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Oh, spare me the sanctimoniousness. One poorly chosen word should not have thrown you off what I was after when considering the entirely of what I said. You are blatantly unserious, and just looking to play high & mighty while you still haven’t addressed the central problem I’ve described multiple times.

I’m done with you. Good night.

Okay, so “not permitted” may not have been the best choice of words. "Not pushed” to vote, as I just described in my previous comment is what I’m after. You know what I’m saying, and you seem to be deliberately pedantic just because you can - while completely ignoring the issue I’m trying to address.

You haven’t provided a single rebuttal against the overall concept that those who aren’t following along shouldn’t be peer-pressured into voting for something they know little to nothing about. Yet, we do it because the spin-doctors realized those people are so easy to manipulate into voting against their interests, and it’s become a part of the American political process ever since.

Could be interpreted either way, I suppose - it was extremely vague.

Yeah, I’ve heard that before, but it’s a single example - it’s not an invalid point, but neither is mine. I think there may be ways of addressing that potential problem if we try hard enough to find a way, but we haven’t for fear of repeating that issue.

Too many people just aren’t interested in what those running their lives are up to, and yet they’re routinely told to go vote if they want to be considered good citizens. So it’s become a circus every election cycle. I think those people shouldn’t be pushed to vote if they’re not interested in understanding what’s going on in their capitals, plain and simple. They’ll learn the hard way to have an interest.

Not with the monied interests in charge of its operation. They want people to depend upon the big AIs for answers to everything so they can subtly guide the populace’s “thinking” and control them like the sheep most of them are.

You’re assuming the AI is impartial. After seeing what Musk did to Grok, you should be thoroughly disabused of that notion.

Trump isn’t on the ballot, and they won’t pay enough attention to their Congress critters to know whether they should keep them. People who don’t pay a certain minimal amount of attention shouldn’t be permitted to vote, IMHO, because for them it’s purely a popularity of the moment contest rather than the choice of who will actually work towards improving their constituents’ lives - an utterly absurd basis for determining the future of us all.

Problem with that is different people have different ideas as to what’s “mature enough,” or even “mature” at all.

Gee - a month from the election. With just enough time left for it to be shot down by the current regime. Surely I’m just being cynical, right?

With that shaky voice, probably more like “what the fuck am I even doing up here?”

No, but it was a helluva lot more obvious what it was. I guess I understand their reasoning, but it’s yet another obscure name among the innumerable ones out there already.

It’s a fucking NFC reader slapped into a controller. If they get a parent for this bullshit, I’m patenting boogers & suing Sony C-suite execs & the patent office for having them.

Wherever you were talking about when you said “here.”

Any idea what ohm value would be best?

Still have my LG Optimus on Android 2.x somewhere. With 512MB RAM I dunno what to do with it outside of a clock display, but I have it (and a spare battery).

There, there. It’s “hear, hear.”

Near the bottom of the product page under “more information,” they have “Content: No generative AI was used.” I can’t imagine AI being able to code something efficiently enough to run on a C64! Now I have to buy it!

Well, maybe once my mom gives me my next allowance…

Unless you wait a good while to use what you paid for (if that’s even possible), then I doubt it’d be hard to connect the dots. Never mind connecting transaction records.

Michael needs an editor - lots of instances of the wrong word used, but it’s obvious what he meant so not the end of the world. Just kept jarring me out of focus on the review every time I hit one.