The FCC should regulate this stuff. But until they are successful, hereâ(TM)s my tips on getting off the lists (may only apply to humans).

1. When I was younger, Iâ(TM)d talk dirty. If they are male (like me), iâ(TM)d ask what they were wearing. Their responses were often hilarious and/or delivered in native language. Best English response: âoea uniform!â He hung up before I could say, âoeso hot!â

1.5 Sometimes I run the reverse on them. I just start ratlling off about I have an incredible job offer, $500 per day wfh etc. I just keep talking until they disconnect.

2. As I have become kinder, I ask if I can pray for them. It freaks people out and they always say no.

2.5 Sometimes I simply wish them peace and joy for this day.

I get very few spam calls, and have for a very long time.

Show me data that this new model is lower price to the consumer.

And that is by intentional effort on both sides (and national media) to discourage participation both in primaries and local elections. It is perhaps too late, but this seems to be shifting in some places.

Apparently, the President does.

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this information might matter.

I guess that means you are in a small minority of control freaks.

While youâ(TM)re not wrong in an ideal sense, consider the targets in this case: small town public utilities. Iâ(TM)m sure some are stupid or uncaring, but many probably want good security but canâ(TM)t afford it.

As to why public facing network connections, in a water or sewer system there are many distant sensors and actuators where it is impractical or even functionally impossible to string a wire for a closed intranet. They could maybe use a closed wireless setup but see funding problems i already identified.

i said nothing of the sort, you ignorant clod!

I said it is pointless to try to hide using technology, because you will fail. Your (not you personally, necessarily, mind you) very attempt to mask your fingerprint is a fingerprint. If you desire privacy, the only way to achieve it is by acting almost, but not quite, perfectly normal.

Everyone is known and traced today by multiple actors using multiple technologies. The only way to go off grid is to live off mushrooms in a cave, and maybe not even then. Better practice to hide is discipline in activity, behaving almost but not quite perfectly normal.

AI slop!!

Holy scientific ignorance and ethics failure Batman!

I donâ(TM)t think itâ(TM)s fair to disparage us plebs. We are facing smart, motivated, and well-resourced neoliberal forces that have been very effective at reducing interpersonal trust and preventing community formation.

And who is staking nvidia's debt? Round and round we go . . .

Also, comparing a single datacenter to population-wide consumption is meaningless.

And the US stood on the backs of Nazis, who stood in the backs of Jews who stood on the backs of English who stood on the backs of Italy who stood on the backs of Arabs who stood on backs of Greeks who stood on backs of Egyptâ¦