FEMA has a webpage for catalogging and responding to rumors about the hurricane response, though I don't see any as extreme as the ones mentioned in this thread: https://www.fema.gov/disaster/recover/rumor/hurricane-rumor-response
I'm skeptical of how much this will help after seeing how misinformation spread during COVID, but at least they're trying.
Red Bull commercials confused me so much in my younger years. Obviously it can't make you fly, so what does it do?
Even into my adult years, I've found myself avoiding energy drinks, not just because they usually taste awful, but also because they trigger this subconscious feeling that they're trying to scam me.
I guess cuz it sounds enough like the much more common saying "as the crow flies".
I have also never heard it used to describe direction, only distance.
I hate to post because I have loved and trusted Wikipedia for years, but the fact that there are folks out there who equally trust what AI tools generate just baffles me.
Dang. It's like he's using an asset to lessen the impact of a legal penalty. If only there were some form of legal penalty that were equally impactful on all people regardless of how well-resourced they were.
Wasn't this man fined a gazillion dollars? How is he still able to say things and have me hear about them?
Get a load of this!! Get a load of this!!
A bus pass maybe, that way you can just get on and not have to fumble around paying the fare when you board.
The key point is that if it's not signed, it gives them an excuse to throw it away.
Do that to enough people and you end up with a big problem. The uncounted votes could swing the election, or you get a messy court case where some judges step in and basically decide the election on their own, or who knows what else.
At a minimum, it's sets the stage for chaos. And from the chaos can emerge a chaotic outcome.
Side note: do I have this right? You can actually picture a time in the foreseeable future where you never have to use Excel again?
If so, I am soooo deeply envious of you :P
Already lots of great answers, but I'll add a note about intentional barriers to exit.
Many services tend to make it easy to sign up and comparably more difficult to quit. So while people always can leave and take their business elsewhere, they might not have the motivation to do it. I imagine each additional click in a form deters more and more people. OP mentioned being unmotivated, and these barriers play into that.
It's like wandering around in Ikea. You could use a map and chart out the fastest route to find what you need and get out. But it's so much easier to follow the little path they draw out on the floor and look at everything, which makes you way more likely to impulsively buy something extra.
The warriors of the resistance to the AI-pocalypse will wear red sneakers and wisecrack like it's 1994.