I've now watched this happen on a project, where a manual process was replaced with a tool that automatically handled one specific common use case and ignored all others. People started using it and forgot how the underlying system works. It only took a couple of months.

State Dept. source speculated to me in March that the purpose of making fentanyl a WMD "is a combination of designating fentanyl cartels as terrorist organizations and creating justification for conducting military operations in Mexico and Canada" and "deporting drug users who are not citizens."

Long-hair cat's fur is getting matted, so a bath with conditioner is incoming. I anticipate accomplishing this will require a substantial sacrifice of my blood. She does *not* like being held.

I have found that ignoring the existence of that event is the best choice.

But it's very important to see the trick the tech industry is trying to play on us. If AI is in every product, and the states cannot regulate AI, then the states cannot regulate technology at all. This applies to basic consumer and anti-discrimination protections. These people are our enemies.

My actual noble had an "incident" involving a fire imp. Now the liaison keeps showing up, offering to promote my fort, and then leaping off the top of the waterfall. I think we're on the 17th outpost liaison now.

And it's not like there aren't open standards that they *could* have gone with for a network filesystem that have generally worked since the 1980s.