According to Gen Z, punctuation is violence.

...but even I tip delivery workers for food. Get it to me on time, and correct. I appreciate it.

I am against tipping as it allows the business to screw the workers out of a fair wage by promising they will make up for it in tips. Fuck you, pay employees for the work you expect them to do.

Increased complexity does not mean increased security.

In fact, it encourages people to create easy access methods (cheats) to simplify their work flow. These cheats decrease security.

That is the design/plan that Ford just announced to replace it's full EV Trucks (Lightning). They are calling it EREV (Extended Range Electric Vehicle). It will be a plug-in Electric Vehicle, with an engine that runs to charge the batteries on long trips.

Disagree. A cover letter is the applicants chance to tell me why I should hire them instead of the other applicants with the exact same qualifications. Especially if you are a recent graduate with limited job experience -it may be the only thing you have going for you.

Getting the cover letter past the HR-bot to someone who may actually make use of it... that is a problem. I don't know if modern application-portal systems even have an option for handling anything beyond fill-in-the-blanks.

Lets add AI!

Society benefits everyone. Everyone contributes to society. Non-negotiable.

To put it another way: "Why should I have to contribute to society? I don't need [xyz]."

Being a part of society has non-negotiable responsibilities. There is no opt out.

Tesla sales are down because... Elon Musk.

But they are improving. They have dropped by over 20% in the last year.

Celebrate their progress rather than pissing in their beer..

No True Scotsman.

You are hung up on the definition of a word. The definition you are using is not flexible enough to encompass what is meant by the term.

Dumping is a term that most people would understand to describe the effect of the actions on the market. It is therefore appropriate to use in the discussion of the activity among lay people.

That precedent you are looking for has already been set. Just in the opposite direction from what you desired.

Most recently in Bartz v Anthropic it was held that training on copyrighted material without the copyright holders permission was transformative and thus protected under fair use. This ruling also held that training on illegally acquired copies of the material was a violation which irreparably tainted the resultant model.

Multiple recent rulings (Kadrey v Meta as well as Bartz v Anthropic) have further held that the output of an AI can be still be infringing (even if the training of the model was not infringing) if it substantially competes with the content on which it was trained. This is not blanket precedent, but an indication that each situation is different and economic impacts should be taken into account when determining if fair use applies.

For several years, I had Comcast cable TV because it was $10 less per month to have Internet + TV than just Internet (and Comcast waived the cap if you had both, but enforced the cap if you had Internet only.)

This was several years ago. Now there are other providers that service my home, and it is cheaper to just have internet. (a LOT cheaper)

Reality does not care whether you believe in it or not. Change is happening. People are making it worse.

In a few generations things are going to be unrecognizable. Floods, droughts, famine, disease, and wars over increasingly limited resources. They are already happening, but they will intensify.

Ignore it if you wish. You will be dead long before it gets bad.

How?

By making public education a public good, paid for by the public (aka government, aka taxes) and setting real requirements to participate: grades and test scores to get in to college, can't keep up = flunk out. Community College and Trade Schools for the rest of us.

Teachers have to teach for a living. Drop "publish or perish" requirements. Researchers are not teachers. Research institutions are not schools (although they could offer internships for students to learn practical research skills while contributing to a researcher's work.)

Dorm life should be more like boot-camp living and less like a luxury vacation. A shared room, simple nutritious dining hall food, campus work-requirements, etc. This will reduce overhead costs.

Private schools can continue to charge whatever their customers will pay to be "elite". They can admit a percentage of exceptional (but $ poor) students and continue to teach the best and brightest as well as the richest in exchange for tax breaks.

Remove all government involvement in student loans. Lenders will stop loaning money for private school education without government backing. Private schools outside of the elite private universities will fade away.

Make Education Great Again. No really -make it something to be earned and valued instead of just another check-box on the job application filter.