nathanaldensr

The question isn't what must be done; look to the very founding of the United States for wisdom on that topic. The only question is, do people have the collective courage to do it?

This is simply not true by most objective metrics... unless you don't like plastic and fertilizer?

Yep. It's just a lie.

It's gaslighting on a worldwide scale is what it is.

Right. Whether it's absolutely true in an empirical sense almost doesn't matter. If enough people believe it's true--and I'd argue Gen Z absolutely does--it will become the reality. Whether it's a self-fulfilling prophecy or truth out of our control, it's the reality.

Agreed. The sphere of trust around each of us will shrink back to only those in our physical proximity. Outside of that, no one can be trusted.

The FAA's problems are systemic and structural. They've existed long, long before the 2024 election.

LOL, exactly! The underlying problem is people's addiction to drugs, not all the symptoms that come from those addictions.

I have no idea why you'd been downvoted. Everything you said is common sense. I guess this is a case of "it's hard to get a man to understand something if his paycheck depends upon him not understanding it."

Right. It's the same debate about how long authorization cookies or tokens should last. At one point in time--only one--authentication was performed in a provable enough manner that the certificate was issued. After that--it could be seconds, hours, days, years, or never--that assumption could become invalid.

The Rube Goldberg of the electronic world.

"Our Commitment to Gaslighting Everyone with Corporate Marketing Language"

ZeroHedge is one of the worst offenders for this.

For mobile, it might help if the developer had a clearly-indicated long-press circle somewhere near the block.

Idealism meeting reality.

Hardly a rant. You're just describing the "move fast and break things" ethic (or should I say unethic). Or said another way: "all of the convenience with none of the responsibility."

Lots of people of a certain ideological persuasion view it as their religious mission to invade spaces--all spaces--and force their ideological perspectives on everyone. To be sure, they're a very, very vocal minority, but you know what they say: "misery loves company."

I share your observations.

As someone with a Filipina wife and who's traveled many times to the Philippines, your characterization is exactly correct. Facebook is the option, not just one option.

Interesting side fact: The Philippines is #1 in social media usage in the world.

There are some very cool videos on YouTube[1] showing what the insides of these bunkers looked like.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmm-epqkmoQ

They are being exploited. I've traveled to Cebu City where many of these call centers are located. My wife is from the area. To Filipinos, it's a good job, but the quality of life for these workers is still very poor. It's not a living wage; most can't afford to live on their own.

Agreed. We (meaning the United States) used to have this for the most part. It doesn't scale to mediate all human interactions with authentication/authorization.

Exactly! Biometrics have never been less secure than they are now. It's approaching Social Security number levels of insecure. LOL

This is the advice I give to everyone who comes to me for digital security advice. I let them know that building habits of using lengthy PINs (my own personal PIN is far more than four or six digits) takes some time to get used to but makes them immune to device seizure followed by law enforcement-compelled or court-ordered biometric unlock (this is specific to US law).

To know "how far," you'd have to know the exact location of your destination. We don't know that; therefore, your question is not possible to answer.

I'm going to fire up Super Metroid on Snes9x later.

I, for one, love my low-density agriculturally-rooted Massachusetts town founded in the eighteenth century.

Not everyone likes what you like.

Oftentimes, the homeless themselves don't want to be fed or housed. In fact, they--especially the ones with mental health and/or addiction problems--often destroy public housing. Reality does not match the propaganda that all homeless are just down-on-their-luck unfortunate people who would otherwise fit into society.

The high-trust Boomer brain cannot comprehend the actual low-trust society of grifters in which we live.

In high-trust societies these things work, yes. Not all societies are high-trust. Often, they once were high-trust but are no longer thanks to sociopathic, non-empathetic actors.

If only we could stick that fork in the AI bubble and call it "done."