Sorry, but I can't get out of my mind one of the Monty Python PC games depicting a crowd of faceless people all wearing Mickey Mouse ears. While I can't relate to voluntarily paying money to go consume a corporate theme park media experience, but it floats their steamboat then more power to them.
More (but not all) Americans of older generations, say the Greatest Generation, I noticed used to more frequently have integrity and hard boundaries that refused to do certain things no matter the cost. Subsequent generations I noticed, especially much wealthier individuals, overall tended to have those pieces of their character missing from them and were willing to do things like conspire on venture structures for tax evasion purposes, promote weakening of laws to favor their concerns, borderline bribe politicians, and treat employees as basically disposable nonhumans. It revolted me to the point where I left startups and the Valley. It feels like the prior generations had an appreciation of community and Kantian ethics whereas later were raised in a much-too-comfortable environment of unlimited self-esteem and hyperindividualism.
I agree, but I addressed this with "or makes them feel better about themselves". The older generations just have a more ingrained ideal of "if I sell out, I'm a bad person". So they don't because it makes them feel better about themselves - better than a large amount of money might. Subsequent generations have seen enough people sell out that the threshold is raised, and they don't believe as strongly that they're a bad person for having a price. I don't think anyone is above this dynamic.
A number of my friends who belong in these very high upper brackets have suggested to me, more in sorrow than in anger, that if I am reelected they will have to move to some other Nation because of high taxes here. I shall miss them very much but if they go they will soon come back. For a year or two of paying taxes in almost any other country in the world will make them yearn once more for the good old taxes of the U.S.A.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Address at Worcester, Massachusetts
October 21, 1936
It's always a bluff like a kid throwing a temper tantrum going to "hold their breath".
Not necessarily. Although it'd be especially unwise to gamble one's life on known contaminated food that cannot be reasonably rendered safe by consumers. Soap and vinegar scrubbing ordinarily, but I can't find any specific procedure references on concentrations or time.. I wish there were standardized, exact procedures for every produce type backed by science.
Magical signal panacea searching is ultimately fruitless. Other ways to make bot interactions more difficult, there are policy and technological obstacles that could be introduced. For example, require an official desktop or mobile app for interaction. And then for any text copy-pasted, demarcate it. And throw an error message for any input typed inhumanly-fast. Require a micropayment of like $0.10 to comment. While these things would break the interaction style and flexibility for a lot of innocent human users, these would throw big wrenches into some but not all vulnerabilities of bot interactions.
Something about correlation and causation of magic gotcha signals. Text may appear generated to a reader but there's no smoking gun evidence that can disambiguate fact from hypothesis. Even intuition isn't evidence.
Perhaps there needs to be some sort of voluntary ethical disclosure practice to disclaim text as AI-generated with some sort of unusual signifiers. „Lower double quotes perhaps?„
Just one thoughtless example: Austin TX downtown is actively hazardous to non-motor vehicle users. One example is worn down and effectively camouflaged pucks the same color as the roadway about 10 cm wide by 6 cm high sticking out the middle of the road randomly that once represented bike lane merge path markers. Ask me how I know. :/
Re: Campbell, CA location (King Tut themed). Their PC component prices were often haphazardly high and tended to not to be the latest/greatest compared to ISVs down the street like Pixel USA. Central Computer Systems was more expensive but had/has almost everything. The funny thing is they had perpetually old and overpriced items on the components "menu" wall. And don't forget the shoddy signage and the antique POS system. Fry's Electronics was like a flea market seller got $400M, built some stores, and then hired random people from Circuit City to run it while they sipped piña coladas in absentia. I think they traded on the half-assed outlet appearance plus sensory overload like a Vegas casino to hit people with randomly high prices except for loss leaders and promos. I'll never forget that their San Jose Mercury News promo for OS/2 4.0 spelled it "WRAP" instead of "WARP" in a ridiculously giant, red font on the last page of the business section.
PS: I worked at Egghead Software until it closed (killed by Fry's and CompUSA) before starting my own IT consulting company that put me through college.
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