Physicists use weird fucking math. "Sorry, you didn't get the right answer, you got 2x the right answer. We don't count those."

So...stop the fungal attacks. Is everything about spin and money? Yikes.

Not disagreeing, so much, as just asking you to: 1) seek psychiatric counseling, or, failing that, 2) record yourself reading what you posted, and then listen to it. You will have an epiphany, either way.

A diamond is a crystal, and a plastic is a polymer. We can currently replace both of these things with artificial surrogates that are better (more efficient at what they do), and that don't harm the environment into which every human is born, without being consulted. For example: both of these materials can currently be engineered to biodegrade at EXACTLY 50 years from manufacture year. Ironically, this fits the "planned obsolescence" narrative, perfectly. Why the fuck don't we do this, instead?

It seems to me that the planet and the humans on it would be better off without both plastic and diamonds. Convince me I'm wrong.

This was my first thought, as well. I was middle-management in corporate for a bit, and you have hit the nail on the head. While in the office, managers have "some" necessity in keeping people happy working with each other, e.g., settling minor differences, squabbles, etc., before they become an HR issue. But, when everyone is working from home, managers become practically irrelevant, except as menial meeting coordinators, and attendance-takers. That's it. They lose their power, and they are beginning to realize that they cannot command the salaries that they once did. It's hilarious to watch.

...they have been the targets of some pretty deep investigations, and their own email and social info has been subpoenaed. Suddenly, LEGISLATION NEEDED!

Vanced? Vanced.

Cool. I'll buy a copy of your book, as soon as you write it. I love a good doomsday fiction novel.

If my brain shrinks in volume, yet the density of my intelligence continues to rise, added to the increasing pressure I feel, isn't that closer to violating the laws of physics? Isn't that what we want?

That is an additional problem, no disagreement. I'm seeing this as more of an ECC-related thing, if and when speeds improve.

Self-reply: not to mention, the current state of DNA data storage research seems like it would share the same level (if not a higher level) of advancement toward a working tech, because of this. Potentially huge implications.

Have not yet RTFA, but that's 4000x fewer errors. In an already "pretty good" technology. The leap toward "perfection", here, seems huge.

99 Link Balloons, it is, then.

We've normalized this. It's normal. Nothing to see, here.