or make due with the money they have

Pretty sure they're looking at door #3, "World's biggest bust-out".

Just look at all that money consumed by zero-marginal-product grannies. Surely that money would be better-employed on AI girlfriends for incels.

The coding grunts most certainly didn't make this mess, neither did the folks running the body shops.

This mess was brought to you by the big money boys who dream of ordering robot slaves around and dispensing with those nasty humans with their own minds and desires and plans.

This is Nadella, Pichai, Zuckerbook, along with Musk, Andreesen and the rest of the Valley Nazi clowns.

Cops will end up doing this.

They'll whine about it, and a combination of money to the brass and a bunch of overtime for FoP members will solve that.

We reached the logical conclusion of this trend early with robot cars a bit earlier than elsewhere in the economy.

“The future has arrived - it's just not evenly distributed yet.”

Musk and related oligarchs have a large interest in the H1B program, and their interests run directly counter to the ones you're expressing.

One metric to see how much this will effect the flow of H1B workers is how much Musk, Andreessen and assoicated MAGAtech overlords whine about being betrayed.

If they're happy, you should not be.

No, Ted Cruz's dad was the Zodiac Killer.

Keep it straight.

File this next to their supertriplemegaultrasonic tsunami torpedoes.

You missed it also being a load of expensive obvious nonsense.

That plan by itself easily cost Amazon 6 digits.

And it was Deloitte, so the report was absolutely written by a robot. A junior consultant signed off on it, and if they care about their job made sure it didn't hallucinate something insulting. Then a senior consultant signed off when they OKed it along with 60 other reports over their morning coffee, and someone with their own motives leaked it to a pet reporter.

I mostly agree with you. But the devil is in the details.

Equating "opt-in" with "just don't use these UI elements" is too coarse-grained to be a useful rule of thumb. At the top of that slippery slope is stuff like freemium applications - until you give them a credit card, various buttons/features just show you an ad and a buy button. I think this is perfectly acceptable, even if it feels a bit tacky to me. But once you accept getting a little more adversarial with your UX design, it isn't all that far from arranging buttons such that you can count on a predictable percentage of misclicks, Zuckerbook-style privacy-settings, and other shitty behavior like that.

I'm not some gnu-eyed idealist, but I do expect software I run on my machine to behave in ways that align (or can be made to align) with my slightly idiosyncratic interests. Software that behaves like a tireless nagging 3 year-old or tries to trick me in to doing what the developer wants is garbage that doesn't belong in my house.

It is harder to express, but I really think the bar for an application like Firefox needs to be, good-faith accommodation of a very wide range of people, in basically every relevant dimension, which is a lot, because browsers touch nearly everything. "I don't want to (I don't want my kids/people at this kiosk/whoever to) interact with your robots" is a perfectly reasonable accommodation to make. None of this is new - discussion about (un)ethical patterns of human-computer interaction goes back decades.

Now think about having this same argument over a feature that inserts free clipart into documents or saves the current page to a clipping service. The fact that this sort of discussion about UI is even controversial is a testament to how much the money people are desperate to shovel this stuff at you are.

A lot of it has to do with the fact that the last of those who lived through WWII are about gone. People don't have a grandpa talking about killing Nazis or a grandma talking about when she made tanks.

It isn't just US Americans, Europe has forgotten, too. Which is why Russia is walking all over them and they can't seem to respond.

And I fear we are going to refresh the antibodies, or to say it in a more American way, water the tree of liberty.

They have been selling a Google API that Google itself refuses to sell for years.

I've wondered how they hadn't been sued before.

That's exactly what everyone needs - Oracle's avarice buoyed by the UAE's psychotic oppression game, refined by China's carefully engineered oppression.

That's the GOP's vision for the country - From each according to their ability, to each according to my whim, and shut your fucking yap if you don't want to be dismembered, serf.

Oh, that explains why I didn't read it.

It is right there on the label. Their sympathy is always on the side of capital.

They're up-front about it, and if you're aware of the bias, they're probably the best national paper in terms of factual business reporting. Just skip the editorial page, it consists of almost entirely of indulging the resentments of the geriatric rich.

I agree that in theory it is entirely possible to reuse DC cooling water.

I also maintain that this will not, in fact, happen.

This is the same game politicians constantly play. Sure, passing this law means closing the factory which will will put thousands out of work. But we could offer retraining opportunities! We won't, but we could.