As if he'd ever see a kid walking in front of that thing.
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I guess you've never have neighbors with bamboo!
It has long since become a problem for every neighbor that borders their yard. I've been digging the runners our of my yard since we moved in 8 years ago, and I'm about ready to spend ~$10k on remediation (burying a wall that the roots can't penetrate).
It is not native and grows out of control where I live. It takes over acres too densely for anything else to grow.
Can we harvest bamboo to extinction next?! Starting with my neighbor's yard...
As a parent: happiness is about expectations. The exhuberance of youth can carry them as long as we aren't preparing them for the halcyon, easy days of the 1990s. Life will be hard, it always has been, but there can still be fun and rewarding experiences. They need to know resilience, independence, and be quick on their feet both mentally and physically.
There are many Great Filters, but this one is mine (ours).
This "too dangerous to exist" argument is seemingly more true for nuclear technology, but the world recognized the threat and came together to manage it.
I will grant you that database and ability to search it lends itself easily to popular oppression, but it still requires thinking, breathing humans to do the oppressing.
Most technology is not dangerous without psychopaths in power, and damn near everything is dangerous with psychopaths in power.
I came here to make this comment less cogently. You have it exactly.
Now, does it violate US law and multiple Executive Orders to search the database to get dirt on US Citizens and use it against their election campaign? Yes. Yes it does. But this administration thinks laws are for sissies.
The US has needed rank choice voting since Nixon at least.
TSA and Customs both scan your face instead of your ID/ passport now for adults. It seems like the government has confidence in it?