I think you're pushing your low UID too far, but probably going for Funny. Maybe the moderators will think so someday?

My reaction to the story is that Citi is the worst bank I've ever dealt with, and that's saying something. I'm not sure if they are the bank that most deserves bankruptcy, however. After all I couldn't even open an account with Bank of America when I was stationed in California, and at the time that struck me as pretty evil and deserving of bankruptcy, too.

Three Internet points for anyone who can convince me big banks do more good than harm. I'm convinced that they are not too big to fail. It's just that the US government is still too stupid to let them finish themselves off--but pretty soon that won't even be possible. Or maybe already? Just waiting for the next fiasco to find out?

Not sure what to say in reply, but in Slashdot time it's already an expired discussion.

I guess my main reaction is that I got to similar conclusions a while back, but mostly from looking around the perishables section of supermarkets and thinking "There is WAY too much waste here." Obviously not sustainable...

No clear reaction to Zaihan yet. Actually decided to switch to a more local copy of his book. Which reminds me I need to check the reservation status at that library.

Dying story of low interest, but another bye-bye comment got me to peg the video for later viewing. I'm vaguely remembering a book of that name...

Interesting discussion, though far off topic--except for the status quo condition of so many non-political problems being folded into political failures these years.

Main reaction is "We can't get there from here" where "here" is any better state of affairs. My excuse is that I'm too old to worry about it and all I can do is feel sorry for the youngsters who are just going to have to live with things getting worse. Stumbled over an interesting book on that aspect called The End of the World is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan. The thesis so far seems to be that we are just past another one of those golden ages, but we haven't fully noticed yet...

Secondary reaction involves various angles of attack by the applied psychologists. Most interesting new book for that reaction is probably Choice Factor by Richard Shotton telling the marketing droids how best to sell bad garbage to bigger suckers. Or perhaps The Attention Fix by Anders Hansen for a Swedish perspective?

At this point trying to have a rational discussion with any Trumplican is stupid. Dare I say irrational?

But Florida Man trying to defend the YOB is proof of concept. The concept of stupid people vote, too.

From a larger perspective, I don't feel like the fools are responsible. They are suckers who are being manipulated and victimized by applied psychologists.

In general psychology is a crock of garbage, but the applied psychologists have a huge bag of tricks to sell to con artists and rich scumbags who want more money. So they install new mental software in the fools' so-called minds and all of have to live with the consequences. Until we die, and just too bad if you die sooner than you hoped for so some rich guy can pocket a few more bucks.

Mod parent E for Effort if not F for Funny Fail?

Currently reading two books with "the end" in the title. And yesterday's news mentioned that the June weather was surprisingly higher than ever before recorded. In mitigating circumstances, the local temperature records only go back about 150 years. During that news there were several flash announcements about little tornadoes. I remember one for a district just north of here, so that must have been a specific sighting, but later there was a warning for the entire region.

Good thing I had already had a nice day.

Found one bit of unmoderated Funny under "profit", but I realized there was lots of funny potential around "Musk", too. However too many to check all mentions for unmoderated Funny there, so I can blame that one on the moderators. (As usual.)

Mod parent funny, though morbid.

Really sad that there were no jokes. Low hanging fruit around excuses like "money" or "Step 4: Profit" jokes.

Okay, so I see what to search for in case there is some unmoderated low-hanging humor around here...

Thanks for the opening joke, but the story had so much potential for humor... That was the only funny comment?

It's expiring now, or I might have taken a stab at a "good news, bad news" joke of some sort.

Mostly concurrence, though not sure if you were going for funny. Illusion of choice, or the paradox?

One reactive note is that Microsoft marketing has been strongly focused on the illusion of choice for some years. "Look at all the slightly different flavors of our poisons!"

The other note is from recent reading. The relevant book is called The Hacker and the State by Ben Buchanan. Just finished the Stuxnet stuff and mostly wondering how anyone with a serious concern about security can chose to use any Microsoft product, especially any flavor of MS OS. (The book also makes the Chinese appear more malicious but less competent than the sentiments from my other reading.)

My, oh, my. I certainly upset some censorious "moderator" AKA troll with that one. Why?

If I had to guess on the money side, maybe it's not harsh enough on "money in medicine"? Or someone is worried about potential interference with the psychological manipulations of the applied psychologists AKA marketing droids?

Is that motivation enough for another rant against Amazon? I'm pretty sure I made some more notes the other day, focusing on the manipulative side of review selection...

But I actually like it when the moderation is all over the place. Or should I be disappointed that one didn't even get an "interesting"?

Do you imagine the sock puppet cares who feeds it? Or appreciates your reply?

Just adding Huawei as another example of a company that once had pretty good support. However you can argue for mitigating circumstances in Huawei's case. Or for extra culpability depending on how you interpret the Juniper fiasco with Chinese sauce.

Not a very constructive FP with a vacuous Subject, too. Were you just seized by the uncontrollable urge to FP something?

I have three linked takes.

The first take is that diagnosis is quite difficult. I think that is partly a matter of excessive specialization to deal with the overload of medical knowledge, but one of the negative repercussions is that many doctors avoid diagnoses. Also related to the flawed economic model, but it's relatively safe (and too profitable) to treat the symptoms without worrying too much about diagnosing the cause. Until the cause becomes so serious that there is no difficulty at all in recognizing what is killing the patient.

Second take is that the AIs don't care about making mistakes. No human sense of shame or uncertainty or perhaps even humility or anything else that might make the human doctors hesitant.

Third take is the psychological harm to the doctors. You might they they deserve some comeuppance for their bad attitude in the past, though I think that's unfair to most doctors. However I think this is yet another AI thing that makes people feel bad. My new joke involves the need for CMINT for the "applied psychologists" who are installing so much new software in human beings. In this case the software under attack (called upgrade?) is the patients' trust in the physicians.

Websearched CMINT and see that I need to explain it meant "Configuration Management, Integration, and Test" from my ancient days at TI with the last Lisp machine. Big complicated project but I was hired by the CMINT section that was supposed to help the parts fit together without making things worse... (But so long ago that I can only recall a few details about three of the biggest bugs I found way back then. At that time a mere half million transistors on a chip was at the leading edge...)