Hell, in WWII GM had ties to the German and American military industrial complexes

Spoken like a typical comfortable western fat-cat with not the vaguest idea of what an Orwellian nightmare might actually look like.

Not the Investing class, but ordinary people with no financial acumen in a world of rapidly decreasing personal wealth and increasing job uncertainty are desperate enough to believe they are being offered a seat at the winners table. Desperation is the mother of many scams - and even a few revolutions.

It's certainly of value to the grifters - lets just pray we don't get a grifter in charge of the federal government's crypto regulations.

He's just asking because with the Tech Bros, asking is all that's necessary

and even then, our solar system may well have ceased to exist by the time their radio emissions eventually reach this location.

Most of the Jan. 6th insurrectionists were in their 30s. You are not calling it as you see it, you are calling it as your news feed tells you to call it. People my age have actually experienced "peace, order, and good government" - we fully recognize the lies that are being foisted on the younger public today about the past we lived through.

How about we say it's incredibly bigoted of you, I think that's a fair description.

I'm with you right up to the casually applied ageism. We're weakest when divided and the other side are masters of cultivating and manipulating bigotry to their own ends. Blaming it all on the Boomers helps Trump by deflecting anger and actions away from the real target and it spreads hate and dissension between his opponents.

The real problem with Soderbergh's use of AI in this film is that his interpretation of Lennon's mind may disagreed with the viewer's - infact it's almost certainly going to in many people.

While fear of the future is something he recognizes as a factor, he misses that there's also anger about how hings have been handled in the past - and are are being handled in the same way today.

And one reason for Apple's poor performance with implementing AI may be that it's a feature many of it's users do not want.

Could be useful in helping decide who gets seated last, who doesn't get into the club, who gets bumped from a flight.

Leave the consumerist operating system in place for all the happy consumers. I don't want Linux adapted and enshitified to meet their needs - which is what will happen if they start switching in significant numbers. Keep the year of Linux on the desktop perpetually somewhere in the future.

1941 to 1990