Poison the data pool. Start now and be relentless. I wish I knew enough to write a "How To" book on the subject.

You seem to be someone who actually take into account how far we've come in our ability to carelessly cause truly catastrophic outcomes for humanity with little oversight or consideration. How long will it be before somebody working in a garage lab with commercially available equipment designs a virus that's only supposed to wipe out people with the wrong skin colour, only to find out we really are NOT all that different? How long before some billionaire tech bro unilaterally decides the latest iteration of his pet AI will make him even richer, and could never get out of control? Does anybody believe that arrogant twat who killed himself and a few passengers in his toy store mini-sub would have behaved any differently if he'd been working in AI, or virology or small scale "risk free" nuclear energy instead of submersibles?

It's getting easier and easier for a few people to have a massive impact on civilization, and very few people seem to realize how rapidly we're rushing toward some cliff we don't even see yet.

I've seen some of your other comments here. I'm not surprised we've run into some of the same things.

The world needs more people like you. The initial move to Linux can be daunting for those with no relevant background. Once there, it's not so bad.

The number of times I have been called "Boomer" and "out of touch", and disregarded when pointing out the disadvantages of giving away your privacy, giving away your ownership rights, and even giving away your right to control the software running on your own computer...well, I've lost count.

So I have zero sympathy for people in this situation. If they'd dug in their heels and refused to be turned into tenants on their own hardware, they wouldn't have this problem. Pay up, folks. You got exactly what you asked for.

Apologies. Thanks to the way Slashdot arranges comments on my screen, I mistakenly believed your remark was intended for me, not the Anonymous Coward underneath my comment. Please disregard it.

Apparently you haven't grasped the idea that there's a difference between understanding a certain amount of corruption is inevitable in any economic system, and actively raising the corrupt to the status of gods, then warping the entire system to accommodate their every whim.

Next time you use "As usually (sic), wrong" in a comment, at least try to understand the basic rules of the game.

You believe the vile, perverse crony capitalism practiced in the United States of Corporatism is anything more than a distant relation to actual capitalism?

Aren't you cute!

The minute Trump walks into the White House, this lawsuit will disappear like teenage Ivanka whenever daddy tried to catch her getting changed. I don't know what makes me angrier, Trump's naked corruption, or the soon-to-be-forgotten Democrats who clearly knew this was going on, and waited 'til 'way too late to act. I guess we're supposed to believe those scumbags actually intended to do something about the banks, but "oh, gosh darn, the Big Bad Republicans just wouldn't let us".

They all make me sick. A pox on all their houses.

The Supreme Court has decided a president can get away with just about anything as long as they're in office and "whatever" has to do with the office. Why not give a guy orders to "CEO" Trump for the good of the country, and send him out the door with a signed presidential pardon in his pocket?

Everybody wins.

Why is it some people never ask, "How can we afford this?" when it comes to foreign wars and a Pentagon budget so bloated that just what they've misplaced could send every American kid in the country to university for free?

Tony Stark's butler was black? I had no idea!

Don't they have armed rednecks in trucks for that?

Nice troll. Do you have evidence that Newsome is planning to fly them all to Washington to attempt a Trump-style coup?

Just the reverse. The Deep State will want Trump in power as soon as possible, with Kennedy in charge of public health.

It's time to thin the American herd...weed out the weak and the stupid. What better way than to make sure vaccines are hard to get and easy to avoid.