"Do something!"

No, no, no.

Do something intelligent.

Any dildo can come up with schemes to fix social problems which create terrible new social problems.

What I'm not interested in are the inevitable ID verification schemes in the name of thinking of the children.

If you had ever been in one you'd know.

Yeah, look how bad it worked out for IBM!

All of that cash is imaginary, and it can be reimagined to not belong to them.

A number of clearly intentional back doors have been found in Cisco products over the years. Do we absolutely know they were planted by TLAs instead of smartasses? I don't think we do. But let's not be naive...

I don't care if they do or not. It should still be the parents' responsibility and if someone should be punished for their children's actions, it should be them.

They aren't. It's easy. There is simply no will.

The technocrats were never concerned.

"and we have to adapt to our so called neighbors representing a more clear and present danger to our nationals welfare than an evil empire on the other side of the world ever was..."

If only maggots had self awareness.

That's why if the system stores EVERYTHING then it should be air gapped, with data batches manually carried from network to network. This can delay responses so some subset of the data will have to be stored elsewhere, but you don't have to put it all in one place. Given how many things already happen during overnight batches this would cause a LOT less inconvenience than most people think.

No, if you'd spoken to these people you'd know they actively like some of the changes he is making. They absolutely want him to harm migrants and refugees. That is absolutely what they voted for, and they are getting it, and they are happy about it. They are immune to facts, like "undocumented immigrants pay more in taxes than it costs to support them" or that "the United States agreed to accept refugees and asylum seekers who may apply for protected status after arriving here". They just want those people harmed because they are stupid enough to have been fooled into believing that the immigrants are trying to steal their cookies while the billionaires wipe crumbs from their chins.

Modern society is a negative sum game in general because it is extractive rather than regenerative. It's based on the extraction of natural resources which cannot be replenished, and the very act of using them destroys other natural resources.

And before that it was "Better Dead than Red"

But they have memories even shorter than their logical abilities are useful.

More like because Cisco and IBM have NSA-sponsored back doors.

We only know for sure this is true of Cisco... But who wouldn't suspect IBM?

In 2012 the phone's eMMC was slower than a good SD card.

Wait, it's 2026 and that's still true.

Did you know that some SD cards have bad random read speeds? It's crazy, but it's true.