Yup, the username checks out.

Or how about we all just park the time half-way between Standard and DST, and never change it again?

If you don't want your kids living in the dark just change the administration.

FTFY

I don't want to "imagine" it - I want to discover it empirically. I want to see him and every well-known adult member of his family - except for Mary - doxxed repeatedly until the only way they can talk privately is either in person or via two tin cans and a long piece of string.

The only gaps I want to see closed are the ones between the upper and lower blades of the guillotines around the necks of all these fuckers. Every single one of them is a traitor to humanity.

Their willingness to take advantage of a surveillance technology which is still being widely and popularly condemned says something. I'm just not sure what that "something" is.

It seems to me that Jitsi is a good start toward meeting EU needs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It's probably missing some of needed functionality, but starting with a working core of FOSS and extending it would seem better than making the proprietary private-sector vendor mistake yet again. For a government to have the kind of autonomy they really should have, I think FOSS is the only reasonable way to go.

Any government serious about autonomy should be doing its best to avoid critical software from private-sector companies.

John Taylor Gatto is a favourite author of mine as well. You have a valid point, but I think the story we're commenting on is heading toward at least an order-of-magnitude increase in the broligarchs' control of higher education. And they've been increasing their influence in all of the lower grades as well.

I get that there need to be ties between industry and higher education. But the kind of integration between education and business described in TFS is just more of Big Tech co-opting education for its own gain. It's a kind of indoctrination. Students in higher education are supposed to specialize in a subject, not in a fucking company.

I wonder if poorer countries' usage of social media concentrates more on the 'social' aspect - communicating, organizing, and building community. And maybe wealthier nations' usage skews to the 'media' aspect - entertaining, advertising and propaganda. (Oops... did I repeat myself)? Maybe in poorer countries social media is used more for communication, and maybe in richer countries it's used more for mindless time wasting. I really don't know - I'm just speculating.

Might they be using AI to comb through all that data?

Whether it's on an eBook reader, a tablet, or a computer, digital books just don't work for me. When I read, I flip back fairly frequently to refresh my memory, confirm a detail, or revisit a previous passage in the light of things I've read since seeing it the first time. Digital readers aren't good for this because I can't quickly search a bunch of previous pages to randomly access what I'm looking for.

What would be useful to me is a section of the screen that I could use to 'flip' through pages other than the one I'm currently on. I'd take the hit of having a larger device so the current page could be big enough to read with my deteriorating eyesight while still giving a kind of scanning random access for the rest of the book.

Short of that, no eReaders for me, regardless of the brand.

Thanks! I hadn't heard of zero-tillage farming, and it sounds really exciting.

Thanks for that as well. Reading it was one of those Doh! moments where I felt stupid for never having considered the idea. And the approach of throwing more people at the task of farming has the added benefit of strengthening community and improving overall health.

Maybe the best way to "eat the rich" is to do it indirectly, by using them as fertilizer...

A pretty large part of CO2 emissions comes from producing food. Sure, we could be more efficient and less wasteful; but it seems to me that having a much smaller population would result in much lower greenhouse gas emissions.

I can concede that it may not be necessary, but why do you believe that it would actually be counterproductive?

Some of the YouTube commenters I watch refer to "Secretary of War Crimes Pete Kegsbreath" so frequently that I think of it as the fucker's official title and name. If it isn't, it should be.

As for "dedicated to building and providing autonomous and robotic capabilities across the U.S. military", as far as I can see the current Armed Forces leadership is doing everything it can to suppress and destroy autonomy in the ranks. So I can't wait for AI to autonomously do some shit that's just the opposite of what Kegsbreath ordered.

If this shitshow wasn't so dangerous, destructive, and off-the-rails stoopid, it would be truly popcorn-worthy.

Insightful, entertainingly witty, and made me laugh out loud - thanks for sharing.