm is discovered, and a renewed demand for a technocracy, happened in the same decade.

How is this different to fake Id. cards or counterfeit money? There will always be someone falsifying an identity. Are you going to bite every coin to ensure it's not a fake (and suffer lead poisoning if fake money is common)? Or, shine a UV light on every dollar bill?

When almost-smart phones first appeared, retailers offered child-friendly phones at twice the price. It became cheaper to give the child an older, full access device but as the horror stories revealed, not better. While parents should be doing something to educate and protect children, parents don't have the time and tech-savy to vet every web-page on Facebook, Tumblr or Twitter, it's easier to ban everything or allow everything.

Parents tried this, it was called nanny software and would ban words such as "Scunthorpe", "sextant" and "sexagesimal". Worse, it was quickly co-opted by the Christian right who forced the software to hide sex education, abortion, homosexuality and slavery. Those issues aren't important to tweenies and younger but teens have to face the adult world and need a few unpleasant facts to be safe and to develop the responsibility that adults, sometimes hypocritically, demand.

Corporations stealing government-supplied data is a sensitive topic at the moment, so Florida, Texas and NY City are down-sizing their fascist habits to control voter outrage. While Texas and Florida are gerrymandered into endless Republican government, NY City is vulnerable to outrage and voters who lack the integrity to vote Independent.