Are you really incapable of imagining how this surveillance footage can be anused ?

You or your neighbors don't need to be comtting any crimes. Just having the wrong political opinion, or being associated with someone who does, could be enough for a malevolent actor to zero in on you. This oncludes bad government actors, many of which have been in the news, lately, in case you are living under a rock. They have even beem caught manipulating body cam fpotage with AI.

At least you agree that this should be opt-in. Count me out. If you want footage, come with a judicial warrant.

Try asking it something you know the answer to, on some rare topic.

For instance, I recently tuned my 189 string harpsichord - a painful process. For fun, I asked several AIs for a list of the most sifficult instruments to tune. It didn't even make the list, even after this famous prompt. It took a while for it to finally appear in its responses. This is likely because a very small number of people play the harpsichord nowadays.

Similarly, I tied to vibe code some security code using NSS in Python. This was with Code rhapsodyx using Claude underneath. It kept switching to OpenSSL and rewriting the code countless times after running into a snag with the code it generated. Probably did so at least 50 times. This is because the vast majority of the code it was trained on uses OpenSSL. I had to fight its training. It was extremely painful. The problem it ran into was trivial - failing to call an initialization function. But it kept repeating its mistake, over and over. I eventually got what I want out of it. I could not have written the project without the AI, as I was dealing with a programing language i can only read, but not write.

I think parent makes a good point. Perhaps not for the bottom 50%, but many middle class people don't realize the need to invest in stocks. I saw this particularly with my family in France. My sister stubbornly refused to invest ar all, citing risk. She paid cash for her house when our farher died and she inherited. Interest rates were very low back then.
Now, she still owns the house, but has essentially zero other assets.

My morher on the other hand listened to me, and made a bundle investing in index funds. Her assets easily surpassed my sister's. And her pension covers more than 100% of her expenses.

Obviously, index funds are not risk free. She could have lost a lot, too. Over long periods of time, the risk is typically rewarded, though.

IMO, the bigger risk is not investing when you have the opportunity.

That's patently false. You know nothing about my beliefs. The deprivation of medical care by ICE is something new under this administration.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fice-cut-detainees-off-medical-212322344.html

They certainly have the budget to pay for it. They are intentionally not doing so.

It's not just end of life care. Half of all healthcare dollars go to treating chronic conditions. If funding is reduced due to demographic problems, it's going to affect healthcare for people of all ages.

They are down to 18 months old now.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fworld%2Fus%2Ftoddler-was-returned-ice-custody-denied-medication-after-hospitalization-lawsuit-2026-02-08%2F

And one common thread - being denied medical care. And she is not the only one, there are many reports of this.

These are concentration camps.

With a 200ms ping time.

Sure, even. Sigh

Melania. So far. Sorry, AI.

Let's stop Attacking pedophiles - Ted Cruz

Much of the impact of the ads is subliminal. You usually become aware of the company/product being advertised within the first few seconds. If you are manually skipping over, you are saving time, but are still being impacted by the ad.

Indeed. Labor to install switches in new locations can be very expensive, especially if you need long runs and also have to open, patch, repaint and texture drywall. It can easily add up to 30x the cost of a wireless battery operated smart button, usually referred to a scene controller.

However, it should still work without the cloud needing to be up. I had a 24 hour Comcast outage recently. No reason my smart lights and switches should stop working during the outage. And they did not, since I use Home assistant with local Z-wave switches, scenes controllers, and Wi-Fi bulbs, none of which require cloud.

It is unfortunately daunting to setup, well beyond the capabilities of old people, especially.

The cloud is easier and cheaper, but the single point of failure is plainly unacceptable for lighting.

Does not usually yield good results.

Let's get the CDC and NIH on it. Oh wait we can't. They were strangled.

Which is why there is pressure to close them. For example, this one about 5 miles away from home, currently scheduled to close in 2031.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FReid%25E2%2580%2593Hillview_Airport