s/healt-benefits/heath benefits/

"word of compulsion"? Perhaps revulsion?

But no mention of oxytocin?

Now going for funny... Must have something to do with recent voting patterns? Like male pattern baldness, but with bedroom problems spreading to the voting booth?

(Joke of the day is actually about "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" for everyone or just the YOB and PT? Just kidding. There is no gawd and if you're that super greedy, then no amount of imaginary money (or even imaginary sex) will make you happy.)

Only funny mod so far? Story seems to have potential and there seem to be some attempts at humor, but...

Anyway, in my case I didn't think the problem was the "American" part, but just the time thing. Again.

Is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for everyone? Or just for the YOB and PT?

Just joking. For insanely greedy people no amount of imaginary money can make them happy.

And I'm only asking for a sick friend. Too late to even worry about it.

Acknowledged, but if I diverged wide, then I feel you diverged narrow.

Should I have been explicit about the effects of climate change? I actually don't think it's the kind of extinction-level threat my comment may have implied, so badly expressed on my part. As regards the vegans, you mostly reminded me of some anthropological book about the meat topic, but I can't recall the title or author just now.

Thanks for the book references. I'm pretty sure I've read at least one of the mentioned authors, but I'll need to check the other titles... No one mentioned the famous "paranoid" book by Grove, which I remember reading a while ago.

Correcting a typo is somehow off topic? Or worth censoring? WTF, Slashdot?

Modded Funny? Why? Some sort of clickbait headline joke? (And yes, I checked the context.)

s/Using/Usually/

My fingers not only think they know where the keys are, they also think they know where the words are.

Anyone else suffering from that one? Is it another symptom of aging as gracelessly as Intel?

So the new Subject is supposed to be a joke, but first you have to figure out who "we" is. The FP is also supposed to lead to humor, and again the who is key, though I bet the why involves cryptocurrency, so it will be difficult to prove in court.

As far as the YOB is concerned, the tactical level is pretty clear. The YOB wants his cut off the top and with no work on his part or liability for any little problems that come up.

As far as Intel is concerned... Well I think one word sums it up pretty well: Sadness.

Anyone else remember the days when Intel's sales advantage was supposed to be so insurmountable that no other semiconductor company had any chance of doing meaningful research that could threaten Intel's dominance? Intel's huge research budget was no strain while all the competitors had to struggle to pay for every crumb of research. Maybe there's a joke lurking in the history, too? How the heck did Intel blow that lead?

Using I check quotes for accuracy, but it's a FP race, so...

Questions? Or wait for the clarifications in a followup reply?

I don't think you deserved the Funny for feeding the troll while propagating is vacuous Subject.

On the story... Well, not much potential for Funny here.

My own feelings are mixed. On one hand I think the bone conduction headphones are better. Noise leakage is small while it lets you hear the real world, too. I also think sticking things in your ears probably encourages ear hair to grow wild. Old defensive experiments with earplugs because of a noisy street near an old apartment, but maybe it's just one of those age things and the earplugs are innocent.

But on the other hand I still imagine the opposite extreme of a kind of watch cap with noise cancelling ear flaps. Smartphone built into it with general battery capacity. Extending down in the front for built in lenses, including an opaque set for sleeping.

(Already checked for Funny, but now I also have some key words to look for in the "All" tab.)

Only funny comment? And not so much.

Oh well, the story had little promise for humor. I noticed a few comments about extreme weather, but we're already at that point. Yesterday's top news story here was the heat wave. Again without precedent, but the local records only go back about 170 years before becoming fuzzy.

On the bigger topic of human survival, I don't think we have to go extinct, but that's where we're headed. Yeah, human hardware is old, but the brain part is general purpose and can run all sorts of programs. Doesn't matter much that our bodies were somewhat genetically optimized to live as hunter-gatherers. Not sure about folks in North Dakota, but I am "pert' shure" I'm not running many mental programs for the hunter-gatherer lifestyle here in the big city. The mental programs have been replaced and mostly upgraded. But they are still rather buggy. Another top story in recent days was about a lunatic stalker running some serious malware in his head. He was on probation for an earlier "software crash" and it only took a day to arrest him for his latest but more serious "event".

Sadness. This one had really good potential for funny.

As usual, I can't do funny. My first thought about a funny angle involved GAIvatars of dead celebrities. First, the ghosts are less likely to complain, at least on their own behalves. [Spelling? Better as the cumbersome "on behalf of themselves"?] Second, it would help filter for stupid punters who are thereby more susceptible to the ads for whatever snake oil Zuck wants to push today.

One of the problems with Slashdot is the lack of time. Stories only last a day without regard to the potential of the discussion or significance of the story.

Best joke award of a pretty good harvest.