I was also assuming this was about a lawsuit between Microsoft (and/or CrowdStrike) and Delta.

It takes a careful reading, because there isn't anything in the summary that clearly states what we're talking about, but this is a class-action lawsuit against Delta by Delta's customers.

I think we should give the public a choice, but make them abide by that choice: live with the plastic trash waste, or go back to glass to a great extent (which is truly recyclable).

Here are the choices, here are those consequences. Choose. Then live with it.

That kind of democracy is only workable with small populations, and the more culturally homogenous the better. In big nations with huge populations, you're going to have too many vital differences. Over the years I've become convinced that countries can get too big, and that once you reach a certain size and the differences in various areas becomes too much, it's time for a peaceful divorce. In huge countries, people become resentful when their lives are run by a few men in a city far away from them. They don't feel any connection to them.

Except OnlyFans has a far greater reach, and much worse side-effects, socially. The whole point of this story and post is the lack of genuine human interaction because of the Internet, or at least the Internet being the catalyst. Even with hookers in ancient times you needed to actually get out onto the streets and mingle with people. And at least you got actual sex for your payment. Onlyfans means that you're paying more for a few nice words from her than you used to pay for actual pussy. Onlyfans is now the only outlet where a lot of young men get any interaction with women whatsoever. So that goes way beyond "the oldest profession".

Unfortunately, this is kind of the natural evolution of the Internet. First we were happy to discover other people across the world. Then we were happy to discover other people online via video and live chat. Then we started ignoring real people. Then OnlyFans came along, and we started paying for female attention. We've basically been living in our computers for years. It' was probably inevitable that someone was going to profit filling that void with artificial people. It's a huge moneymaking opportunity to the company that gets there first.

I've wondered myself if humanity will rebel against computer systems, especially AI-centric systems, when the full extent of the damage to the job market becomes apparent.

It happens all the time. There's a long history of companies either started by guys at the bottom, or run by guys that began their career at the entry level. Wal Mart's CEO started off as a truck loader. GM's CEO started off on the assembly line. The guy running Planet Fitness started at the reception desk. Those are just the modern guys. In the past there are even more. Sidney Weinberg was a high school dropout that was hired as a janitor at Goldman Sachs. Twenty years later, he was running the company. He went from literally sweeping floors to overseeing multi-million dollar trades every day.

Wikipedia is great for non-political stuff. I look up aircraft and maritime field info and it's generally pretty solid. I wouldn't rely on it when the subject is even remotely political or controversial though.

The monkey spanking at Slashdot will be a Michael Bay-level extravaganza.

Nope: Amazon shoots down Punchbowl story.

LOL, "traitor" by who? The people that lost the vote? And?

And everyone is using a VPN these days, often from another country with favorable peering for their activities. On the internet, no one knows I'm a dog posting from an IP address on Mars.

We wouldn't have to do any of that if CIS and MIS programs would quit telling their students that COBOL is dead. COBOL has been "dying" all my adult life, according to the experts, and yet is so deeply embedded in certain sectors that it's never going away in our lifetimes. It's pretty much guaranteed work. Offer more COBOL classes and tell students that in major corporations and the federal government (especially the IRS) COBOL will be here until doomsday. Tell them that as long as mainframes exist, COBOL will be used. A paycheck is a powerful inducement to learn.

Since when does "well informed" require college? I know mechanics and plumbers that are arguably better informed (and read ) than other people I've met with a bachelors degree.

That's nonsense. If anyone destroyed "public transportation", it was the American voter. Because we love the freedom of having our own cars and resent it when some schmuck tells us we have to ride the bus. Any politician outside of Brooklyn or Berkeley that runs on making car ownership more restrictive in favor of forced public transport will be beaten so badly his own party will never let him sniff a nomination again.

American car culture is just that... a culture, beloved by Americans. There was never any conspiracy by Chevron or Texaco or even Ford to make us buy cars. As soon as we saw them, we went "Fuck, I've got to have that".