I find it has a nice understated impact

Uh, no shit? That’s how light works once you’re able to travel at relativistic speeds - communication over interstellar distances using light is going to take ages.

Even within our own solar system interplanetary travel will have significant communication time delays.

Edit: also, we already know that matter and light can’t exceed c, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we discover that other forces (gravitation, or another that we haven’t understood yet) can transmit information at speeds >c. I wouldn’t be surprised if we turned to quantum entanglement for instantaneous communication over extreme distances either.

We have a name for that, it’s called fraud.

More like: I’d like to trade in my $2200 shitbox, but I expect said shitbox to become a vintage collectible over the next few years so I’m going to need you to credit me around $45000. No low ballers, I know what I have.

Welcome to the wild West of American data privacy laws. Companies do whatever the fuck they want with whatever data they can beg borrow or steal and then lie about it when regulators come calling.

Just wait until one of your techs drops a cassette of these glass and ceramic plates and suddenly your company is out 100,000TB of data.

The whole “it can last 5000 years” thing is somewhat ridiculous considering the library mechanisms, carriers for the slides and basically everything else not glass and ceramic probably won’t last more than 20 or 30.

I see the gay agenda is proceeding as planned

That looks like the standard “this person has pull with the AG, let’s hire them and exploit that for our benefit” move.

The decades of attacks on education haven’t helped either.

That’s also part of the plan. The proles can’t effectively participate in democracy or criticize established interests (the wealthy, the party, the church) if they’re not equipped with an education.

Tata stealing code!? I’m shocked, shocked I tell you!

Surprise! Your 72 virgins are other hopelessly radicalized young men from your cult!

Water scarcity causes societal collapse throughout the American Southwest. Well written book, interesting premise - just an all around enjoyable bit of fiction.

And cartoons and movies. At this point aimless fury seems to be their default state.

Evaporation. You lose a phenomenal amount of water moving it by canal over large distances in an arid climate. Ideally you’d enclose the whole system to reduce loss but sticking a roof over the top helps to some degree and is less complicated.

Water Knife here we come

Yeah, honestly this just seems like the smart ones getting out now that labor is organizing again and consequences for corruption aren’t unthinkable.

Biometrics can be spoofed, or the body part stolen in extreme cases.

Also, in the US at least, biometrics aren’t protected by the same rights that allow you to not incriminate yourself. IIRC they’re considered a thing you have, which you can be compelled to surrender or use to unlock a device, vs something you know (like a password or pattern) which you can withhold if it would be incriminating. Check with a lawyer on this one, I haven’t paid attention to the case law here for a bit.

If an online service is free you’re not the customer, you’re the product.

Generative AI just codifies the biases it was trained with so this is spot on