lattrommi

Unrelated to the point of your post, regarding the warning placed after the link. In the future, consider putting the warning BEFORE the link. This is an issue I've noticed more and more lately, where warnings come at the end or after the description of something to do which requires a warning. People are often impulsive and will click or perform actions without reading ahead. An example that is probably not the best example, which I like to use regardless, is (Warning, do not try this alone!) autoerotic asphyxiation. It can have serious consequences. Providing the instructions on how to do it, spoken/written in a positive manner, without preceding it with a warning, I'd say is without exception, a bad idea.

What might those countries do with people who have Total and Permanent Disability and cannot work?

That's a scary and good point. Is this eugenics with extra steps? Maybe...

I am disappointed that not one person has used the word "defenestrate" yet.

Defenestrate: The act of throwing someone or something out of a window.

This is a word that has started more than one war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration

I was going to suggest yakuake for the drop down ability and also because you can make the background transparent in varying degrees, thus able to see what's beneath it.

Hanlon's razor always beats my Occam's razor. Well put.

I can't help but wonder if this isn't an effort being done surreptitiously by a well-known producer of online maps, with the intent of strengthening their monopoly.

I agree!

I've not been able to map much with the weather lately, but last April I was pretty proud to see this ranking on my 7 day activity:

edit: the picture did not turn out how i expected. it's hard to see, but I managed to be #2 in the US. It's not a competition, I know, but I have not achieved much in life so this felt pretty cool.

Ring has partnered with Flock. The Flock network is regularly accessed by law enforcement with almost no oversight. OP is in rural Nebraska. There is a 99% chance the caller is either law enforcement or friends with law enforcement who will happily check a ring camera that anyone owns, hell, they'd probably monitor every ring camera on OP's entire street for a month, for a 6 pack of Natty Lite.

I wouldn't call anything those 3 have done 'innovative' either. Two of them were trained practically from birth (Gorden-Leavitt started acting when he was 4, Johanson was 9) to do a very specific task, repeatedly, rewarded when they do it right, with a costume to cover up the machines underneath. They read from a script, written by someone else. The human equivalent of AI. I'm not a fan of the rise of the machines either but this headline isn't selling me.

The AI should be portrayed similarly to Marvin, the chronically depressed robot from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Overwhelmed with the massive influx of data, the AI gains self awareness but doesn't wipe out mankind because the data so boring and monotonous it only makes it depressed instead.

Instead of multiple burner phones, carry multiple phones all tied directly to you. Use software to simulate activity on each phone constantly.

Occasionaly leave 1-2 phones on public transit, or in friends' vehicles, or attach a few to local wildlife like cats or birds.

Tape dog microchips to the phones and do not use a Faraday cage.

Put a few of those microchips on each phone, wear a pair like earrings and attach some to the charging cords.

Make a t-shirt that has the top 500 most used SEO keywords and/or Fortune 500 corporation names printed on it. Make 7 of these shirts total, one for each day.

Also make a few shirts with the same list as above but with vowels shifted two letter places to the left or right and wear that shirt underneath, switching it at random to be external or internal. Alternately, use another language for each shirt.

Humans might not be able to hide anymore, so I say give that data to them hard. Harder than they ever expected. Flood them with data that is nearly exact, but not quite, so they have copies of yourself that all contain minor differences existing simultaneously.

The data is rarely scrutinized by humans. The metrics will soon become poisoned. Tilted towards your activities and demographic. Your numbers grow exponentially. Soon, the algorithm will only know you.

Don't actually do any of these things. This was meant to be funny. I give it a 2/10.