I don't know. As I love to point out, AI's attention span is only as long as it's power cords. Kinda fitting in a way.

Got it in one!

And in no few cases, unsafe.

I wonder if John Calhoun was inspired by The Naked Sun.

Unpacking that rather cryptic observation:
A rodent utopia was created by Calhoun as an experiment, which ultimately crashed when the rats... ate each other and refused to have sex. Zuck.... is not someone I would look to as a thought or moral teacher, but not quite as bad a choice as Musk or others.

I don't mind - if it's my choice to cloud or self host. I'll choose self host because I don't want a "forever landlord" after I buy the house.

I once worked with a guy from New Hampshire in a moderately sized Texas town (about 300,000). Said he couldn't take the wide open spaces and that it took 8.5 hours (400 miles) to get to Dallas.

In a twist of fate, I was assigned to work with him after he left Texas and returned to New Hampshire. I could not adjust to the dense population of the North East - why, I couldn't drive a single mile without passing a dozen homes!

The joke around here is "Sir, this is Texas. We don't walk up the aisle when we marry, we drive!"

As to your tag line, I've noted that conservative politicians seem to have a lower standard of grasping tech. Not that most are any good at all, of whatever stripe.

Using Google Search is like using a coupon book to look up a word.
When it works, it's not because it was designed to do so, it's sheer accident.

For a while, if it was a tech issue, I searched Reddit. Now Reddit has enshittified too.
There isn't anything that works as well as google from 15 years ago did. I can ask any babbling baby and get just about the same results from search engines. I'd hoped (against hope) that someone here would have solved the issue, but most I've already tried and it didn't suit me (I'm glad you found it useful though!).

No, I believe and is my opinion that the condition of the search engine results stand as reproducible proof of the Second Law of Thermodynamics - Entropy increases until the entire universe is the temperature of warm `echo spit | sed 's/p/h/''

I like to tell people clutching their pearls over AI that I'm not worried. AI's attention span is only as long as it's power cords and I have wire cutters.

Let's put our thinking caps on.
Is there an element in the universe with atomic number 82?
Why, yes, yes, there is.
Is it present on Earth?
Surely so.
Is it going to contaminate you?
Well, maybe.
Is everyone on Earth exposed to it?
Yes, to one extent or another.
Does it affect everyone?
Some more than others, most undetectable.
Is it a good idea to drink wine with lead in it (like the Romans did)? No, not really.
How about eating lead paint chips? That good? Not so much.
Does the body naturally remove or chelate (tiny, miniscue) amounts of lead? Yes. It's thought by some that milk thistle and garlic help, but I've not studied that, and there's one hell of a lot of quack, bonkers, whacko "medicine" around in the USA. One need look no further than the current head (Ghu help us!) of HHS to see that.

So, while I agree that it's really not a good idea to be exposed to lead, exposure of some amount is unavoidable, and for the most part, in tiny amounts (how tiny? I'm not sure) it isn't causing damage we can detect. Now, Thomas Midgley, Jr., an American chemist, is credited with adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline in 1921. The amount of lead emitted into the environment was damaging, detectable, and that's why we have unleaded gasoline now.

Point being that we can't measure the effects of miniscule amounts of lead, so therefore, it could also be said that

AKA as Homeopath - largely debunked and discredited. For now. I mean, they're still arguing over if eggs are good or bad. Is this because the people reaching things are stupid? No, it means as new facts are added, the conclusions change. Like the engineering professor that never changed his test questions. No need. The answers change as the state of the art progresses.

I remember a guy once said "Analyze this down to the trace of sodium that's in everything". Because somehow sodium tends to be present in a lot of places.

Also recall that unless you're buying steel smelted before July 16, 1945, or wine fermented before that date, it's radioactive. If you eat candy of any kind, you're also eating rodent and insect feces. Honey? Bee vomit. Like mushrooms on your steak or pizza? Fungus. Warifn, a heart medication, is also used in rat poison. It's a question of dose (and the ground glass in rat poison isn't good either.) Belladonna is also used by assassins and your pharmacist, cardiologist, and optitrition.

A tiny, tiny bit of whatever isn't going to hurt you. The question is "how tiny", what kind, how often.
Except polonium. That will hurt you. Or, if you're Superman, Kryptonite. And don't get me started on the evils of Unobtainium or Dihydro Monoxide.

Let's play a game of "change the name" and see if you still think the above s a valid point:
Fox News offends me and I don't want my tax dollars funding it on military bases, airports, senior centers, or VA hospitals.
I don't like sports, so I don't want my tax dollars paying for sports stadiums, tax breaks for sports billionaires, or those loud cars at the race track.
I don't like police violence, so I don't want my tax dollars funding police.

Here's a thought: If you don't like something in the library, stay out of the library. Or at the very least, ignore it while you're there. (Speaking of, when is the last time you actually used a library?)
Remember, they made Socrates (Do you even know more than the name? Most people post 1980 K-12 public education do not - proving that the self appointed, self righteous "guardians of the youth" have won) drink poison for what he was thinking. Do you want me to have that kind of power over you? Why should I let you have that power?

You have civil rights - also civil responsibilities to do things you may not agree with as long as you take your government entitlements and benefits, like police and fire protection, military protection, meat and drug inspectors, weight and measure compliance, and all the other things you know as "your rights".
To put it in terms that you might be more comfortable with, watch the move "V for Vendetta" - this is the battle V was fighting against his government - The battle for the right to know, without leave of let by the government.

To be the victim, someone has to force them to take that job. I'll remind you every state has laws against human trafficking.
I'd almost pay to keep watching you try to troll me. Unfortunately, you're dealing with an mature adult. It's amusing but repetition isn't.

I do like watching a full grown person have a melt down like a 4 year old. It's amusing.

The difference being is that one that took the position at $2.13 is counting on tips to make a wage something more than ridiculous.
The person accepting the position at $7.25 knew that was the entire (very ridiculous) wage. Even the local burger chain in my area pays $13 an hour to start, and has options for health insurance. Not entirely paid, but part paid.

Choices have consequences. I thought the right wing was all about consequences for actions and choices?

Sorry, still not sorry.

Went through fast food joint the other day, the order was taken by AI.
Much of the order was wrong. Wildly wrong. Sure, that happens with people too. I guess the advantage is that management doesn't have to pay someone to get it wrong.

Oh, at check out - there's still a mandatory tip choice, though 0 is a choice. I consider that if one is dining out and doesn't have money for a tip, you don't have enough money to order - if the position is a tipped position. Fast food is a minimum wage job, not a tip wage. Tip wage is $2.13 an hour. Minimum wage is $7.25.
Both are an embarrassment but I'm not tipping a $7.25 wage job - sorry, not sorry.

Ah. I see where you've gone wrong. You're thinking that MS is doing this thinking YOU need it. That is not the case. MS wants you to do this because they want to have a way to shut off the OS and know what you're doing. It is the logical progressing into forcing you into a forever landlord financial relationship with MS. Those quarterly profits need to be touched up, it's hard to do if they don't have the ability to make you pay again.