Synthetic biology. This is a hype wave waiting to happen. Can’t wait for crops to get enshittified /s Hopefully we move beyond the Sillicon Valley business model by then.

Well it can’t be sold anymore, but if you have it in your house then it’s not illegal in any way

I think there is a growing divide between the most and least intelligent in society, and it has been growing with tech advancement (the gap wouldn’t have been that big in the middle ages). If we ever develop superintelligent AI, I can see that becoming an inflection point in this divide because we (Lemmy dwellers) will become as fallible to that AI as the people you mentioned are today in what is still a human-dominated society. Introducing AGI will vastly exasperate the gap between the most and least intelligent and I can’t see society surviving that in its current form.

I don’t think federation per se would help dissolve disinfo bubbles. Just look at the bubble the tankies at Grad have created for themselves.

Would it make sense to have bought it in the past just for leverage now? (not asking about 1 stock but if a ton of ppl did)

Yeah, I feel like people on here have a bad habit of relating even completely unrelated posts back to US politics. But if you keep reading the news then your brain tends to do that.