America was born from a tyrannical government. The 2nd Amendment was put in place to enable The People and prevent that shit from infecting the new country. It’s the world’s most infamous lesson learned. Regardless, weapons for simple survival long outdate America or their need for an anti-tyrannical Constitution. As did the simple justification of defending one’s self and family from ANY type of harm. Again, Mother Nature only needs instinct to kill you and anyone you love. Life is worth defending at all costs. Has been for centuries now.

The irony of you assuming that was a valid retort, is hilarious. You’re damn right I’m bringing a gun to a drone fight, which are still no match for 100-year old shotgun technology. Not to mention those cavemen humans deploying EMP, laughing at “modern” warfare naming itself Project Achilles. If you want infallible, it’s found in timeless. If you want cool, it’s found in the hacked pile of long-forgotten.

First, the email server went into the O365 cloud. Then the file server followed. All in the name of saving money.

And NOW you’re concerned about “them” getting their hands on the IP? As if they don’t already, by thy own cheap-ass hand?

(No. I’m not going to pretend full end-to-end-encryption-at-rest is protecting secrets. Mainly due to the 95% chance none of that shit is in use. Because, cheap-ass.)

If a EULA is technically a contract, every damn thing done online today requires one.

Perhaps the obvious answer is to make the internet for adults only. We’ve already proven how fucked up we can make the kids with social media. You really want to play the wait-and-see game regarding what damage AI can and will do?

Fuck that.

This is absolutely correct, but we should more be asking the question as to why we still consider an 18-year old immature mind, an “adult”.

Asking for every reason that affects everyone else in society with their ability to vote, marry, and make the worst financial decisions in legal history. Not just the dumbshit cannon fodder excuse the Military loves to abuse.

Remember you’re asking the EV generation still counting horses under the hood this question. I think they’ll still manage with righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.

Analog watches have made quite the fashionable return. Rather sad I never considered those wearing them might not know how to use the damn thing.

Thats 1430 hours to be visually precise. And if it’s not measuring a single global (Zulu) time zone, you’re adding complexity and confusion for shits and traditions sake.

Wonder if ChatGPT knows how the Social Media generation lost that concept a dozen GIGO platforms ago..

What if we finally realize AI will make giving tests to children or adults, quite pointless?

Unless you’re teaching literal survival skills, there won’t be much of a reason to educate a human once AI proves to be mildly smarter than the average employed adult doing damn near any job requiring more brains than brawn. Which is 95% of them.

When historians used the word “foretold” in reference to something of historical value, do you ever wonder if they were referring to a fucking cartoon?

Not everything is meant to be prophetic. Not even as a joke.

We’re clearly well past the point of needing a new Miranda-style warning for the internet age.

You know, a statement that tends to scream Welcome to Reality, Stupid. Something along the lines of anything you put online anywhere can and will be hacked to be used against you to remind everyone that online privacy is a delusional myth.

It is generally accepted that life is what YOU make of it. If you feel your life can be reduced to a bank balance and credit score, then it’s likely because you’ve been sold that idea. Which isn’t exactly buried in treasured scripture, with Greed and Gluttony being viewed as not merely bad, but deadly sins. For proven reason. Life can be FAR greater than anything Capitalism could ever dream up in the name of Greed.

That said, I sadly can agree with you in one regard. A certain flavor of American politics likes to warp, hide, and otherwise distort and deny suicide statistics endlessly, by burying them deep behind “gun violence”. When two-thirds of all gun deaths are consistently attributed to suicide, it’s quite clear America has far more of a mental health problem than a gun problem.

(America also has an obesity problem. We’re not going to solve that problem by banning full-auto-you-can-eat food buffets and making high-capacity pots and ladles illegal.)

I feel suicide is bad for one obvious reason. It cheapens the massive value of life itself. And that directly affects those of us who value life greatly. Which is stastically defined as everyone else. Yeah. I’d say we have a majority voice.

What you’re really asking here, is for society to turn a blind eye to suicide. To normalize it. To make it acceptable. Once you do that, those who would end someone else’s life either as an act of murder or murder-suicide will find their actions far more acceptable too. Life itself, will be reduced to little more than someone’s feelings at any given moment.

No. I don’t really find a valid reason to normalize suicide. We’ve already done that with abortion. The end result of limiting that action to nothing more than feelings, has been quite eye-opening with regards to human behavior.

So the FTC simply allows them to happen then? Because if you give Greed the choice to dominate the market, it will choose domination to maximize profit and shareholder return. As a fiduciary duty calls. Every time.

They don’t label an entity a monopoly just for shits and giggles, and it’s certainly not a badge of honor. You earn that label when you try and monopolize markets, or when it’s already known you do. And if it’s illegal, it’s illegal for valid reason.

Read that part again. Slowly enough to let sink in the responsibilities of the FTC. They don’t try and prevent large mergers because it’s their hobby paired with bingo night. The very reason we have what is now known as “mega” corporations is because the FTC corrupty chose to sometimes enforce laws and regulations that prevent monopolies. Now the latest gimmick is claiming you’re Too Big To Fail. Pairing that concept with legalized monopolies is giving cocaine to the bear market of capitalism.

Clearly whatever legal games are being played are for the benefit of feeding highly abusive monopolies that have ultimately been deemed illegal. Not much can be said to deny the obvious.

While we’re giving the lesson on “cartel”, perhaps we should remember there’s another related concept feeding that problem.

Were talking about a monopoly. Also known as something that is (allegedly) illegal. For every reason being proven by monopolies today.

A cartel, requires power to grow. We gave it to them in the form of zero competition.

Airline ticketing information got shared?

Perhaps I’d be more outraged, if not for the emails, text message receipts, digital confirmations, ticketing apps, credit card auditing, banking auditing, FAA auditing, TSA auditing, and the rest of the 100% digital reservation and traveling process being one massive unending paper trail, in a society that practically begs for every bit of that privacy-raping “convenience”. As if anyone could fly in the US today and keep it some kind of secret.

Let’s be realistic about this. If you expect privacy and high speed travel, you better own the plane and the island it’s landing on, pilot.

The entire modern planet, allows social media to use them. If you don’t believe social media is spyware, then you still don’t know what The Product being sold is.

Orwell should have written a recipe book on how to boil frogs. He clearly didn’t leave behind enough hints.