We built Windows and DOS and got Viruses.

We built phone lines and got Spam and "Do Not Call" registries.

We built the Internet and got Ads, Scams, and Spoofing.

We built Google Search and got SEO gaming.

We built Facebook and it was Hijacked to influence elections.

We built AirTags to track our keys, and people used them for Stalking.

We built High-Frequency Trading and got Flash Crashes.

We built Encryption to protect data and got Ransomware.

We built Engagement Algorithms and got a Mental Health Crisis.

We built Planes, and people flew them into buildings. We only stay in the air today because of Rigorous Debugging: maintenance, reinforced doors, and intense security.

We got Globalization and got Offshore Scammers calling to "unblock" our Social Security numbers

Are we going to speed run the age of AI without someone trying to hijack it especially with the move fast and break things mentality?

I am sure teams are working on it. State actors and non state actors. Let's check the headlines in 2028.

AI will need "analyze plan" and "analyze query" levels of detail as safeguards—similar to voter-verified paper ballots—but with millions of queries running every minute, how do we keep up?

Is that how you talk to friends too?

Somewhere the goalpost changed from natural language to prompt engineering and failsafes and audit trails.

I tried ChatGPT today. Same results as others.

Are these factories already running 24/7 that labor can't be added to make more without adding capital infra?

And if they were running 24/7, maybe setting up another factory or line will avoid some of the 24/7 scheduling.

As far as I know, the lithography machines are indeed running 24/7 (barring servicing).

https://www.asml.com/en/products/customer-support

What stops ExampleCo from asking for a receipt and limiting replacements only to legitimate channels? Or why is ExampleCo directly dealing with the consumer, and not Macys or Goodwill?

I suspect this will need to be a cultural change. If ExampleCo does it but not RandomCo, of course your reputation will suffer. But if the law is for all of EU, it gives everyone an equal footing.

From what I hear, Ma made 1 speech critical of the government and Xi showed him his place. It was a few years, a year of total disappearance followed by slow rehab.

But China is different. Not sure most of western europe will go that far in most cases.

Trump kidnapped Maduro to show the latter his place, but then the US is neither China nor Western Europe so that does not count.

Ah, so the daily LARGE protests, in Venezuela, against his kidnapping are not indicative of "the vast majority of Venezuela".

But the celebratory pics, which were claimed to be from Venezuela, but were actually from Miami and elsewhere (including, I kid you not, an attempt to pass off Argentine's celebrating a Copa America win) ... that is indicative of "the vast majority of Venezuela"?

If I were smarter, I might start to wonder why, if President Maduro was so unpopular, why would his abductors have to resort to fake footage - which was systematically outed & destroyed by independent journalists within 24 hours? I mean, surely, enough real footage should exist.

Probably better not to have inconvenient non-US-approved independent thoughts like that.

do you have links, all the chatgpt and gemini references I've seen show the large protest happened 1 time, not daily. And beyond that, the chatbots suggest it's overwhelming support for the arrest.

There are no news sites claiming large daily protests that you claim.

Rand Paul asked Rubio what would happen if the shoe was on the other foot. Every US President from Truman onwards is a war criminal.

https://www.tampafp.com/rand-paul-and-marco-rubio-clash-over...

I never liked the Paul's and their opinions, but I must say that they usually speak according to their principles, rather than make up principles to fit what they want to happen.

To me, that's the distinction between political opponents I can respect, and, well, whatever we're seeing now.

The people of the US mostly wouldn’t like it the people of VZ mostly did and consider Maduro a thug who lost and stayed in power not their president. Ideologies like Paul have trouble with exceptions to their world view.

> the people of VZ mostly did and consider Maduro a thug who lost and stayed in power not their president.

You got this information from American media (or their allies')

In reality, Venezuelans flooded the streets in marches demanding the return of their president.

How many of them?

Ah, the "rules based disorder" on display: we do dis, you no do dis.

Hypocrisy at its finest.

The vast majority of France doesn't like Musk or the nonces that use GROK so let's not go there it's mob rule...

According to USA sources, USA actions are universally approved.

Color me surprised.

I mean, come on, we kidnapped him. Yes, he was arrested, but we went into another sovereign nation with special forces and yoinked their head of state back to Brooklyn.

To be fair he isn't legitimate head of state- he lost an election and is officially recognized as a usurper and the US had support of those who actually won.

Soke people argue Trump isn't a legitimate head of state. (One of those people is Trump, since he says he was already the president twice.) Should Xi kidnap him?

Please.

Large amounts of people call Joe Biden's election illegitimate. You could even say thats the official position of the current government. Would his kidnapping by a foreign nation be okay with you too?

Even if that were true - I don't know nor care whether it is - what business is it of the US and Trump to mess around in other countries?

And also killed over hundred people don't forget that.

Did this get solved? I think I read all the comments from OP but saw no confirmation as to what happened.

I don't think the OP ever returned with a conclusive answer, but I'm somewhat convinced by the commenters that it was either a low-frequency engine sound rattling the neighbor's windows or something to do with the car's rear-cross sensor.

We just got layers and layers of entrenched middlemen (middle corporations) everywhere

Is it all over or just some parts of the countries? I ask, amused, since I have never been there except a 2 day trip to Geneva in 1992 or so.

Some Kantons are more easy going than others but overall the police are not to fuck around with.

Exactly! Forgot to run your washing machine so you gonna start it later in the evening? Bam, next thing you know they are bashing in your door.

Try doing laundry on Sunday……

I’m in my late 50s, and I’ve been using TikTok for over six years. Before that, the only social media I used was Facebook—not Instagram, not anything else—but TikTok pulled me in from the very beginning.

At first, it was all about the novelty: lip-syncing and dance videos. Over time, though, my interests evolved. I started following creators for travel vlogs, occasional financial advice, health tips, yoga and exercise—and last but not least, singing, which I only began at age 55.

I don’t have many viewers, and that’s perfectly fine. My account isn’t about chasing likes or comments. It’s simply a way for people to see who I am rather than engage with a random, unknown profile—if they’re curious enough to look. It also helps avoid mixed signals: when you know who I am (even though you never truly know someone), you can usually tell whether something is meant as a dad joke… or a Daddy joke

As a result, my consumption of TV, Netflix, and HBO has dropped significantly. I find it far more engaging to follow real people and see what they’re doing with their lives. And here’s the irony: aside from the first two or three seasons of Survivor, I’ve never been into reality TV—yet somehow, I’m completely hooked on this one.

[ Wordsmithed by AI ]

Ps: I think my joke has been taken badly by someone. The point is internet with few hundred million or just few million people is a minefield and like now somehow jokes don't click and knowing the person behind the joke, being able to if not ID them at least have them semi public is a credibility bridge that anonymity does not provide. By being public, you are more accountable than you normally would be