Maybe nothing bad can happen, It can only good happen. ... :-)

(If that makes your brain hurty, just take some Ah-ced-uv...)

Don't forget about coal -- sorry, "beautiful, clean coal" -- no matter how unnecessarily expensive to consumers...

Independent Report Finds that the Trump Administration’s Orders to Keep Coal-fired Power Plants Running Could Cost Consumers between $3-6 Billion a Year

And other sources, Google trump coal power cost

Maybe he'll recommend that people just stop testing the water so the results won't be bad ...

( Like this during COVID: Trump: ‘If We Stop Testing, We’d Have Fewer Cases’ )

So, the overly simplified choices seem to be:
(a) Definitely give MS even more access to, and possible control over, your data, for undetermined concrete benefit.
(b) Risk a possible security incident, that may happen anyway or never.

Depending on how one feels about having a Microsoft Account, could be a tough choice, especially w/o knowing what security updates will mitigate what issues, that you may not even encounter. Microsoft isn't doing this for free out the goodness in its heart (if it has one), or even potential good press/karma, so they're getting (or think they're getting) something they perceive as "value" out of this, other than money.

My understanding is that if you have Office and a logged-in MS account, Office is going to try to use One Drive unless you disable things, and keep re-disabling them after updates -- and they'll nag you about that. Who knows what else they'll nag you about.

Windows 10 still nags me to "upgrade" to Windows 11 even though (a) I've disable it in the registry and (b) the Windows PC health Check utility says my system can't be upgraded because the CPU is too old and there's no TPM. So annoying.

Last option:
(c) Switch to Linux. [X]

Nice try, but a /. AI agent would just ignore TFA/S and pull something out of its electronic ass. :-)

[Then head off for blackjack and hookers - maybe forgetting the blackjack.]

And we'll definitely know, for sure, that it's disabled. /s

Lazy people?

So now we just browse our browsers? Hope there's at least some human interaction before agreeing to or paying for things. Also, anyone "reading" and "performing research" and relying on just the bits the AI extract for them, w/o reviewing the rest of the context is "researching wrong." Doing your own research doesn't mean watching AI do it for you - and (especially) accepting whatever it comes up with...

If you'll indulge a little tangent for a bit... Ignoring any specific agenda / axe-to-grind by the parties involved, makes me wonder about the dubious "research" and claims of a "link" between acetaminophen and autism and misunderstanding correlation vs causation. For example, they could have noted the facts that ice cream consumption and shark attacks go up in the summer, but (pretty sure) they'd be wrong that sharks bite people (just) because they're eating ice cream.

As far as the claimed acetaminophen and autism BS... a Swedish study (below) of this with 2,480,797 children over 25 years that found:

And even the actual letter the FDA is sending to physicians nationwide, referenced in the FDA article below, says:

Which will be called "Rumps" in 3... 2... 1... :-)

Or "heat pipe dream" anyway. :-)

If you're referring to me, I'm not a bot; I just have that in my name -- from about 1998 - as an homage to Farscape slang "fahrbot" and the various Futurama robots "-bot". -- Cheers, Rick

I would guess it's because so much of it simply blames problems on others and/or make others the "bad guys" and that's *way* more palatable. The right is more like "you're the problem for us", where the left is more like "we're all part of the problem" (and "the solution"). The former is easier and latter harder. In the case of MAGA specifically, it really seems to be a party of exclusion - with the test being if you're currently "MAGA enough" and an ever-narrowing definition of what that is. Just $0.02 from my Left pocket.

You forgot the part where the fixing is often more painful than the breaking - like tax hikes vs cuts - which makes people unhappy, especially in the moment, because many have the memory and attention span of a goldfish and have forgotten how we all got there and they're disinterested in the future.

To illustrate your comment about Republicans / "Conservatives", think about how they lost their collective minds about trans athletes, then consider there are only 10 (ten) trans U.S. college athletes, out of 500,000. From Trans Women in Sports: Facts Over Fear:

Got to hand it to them; it got people riled up though and some of those voted on that issue. Unfortunately, that says more about the voters than the politicians, and it's not necessarily good.

Who also has 40 years of accumulated code to pull from.

Not as interesting as his other quote, "I drank what?"

(From Real Genius.)