So it’s a race then, between AI’s killing us thru high-tech malice, and we killing ourselves thru the same old stupidity?

“And may the best man win!”

Wow, that 55 year-old movie “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project” is getting scarier to watch!

OK, thanks for that clarification. I was thrown off by ‘assessed as healthy…’

From the article: " All 232 men in the study were assessed as healthy when their biopsies were examined by pathologists. After less than two-and-a-half years, half of the men in the study had developed aggressive prostate cancer…"

HALF? I’d suggest staying away from that study … either they don’t know what they’re doing, or some AI made up that article…

SUCH a great movie

Wait 'til they come out (if ever), figure out the tech, make/buy a detector, pull your club out ur backpack …

Anybody can ‘launch’ a ‘startup’. Alway-on recording has been around since the 60s. ‘Smart’ glasses? Har. Guess they never heard of ‘glassholes’.

It really looks like a death spiral Geez, I hope so. Then someone smart will make a <=$20K simple car, no frills, just engine, wheels, chairs, body … nothing but what you need to get from here to there … Or start a used ICE => EV conversion biz … and clean up. Back to the basics, and EZ on the atmo.

P.S. You’ll note that the Wikipedia article on ‘Murray Springs’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Springs_Clovis_Site

makes NO mention of the evidence there for the YDIH, found 14 years ago. Hmmm, I wonder why that is. And -oh gosh-, whatever happened to the Clovis ‘theory’? It’s as though it’s been universally rejected! Due to … evidence !

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/44660049_Confirmation_of_the_Younger_Dryas_boundary_YDB_data_at_Murray_Springs_AZ

If you have specific questions, I’d be happy to answer them

You’ll need to answer them with a better hypothesis. Feel free to illuminate me with it … IN DETAIL.

Oh, and, not to brag, but I spent several hours yesterday reading that 18,000 word August 6 paper… as I have done with many of the papers since 2007. Evidence is so interesting, especially when you’ve bothered to learn enough to actually understand it.

Much more interesting than reproducing some LLM’s ‘opinion’, or nursing orthodox preconceptions. Too bad there are no other hypotheses about the YD with -anything like- that volume of evidence in it’s favor. It’s SO much easier to sit in an armchair and nurse wounds than to get off your ass and produce.

I’ll wait patiently.

First of all, It’s not a ‘theory’, it’s a Younger Dryas hypothesis. Get it? All hypotheses should be taken with a grain of salt. That’s called ‘science’.

Unlike many hypotheses, there’s a huge amount of physical evidence- of many, many types - from all around the world - … in favor of the YDIH. All of that hard physical evidence was collected and analyzed with the most modern equipment by a very large community of well-respected professional scientists from many disciplines.

Of course there’s a well-established team of snipers taking lazy potshots at the people doing the work. Some of them may be lurking here. Name some of these ‘unanimous’ rejecters and list their qualifications, if you can.

If people 'do not know how to ‘sift through journals’, they’re not qualified to judge this hypothesis. That’s where all of the evidence is. You’d have to learn a lot of things to understand. Oh no! Can you do that at Pubpeer? That’s a laugh.

Far from being ‘unanimously rejected’ (a stipulation you’ve provided no evidence for), it is increasingly the most likely explanation for all of the events that took place at around that time. It’s gotten close to becoming a ‘theory’.

People who get used to lazy-driving I-5 alla time tend to not have worked out how to do N-S travel off-the-beaten-path. (I’m not giving away the secret routes.) East-West driving is harder, especially if you have to cross the lazy-line.

Despite the 15-minute waits, the bus system is okay unless your journey is a long one. (From what I’ve read, though, in many large cities they expect 5-to-10-minute waits, then get pissed.) If you’re near a RapidRide that goes where you going, it’s not bad … otherwise, a several mile trip is an hour to 1.5 hours -each way- , with -at least- one transfer (each of which may take up to an added 15 minutes).

Again, N-S on light rail is pretty damned swift … IF you don’t need an E-W bus at either end. OF COURSE the rail - like Aurora - is RIGHT NEXT to the freeway.

Wow. Throw 16M people off health care, then invest the ‘savings’ in corporations. HEy, Intel, how do you like your blood money?

There are many physics theories that have not been contradicted by serious evidence to the contrary. That’s a ‘strong’ theory.

In the past century, quantum mechanics … while “noone understands it” (Feynman) has led to many inventions (and much confusion). Einstein’s relativity has stood up well to many, many tests. If you go back to ‘classical physics’, Maxwell’s (more understandable) conclusions about electromagnetism have never been off the mark.

Can’t force you to anything, if you weren’t told about it before you bought it. Demand a refund and give them a date they get it out of your place by.

Wow, where do I start with how insane this is?

Those aren’t ‘services’, those are personal privacy intrusions. For PROFIT. There is no way this could happen without the school’s cooperation. AFTER they got the parent’s permission, that’s not good enough. They ought not only to have that permission (not to mention spelling it out for each student), but also know exactly what data is gathered, every place it is sent to, what privacy protections are in place, and what is done with it once it’s “evaluated”, In detail, per student, 24/7.

“student communications monitoring” 24-7 and/or outside of school is SPYING. There is NO legal OR educational OR ethical mandate for this collecting.

If the kids don’t know about unknown adults prying into their personal lives, AND KEEPING RECORDS ABOUT IT, that’s not necessarily their fault. If the parents don’t know about it, that’s the school’s fault for not getting their knowing permission. AND guarantee their physical and mental safety. (Which is impossible, because as we hear about all the time, hospitals, banks, companies, etc. are constantly leaking personal information or getting hit by ransomware attacks.

If I was the parent of one of those students and wasn’t told about it, I’d sue that school into a coma.

I’m too tall to do a full squat. Sitting on an 8-inch footstool I could manage, but it’d be very hard to type!

Not just shameless. Heartless. Some of those ICE guys will, at some time, deeply regret what they agreed to do. And there’s no going back.

I just for the hell of it installed and tried the Flatpak version of an MVP player I use daily. The daily started playing a stream in 2 or 3 seconds. After starting the same stream on the Flatpak, it was still downloading after a minute had gone by. Not just FAT but SLOOOOOOw.

It was already starting to predict what Web 2.0 would become!

Usenet wuz bitchin’. I remember getting a couple of layers deep in the rock heirarchy (was it rock.history.50s-60s? ) and some great discussions, fact- and story- trading with peeps who went deep. Feedback was NOT instant, and so patience and quality were rewarded.

Then those brats with their binaries came along and bye-bye.

Used it ever since iCab went away. Tried all the rest, they don’t measure up.