The concept of "god" is literally the dumbest fucking shit ever, designed to control the Inbred Trashyokels and Goatfuckers from 2-4000 years ago. We should have long moved away from that Cult Crap.

We had the Telecomm act and legal requirements for wired service for a reason. The cell networks have shirked this for too long.

And let's not overlook that this is yet another attempt by the AI lobby to convince the public that AI "thinks," and even has the same concerns that human workers do. Which it doesn't. But the more the public believes that these algorithms are comparable to human intelligence, the better it is for all the people who keep pouring money into this bubble.

... down his student debt.

It varies. Each city or water-supply-company decides how to bill its customers, within limits set by law.

The next major ransomware victims will sue Instructure for encouraging ransomware attacks.

Forget legal power ... HOW? What technical mechanism does the FCC have that can block firmware updates over the public internet? Are we proposing a China-style "Great Firewall" for U.S. consumers?

This sounds like the video game version of the MadTV sketch Apple presents the iRack from a couple of decades ago, spoofing the war in Iraq.

"Bureaucratic slip-up allows facility under construction to delay paying for water bill for several months. Coincidentally, facility happens to be a data center."

One U.S. ISP that technically blocks inbound TCP over IPv6 is T-Mobile Home Internet (fixed wireless). The gateway appliance included with the plan offers no way to forward a port to the subscriber's computer. (Source) I've read that most major U.S. ISPs threaten to disconnect a home subscriber for running a publicly accessible server. (Source)

One large legacy network in the U.S. is Frontier fiber, which is still IPv4-only in 2026.

In principle, I can send your phone arbitrary unlimited data using just SMS, subject only to rate-limiting and management of dropped, delayed, or out-of-order SMS messages.

If I have your public key, I can send it to you encrypted.

In practice, I don't know if such a thing exists.

I can print to my Bambu printer locally by using LAN only or an SD card, not sure why you think I need their cloud to print at all.

Also https://orca-slicer.com/ is not offline, some kind of a fork of it is offline.

Completely disagree. 100% disagree. If I need something that my printer from Bambu cannot do I will get another printer. For what I need it though it is great and keeps me from *wasting* time. My time is what is important to me more than money.

On the contrary, evidence seems to suggest that AI has long been very good at generating zero-day vulnerabilities. It has a little more trouble with identifying and avoiding them.

Back in the 20th century, you get student/teacher discounts through university/school channels and possibly from other authorized Apple resellers, but you had to show ID.