That, and the idea that humans are now programmable and the concept of free will is over. He and his son-of-a-Nazi mentor, Klaus Schwab, want to turn you into the Borg. Literally.
Harrari is a class A megalomaniac and psychopath. Study him if you like, but never let that fact slip your mind as you read his psychotic musings.
There's really very little difference between far left and far right. They're both radical extremes that allow no diversity of thought and that demand unquestioning allegiance to the tribe. Contrary to popular sentiment (or media narratives) they will both resort to verbal and physical violence in support of their views. The only real difference is their opinion of government. Leftist want a total nanny state, far right-wingers want anarchy -- until one of them actually takes power. Then they both take the form of a dictatorship in some form.
Unfortunately, in today's atmosphere (and the sentiment in your comment seems to betray this), people on the left view anyone who's actually a moderate or even slightly right-of-center as "far right".
The problem with your example is that
1] actually happened.
2] is a media/political fabrication being proven in a court of law at this very moment.
And to the point of this article, and many comments here, the news is much more homogenized than people think, because I'm quite sure you've heard no factual coverage of the latter from ANY pundit who sits in front of a TV camera.
The true magnitude of the bot problem is exposed in court.
Twitter is exposed for not only lying to Musk, they're also now in trouble for lying to the SEC (for years) and by that same token, lying to investors and advertisers.
Twitter stock crashes to an unthinkable low, DWAC buys it all up.
This is a pretty good example - now just apply it to the actual problem. The amount of currency in circulation.
Inflation isn't about the cost of goods or services actually costing more. They don't. If anything, the cost of production today is far less than it was 50 to 100 years ago because of advances in technology and automation.
It's about the value of the dollar becoming less and less - because there are too many dollars in circulation, which aren't backed by anything real to begin with. "Real" could be something which has a finite supply that we attach an arbitrary value to, like precious metals, or it could be something vitally (needed for life) necessary in today's world like wheat or oil. But for decades now, newly created currency is just an entry in the Fed's ledger book, created out of thin air, backed by nothing.
In your example both the size of the room and the heat represent aspects of currency (note I did not say "money"). The size of the room is the purchasing power of dollars leveraged against the actual effectiveness of the heat. The heat itself, is the value of the currency. The size of the room represents the price of goods.
As the room gets bigger, the heat becomes less effective (it loses value). So pumping in more heat becomes required. When more heat than necessary gets pumped in (on purpose - and it is done on purpose), the room will begin to overheat and no one will want anymore (so it loses its value again). The sane solution would be to stop pumping in more heat - but instead, the same people supplying the heat decide to enlarge the room again, because they are in the business creating heat and charging a fee to deliver it ("they" would be the Federal Reserve - or any private, western central bank).
So the room (i.e. price of goods) must be enlarged over and over again (artificially and unnecessarily) in order for a new infusion of heat to have any value to the people in the room. This in turn, requires the occupants of the room to keep forking over more money in delivery fees to keep the room at a comfortable temperature. If this becomes unfeasible, they may be forced to take out loans to have more usable heat. Now they're paying money for both the heat itself, plus interest on the loan for supplying it in the first place (and they owe it to the same people).
Once you wrap your ahead around the fact that the enlarging of the room and the supply of heat are actually controlled by the same people (who make their money creating heat and charging to deliver it), you then understand that the entire financial system we currently enjoy, is nothing but a giant, legalized system of usury. That delivery fee you owe for supplying the heat is called "interest".
This type of system will always (and is designed to) collapse at pretty regular intervals. When it does, those who control the flow of heat will shut it down, and have legal authority to confiscate the room from the occupants who took out loans for more heat, but couldn't afford to pay it back.
What makes the whole thing more insidious, is that the people supplying the heat never actually owned it to begin with, nor did they create it. It would be as if the room (once upon a time) had a natural heat supply from, say, and underground geothermal source. But some strong-armed, outside entity stepped in, capped that off, and started charging the people in the room for access to what was once naturally available - free of charge.
I think it's just more political correctness gone wild. The vast majority of Spanish speakers in America are from Mexico but it somehow became derogatory to refer to them as "Mexican". How is that any different than calling somebody a Puerto Rican or a Brazilian? It simply denotes their place of origin.
This is very true and I think people forget that they have the support of almost all mainstream media. This gives the very false impression that they (and their ideologies) represent the majority of the public - but in reality, this is far from true.
Look at ratings for national sports (MLB, NBA especially) lately. This year's Oscars had the worst rating in history.
Coca-Cola's sales plummeted after their "woke" employee training was exposed. Same for Disney. Same for Delta. Parents around the country are descending on their local school boards demanding that Critical Race Theory be abolished.
On the opposite end, when the left tried to "cancel" Goya for supporting Trump, it backfired. Sales went through the roof.
These people are a tiny minority of the population made to seem much bigger and more accepted than they really are by media, politicians and (most unfortunately) Universities - which have become Socialist re-education camps.
I'm not sure how no one has figured out that the long-term goal of the Democrats is to eradicate the middle class entirely.
To be fair, it's not a Democrat or Republican thing at all; although, in recent years, the Democrats have become the public face of the (dare I say it) Deep State. Almost everyone in congress is someone else's puppet, controlled through blackmail or bribery. They do the bidding of faceless, nameless, un-elected globalists, who's long-term agenda is, and has always has been, the total control of all aspects of society.
Their mandate is to vote in favor of policies that benefit the elite, not the working class.
It is no accident that the education system in the US has become what it is today. It does not educate, it indoctrinates. It teaches kids what to think, not how to think.
And those that do manage to get a four-year degree are often no better equipped to step into high-paying jobs than they were before. So they're not getting the job offers and they now have huge student loans to pay off.
The elite do not want a population of thinking individuals who ask questions. They want people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, but not so smart that they start questioning the system.
As Trump said, "The system is rigged". And as George Carlin said, "It's a big club, and YOU AIN'T IN IT."
Phones have GPS. In states where texting and driving is banned, why isn't there some way to program the phone so that it simply doesn't function if it detects a speed of over 5-10 mph?
I just don't see a problem with that since it's already the law.
It could then send an automated message back to the caller letting them know the owner appears to be driving and can't take your call.
I'm sure many of us here are old enough to remember life before cell phones and I can guarantee you that there's almost never anything so emergent that it can't wait until you get to your destination.
That's the attitude of most everyone, and hence the reason it won't change. But IF.. (just if) a few hundred million people decided to ditch Chrome and Google's "services" (data collectors in disguise), Google might be forced to take notice.
On the other hand, never say never to Google's dominance going out the window. They may find themselves in very deep trouble in the not too distant future.
Let's not be naive. The Big Brother agenda of Google didn't happen in a vacuum. They have government support and protection from some factions of our intelligence agencies to this day (although, perhaps not for much longer). The whole original concept of "Google" as a search engine (and tracking app) was originally a program of DARPA (same for Facebook - originally called "LifeLog"). Do you really think they cut all ties with the government when they went public? Neither Google or Facebook are what they appear to be.
"Privacy" in the sense that it pertains to selling your info to advertisers is just a sideshow; i.e. not the real problem.
Microsoft has closed down their Flight Simulation franchise twice now, presumably because it became unprofitable.
Microsoft isn't launching this new simulator for nostalgic reasons - they are a business.
This next incarnation, as many have speculated, will almost certainly NOT be a program you install locally. So what happens when the servers go down, or your internet connection is not working?
Most importantly: Many people are speculating that 3rd party content will only be available through MS's online store. So not only is the simulator NOT installed locally, any add-on aircraft or scenery you purchase will also only exist in your online account.
People could easily spend several hundred dollars for add-on aircraft and scenery, so what happens if this venture isn't the success MS hopes it will be? They may close it down again and this time, all your stuff goes "POOF". Do you get a refund? I think not.
Harrari is a class A megalomaniac and psychopath. Study him if you like, but never let that fact slip your mind as you read his psychotic musings.