"We at Siemens have seen how successful SCO was, and think we can be just as successful!"

Oh, now you are trying to nitpick?

You are the one who said, "Censorship means suppression of speech or expression by a governing authority." which is a really dumb thing to say, otherwise "government censorship" or "self-censorship" wouldn't be terms.

So basically create a permanent underclass of indentured servants...

As I suggested in 2011 in this video, theft may rise if people lose faith in the exchange economy. Other interwoven economies of subsistence, gift, exchange, and planned could also alternatively take up the slack if they were improves -- instead of people becoming more inclined to crime.
"Five Interwoven Economies: Subsistence, Gift, Exchange, Planned, and Theft"
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...
"This video presents a simplified education model about socioeconomics and technological change. It discusses five interwoven economies (subsistence, gift, exchange, planned, and theft) and how the balance will shift with cultural changes and technological changes. It suggests that things like a basic income, better planning, improved subsistence, and an expanded gift economy can compensate in part for an exchange economy that is having problems."

My thanks to a Slashdot commentator many years ago who suggested I add a "theft" economy to the other four.

So, my hypothesis is that theft around SF could be substantially reduced if some mix of these were made to happen:
1. It was easier to do subsistence production (like using 3D printers, solar panels, and gardening robots etc.)
2. the SF gift economy (charity, sharing, freecycle, free 3D models, etc) was stronger.
3. the California exchange economy was working better for everyone (i.e. less wealth concentration through inflated property prices, limits on multiples of CEO pay vs lowest paid worker, a basic income, etc)
4. the California planned economy was working better (i.e. fairer taxation of property, public investments that create good jobs or reduce product prices or increase product quality, changing zoning restrictions to make affordable housing more feasible, more responsive democratic government, etc)

Sadly, because people tend to focus on only the exchange economy when talking about economic (and so ignore strengthening those other areas), we will likely see increasing theft as we go into a recession and as AI takes enough jobs to disrupt the exchange economy.

More ideas I've collected are here:
"Beyond a Jobless Recovery: A heterodox perspective on 21st century economics"
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpdfernhout.net%2Fbeyond-...
        "This article explores the issue of a "Jobless Recovery" mainly from a heterodox economic perspective. It emphasizes the implications of ideas by Marshall Brain and others that improvements in robotics, automation, design, and voluntary social networks are fundamentally changing the structure of the economic landscape. It outlines towards the end four major alternatives to mainstream economic practice (a basic income, a gift economy, stronger local subsistence economies, and resource-based planning). These alternatives could be used in combination to address what, even as far back as 1964, has been described as a breaking "income-through-jobs link". This link between jobs and income is breaking because of the declining value of most paid human labor relative to capital investments in automation and better design. Or, as is now the case, the value of paid human labor like at some newspapers or universities is also declining relative to the output of voluntary social networks such as for digital content production (like represented by this document). It is suggested that we will need to fundamentally reevaluate our economic theories and practices to adjust to these new realities emerging from exponential trends in technology and society."

I was in the 2nd grade when that happened. From my perspective, it was a great novelty and meant we got to take (mostly unnecessary) flashlights to school that we used in the morning walking to our bus stop. It was a hit with the kids I knew. We were disappointed that the "experiment" was stopped.

Meanwhile, in the northern-most states, the kids go to school in the dark now part of the year.

U.S. Banks have managed OK opening after "business hours" start and closing before they end for pretty much the history of the U.S.

Even a few places where it doesn't actually rise in June because it didn't set in the first place and won't for another month or so.

Ask Jack Smith, but you should wait until the GOP in the senate is done embarrassing themselves trying to perjury trap him.

This is more like worrying when someone successfully brute forces a 6 bit RSA key (which has been doable for a very long time. 6 bits isn't much space to do an exhaustive search in).

I know there is an XKCD about standards (and adding yet one more to create yet more confusion).
"Standards"
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F927%2F

But that said, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are all terrible standards in many ways because of their complexity (and major design flaws like JavaScript having vastly too many global variables). Asa an alternative, what if, say, we all just used something like Scheme (or Common Lisp) to encode web documents and web code as S-expressions in some semantically standardized formats? Scheme can be very compact in its implementation.

Or as the XKCD mentioned here says:
"Lessons learned from implementing minimal Scheme six times"
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwolodzko.github.io%2Fpo...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F297%2F
"Lisp cycles XKCD #297: âoeThose are your fatherâ(TM)s parentheses. Elegant weapons for a more⦠civilized age.â"

Now, it doesn't have to be Lisp-like.I get the paren hate:
"What makes Lisp difficult to read?"
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Flisp%2F...

And there is a lot to be said for significant-indentation languages like Occam or Python. Smalltalk is another great language. Or even some variant of a safe C.

Even a Forth-derivative perhaps that could be literally less than ~2K in size at the core. Although I get that there is a fine line between flexible and flabby in readability in a language that can change its own fundamental syntax or that makes naming intermediate variables unlikely as a form of documentation. Same with any language that supports arbitrary macros like C or Scheme which can change the fundamental nature of the language. Although at least in, say, Racket Scheme you see the language level set at the start of some code to know what you are getting into.

The main point is just that yet another adhoc problematical language like JavaScript was not needed (even as TypeScript papers over the worst warts). And CSS conceptually is broken for big projects ("Atomic" CSS is one style to help with that). And adding end tags with names in HTML (like XML) is another broken concept as are other aspects of HTML. Yes, programmers can work around and manage the issue in these web fundamentals, but why should we have to?

While a simpler browser for HTML etc is a good thing if it really is well written, better standards for encoding and sharing information will ultimately get us further and be more energy efficient and be more reliable and be more programmer-friendly.

I've long been a fan of triples for doing some of that data encoding, but that is even further out.

Tangentially, here is a Libre Plane 2021 talk I put together on free standards for social media being more important than free implementations:
"Free/Libre Standards for Social Media and other Communications"
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpdfernhout.net%2Flibrepl...

I know this all may sound pie in the sky (and it is, given current social dynamics), but consider if we used the usual buggy lot-of-library junky (and now AI slop) code only with an intent to translate web content encoded in problematical standards into content encoded in better simpler standards for other code to consume. Sort of like Amazon did at one point with a server-side engine to process HTML pages and transform them for low-end Kindle browsers -- but in this case converting HTML plus CSS plus JavaScript into something like, say, S-expressions for web content that was not yet written directly n the simpler standards. Maybe the junky translator code might not be perfect, but it might be good enough and runnable in distant containers so that the local code that processed the simpler standards could be more secure and reliable.

Also related: "Simple Made Easy"
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.infoq.com%2Fpresenta...
"Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicityâ(TM)s virtues over easinessâ(TM), showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path. ... We should aim for simplicity because simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability. Simple is often erroneously mistaken for easy. "Easy" means "to be at hand", "to be approachable". "Simple" is the opposite of "complex" which means "being intertwined", "being tied together". Simple != easy. ..."

Ideally a group like the US National Institute of Standards and Technology or the US Library of Congress should fund this sort of work. And a group like Archive.org should have a lot of input to those standards on how to make the content simply versionable and simply archivable.

Anyway, just something I have been musing on and off again for many years...

I do not think shifting the time zone back to the 1950's Jim Crow South is physically possible, although they are dong their damnest to try.

And it has infected the Department of Christian War Crimes:

The Pentagon Prayer Seance

The Head Christian at the Department of Christian War Crimes has thus decreed that every month will feature a Christian Prayer Service for all employees who wish to come as long as they are not black, women, LBGQT++, or Democrat. And will now have an Office of Religious Affairs.

Sec. Pete Hegseth enters the Prayer Room, does 20 pushups, runs around it five times, and stops in front of an Orange Bust . . . . he fixes it with a steely gaze and solutes. It is good they got the rollers out of his hair first or he’d look fairly stupid.

Sec Pee speaks: We are gathered here on this Holy Occasion to give thanks to God and Jesus. Let all here bow their heads.

Gen. Dan (Raisin) Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs: Sec Pee, I read in the Bible where we are supposed to welcome strangers and show them graciously into our land.

The assembled crowd hisses in horror.

Sec Pee: You must not have been reading from OUR Bible. Here, have this gold one.

Gen. Raisin flicks it open at random: Uh, Sec Pee, it sez here that we are to kill strangers, is that legal?

Sec Pee: If you cannot be prosecuted for it, you bet it is.

Gen. Raisin: Don’t they get upset?

Sec Pee: That’s why you have to kill them first. It all works out in the end, we are never prosecuted so it is okay in the eyes of the Lord.

God upstairs is aware of what is going on and getting increasingly agitated. He picks up iPhone and dials St. Peter.

St. Pete: (a-inka-dink, a-inko-doo) Yo, Einstein, what’cha got for me?

God: There is some weenie named Hegseth leading my people astray.

St. Pete: Oh, that goomer. So what?

God: Yeah, well he’s telling my people in a Prayer Seance to kill strangers, you gotta send Jesus down to fix up the mess.

St. Pete: Sigh. . . . if I can tear him away. Hey Jesus, Einstein says you have to rein in a Prayer Seance. . . . something about killing strangers.

Jesus: Goddamn it!! Stay put, ladies, and if I find one piece of clothing back on, I win.

St. Pete: I thought Einstein told you to stop playing strip poker with the nuns?

Jesus: Oh that?!? That was merely helpful guidance, it wasn’t like he demanded it upon pain of death. . . .at least I hope not. . . . not again, anyhow. . . .

Jesus pulls out magic wand and apparates down to the Prayer Seance. FOOM!! Jesus appears in their midst.

Jesus: Jesus Christ here, how y’all are? How come you are all on your knees. Get up!!

Sec Pee: is trembling to be in Jesus’ awful presence: J. . . .J. . . .Jes. . . .Blblblllbllll. . . .

Jesus: Get a grip doofus. What’s this shit about killing strangers? Did not you read what those guys wrote about me in the Bible?

Sec Pee: Uh, yeah, it said it was okay to kill if we did not know them or did not like them.

Jesus: Not like them? If you love your fellow man, how can you kill them?

The assembled faithful looked at each other quizzically, murmurs were heard, but not apologetic ones.

Sec Pee: We were only killing them for their own good. They are not like us.

Jesus: What? Stupid?

Sec Pee: No . . . .they are not of the same Kind as us (eyeing Jesus meaningfully).

Jesus: Incredibly stupid?

Sec Pee: They have brown skin, they are . . . . they are. . . . . Demons from Hell!!

BLAMMMMM. . . . Beelzebub blasts through the floor boards, eye a’glowing, flaming tail a’swishing, horns scraping the ceiling and scratching the tasteless gold leaf.

Beelz: Someone rang?

Sec Pee: bllbbllll. . . .blllbbbllle. . . . Mike Pence? What are YOU doing here?

Beelz: Goddamn It!! Can Pence do this?

Beelz takes his flaming tail and lashes Sec Pee across the buttocks with it.

Sec Pee (in sotto voce): Nooo. . . . not here!! Later. . . .later. . . .

Beelz: ?!?!

Jesus: Hey there, Beelz. How are they hanging?

Beelz: Like two yo-yos walking each other’s dog.

Jesus: Neato!

Beelz looks Sec Pee up and down with an expression of ordering a knish at an expensive deli and finding it stuffed with a hot dog: Say Jesus, who's this wiggler*?

Jesus: He's yours, Beelz. Sic him. He’s telling them it is okay to kill strangers in my name. C’mon, I gotta draw the line here.

Beelz. . . . now looking uncomfortable and fondling his wand to apparate the Hell out of there.

Jesus: Now I know what you are thinking. Stop thinking that. You need to go back with me, Beelz. We have to make reservations.

Sec Pee: Reservations? Uh, for what?

Jesus: Ummmmmm. . . .for your place in Eternity.

Sec Pee: Yowzah!! Hear that guys, they are finding us places in Eternity.

Jesus: Yerse, you can call it the Restaurant at the End of the Universe**.

Sec Pee: This gets better and better.

Jesus: You cannot kill people you love.

Sec Pee. . . . . starts to sweat, gets right nervous, even piddles a bit in his pants: Uh, stop killing people?

Jesus: Yep, if you love them, you cannot kill them.

Sec Pee: Oh, okay.

Beelz: Look it, times a’wasting.

Jesus and Beelzebub pull out magic wands and FOOM FOOM, Jesus and Beelzebub apparate to Heaven.

Beelz: Did not you let them off a bit easy?

Jesus: Not really, I did not tell them at WHICH End of the Universe they would be spending Eternity.

Beelz: You Devil, you!!

Jesus, now blushing furiously: I work like Einstein in mysterious ways.

Back on Earth, Sec Pee is still a bit nervous, but gradually regains his composure. The assembled men look fearfully about them. . . .

Sec Pee: Gentlemen, relax. What he meant was, we can still kill people as long as we do not love them.

Gen. Raisin: Wow!! This is great!! We can kill anyone!!!

* Ray Stantz on seeing Janosz Poha
** Thanks to Douglas Adams

Won't work, he'll just get Peter Thiel or one of his other billionaire bootlickers with technology company connections to get back anyone doxxing his ill-begotten sprogs or other relations.

He'd love it!. He'd find a way to charge people for calling him. Leaning on the carriers is easy now that he has his own FCC Nazi.

Want an interesting exercise: go through the Harry Potter books and write down all the evil traits of lesser villains than Voldemort. el Bunko has those traits including Voldemort's. He has no redeeming values.