but resources are an issue with no solution on the horizon.

We’ve got tons of resources, and the means the produce more. The problem is that’s not going to make some people lots and lots of money, so they don’t do it.

Scarcity is not a problem of “can’t” right now, it’s a problem of “won’t”.

Personnel for what?

The difference being we do know who they are and why they’re doing it, it’s just our leaders aren’t doing enough to stop them because of “The Economy”.

It’s always been an oligarchy, but mostly because people let it be an oligarchy. Voting works… when you do it. That’s what’s enabled people like Trump to grab power, people voted for them.

It’s not the only answer, but it’s the single simplest and easiest way for most people to effect change on the world around them. Which makes it surprising just how many people refuse to do it.

If you’re looking for a quick fix all you’ll find is snake oil. The damage has been cumulative over years, decades, if not centuries. There’s no quick and easy fix.

The most general answer is collective action, which this is part of. The next is finding ways to obstruct the bad changes from going through. After that is finding ways to push the better changes through. There’s no single distinct answer for all the problems for any of those steps, except that we work together. Which this helps with.

People are going to suffer, even more than they already are, the best we can do is mitigate it at this point. Mostly because we haven’t acted before now. But, as the cliche goes: The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now.

It’s not about citizenship, it’s about access. They know that it doesn’t guarantee citizenship or protection, that’s what the rest of their money is for.

Yeah, cause what else would they be advertising? Fingerprinting services for fetuses?

Any poll that asks the general public to pick something is inevitably going to turn into a popularity contest, irrespective of its original intent.

Humor.

Religious convention.

Is he back to making comics for buzzfeed?

NASA and most drug dealers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRJecfRxbr8

But i thought the crocodile was the one who ate the clock…

No one called you any names. They said your advice is ridiculous, but that’s not name calling. That’s critiquing.

They’re not using your dishwasher for your needs, they’re using their dishwasher for their needs. They likely don’t overlap. Different models have different feature sets. One can say that they should have done more research into the home networking requirements for super basic features (as heavily explained in the article that we’re all commenting on, and you seem to have completely ignored), but frankly that’s beside the point. The baseline should not be well below par. The baseline should not be “download our potential spyware that also doesn’t necessarily work very well with your system just so you can use basic features”.

I’m glad you like smart features. I think people should have that kind of flexibility and choice in their home environment. The problem here is that when using this particular appliance, they don’t have that choice. That is a problem. Even if, when you use your appliance, you don’t have that issue, they do. Because they are not you, and do not have the exact same use case that you do.

Don’t forget to put asterisks in potentially offensive words, as well. Don’t want to get a ruler across the knuckles by Sister Strictness either.

The spice must flow.

I guess we’re supposed to recognize the circuitry on that one person in the robe and just assume they’re a time traveler.

Midterms.

Governance is a thing of the past, it’s all campaigning all the time now. Why do you think they fail so hard to accomplish anything? If they actually fix things they have to find something new to run on. It’s like studios who focus on sequels and reboots, it’s a known quantity. They know people will show up for those platform positions, so they don’t want to remove them as an option.

They’re not quite sure if they want to rock us yet.