@wtg said in Google age verification??: @AdagioM said in Google age verification??: I certainly wouldn’t give them a picture of my ID, nor my credit card. +1 This. Even if it is a legit email from Google, I don’t want to upload a photo of my ID, nor a photo of myself. Nor share my CC details.

I didn’t hit Agree for their terms and conditions, so didn’t read it. But I generally have some old bread sitting around, and I use it to make croutons for soup. I just cut it into squares and toast them in a skillet.

STOP! In the name of law, before you tax the peeps…think it o-o-ver!

Great info. Thanks!

He is so pathetic. President Donald Trump called for making major changes to U.S. voting systems after Democrats won big on Election Day. Democrats won races on Tuesday for governor in Virginia and New Jersey and passed a measure in California aimed at adding more Democratic seats in the House of Representatives. Trump responded to the Democratic victories with a Truth Social post in which he called for voter reform, including voter identification and banning mail voting, according to Newsweek. Earlier on Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the White House was exploring an executive order to ban mail voting. She specifically criticized voting in California, which she said, without evidence, encouraged “blatant” fraud, according to PBS News. Trump said in a separate Truth Social post that voting in California was a “giant scam” and was under “very serious legal and criminal review.” Trump routinely criticizes election results as fraudulent when they don’t go his way. He has long been critical of mail voting in particular. https://www.syracuse.com/politics/2025/11/giant-scam-trump-calls-for-changes-to-voting-after-democratic-wins-on-election-night.html

The federal judge overseeing former FBI Director James Comey's legal challenge to the appointment of Lindsey Halligan as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia has ordered prosecutors to hand over a full transcript of Halligan's presentation to the grand jury that voted to indict Comey. Judge Cameron Currie, who was appointed outside of the district to review the validity of Halligan's appointment, said in an order Tuesday that a transcript handed over by prosecutors "fails to include remarks made by the indictment signer both before and after the testimony of the sole witness, which remarks were referenced by the indictment signer during the witness's testimony." https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-comey-case-orders-prosecutors-hand-full-transcript/story?id=127181809

I saw it show up on Netflix, I’ll check it out!

I don't see it so much about good vs bad, because few things can be categorized that easily. I think the issues around AI involve trying to assess how it will change our lives ( I think those changes will be massive) and how to adjust accordingly. Now coming to "critical thinking." Why do we want people to think critically? Why do we want our kids and students to think critically? Is "critical thinking" an end by itself or are we trying to achieve certain personal or societal benefits through critical thinking? If the end is some other things and "critical thinking" is merely a means to achieve that end, what if AI can get us to the end faster? In my opinion speed is not necessarily better. And it shouldn't be the only consideration. Focusing only on efficiency ignores a whole host of other possible issues that I think we can ill afford to do. The potential societal impacts are huge. Can we get things done faster and possibly more cheaply with minimal or no human intervention? Sure, but that leaves a very large segment of our population without jobs, with a resulting loss of income and also personal satisfaction that seems to be a basic human need for many. Even if people were "taken care of", I'm thinking a lot of them will still have a fundamental drive that will remain As far as "critical thinking" is concerned, maybe future humans will evolve in a way that they no longer have the need for control over their lives and a need for free will, but I'm not at all certain that is likely. I personally wouldn't want to live in a society where someone else wields all the power and money and who makes all the decisions and I'm just taken care of like a pet. Or the alternative scenario, that I have no way to make a living and have to struggle to survive. They will be interesting times no matter how things play out.

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The responses are dmam good.

@kluurs Ken- always with a snappy comebacks. how did he come up with that in only two months?

@Steve-Miller said in Didn’t see this coming: Just watched it. Yikes! Exactly.

@AndyD said in About that White House ballroom and the East Wing: He's been given the Order of the Boot Lol!

When is the party?

A Crown for One, a Go Board for the Other: S. Korea’s Tailored Gifts to Trump and Xi https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/11/01/a-crown-for-one-a-go-board-for-the-other-s-koreas-tailored-gifts-to-trump-and-xi/ Kind of says it all.