I really like that quote:

Or it could be that they both evolved from an earlier and different process which was quite inefficient and which was replaced by the 2 mechanisms of bacteria/archea so thoroughly that no genetic trace remains.

Did that include the graphic card in that laptop or not ?

Yeah, a lot of jobs are done with their body. I never understood the people who oppose sex work because "it uses the body" or similar arguments. A lot of jobs are physical and will destroy you over time. What about a mountain guide and his rotten knees, a wallbuilder and his painful back, an electrician with crawling on his knees and repeated shocks, a plumber with handling shit, etc, etc...

It wasn't "anything goes" before capitalism. In Europe it was often king-given monopolies. The first one to do something could often get a monopoly for life (and sometimes even more) to continue doing it. A lot of industries were controlled like that, and it crushed any competition or hope for technical improvements. It also applied to unions (trade unions of which only one per job existed and you were not allowed to work if you were not a member). It even applied to weird things like composing/performing musicals (for Lully in France under Louis XIV for instance).

I bought a Ford F-150 XLT (the full-hybrid pickup) and was very disappointed to find that several of the features (Including Blue Cruise and navigation) were subscription-based with an initial free period of a year or so.

Other than that the vehicle is fantastic - but was very pricey when I bought it, so having to pay over and over for the features was a very annoying surprise. (They quit working rather than quit updating when the subscriptions run out.)

... a bunch of cancer progression theories based on cell culture progression had to be thrown out when it was discovered that the cultures were being contaminated by a particularly robust and aggressive cancer cell culture, HeLa, which had contaminated lab equipment like environmental chambers or survived equipment sterilization and eventually took over culture lines in labs.

This isnâ(TM)t about saving money or helping educators. This is the same thing as removing trollies so that people buy cars. Itâ(TM)s about control.

We think this is the economy. But we wouldnâ(TM)t need prison if we spent that same money helping people instead of incarceration. It costs more than housing and college.

There is more money spent spying on each American than helping them. What if we find that âoelow costâ AI actually costs much more than we are told. Why are we using it?

Take away the air and sell it to us.

But the US and Israel already have nukes.

âoeDeterrenceâ is the extra terrorism you keep in reserve.

It requires at least ten years of education from a reputable source to be offended by the prior comment.

They program an AI to abuse people and then blame the AI for the abuse.

This is why Iâ(TM)m putting original sin on the creator. You made the kids that way dad. Itâ(TM)s on you.

âoeA burden for generations.â

Only if we allow it. Go socialist and change the rules or continue the same path and end up in a forced labor camp. I donâ(TM)t see any middle ground here.

Itâ(TM)s not my debt any more than itâ(TM)s my yacht parked off Epstein island. Until we get class consciousness we are going to be forever in debt to someone elseâ(TM)s excess.

Is this a real human being saying not having a monopoly is censorship?

The FCC works for the bad guys. Larry Ellison will soon have half the media. News Corp and Doctor Evil control the rest.

These discussions are so weird. Itâ(TM)s like being in the Mad Max world where warlords fight over water and oil and someone is talking about tax incentives. Do we even live on the same planet? The country is nearly a fascist dictatorship and we have masked ICE Agents kidnapping people for camps. Why are we still arguing about anything? All conservative and neoliberal policies have done their work ruining the country. Thereâ(TM)s no trickle in the trickle down â" thereâ(TM)s just humidity.

Listening to these quaint conversations about the business is news is so 30 years ago. We should have a public funded source. We should have public finance of elections.

Itâ(TM)s too late. Thereâ(TM)s more being spent on bunkers than water infrastructure right now.

This is ignoring the corporate interests and rampant propaganda. We can pontificate about the feedback loop of confirmation bias, but thereâ(TM)s not a news outlet that isnâ(TM)t giving tips to North Korea right now.

To have a democracy you need valid information. What we have is totally manipulated pretense of a meritocracy and PR for war crimes.

At this point itâ(TM)s just grifters and suckers and a few people opting out or depressed. Itâ(TM)s too late to repair the corruption. The best we can have is a reset with none is the rich people involved in the solution. The status quo is the problem and nobody in the media could see it to report a solution.