Clearly you've never met someone like my wife.

Oh look, the problem continues to be capitalism doing what capitalism does.

I am shocked.

Shocked, I tell you.

Literally the most hilarious thing I've read all week. Honestly I wonder if anyone who was involved in this article actually believes that.

It just reads like more placation of the angry masses. "no need to burn things down, we promise he will be gone soon, no protesting necessary either"

Hey, so all the people who told me they need their guns "to fight tyranny"... They're gearing up, right?

Old people and overreacting to normal things because new ideas are scary and confusing

Name a more iconic duo

A balrog? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Located entirely within the confines of the walkway leading from the crack of doom?

"general era of one's birth" has a lot more impact on well... everything... About a person's life Way more than "time of year"

You are way more likely to be similar to the people born in the 5-10 years around you than to people born 50 years prior but in the same month.

But hey, as long as it's just for fun and you aren't basing major life altering decisions on things.... Why would I care if you like giggling at the little blurbs in newspapers about how ridiculous capricorns are when mars is in retrograde.

It kind of reads like the thought process of someone who just woke up, too.

For OTHERS, yes. But many want the cutting edge for themselves, at no cost to themselves.

I always see people commenting on stories like this with things like "how does anyone actually believe that/think anyone will believe that?"

Well, that's exactly the point. It's not about the death being convincingly accidental. It's very much about sending a message to others.

You don't eliminate the competition and agitators with the exact same method of execution for 30+ years (with a few false-flag apartment bombings thrown in for good measure) and expect to keep things covert.

The only way they could make it more obvious is the "he hogtied himself, ate a cyanide capsule, jumped out the window and shot himself twice in the back of the head on the way down" trope.

If

Data = current AI

Then

Modern lifeforms = aerobic bacterium,

Modern flip Smartphones = Motorola Microtac,

SR-71 = Wright Model B,

Rimac Never = Ford Model A.

Comparing Data to modern ai is just an insult to Data.

Ew gross.

This guy doesn't have a shirt on!

Be pantsless like a normal person.