Things I thought would never happen, happen all the time these days.

It should be the job of a good government to make sure there is enough competition and to prevent such bottlenecks.

But the offshoring of jobs was done on purpose. At every level we are made dependent on cartels.

Itâ(TM)s like the Irish potato famine. They raised the potatoes in Ireland. There would not have been a famine if all of the potatoes didnâ(TM)t go to England.

Itâ(TM)s not a âoefreeâ country though. There are limits on everything. One person owns a thing and you canâ(TM)t touch it without permission.

We might have a lot of choices, within a confined area like what shampoo to buy from three different holding companies that might mean itâ(TM)s actually two. But we canâ(TM)t just take that shampoo without buying it.

We also have a duty to society; or we can watch it fall apart, which is what we are doing.

The prediction market is gambling, and thereâ(TM)s no protection at all against rigging. For instance; someone bet a good deal of money that Trump would bless Allah on Easter Sunday. What are the chances they had access to the script going to the teleprompter? Weâ(TM)ve actually had military strikes and peace deals predicted.

Somehow, they made something worse than gambling in a casino and gladiators spectacles and we can bet on life and death now.

And itâ(TM)s like decriminalizing dangerous drugs. It can make things better but only if itâ(TM)s not commercialized and easily accessible. If there are support systems to help with addiction. If there is opportunity for people to live happy lives.

When there is no hope, addiction gets worse. And thereâ(TM)s nothing better to improve profits and numbers of butts in pews than a crumbling hopeless society.

We can incrementally improve but easy access online gambling that favors inside information is the wrong direction. Iâ(TM)d rather trade this freedom for free college education.

Being able to create a run time app in another app is a huge security hole.

I remember back in the day when Flash was not designed for object oriented coding I could interpret text as code objects. So basically, I could do anything. And due to the nature of browsers at the time, I had to learn to check for a variable in a browser window to make sure I wasnâ(TM)t running code after a window was closed. Meaning; I had access to every window of a browser until the app itself was exited.

I did not abuse my power but i could have done a lot of abuse.

I expect targeted surge pricing. Like plane tickets will go up in price if they know you searched before, or if you mentioned a wedding or if someone close to you is also buying a ticket.

And the it might get so random as to base prices on willingness to pay. Already this is happening with delivery services and taxis.

And then it might be; late at night, last store open and they can raise the price of baby formula because they know you are out.

And then it might be that you said something in social media that suggested we raise taxes on the wealthy. So you end up paying more at the grocery store.

Once an AI agent can be assigned to track and connect each customer to a profile, the profit potentials are endless.

Itâ(TM)s like buy one get the second half price at CVS. And the half off price is higher than any sane store.

Are you really this naive?

It makes sense for you realize the Epstein Class is afraid of anyone who is not them having privacy or rights. They donâ(TM)t want to depend upon us participating because itâ(TM)s on our best interests, they want us complying because we have no choice.

If you think about it, this isn't even adding value to the economy; it's just skimming value off the inventory of whomever you're borrowing from.

Oh they always argue that it provides liquidity for others to enter or increase a position, that it provides price discovery of the fair value to keep an equity from bloating, things like that. (Note, I'm dubious of that value even if true.)

it only works as a system if the lender assumes that the assets will recover value over time,

Don't forget the short seller pays a fee to the borrowed shares owner, so it isn't completely out of the goodness of their heart to lend out those shares when they most often see the price recover later too.

But overall, love your take on this and agree wholeheartedly!

Theyâ(TM)ll block porn right after the ability to create it with AI is easy to download and use.

Humans are notoriously clever at getting around censorship.

But also , I donâ(TM)t want to be around the USA when itâ(TM)s run by Christian Nationalists. Iâ(TM)m not that much of a freak. Thereâ(TM)s no hate like Christian love and no perversion like the repressed.

This is all about control and continuous warping of minds.

The âoeto avoid all the liabilityâ excuse would hold more water if anyone, anywhere in the big corporate world were held liable for software on phones.

I suppose theyâ(TM)re giving âoefor the childrenâ a rest so they can cycle back to that one day.

I have always run with a dual boot setup, using grub to chain to the windows loader. I mostly used Windows but kept a linux partition available as it felt like my nerdly duty.

Regardless of my hardware compatibility (I never really checked since the Windows 10 nag screen for 11 saw I had TPM turned off and told me I was not able to upgrade), the idea of needing Microsoft to sign my linux boot turned me off. "My bootloader kneels not to Redmond."

For years I really only played two games; Civ 6 and Diablo 3/4. With the DRM that came with Civ 7 on Windows, I was going to wait them out as I read that they usually drop that specific DRM after launch. Right or wrong, that DRM just irked me and I did not want it running.

But when the Win 10 EOL approached, I noticed that Civ 7 had no DRM on linux. So I spent some time getting that set up via Steam and started booting into Ubuntu to play (purchased thru steam) Civ 7, swapping back to Win 10 when needed. Fidelity Active Trader Pro became the only thing I really needed to swap back to Win10 for.

The Win 10 EOL came, and I just started staying in Ubuntu. I had run my course of Diablo 4, never really liked the 'season' model. Fidelity has a browser trader mode that comes close to the native Active Trader Pro; the only thing missing is level 2 data (lets you see the bid/ask/trade numbers in more detail.) So I gave up level 2 data. I'm not that good a trader anyways =)

So for me it was the confluence of two lock down technologies (Redmond signed boot loaders, video game DRM) that finally pushed me into Ubuntu as my primary home computer OS, and therefore Steam on Linux per the article topic.

Well copyright and privacy are dead for all but the incorporated.

And I wouldnâ(TM)t bank on a paid email account not being used for AI scraping.

There are no standards any more. Not even much of a pretense.

This is why serifs are necessary. This right here.