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

I am shocked.

Shocked, I tell you.

"FTC personnel want bribes and to give the government time to kill the rule so they don't have to do anything difficult right now"

New headline.

Honestly there's no legitimate reason to delay this unless you're stalling for something.

The day an automated system reduces my pay for socializing all of 3 seconds to myself is the day I begin welding steel plates to a bulldozer and go for a drive through upper mansgemt offices.

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?

Well shit, the way things are going, I got that onion halfway to my mouth before realizing what it was...

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.