Nuclear power is definitely the answer to our current power problems. Fusion is hopefully eventually the answer but regular old fission is orders of magnitude more safe and more efficient than anything else we have. A "person" is smart, "people" are just absolutely dumbfuckery stupid.
Fusion is available now! It's cheap, safe, and it only requires the will to use it, but on the plus side, anyone can!
True, we only have one useable fusion reactor, so everyone has to share it, but as it puts out HUGE amounts of power, there's plenty enough for all. Some may fret about radiation, but that's why we cleverly made sure to keep population centers at a safe distance, of 1 astronomical unit from the reactor. We should all make use of that. Failing to do so is just stupid, honestly.
If only Japan were a chunk of land, conveniently surrounded by some sort of... fluid that has considerable mass, and is in constant motion, flowing around, and around, undulating and oscillating back, and forth, in response to inconceivably immense forces, such as those of the effects of the combined gravitational pulls of the Earth itself, the moon, and the sun, which could be... harvested somehow...
Oh, wait... they are. Why is it that they are not harnessing the energy they HAVE again? That kind, or any of several others?
- a refrigerator where the heat-exchanger takes up the entire inside of the box
- a pencil that is a solid piece of wood with no graphite core, or for that matter, eraser
- a computer mouse with no buttons, switches, knobs, or ball, frankly
- a drill with no chuck
- a chain with no saw
- a ham with no burger...
Then they recruited 17 neurotypical control participants and put them each inside an fMRI scanner. While inside the tube, subjects saw a random series of 30 words. Ten were generally positive, 10 were generally negative, and 10 were specifically associated with death and suicide.
I sure hope no one of any importance in a decision-making position of authority confuses this bullshit with real, legitimate research. Control size was 17. Seventeen controls? How many people are on an professional football team? If you picked 17 people at random, it's easy to get all, or almost all professional football players, and you could extrapolate from that that all, or almost all humans, can play football on a professional level, and all they need is the helmet and pads.
Seventeen is not a large enough sample size for jack or shit. Also, 30 words? Generally negative? Generally positive? According to WHOM? I'll bet for SOME people, the word "Palestinian" is positive, and for some negative. Same for the words "black" and "white". Depends on your point of view, so the 'word list' is garbage... and if only TEN of each group were considered wholly negative or entirely positive...
Yeah, this is bullshit and it's sad if anyone buys into the nonsensical and/or unbelievable drivel. This is gallons and gallons of stew from barely ONE oyster.
Seems interesting, in an academic sense. But as we've been a spacefaring species for decades now and have NOTHING, apparently, ready to go to intercept and even get a good look at this thing, I'd say our leaders and intelligentsia dropped the ball on this one pretty embarrassingly.
In any case, please let me know if it emanates unexplained energy, (i.e., radio frequency or microwaves, etc.,) or appears to change course or speed other than in obvious and well-anticipated response to gravity, from, for example, the sun.
But yeah... we should have been ready for this kind of thing since like the 80s. We should have had a rocket fueled and ready to go to go take a look at any such thing as this as might present itself, because it sure would have been nice to be able to go and get an up-close look at such a thing as this, even all kidding aside, and speculation about Rama... just knowing its chemical makeup would have been nice. I'm not saying we should have had a rocket ready to go GET it, but one capable of landing on it, doing some chemical analysis, and radioing home might have been nice, and it could have said something like...
"Oh, hey guys. This rock is 78% platinum and 3% iridium, plus smaller amounts of lead, uranium, strontium, barium and gallium, plus traces of carbon and iron."
It's a bit unsettling that we didn't notice this until it had passed the earth at a relatively close distance, and passed through the plane of the ecliptic twice. I know the chances of an impact are very low, but the late detection indicates that we may be missing an unknown number of events like this, and may not be correct about estimates of the chances of being hit by one.
When you cross the street, do you look UP as well as left and right? No? Neither do most people, and, well, there's a pretty good reason for that.
PS, we have 50 other states (but Texas is the second largest)
We have 49 other states, (fifty states in total,) unless you are counting psychological states, such as 'of fury' or 'of confusion,' in which case the total is far, far higher.
FTFY.
Much depends on definition chosen. People sometimes assume one definition is the only, and therefore absolute. Texas is not the second largest, in many things. For example, the largest state measured by the size of its coastline, Texas isn't even in the top five. Or considering the length of the perimeter bordering other states or countries, it's probably not second there either. Texas is also probably not the even the second largest in total surface area, as it is extremely FLAT; I'm pretty sure California, with all its mountains, and Hawaii, (including all the wetlands between its various mountain peaks,) both have far, far more land area than pancake-like Texas.
IMF recommended that the world's richest pay higher taxes to ease the disparity of wealth.
An interesting concept. The richest who own or at least control, functionally, the very bodies of government that would have to make new laws to oblige them to pay taxes, would have to allow the legislators they corruptly own or at least control, which they'll never do until they're forced to by laws written by legislators they corruptly own or at least control, functionally, through the corrupting influence of money in politics, in many countries, including the United States, which won't stop until someone enacts a law to prevent the legislators from being bought, which none of them will do because they know if they don't do the bidding of the people who own, or at least control them, functionally, someone else will be found by the super-rich to do it instead, and once elected WITH their help, they'll always know they better fall in line and do what their owners (or at least, their "donors," as they like to pretend they should be called,) tell them to do, and NOT do anything they tell them NOT to do, because otherwise they'll lose their jobs, as new opponents are found and funded, perpetuating the cycle on and on forever and ever and EVER...
Any of you noticing a PATTERN here?
We can depend NEITHER on the rich, nor the useless government that just works for them, even in an alleged "democracy" (hahaha) as it is really an OLIGARCHY. Anyone who tells you different is mistaken, lying, or parroting someone who is, again, mistaken, or lying. We have to find a way out of this ourselves or we'll be here forever.
You're officially almost half a century behind UNIX on basic filesystem security features. For your next update, why not consider implementing RUNLEVELS?!?
God Microsoft sucks. It's all the more embarrassing because they've been hoovering up MILLIONS (billions?) of dollars to churn out garbage, incapable of being secured, crippleware, and people have been paying them to do it. What a joke.
From the man page for chmod:
A chmod command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX.
The chmod command changes FILE PERMISSIONS, including for files that are FOLDERS, as they like to call them, (or directories/subdirectories, as they're really known).
Today no country on earth will let lose with these armaments because the retaliation would be devastating.
Even North Korea must know that internally.
But it sure seems like a bad idea to have these systems on 24 hour alert. Especially since retaliation with nukes essentially destroys both sides.
Of course I'll take a lot of heat for taking this position. But after reading books on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, along with survivor accounts, and photographs- I could draw no other conclusion.
Nukes go way beyond military supremacy issues- into overkill. No pun intended.
The trouble is if someone screws up in a situation like this, if a single failsafe system fails, and doesn't do so as intended, you know... safely--if anything goes wrong, pop goes the planet. It's all well and good to say NK knows if they fired their entire arsenal at the US, one or two missiles MIGHT manage to arrive, and maybe even a weapon detonates, killing maybe tens of thousands of Americans, or perhaps a bit more, and that we in return would NUKE their entire country out of existence. BUT... what if they ALSO know that if they manage to get ONE through, and we throw thousands at THEM, that Russia and China, also countries with nuclear weapons, MIGHT think some of the inbound heading towards nearby (to them,) North Korea, are actually heading THEIR way, and THEY might respond TOO.
Could actually be that Li'l Kim thinks sending a few will show the US who's NOT the boss anymore, and that we wouldn't DARE retaliate because they can't really do THAT much damage with what little they yet have, BUT that if WE retaliate, their NEIGHBORS will retaliate.
Then of course, maybe someone screws up and misinterprets a missile TEST as the start of something, and fires their own. Or maybe someone who is just paranoid in one of the other nearby nuclear-weapon-armed nations gets overly paranoid, and confuses a flock of birds for an inbound American ICBM and launches a retaliatory strike, when neither the US nor NK has fired, launched, or dropped ANYTHING, and so then there's a retaliation for that...
Long story short, this is like being on a bus where the driver thinks it's funny to drive WAY too close to the edge of the roadway, a few feet away from a thousand-foot drop off a sheer vertical cliff, blissfully unaware of the aneurisms getting ready to pop either in one of the bus's front (steering) tires, which when it blows will cause the bus to veer right off the cliff, which if we were not driving so close to the edge, wouldn't be that big of a risk, especially if the bus were driving at a reasonable speed, or the one in his HEAD, which will cause him to flop over dead on top of the steering wheel causing the bus... yep, to plunge right off the cliff.
Then the driver, an unqualified sub-moron in a clown suit and an oversized ego, starts wrenching the steering-wheel back and forth because... well, he assumes nothing can possibly go wrong, and also he's a dick.
I'd rather, when it's the lives of all of us on the line, all our children and grandchildren, our friends, our neighbors, and the very future of all life on earth, to drive cautiously, and not near the edge of a cliff.
This is what happens when you let political corruption end up presenting the people of what claims to be a democracy a pseudo-choice between one corrupt option, and another corrupt option who is also incompetent, and the electorate is convinced they have to vote for one or the other, rather than quite literally anyone else, all of whom would be better choices than these LOSERS.
If by some miracle we all survive these next few years, I say we abolish the "two-party" system that gave us this nightmare, and a completely, hopelessly, utterly useless, ineffective government. HOW, you ask? Simple.
Don't vote for anyone who is nominated by or in any way affiliated with or supported by, (etc., etc., etc.,) either the "Republican," (that's a laugh,) or "Democratic" (hahaha) Party.
Ever.
No matter how badly people threaten you, or how much people insist you HAVE to vote for THIER loser, just to prevent the "even worse" option from winning.
That's what they tried last time. Look how it turned out.
I've been there. You can tour it. I forget exactly where, (it was over a dozen years ago,) but the town's soul is now literally underneath the modern city. Once upon a time it would flood there routinely, so to prevent future damage, the city raised the grade about a whole floor, 10 or 12 feet UP, and issued people ladders, but made them, property-owners, individually responsible for connecting an opening on the second floor of their buildings, to the new elevated grade. Many people died, they said on the tour, returning from a night of drinking and being unable to navigate the ladders, until finally all the holes around buildings were covered.
BUT the underground, or portions of it, are still there, and it's a fascinating tour, and parts are illuminated by grates in the sidewalk above, or by inset pieces of glass that people above walk all over daily. If I were within less than a hundred miles of the place, (instead of across the country,) I'd go visit it again.
Hmmm... road trip?
I love how this keeps coming up as if crypto-mining is going to happen INSTEAD OF advertising. Kind of like how cable came about and you would pay for the service instead of having commercials. Sure, maybe some advertising goes away at first. But it will come back as bad as ever.
I can't help but wonder if they won't make it so that in order to view the CONTENT of the webpage, the crypto miner loads and must being running, and start cranking out results, in order for the page to load the ADS, which in turn must be visible for some number of seconds BEFORE the page itself, the content that was the reason for navigating to the site, actually loads, thus giving MORE time for the miner to run, ensuring you haven't blocked it, AND making sure they got their money's worth.
If I were an evil programming genius/business-criminal, that's how I would do it. I'd make my page start nice and clean, display a banner with an ad, and have a text-box below that requires you to type one of the following things: the name of the company the ad is FOR, the name of the product being advertised, or something else that could only be entered demonstrating that the user has seen and understands the ad.
Thankfully, I don't have my own website.
Actually, that gives me an idea. You know the CAPTCHAs that require you to click on all the boxes with a street sign in them, or each one with a bird in it? What if they did that with ADS? Like, in order to view the website you're trying to get to, you must click each box with a corporate logo in it, or click each box with a food item in it.
They could even go really nuts with this. I can envision a world in which advertisers use picking their products as gatekeepers. Like for example: the ad shows a couple people enjoying lunch at a food court at a mall. One of them is eating food from McRonald's, and another from Meat-Sandwich Prince, and the ad requires users to click on "the box containing the freshest, most delicious hamburger," and if you click on the one from the sponsor, it lets you through to the site, and if you click on the other, it takes you to a page of search results featuring their competitor's name or the names of flagship products, like "the Whipper," and words like "diarrhea," "food-borne-illness," and "lawsuit".
I agree with you, it'll most likely be all-of-the-above, until we fix the rules and laws underpinning our economic system so that having the most profitable company doesn't get you the greatest rewards, but so that the rewards of being innovative and/or industrious and managing things well are tempered with how the company behaves, vis-a-vis protecting customer privacy, data, and the environment that their customers (and the people in general) have to live in.
But I digress. It'll be ads AND crypto-mining, AND reporting on your location, in addition to your browsing history, the contents of your messages, all the data that can be pinned to you via Internet of Things devices, etc.
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Nuclear power is definitely the answer to our current power problems. Fusion is hopefully eventually the answer but regular old fission is orders of magnitude more safe and more efficient than anything else we have. A "person" is smart, "people" are just absolutely dumbfuckery stupid.
Fusion is available now! It's cheap, safe, and it only requires the will to use it, but on the plus side, anyone can!
True, we only have one useable fusion reactor, so everyone has to share it, but as it puts out HUGE amounts of power, there's plenty enough for all. Some may fret about radiation, but that's why we cleverly made sure to keep population centers at a safe distance, of 1 astronomical unit from the reactor. We should all make use of that. Failing to do so is just stupid, honestly.
If only Japan were a chunk of land, conveniently surrounded by some sort of... fluid that has considerable mass, and is in constant motion, flowing around, and around, undulating and oscillating back, and forth, in response to inconceivably immense forces, such as those of the effects of the combined gravitational pulls of the Earth itself, the moon, and the sun, which could be... harvested somehow...
Oh, wait... they are. Why is it that they are not harnessing the energy they HAVE again? That kind, or any of several others?
An AUDIO DEVICE with no headphone jack is like...
- a refrigerator where the heat-exchanger takes up the entire inside of the box
- a pencil that is a solid piece of wood with no graphite core, or for that matter, eraser
- a computer mouse with no buttons, switches, knobs, or ball, frankly
- a drill with no chuck
- a chain with no saw
- a ham with no burger...
Yeah, you keep that.
Then they recruited 17 neurotypical control participants and put them each inside an fMRI scanner. While inside the tube, subjects saw a random series of 30 words. Ten were generally positive, 10 were generally negative, and 10 were specifically associated with death and suicide.
I sure hope no one of any importance in a decision-making position of authority confuses this bullshit with real, legitimate research. Control size was 17. Seventeen controls? How many people are on an professional football team? If you picked 17 people at random, it's easy to get all, or almost all professional football players, and you could extrapolate from that that all, or almost all humans, can play football on a professional level, and all they need is the helmet and pads.
Seventeen is not a large enough sample size for jack or shit. Also, 30 words? Generally negative? Generally positive? According to WHOM? I'll bet for SOME people, the word "Palestinian" is positive, and for some negative. Same for the words "black" and "white". Depends on your point of view, so the 'word list' is garbage... and if only TEN of each group were considered wholly negative or entirely positive...
Yeah, this is bullshit and it's sad if anyone buys into the nonsensical and/or unbelievable drivel. This is gallons and gallons of stew from barely ONE oyster.
Seems interesting, in an academic sense. But as we've been a spacefaring species for decades now and have NOTHING, apparently, ready to go to intercept and even get a good look at this thing, I'd say our leaders and intelligentsia dropped the ball on this one pretty embarrassingly.
In any case, please let me know if it emanates unexplained energy, (i.e., radio frequency or microwaves, etc.,) or appears to change course or speed other than in obvious and well-anticipated response to gravity, from, for example, the sun.
But yeah... we should have been ready for this kind of thing since like the 80s. We should have had a rocket fueled and ready to go to go take a look at any such thing as this as might present itself, because it sure would have been nice to be able to go and get an up-close look at such a thing as this, even all kidding aside, and speculation about Rama... just knowing its chemical makeup would have been nice. I'm not saying we should have had a rocket ready to go GET it, but one capable of landing on it, doing some chemical analysis, and radioing home might have been nice, and it could have said something like...
"Oh, hey guys. This rock is 78% platinum and 3% iridium, plus smaller amounts of lead, uranium, strontium, barium and gallium, plus traces of carbon and iron."
But now we'll just never know.
It's a bit unsettling that we didn't notice this until it had passed the earth at a relatively close distance, and passed through the plane of the ecliptic twice. I know the chances of an impact are very low, but the late detection indicates that we may be missing an unknown number of events like this, and may not be correct about estimates of the chances of being hit by one.
When you cross the street, do you look UP as well as left and right? No? Neither do most people, and, well, there's a pretty good reason for that.
One Texas is 33.45 Wales.
PS, we have 50 other states (but Texas is the second largest)
We have 49 other states, (fifty states in total,) unless you are counting psychological states, such as 'of fury' or 'of confusion,' in which case the total is far, far higher.
FTFY.
Much depends on definition chosen. People sometimes assume one definition is the only, and therefore absolute. Texas is not the second largest, in many things. For example, the largest state measured by the size of its coastline, Texas isn't even in the top five. Or considering the length of the perimeter bordering other states or countries, it's probably not second there either. Texas is also probably not the even the second largest in total surface area, as it is extremely FLAT; I'm pretty sure California, with all its mountains, and Hawaii, (including all the wetlands between its various mountain peaks,) both have far, far more land area than pancake-like Texas.
IMF recommended that the world's richest pay higher taxes to ease the disparity of wealth.
An interesting concept. The richest who own or at least control, functionally, the very bodies of government that would have to make new laws to oblige them to pay taxes, would have to allow the legislators they corruptly own or at least control, which they'll never do until they're forced to by laws written by legislators they corruptly own or at least control, functionally, through the corrupting influence of money in politics, in many countries, including the United States, which won't stop until someone enacts a law to prevent the legislators from being bought, which none of them will do because they know if they don't do the bidding of the people who own, or at least control them, functionally, someone else will be found by the super-rich to do it instead, and once elected WITH their help, they'll always know they better fall in line and do what their owners (or at least, their "donors," as they like to pretend they should be called,) tell them to do, and NOT do anything they tell them NOT to do, because otherwise they'll lose their jobs, as new opponents are found and funded, perpetuating the cycle on and on forever and ever and EVER...
Any of you noticing a PATTERN here?
We can depend NEITHER on the rich, nor the useless government that just works for them, even in an alleged "democracy" (hahaha) as it is really an OLIGARCHY. Anyone who tells you different is mistaken, lying, or parroting someone who is, again, mistaken, or lying. We have to find a way out of this ourselves or we'll be here forever.
Just saying.
You're officially almost half a century behind UNIX on basic filesystem security features. For your next update, why not consider implementing RUNLEVELS?!?
God Microsoft sucks. It's all the more embarrassing because they've been hoovering up MILLIONS (billions?) of dollars to churn out garbage, incapable of being secured, crippleware, and people have been paying them to do it. What a joke.
From the man page for chmod:
A chmod command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX.
The chmod command changes FILE PERMISSIONS, including for files that are FOLDERS, as they like to call them, (or directories/subdirectories, as they're really known).
Today no country on earth will let lose with these armaments because the retaliation would be devastating.
Even North Korea must know that internally.
But it sure seems like a bad idea to have these systems on 24 hour alert. Especially since retaliation with nukes essentially destroys both sides.
Of course I'll take a lot of heat for taking this position. But after reading books on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, along with survivor accounts, and photographs- I could draw no other conclusion.
Nukes go way beyond military supremacy issues- into overkill. No pun intended.
The trouble is if someone screws up in a situation like this, if a single failsafe system fails, and doesn't do so as intended, you know... safely--if anything goes wrong, pop goes the planet. It's all well and good to say NK knows if they fired their entire arsenal at the US, one or two missiles MIGHT manage to arrive, and maybe even a weapon detonates, killing maybe tens of thousands of Americans, or perhaps a bit more, and that we in return would NUKE their entire country out of existence. BUT... what if they ALSO know that if they manage to get ONE through, and we throw thousands at THEM, that Russia and China, also countries with nuclear weapons, MIGHT think some of the inbound heading towards nearby (to them,) North Korea, are actually heading THEIR way, and THEY might respond TOO.
Could actually be that Li'l Kim thinks sending a few will show the US who's NOT the boss anymore, and that we wouldn't DARE retaliate because they can't really do THAT much damage with what little they yet have, BUT that if WE retaliate, their NEIGHBORS will retaliate.
Then of course, maybe someone screws up and misinterprets a missile TEST as the start of something, and fires their own. Or maybe someone who is just paranoid in one of the other nearby nuclear-weapon-armed nations gets overly paranoid, and confuses a flock of birds for an inbound American ICBM and launches a retaliatory strike, when neither the US nor NK has fired, launched, or dropped ANYTHING, and so then there's a retaliation for that...
Long story short, this is like being on a bus where the driver thinks it's funny to drive WAY too close to the edge of the roadway, a few feet away from a thousand-foot drop off a sheer vertical cliff, blissfully unaware of the aneurisms getting ready to pop either in one of the bus's front (steering) tires, which when it blows will cause the bus to veer right off the cliff, which if we were not driving so close to the edge, wouldn't be that big of a risk, especially if the bus were driving at a reasonable speed, or the one in his HEAD, which will cause him to flop over dead on top of the steering wheel causing the bus... yep, to plunge right off the cliff.
Then the driver, an unqualified sub-moron in a clown suit and an oversized ego, starts wrenching the steering-wheel back and forth because... well, he assumes nothing can possibly go wrong, and also he's a dick.
I'd rather, when it's the lives of all of us on the line, all our children and grandchildren, our friends, our neighbors, and the very future of all life on earth, to drive cautiously, and not near the edge of a cliff.
This is what happens when you let political corruption end up presenting the people of what claims to be a democracy a pseudo-choice between one corrupt option, and another corrupt option who is also incompetent, and the electorate is convinced they have to vote for one or the other, rather than quite literally anyone else, all of whom would be better choices than these LOSERS.
If by some miracle we all survive these next few years, I say we abolish the "two-party" system that gave us this nightmare, and a completely, hopelessly, utterly useless, ineffective government. HOW, you ask? Simple.
Don't vote for anyone who is nominated by or in any way affiliated with or supported by, (etc., etc., etc.,) either the "Republican," (that's a laugh,) or "Democratic" (hahaha) Party.
Ever.
No matter how badly people threaten you, or how much people insist you HAVE to vote for THIER loser, just to prevent the "even worse" option from winning.
That's what they tried last time. Look how it turned out.
That WOULD be the only way to be sure.
I've been there. You can tour it. I forget exactly where, (it was over a dozen years ago,) but the town's soul is now literally underneath the modern city. Once upon a time it would flood there routinely, so to prevent future damage, the city raised the grade about a whole floor, 10 or 12 feet UP, and issued people ladders, but made them, property-owners, individually responsible for connecting an opening on the second floor of their buildings, to the new elevated grade. Many people died, they said on the tour, returning from a night of drinking and being unable to navigate the ladders, until finally all the holes around buildings were covered. BUT the underground, or portions of it, are still there, and it's a fascinating tour, and parts are illuminated by grates in the sidewalk above, or by inset pieces of glass that people above walk all over daily. If I were within less than a hundred miles of the place, (instead of across the country,) I'd go visit it again. Hmmm... road trip?
I love how this keeps coming up as if crypto-mining is going to happen INSTEAD OF advertising. Kind of like how cable came about and you would pay for the service instead of having commercials. Sure, maybe some advertising goes away at first. But it will come back as bad as ever.
I can't help but wonder if they won't make it so that in order to view the CONTENT of the webpage, the crypto miner loads and must being running, and start cranking out results, in order for the page to load the ADS, which in turn must be visible for some number of seconds BEFORE the page itself, the content that was the reason for navigating to the site, actually loads, thus giving MORE time for the miner to run, ensuring you haven't blocked it, AND making sure they got their money's worth.
If I were an evil programming genius/business-criminal, that's how I would do it. I'd make my page start nice and clean, display a banner with an ad, and have a text-box below that requires you to type one of the following things: the name of the company the ad is FOR, the name of the product being advertised, or something else that could only be entered demonstrating that the user has seen and understands the ad.
Thankfully, I don't have my own website.
Actually, that gives me an idea. You know the CAPTCHAs that require you to click on all the boxes with a street sign in them, or each one with a bird in it? What if they did that with ADS? Like, in order to view the website you're trying to get to, you must click each box with a corporate logo in it, or click each box with a food item in it.
They could even go really nuts with this. I can envision a world in which advertisers use picking their products as gatekeepers. Like for example: the ad shows a couple people enjoying lunch at a food court at a mall. One of them is eating food from McRonald's, and another from Meat-Sandwich Prince, and the ad requires users to click on "the box containing the freshest, most delicious hamburger," and if you click on the one from the sponsor, it lets you through to the site, and if you click on the other, it takes you to a page of search results featuring their competitor's name or the names of flagship products, like "the Whipper," and words like "diarrhea," "food-borne-illness," and "lawsuit".
I agree with you, it'll most likely be all-of-the-above, until we fix the rules and laws underpinning our economic system so that having the most profitable company doesn't get you the greatest rewards, but so that the rewards of being innovative and/or industrious and managing things well are tempered with how the company behaves, vis-a-vis protecting customer privacy, data, and the environment that their customers (and the people in general) have to live in.
But I digress. It'll be ads AND crypto-mining, AND reporting on your location, in addition to your browsing history, the contents of your messages, all the data that can be pinned to you via Internet of Things devices, etc.