I would think that an audit trail only needs temperature readings, not adjustments.

You don't want to know who made the adjustment? Nor the time the adjustment was made? What adjustment was made?

Might as well gut audit logs in Windows or Linux if all you want to know is a reading.

The cops are lazy, not stupid.

Double-checking stuff is work, and there will be no repercussions for the individual cops, so why should they care?

Just call the towing company and go back to the donut shop.

Ha ha.

I wonder what their employer thinks about that.

AI is very good at writing COBOL.

"Watching John with the machine, it was suddenly so clear. The terminator would never stop. It would never leave him, and it would never hurt him, never shout at him, or get drunk and hit him, or say it was too busy to spend time with him. It would always be there. And it would die to protect him. Of all the would-be fathers who came and went over the years, this thing, this machine, was the only one who measured up. In an insane world, it was the sanest choice." -- Sarah Connor

Actually, Hitler wanted Franco to take Gibraltar.

Franco refused because the British would retaliate by taking the Canary Islands.

What motivation could they have for intentionally making themselves look incompetent?

Giving people money to spend is a Demand Side Stimulus .

A demand-side stimulus makes sense when:
1. Unemployment is high
2. Inflation is low
3. The trade balance is in surplus

None of these conditions are currently true.

A demand-side stimulus in today's economy would fuel inflation and would mostly be spent on imports.

Can you define what you mean by "hoarding"?

Rich people have most of their money in equity. That's investing, not "hoarding".

That's only true until supply catches up with demand.

Plenty of new fabs are being built.

I predict that 3 years from now, the current DRAM shortage will turn into a glut.

Disclaimer: My predictions are usually wrong.

Better a few Boomers lose their shirts than decades or centuries of techno-fascism.

Because only boomers have investments.

Your whining is the same thing that has been said for centuries whenever a new technology or process has come along. I can guarantee you would have been one of those whining when the cotton gin was invented, or cars and airplanes started being made. This is how society advances. If you don't like, you don't have to participate.

You need rage bait and outrage porn to engage people on the internet

On r/lawncare, it's people's shoes and dogs shitting on the lawn. On r/laundry, it's people either deliberately telling you what piece of clothing is dirty and asking how to clean it, or showing the labels.

I don't have an account, but even I can recognize this astroturfing. It's being deliberately done to get views.

I used to contribute regularly to Wikipedia and spent many hours editing articles each week.

The deletionists ended that.

Too much of my work was being deleted for stupid, arbitrary reasons.

If someone is willing to spend hours writing an article about Trudaeu's son, then it's reasonable to assume others are interested in reading it. Even if no one reads it, it does no harm by existing.

The deletions need to stop.

What delusional world do you live that the taxpayers don't have a right to know where their tax dollars are being spent?

Companies are private entities. They do not operate under the same rules as government. Your example is invalid.

It's called transparency. It's what good government does. When you work for the government you give up some of your privacy becausse you are working for the people.

You must work for Trump to think the people don't have a right to know what their government is doing.

I understood that reference. :)

It does seem weird that these guys think that anyone will pay for their vibe coded garbage if just anyone with an AI subscription can vibe code their own garbage... don't even need to steal the source code, just the prompt! Or, conversely, the AI companies trying to get their valuation to the total sum of human labor, which... if you're worth all the money you're also worth no money because our society as structured can't work without people selling their labor, and I don't think these guys are clever enough to manage a transition to some post-money utopia.