Every MS product (except for maybe VSCode and latest .NET) feels like Gates and Ballmer are still there saying "whatever - you'll have to use this because your $BIGCORP bought it from our salespeople!"

Excel is still pretty good

The optimist thinks the glass is half full

The pessimist thinks it's half empty

Microsoft excel thinks the glass is January 2nd

As if the ones we have now aren't suspect enough!

Facts!!!

Indeed - Tom Clancy wrote Debt of Honor long before 9/11, and Rainbow Six long before COVID.

WEF: "But...we want to put electrodes on their brain..."

Ooooh "misinformation" and "conspiracy theories"... also often (but not always!) known as "spoiler warnings"

edit/addendum: The source of the original talk is the CEO of The Atlantic, so accusations of media bias of the middleman source may be casting stones in a glass house...

> Ooooh "misinformation" and "conspiracy theories"... also often (but not always!) known as "spoiler warnings"

Yes, by people with an agenda of spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories.

> The source of the original talk is the CEO of The Atlantic,

Then why isn't an article from The Atlantic shared? And do we instead of the rely on the trustworthiness of some untrustworthy rag?

> Yes, by people with an agenda

Kafka trap.

> Then why isn't an article from The Atlantic shared?

They apparently didn't report on it? https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?q=WEF

What is this and what does it do?

> as long as you control the input

Do you? Will you always? I'm assuming this is different from Neuralink?

i have 32 micro-magnetic transponders spaced micrometers apart. any attempt to get between it would only result in audible noise.

See also https://antipolygraph.org/

In the US, the Liberator rocket heater is a great option. It's UL listed if you care about that sort of thing. https://rocketheater.com/

As Ron Paul once said about the Federal Reserve system, "If that doesn't make any sense to you, then you understand it just fine."

You may quote me on this "If that doesn't make any sense to you, then you probably heard if from Ron Paul".

https://newrepublic.com/article/94477/ron-paul-distorted-lib...

What ignorant tripe! Author fancies himself the self-appointed arbiter of "the libertarian creed," yet his criticisms are the usual boring and disingenuous ad hominems of "racist" "sexist" "privilege" I'd expect from a leftist.

These are the points he seems to take issue with: 1. Private property is important to liberty. 2. The solution to racism might just not be more racism. 3. Open borders are good in theory but have problems in practice.

Some may disagree with these points, particularly on their nuances, but to conclude that they are somehow incompatible with libertarianism is completely brain-dead.

I wonder what this learned author and philosopher is up to these days... Oh, that's interesting: https://www.foxnews.com/media/will-wilkinson-lynch-mike-penc...

So he has an opinion that is different than yours. Sometimes it is good to read an alternate opinion. I had an English teacher in 8th grade that taught me how to read a news paper. She was from Eastern Europe and had escaped from the Soviets. She was very adamant about using multiple sources. Understanding the motivations of the writer, getting other sources of evidence. I think she was wise and I will always be indebted to Mrs Holtzman.

AFAIK the function of the Fed is pretty understandable. Whether you agree that they make the correct decisions that is another matter. It seems to me that in an economy that is producing new things that did not previously exist being able to adjust the amount of currency in circulation to reflect the total value of things in the economy makes a lot of sense.

Suppose the 350 million of us had to share the millions dollars that was in existence when the country was founded. There would not be enough for each of us to have a single dollar. That would make the currency pretty useless.

I hope you're not hiding any dissidents, Comrade.