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It's a juvenile article Dan. Your censure is unjust in my opinion.

This article kind of reminds me of when a report was due in 7'th grade and I didn't really want to do it.

I'd just look up a bunch of stuff and reword it and jam it all together with no real thesis or point. It always passed.

Who wants to drink a beer that had a ball in it that had been rolling around on the floor?

Beer pong is just dumb all the way around even as a freshman in college.

I did notice the org has raised $650K from a variety of sources.

It might be interesting to see the ideological bent of the source of that funding. But I'm guessing it probably isn't oil drillers and Jesus in public school promoters.

Each potential voter decides if they are informed enough. Or at least interested enough. And the two probably go together.

Much of the time the smartest people don't actually do the best. High IQ isn't a guarantee of high achievement.

And _that_ is the real value of media. Advertising always was a side business.

If you trace the root cause of why people are in prison I bet in most cases poverty is a large part.

When will we stop and realize keeping people indefinitely in poverty only makes life worse for everyone? The people behind these kind of schemes are morally more criminal than many of those who are incarcerated. Preying on defenseless or down and out members of society for financial gain is about as low as you can go.

If indeed it's gone one year to the day later.

That probably depends on who you ask.

The point is we already live in that dystopian future. But it isn't machines running things. It's people fighting over scraps. I firmly believe the machines will do better.

So if we don't widen roads because people might have to move then we get more accidents. Or the city can't grow. Or people sit in traffic for extra hours a day.

People's needs need to be taken into account, yes, that is what it is all about in the end.

But a few people's inconvenience or greed outweighing the general progress is not a long term formula for successful society.