Flashing lights are much harder to predict the movement of.
I think both: steady light so you can see and drivers can properly track you; flashing light to grab attention

I consider aetheism to be more an absence of belief in gods.
Its not that i believe there arent gods. Its that i have no belief in gods.
The former being anti-god/anti-religion. And the later being anti-belief.
Maybe like "not accidentally cutting yourself" and "not having a knife". Both lead to "not accidentally cutting yourself", but 1 involves a knife.

That one is structural

Except they did actually exist and did actually work.
https://youtu.be/U8mSHKsyWDw

Well, for analog CRTs

It's a souper joke

Yeh, this is common.
I've heard of PPI (Producer Pleaser Indicator) which is a mixing desk channel not routed anywhere but can be fiddled with to meet client demands.
And there is the DFA (Does Fuck All). Similar concept

They will be using data center compute to generate the traffic, but proxy it through residential proxies and other compromised devices that form a botnet.
Central generation with remote access for the trolls, and distributed outbound traffic.

First of all, I like the alliteration of examples I always struggle with things like that, and alliteration is an obvious (now, to me) bridge for these.

explore ideas too large to fit in our brains

Another excellent explanation of programming.
And it really does describe the programming of tasks, from punch card weaving machines, to punch card data entry, to direct data entry, to punch card processing, direct processing, and eventually the whole Operating System, Assembly, and Higher Level Languages... And all of the steps between that have since developed.
You can become an expert in memory management, and that idea fits into your brain. And you build the APIs that mean memory management doesn't have to fit into other people's brains. So they can work on instruction optimisation, or storage optimisation.

Standing on the shoulders of giants.
There is so much that can be solved with programming these days, but actual people have so much more... Peoplesness, humanity, realness... That some things aren't worth programming yet... That problem hasn't been solved yet

It's almost anything.

Objects? Python macro into FreeCAD into 3d printer. (Maybe there is a better way? I like having that final 3d editing space to tweak).

Literally any data-> data system. If you have structured data, and something wants structured data? Programmable.

Music is sooo mathematical when you get into it. But the creativity is recognising moving from one math to another, or just throwing math out the window. So yeh, programmable. Making it good? Creative

I hate to say, but LLMs show that some level of human interaction can be maths (it's all just floating point multiplication). (And I say "interaction", it's not intelligent or creative or anything actually human).

If it's maths, it can be programmed.

... It's not "putting pixels next to eachother". It's figuring out how to filter noise to get it closer to what the prompt describes. Literally starts as noise, like an old TV that isn't tuned to a channel. And then it applies a filter that it calculates will best get that noise closer to the tokens of the prompt. And then does it again and again and again

Regardless! Even if that investment went into healthcare, or a universal basic income...
Maybe we invest it into robotics to automate stuff. Or maybe we invest it into people.
Investing in people would be neat

But that will never happen until it is required to prevent collapse

You could statically assign an IP to the printer (if it has WiFi/ethernet) and not set a default gateway. It then won't know how to communicate with the internet but still be accessible on the same local subnet.
A more advanced route would be separate VLANs with routing rules between your main vlan and the printer vlan, while blocking all outbound traffic from the printer vlan.

Or you could set up something like a raspberry pi or similar as a print server. The printer connects to it via USB only, so has no access to any networks. And the raspberry pi is the device you configure and trust, which does the translation from network based printing to USB based printing.

"move fast and break things" applied to the ecology and humans. Except without the "fix it" stage