There is a part of me that is ever so slightly disappointed that they didn't emerge from the capsule wearing ape masks.

What if we enacted policies to make having children, you know, affordable?

Let's say that Elon is right and the economics of space-based solar energy make the expense of launching into orbit worthwhile. Let's also say that we manage to avoid the Kessler Syndrome that Elon's companies have largely helped to make more dire.

Compute generates heat. Lots and lots of heat. And heat is difficult to dump in space. How does he plan to get around that not insignificant engineering problem?

I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm saying it's not going to happen in three years.

Oh, and tracking of the population in a panopticon, by the state.

Reducing farmland domestically in a nation. What could possibly go wrong?

Then they can buy the dead corpse.

Yay! Windows 10 is approaching "end of security lifespan!", and my computer "cannot upgrade to Windows 11!"

Hooray, Microsoft!

I assume with Windows 11 there's a direct pipine of the content of every file to Microsoft for advertising analysis.

Customer service? You just haven't been irritating enough to drive me away yet.

Not bad for something that plays Quake without the softeare renderer.

I though Grammarly fixed up your existing sentences, which would be ok, except maybe in the grammar units of a class.
  But of course it includes LLM AI to generate answers to questions. Nowadays so, too, do most dog bowls.

I thought it already did this, because apps use your Google ID, used in the Google store that you downloaded them from.

This must be independent log in IDs with the app company itself, outside Google.

As this is the cause, Congress could reverse back out of it by refusing to guarantee loans to universities that increase tuition by more than 2%. Slow, easy unwinding.

But that's not the goal. The goal is to collapse of the system, followed by Congress picking up the pieces, AKA takeover.

Pols 30 years ago: Let's help students with easy loans! We'll guarantee the loans!

Banks and universities: Ok!

30 years of nickle dime increases later: Hey, why is it so expensive?

Universities: We don't know, but it's certainly not supra-inflation increases because we can get away with adding a few dollars to your monthly payments, much easier to swallow.

Not you, the other guy.

(Shrugging guy ASCII art)

Old Luke, just a year younger than old Obi-Wan in the first movie, looks over and says, "Amazing. Every word you said there is wrong."