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If I've said it once.... I've said it a hundred times.

Our technology is evolving faster than our species.

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  Suicides of teen girls in the USA are up due to cell phones and social media.
  Cell phones are killing our necks.
  In addition to carrying a personal tracking device, governments are using and abusing any and all technology to spy on citizens
  The Sun could wipe out our power grid with a direct hit from a geomagnetic storm, and utilities aren't doing anything to mitigate the risks.
  5 Countries are destroying the ocean with plastics and covering the earth with asbestos.
  And let's not forget about the Doomsday clock and Nuclear Weapons. We still have a cold war posture that could end badly.
  We have governments with cheap gene editing tools CRISPR/CAS9 working to make designer pets that glow in the dark and super biological weapons
  Video Game Addiction is rampant
  The Internet is a Pandora's box of garbage and porn, bad behavior are shaping your minds through YouTube and other video streaming sites.
  The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. There will be a tipping point and this will lead to global unrest.

We can truly say it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. If we could all just grow up and use our technology for good, but we can't. Just like light and dark, yin and yang, the good of technology is always accompanied by the evil dark side.

My prediction for 2018 is that AI and machine learning are going to be applied to hacking. AI's will be trained to write code to exploit all things and the exploits will be endless. Humans won't even be able to understand the exploit code as the AI software churns them out. Further I predict human cloning will happen this year and that China/Russia/North Korea will test some pretty nasty hacks on Americas Banks, Stock Market, Telecommunications, and/or gas/electric/water. I also predict that US drug usage will continue to increase (opioids, weed, alcohol) and the life expectancy will continue to decrease and suicide rates will continue to increase. I also predict that based on an increased energy in the atmosphere that storms will continue to grow in intensity. I also predict there will be a war in North Korea due to an error in a rocket test hitting a US ally. Further I predict Russia will take over another ex-Russian republic and China will continue to flex it's military muscle.

7 billion people on the planet. Technology everywhere, and we still can't figure out to behave and share.

I was watching TV with a little child and she was horrified by the war videos on the news and she asked me, "Why is there war? Why are they fighting?"

My answer, "Because, Sharing is hard."

To all reading this, in 2018 do a better job of sharing, loving your neighbor, and using less plastic.

Happy New Year!

That's a lie. Cops are not killing non-cops in record numbers. There is no war, you are a liar.

The simple fact is that they are in fact killing us in record numbers, and have been for years now. The rate at which they shoot us has declined slightly, but it's not clear whether it's because cop training is getting worse and they're hitting less of the people they shoot at, or because they're actually shooting at less people. It's not clear because these statistics are intentionally obfuscated by police departments for the purposes of lying to the public, so they can fool idiots like you into believing that they're not murdering us at an unprecedented rate.

When the West does IT?.
"British army creates team of Facebook warriors" (31 Jan ‘15)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk...
"Is America Prepared for Meme Warfare?" (Feb 1 2017)
https://motherboard.vice.com/e...
"So, Why Does the Air Force Want Hundreds of Fake Online Identities on Social Media?" (Feb 19, 2011)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/s...
"BBC World Service gets funding boost from government" (23 November 2015)
http://www.bbc.com/news/entert...
The new "Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I am genuinely interested because the only part of fake news Breitbart was accused of turned out to be a trivial mistake where they said "church" to refer to a cathedral.

Only part, eh?

I just want to point out that human excrement counts as natural fertilizer, too. In some places it has been used for that purpose for thousands of years.

Which turns out to be a pretty bad idea for a number of reasons.

The link above outlines some of the problems with using treated human excrement as fertilizer. Using untreated human excrement is known to be highly risky, as it is likely to cause and spread disease.

Nobody likes a sandy vagina.

Africans do, apparently.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/hea...
https://www.vice.com/en_au/art...

Just look at all these stories:

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/n...

https://news.vice.com/en_ca/ar...

https://dondivamag.com/ndicted...

If these people could run a legal courier or import/export business, they would be wealthy.

Hmm

Remember that the antifa thugs attacked them first, and the police were told to stand down to "make it easier to arrest people."

You can read the entire report yourself. The report puts the entire fault of it at the feet of the: Mayor, Police Chief, Governor, and the original agitators of violence(antifa and black clad protesters). If you dig a bit further? Well, I hope you're ready for your bubble to be burst on it.

Then why is the latest Canadian design, which it's selling to China, using molten salt, and eventually thorium?
https://motherboard.vice.com/e...

Challenge accepted.

Motherboard reports that Washington state representative Drew Hansen yesterday introduced House Bill 2282 to keep network neutrality in Washington State. I imagine other states will follow quickly. NN is as favorable to local businesses as lower taxes, but the cost to the government is much lower.

Huh? Citation required on that comment. Show me where people can't get insulin in the country that supplies it to most of the world.

You could have googled it pretty easily.

https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/a...

http://www.kaaltv.com/news/mot...

a party who's central plank is laissez faire capitalism

Sadly, its worse than that. They want the government out of the picture as long as profits are rolling in, but as soon as shit goes south they're quite happy to beg for giant bailouts on the back of the taxpayer rather than simply letting failed companies fail as should happen in a laissez faire system.

If we look at ISPs (with all the recent flutter over net neutrality..) Their main argument against NN is that regulations are bad competition will fix it. Yet those same ISPs are continually trying to block competition, frequently by lobbying for you guessed it .. regulations .. that impede if not outright block new competitors.

https://motherboard.vice.com/e... (Nov 21 2017)
"... received a dressing-down at a congressional hearing this month"
"... deranking those kinds of sites"
Party political congressional hearings are talking of deranking, what kinds of sites can be found with search results.
NN just keeps on giving power to people who want to control the net and alter news search results.

Sorry, the really is obligatory:
https://xkcd.com/1189/
And this from 2014:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ezvpvj/voyager-maybe-didnt-leave-the-solar-system-yet-again-again-again
But I like Munroe's take better.
And I get the feeling that they may pronounce the thing dead a few times too...
We may someday get a Pythonesque "I'm not dead yet" from this interesting little device we tossed into the sky...

"They" want money for that:

https://motherboard.vice.com/e...
and:
This website (www-blahblah) attempted to extract HTML5 canvas image data, which may be used to uniquely identify your computer."

- not from me.... severely scale down on that shit....

Ah - then Slashdot forces one to view on brain-damanged m.slashdot.org, no matter how huge your iPad is, not using that anymore either.

What was that:
https://hackernoon.com/more-th...

anyone can claim that comments are fake - who controls that statement and the disputes of it?

You know nothing.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fin...

Stop. Do not respond. Read. Do not respond. Think. Then after you've read and thought about it... Then respond.

Your comments are utterly ignorant and thoughtless.

As to fiber not being cheap or easy... it is cheaper and easier to run fiber than it is to run anything else. It is the cheapest fucking cable out there.

Look, you think the reason something doesn't happen is because it is expensive? Well, then why prevent people from doing something that isn't economical? Certainly the bad economics would stop people from doing it in and of itself.

The reason you have to make it illegal is because it is economical and they would do it. So you stop them to prevent competition. Absent those laws we'd have lots of competition in every city in the US as the operating ISPs that are providing poor service at inflated costs would lose market share.

https://motherboard.vice.com/e...

I'm not even trying here with these articles. It all too fucking easy. Do any kind of research. Literally anything. Pull your stupid head out of your ass and try again.

Yup, and his IT guy didn't notice the bit.ly link for change password.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-...

https://motherboard.vice.com/e...

When we sent these out I was saying to Dmitry 'No one is going to be dumb enough to click on that. He'll call his IT guy and they'll tell him not to click it'. And he said to me 'Volodya, these Americans have heads full of post modernism and spirit cooking. Their precious bodily essences have been contaminated with soy milk. They'll fall for it, like traitor drinking polonium!'.

And, Hail Great Leader Putin, it worked! KGB Deep Cover Agent Donaldovich Trumpovski was successfully installed as US President.

No doubt he'll call off the confrontational 'Red Line' policies of the former accursed Imperialist administration in Syria any day now and allow our pilots to operate their unmolested.

> So what? The original remark was is pretty much what the voters expect so disputing that necessarily refers to the popular vote as done by the voters.

So the uneducated voters think that the popular vote decides who is president?

Well, no, it's Mr. Trump who thinks something about the electoral college, back in 2012 when he mistakenly perceived that Obama had lost the popular vote yet won the electoral college. He made numerous vituperative denunciations on that.

Now of course, he suddenly can't say that, though he's still compelled to fabricate an unsupported fairy tale about illegal voters in order to justify his ego-base claims that he didn't lose the popular vote. He couldn't even accurately describe his victory, but ended up ignoring who outperformed him in the electoral college, and how even George W. Bush in 2004 got more voters in many states than he did.

And the liberals still want to call the Trump supporters uneducated? Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black!

No, I would call Mr. Trump's supporters a rusted crucible that is slowly disintegrating into even more useless scrap.

Are you absolutely nuts? Did you not read about that guy who had fun scraping porn into AWS to test how much he could use? They have no positive ID on who owns the AWS buckets.

Some of those claiming to be antifa are counterfits.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/craig...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/art...

IQ and Personality tests have in general been put together through running regressions through sets of questions. Correlations are seen between sets of questions, and then the groupings are labeled and additional information is drawn from them.

This is fairly mundane. It should be obvious to see that people who score highly on "I consider myself a creative person" would also score highly on "I come up with new ideas" and low on "I tend to only think inside the box". Once a lot of people take these tests, you can see patterns in the data and group the questions without knowing anything else about the data.

IQ tests, likewise, were developed in a similar fashion by Binet. He found which questions more advanced students did well on, and he was able to identify younger students that were likely to do well as they grew up. He called this an IQ test and used it to determine which students needed the most help in school. To me, this seems like a pretty noble goal--let's predict students that are likely to struggle so we can assist them and give them a good chance at success.

Many people since this time have tried to refine the IQ test, because it does have limits. Cultural bias is, for instance, a problem. But again, it's all based on the questions and groupings, and when you're dealing with data analysis, biases in the general population will be seen in the data results. Bias in the input data is the problem Google is dealing with right now, and it's why Google's AI thinks being gay is bad: https://motherboard.vice.com/e...

So if you find a huge issue with IQ tests, I encourage you to take your time and energy to improve the IQ tests to reduce bias and improve the quality of the results. If we were to qualify students based on their ability to dance, this might be useful for Juilliard, but I suspect you'll find that dancing ability is not well correlated to most professions. You want to make sure people's abilities are well-matched to their job requirements--if your goal is a successful economy and satisfied employees, which is my goal. If your goal is to simply "level the playing field", well, then, by all means, change the qualifications for jobs to shimmying. But don't be surprised when your economy collapses and many people starve. It's been tried many, many times before and it doesn't work well. Read the Gulag Archipelago if you don't believe me.

I think IQ tests are not that big of a problem. Tons of studies and analysis show them to be great predictors of all sorts of things--overall life success, earnings potential, etc--and that makes them very useful. I say this as someone who doesn't really like school--never want to go back, despite having a very high IQ and doing very well in school. My high IQ helps me tremendously in my software development career, however, as I'm able to solve problems vastly more quickly than most of my peers. So I do believe the current IQ tests to be an imperfect but extremely useful tool for predicting success in a variety of ways, and their bad rap is mostly undeserved.

And how much taxpayer money goes Comcast and the others each year?

One example

Another example

Mississippi is at the ass end of half the country's watershed and continually has toxic chemicals in the water. If chemicals were the deciding factor on birth rate, Mississippi's would be among the lowest in the country.

Old news:

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/...

"This averages out to a shocking 215 kilowatt-hours (KWh) of juice used by miners for each Bitcoin transaction (there are currently about 300,000 transactions per day). Since the average American household consumes 901 KWh per month, each Bitcoin transfer represents enough energy to run a comfortable house, and everything in it, for nearly a week. On a larger scale, De Vries' index shows that bitcoin miners worldwide could be using enough electricity to at any given time to power about 2.26 million American homes." https://motherboard.vice.com/e...

https://motherboard.vice.com/e...

"An index from cryptocurrency analyst Alex de Vries, aka Digiconomist, estimates that with prices the way they are now, it would be profitable for Bitcoin miners to burn through over 24 terawatt-hours of electricity annually as they compete to solve increasingly difficult cryptographic puzzles to "mine" more Bitcoins. That's about as much as Nigeria, a country of 186 million people, uses in a year.

This averages out to a shocking 215 kilowatt-hours (KWh) of juice used by miners for each Bitcoin transaction (there are currently about 300,000 transactions per day). Since the average American household consumes 901 KWh per month, each Bitcoin transfer represents enough energy to run a comfortable house, and everything in it, for nearly a week. On a larger scale, De Vries' index shows that bitcoin miners worldwide could be using enough electricity to at any given time to power about 2.26 million American homes."

Fuck your block chain
Fuck your crypto currency
Fuck your imaginary techno utopia built out of my burning world

https://motherboard.vice.com/e...

"An index from cryptocurrency analyst Alex de Vries, aka Digiconomist, estimates that with prices the way they are now, it would be profitable for Bitcoin miners to burn through over 24 terawatt-hours of electricity annually as they compete to solve increasingly difficult cryptographic puzzles to "mine" more Bitcoins. That's about as much as Nigeria, a country of 186 million people, uses in a year.

This averages out to a shocking 215 kilowatt-hours (KWh) of juice used by miners for each Bitcoin transaction (there are currently about 300,000 transactions per day). Since the average American household consumes 901 KWh per month, each Bitcoin transfer represents enough energy to run a comfortable house, and everything in it, for nearly a week. On a larger scale, De Vries' index shows that bitcoin miners worldwide could be using enough electricity to at any given time to power about 2.26 million American homes."

https://news.vice.com/article/...

This is the third recorded death at the stricken Fukushima plant since the start of the decommissioning work. In March 2014, a laborer at the plant was killed after being buried under gravel while digging, and in January 2015, a worker died after falling inside a water storage tank.

Oh, by the way
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

I am pretty sure that the corporations are happy to fund election campaigns for state level politicians, just like they are for federal ones.
I imagine you get more bang for your buck at the federal level, but if a state starts to legislate against corporate interests (whatever the industry might happen to be), then I am sure a well funded opponent will pop up.
I am also sure this didn't happen by accident.

I've been repeating this for quite a while now, but I dunno for what reason, people have apparently forgotten all about the case involving the Canadian Mounted Police, a master decryption key for all non-enterprise accounts, and extremely crappy response from your same very own John Chen who was also the CEO back at the time.

Let me refresh people's memories:
https://www.theverge.com/2016/...
https://news.vice.com/article/...
http://blogs.blackberry.com/20...
https://www.computerworld.com/...

If anyone was stupid enough to fall into the obvious and very false statement that the new Blackberry had better costumer protection in place in comparison to Apple or other Android brands, it's on you for not doing very basic research.
It's like getting surprized with a new round of scandals of Lenovo laptops having malware pre-loaded on their bios. There have been enough cases to know what the position of the company is. If you are still throwing your money at them, you are just reinforcing the behavior and proving to them that it's acceptable.
John Chen has said nothing there that he didn't already say in the past. While he is the CEO of the company, such behavior is to be expected. Anyone who cares about their own personal privacy and about having proper standards on costumer protection should've already let go of the brand by now.

For once, reading TFA would have been useful to a lot of people here, including myself.

There's a photo with a graph in it:

Bitcoin mining cluster
CPU mining comparison with desktop PC
PC i7-2600, hash rate 20000, 95 watts
Galaxy S5, hash rate 2600, 4 watts

Power efficiency
PC i7-2600, 211 Khash/watt
Galaxy S5, 650 Khash/watt

Can any of these compete with ASICs? No. But they can still participate in a pool.
They could also mine something else like Dogecoin, Litecoin or Monero.

Right! Nobody should even try to repair a transmission as it is "tiny, complex, and non-modular".

but wait for the weak counter argument... they [apple] recycle their electronics... at ~20% efficiency. Greenwashed and defective by design. https://motherboard.vice.com/e...

More than just being scripted, it wasn't even real-time. The actual fight was filmed over multiple days. This was the most entertaining cut of all that work, which is rather sad. The moves were all pre-programmed and carefully choreographed. 30 years on and millions of dollars later and we still end up with something that looked significantly less impressive than the power-loader fight in Aliens and had just about as much verisimilitude.

But have you figured out how to U2F key with Google or Twitter without first setting up mobile phone verification? Say I want to have U2F (such as YubiKey) as my primary second factor, with TOTP (such as Google Authenticator) as a backup. But services like Google and Twitter support these only as backup second factors, not primary second factors. If I try to set up one of those as a second factor on Google or Twitter, the site won't let me proceed past the mobile phone verification. I don't want to use a mobile phone as the second factor for two reasons:

I complained:

What's even worse is that TFA is uncredited. It's clearly an editorial (i.e. - "opinion") piece, but there is no attribution to an individual writer to be found.

Prompting PCM2 to point out:

Really? The version I saw is attributed to Brenden Gallagher. Clicking on his name reveals he's written three movie/TV reviews for Motherboard.

I can't see any content on the page you link to. That's undoubtedly because, by default, NoScript blocks what looks like dozens of scripts on that page.

Very likely that's the same reason I missed the review's attribution to begin with - because it's only visible if you permit vice.com scripts to run. I don't. I won't.

So mea culpa for incorrectly accusing Motherboard of running an unattributed critique. And qui reus ex, vice.com, for hiding that attribution behind your javascript wall ...

What's even worse is that TFA is uncredited. It's clearly an editorial (i.e. - "opinion") piece, but there is no attribution to an individual writer to be found.

Really? The version I saw is attributed to Brenden Gallagher. Clicking on his name reveals he's written three movie/TV reviews for Motherboard.

TBH I would not pay that much for either smart phone. But Millions will ;) !!!!
Apple says "The iPhone Is Guaranteed to Last Only One Year, Apple Argues in Court"

If they lasted more than a year, then Apple wouldn't get any new sales as well as not getting any Apple Care sales.

However, I have yet to pay over $200 for any smart phone and that will continue to be my limit. Just like I never spend more than $30K for a vehicle.

TBH I would not pay that much for either smart phone. But Millions will ;) !!!!

Apple says "The iPhone Is Guaranteed to Last Only One Year, Apple Argues in Court"

So please, at long last, stop with this silliness. We are doing nothing. Nothing, nothing, nothing.

So please do nothing in response, it will all be over soon.

So please, at long last, stop with this silliness. We are doing nothing. Nothing, nothing, nothing.

So please do nothing in response, it will all be over soon.

found online, not vouching for its accuracy

Independent verification of FBI Anon claims

1995: Martin Indyk, Dennis Ross, Izaac Herzog, and an unidentified Israeli representative meet to discuss the possibility of Bill Clinton pardoning Marc Rich in exchange for Rich funding the PLO, a Muslim terrorist organization committed to Israel's destruction.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/p...

Qatar would buy a stake in Marc Rich's company Glencore after his death, and Qatar and Glencore would operate in concert afterwards.

2000: Marc Rich associate Michael Steinhardt controls the DLC and Progressive Policy Institute.
http://www.deepcapture.com/200...

2003: George Soros and Morton Halperin placed John Podesta as founding head of the Center for American Progress.
http://www.discoverthenetworks... https://archive.is/Gb2FV

Under Podesta's watch, unknown persons placed accused Hamas fundraiser Faiz Shakir as Vice President of the Center for American Progress and chief editor of Think Progress. In 2011 Faiz Shakir and Wajahat Ali produced the report "Fear Inc." smearing national security analysts and political activists who oppose the Muslim Brotherhood, including liberal Muslims.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fp... https://archive.is/tOxwC

Online rumors have attempted to connect the art trading of John Podesta's brother Tony Podesta with Qatari art purchases of works by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons who have been hosted by Qatar Museums.
http://qz.com/764975/qatars-oi...

The Podesta Group lobbyied for Qatar Petroleum in 2013.
https://www.desmogblog.com/201...

2004: The Awan brothers begin employment in the US Congress and will work under Robert Wexler, Xavier Becerra, Gregory Meeks, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and others before they are exposed as a spy ring in 2017.
http://www.politico.com/story/...

2005: Unknown persons placed Emad Shahin and Juliette Kayyem in the Dubai Initiative which produced propaganda to promote the Muslim Brotherhood using the name and reputation of Harvard University.
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvar...
Emad Shahin was convincted in absentia of aiding Hamas and Iran to overthrow the Egyptian government.
http://emadshahin.com/?p=1839
https://news.vice.com/article/...
Juliette Kayyem advocated for Qatari state television network Al-Jazeera and wrote "The War On Terror Is Over" to discourage continued resistance to al-Qaeda.
https://www.boston.com/bostong...
https://www.boston.com/bostong...

2005: Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal paid Georgetown University $20 million to continue hosting John Esposito's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, which was originally founded in 1993 with a grant from PLO board member Hasib Sabagh

No one is replacing old nuclear power plants with coal.

Germany has done just that.
https://carboncounter.wordpres...

France too.
http://instituteforenergyresea...

Sadly, so is the USA.
https://instituteforenergyrese...
https://www.vox.com/energy-and...

Or maybe the USA is replacing nuclear with natural gas.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/j...

Japan is almost famous for replacing nuclear with coal
https://www.equaltimes.org/jap...

In the UK natural gas is replacing coal and nuclear.
https://arstechnica.com/scienc...

I just realized I covered 5 of the "Group of Seven" so let's finish this out and see what Canada and Italy are doing.

Turns out Italy shut down their nuclear a long time ago and relies largely on natural gas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Looks like Canada is neither closing or building new nuclear, demand growth has been met with natural gas and hydro.
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/art...

Also in the above article is mention of Russia, China, and South Korea. More about that here:
http://www.world-nuclear.org/i...

So, let's review. France, Germany, Japan, and USA have all built significant numbers of coal plants in the past few years to meet growing demand and to make up for retired nuclear. Canada, UK, USA, and Italy rely heavily on natural gas and are building more capacity, while this might not be replacing nuclear it is another fossil fuel being used instead of wind and solar. China, Russia, and South Korea are actually making significant investments in nuclear to replace fossil fuels, which is still consistent with my claim that one must choose nuclear, fossil fuels, or lights going out.

Why do you write such nonsense? Fukushima Daishi had ordinary emergency power generators, like every plant. They did not rely on external power. However, perhaps that escaped you, the emergency power generators got flooded. And for some dumb reason no one came to the idea to helicopter a few military units in.

That's just so much nonsense in one paragraph it's hard to even come up with a reply. Do you really think that no one thought to helicopter in some generators?

In your country? All other countries that introduced wind and solar show that they are very reliabel and cost effective.

Oh, you mean like how last year the German government paid wind energy producers to sit idle to prevent damage to the electrical grid?
http://dailycaller.com/2016/04...

That doesn't sound very reliable or cost effective. Seriously, do some research before you post. You are looking like a fool.

"Informative" bullshit..... https://www.vice.com/en_us/art...

OK, I'll ask you something.

Back in the days of Usenet (e.g. alt.syntax.tactical), the point of trolling was to be as clever and sharp as possible. Today, the point is to be as blunt and moronic as possible.

What happened? Was it weev?

Eternal September happened. A little later, it was the meowing.

It's been downhill from there.

You joke but self trepanation is a thing. I met the woman who did it. She made a damn movie. Here's an article about her. Yes, the photo is a still from the movie.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/art...

Define which tasks are ripe for automation?

The tasks most ripe for automation are first and foremost at the top. Ironically they are the CEO's who are telling all other layers of the workforce that they will be 'automated'. Look at how good the decisions of CEO's are and shareholders. They mostly get things wrong and cost a lot.

An AI expert system and a flattened corporate hierarchy where groups of people make decisions would be correct more often and less expensive.

http://www.businessinsider.com...

I respectfully disagree that say circuit level board repair could be entirely automated. You're dealing with CMOS devices, the fundamental chemistry of this stuff is that it does not last long, do you make machines to repair the machines that repair the machines? There are trade off's but the urgency of the E-waste issue has millions of jobs associated with it. As opposed to greenwashing the problem:

https://motherboard.vice.com/e...

One of the best things about a former colleague who got into the smart-home industry say is all those sensors are constantly breaking and needing repair. Never been busier. One form of automation has opened up an entirely new path to create jobs.

As for AI supplanting comp-sci/SW engineers welcome to an open discussion where a few people would have a quibble or two about that ;-)

I know expressing contempt for the issue makes you feel smart but it makes you look stupid.

Given the rest of your post, the same could be said for you as well.

They've been slowly disappearing over the last few decades of ignoring them. But hey, why not throw international light on them, stir up the pot, and give them attention to get their message out even wider and see if they can attract more members! Maybe they will even go back and partner up again with the Nation of Islam and both go and attack the Jews!