... offline capable and redo E-Mail with default encryption and signatures. And in a universal time tick of 3 hours for message passing and updates.

Problem(s) solved.

Put all bot/agent/AI traffic behind a digital black wall and start Internet 2.0?

Your best engineers will be AuDHD, and AuDHD folk don't do well in these sorts of synthetic tests.

I can code in 20+ languages for over 12 different OS', write code that's good enough for CERN to run for particle accelerator data collection for a decade, have accelerated systems by an order of magnitude by understanding the poem space better than their previous engineers, but I am abysmal at exam style settings.

The software industry is riddled with SEs who write abysmal code but can pass a coding test easily. They're the folk that you have always needed to reject but didn't because they ticked a box.

... and it's still a really useful and powerful tool. Truly impressive IMHO.

[flips through English - French phrase book]: "Oooch!"

and when they came for the psychopathic, greedy bastards there was no one left to speak for them.

Mass consumption of refined sugar is a 500 year long experiment, starting with the mass cultivation of sugar beats in the European low countries and sugar cane in the Caribbean.

I wonder what the results will be?

While this is true, being the subject of an experiment to see what happens when you do that is not something most people would choose for themselves. It's not *irrational* to be concerned. Absence of evidence on a largely unexplored question like microplastic infiltration in human bodies is not the moral equivalent of absence of evidence in an extensively studied question like a vaccine-autism link.

[looks around for the cherry wood mantlepiece]

They're gonna attack Amarillo?

Some people suck more than others.

You brought facts to a slashdot Anonymous Coward rant.

"Hello fellow morlocks."

[Eat The Eloi graffiti found on rack cooling door]