It seems that the USA is dropping the ball on weather balloon monitoring.

Better approach is to ban the business models used by social media that make them so addictive and harmful. And if a social media business does not comply, fine it 100% of its revenues in your jurisdiction.

If they still don't comply, request Zelensky to pull a Wildberry trimming operation on their data centers.

It's the social media companies who are the evil ones here, not the users who need age-restricting.

The poor moderators. They'd have much less content to review if the button were "Doesn't Seem like AI Slop"

There's a damn good chance most engineers and PMs don't have a clue about their organizations most immoral actions

Seems highly unlikely, when such actions are obvious even to the general public.

You'd better have real-world evidence that these alternatives work before burning down the current system. And I do not believe there is any real-world evidence; in fact, most of the real-world evidence points to the contrary.

It's also the reason we have quite a number of average people with secure retirements. Yes, BURN DOWN CAPITALISM sounds good, and given the huge problems of unregulated capitalism in the USA, I even have some sympathy for the sentiment, but in reality, well-regulated capitalism backstopped by robust government social programs is simply the best way to generate wealth for everyone.

Burning down capitalism completely will simply make everyone poor and make life shittier than ever. We need to regulate it.

If you day trade, then yes... the stock market is gambling.

If you invest in low-cost index funds and hold them for a decent amount of time, the odds that you'll make money are almost 100%.

There's no analogously-safe way to use prediction markets.

Well, it makes traveling from where I live to certain places a bit more expensive and less convenient. But that's OK. It's worth it to avoid the USA.

Quelle surprise that Trump supports the gambing^Wgrifting sites.

The exact wording in The Guardian is as follows (my emphasis):

Agent Findley and several others repeatedly asked Tunick to open his phone during the interrogation, telling him they would seize it if he did not.

In my opinion, this means that at the moment he provided the PIN, the phone had not yet been seized and was therefore not yet under the control of the government. Again, in my opinion, this means he did nothing illegal because it's the same as if he'd wiped his phone as soon as the plane took off. In either case, the phone was not under the control of the government and was his to do with as he wanted.

The agents should just have seized the phone to begin with and let forensic investigators figure out how to unlock it later on.

The duress password wouldn't help with that, because once it's used, the gov has a nice clean phone on which it can plant whatever it wants.

That is my policy. No going to or transiting through the USA for the foreseeable future.

We might be dangerously near the Kessler Syndrome according to this article.

Agreed. That would be a bummer for (eg) flights from Vancouver to Toronto, but still. I think it's best.

I had wondered how you even do a long haul trip to Canada from the southern hemisphere without doing a stop in the USA?

It's certainly doable. I flew from Johannesburg to Regina, SK without transiting the USA. The route was Johannesburg to Nairobi to London to Winnipeg to Regina. The London to Winnipeg part flew over the arctic regions of Canada.

From Australia, you can go Sydney to Tokyo to Vancouver to wherever else you want to go in Canada without transiting the USA.