I don’t think the aliens do that. If you want an example of a being who raises pets, then leaves them to starve and die of untreated disease, you need to look for God.
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This feels like one of those fools errands you get sent for when you start a new job. I still havent found any shop that stocks Elbow Grease. But I trust you, you wouldn’t trick me like this.
Btw I still haven’t found that Glass Hammer or left handed screwdriver you asked for. Someone did point me in the direction of where to find some Dill Dough, though. I’ll mail those to you next time I’m in town near the store.
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That would be the people who refuse to spay and neuter and provide common sense care for their animals.
God gave dominion over the animals to man
And the person who doesn’t care for his animals stands condemned by God
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I’m on an AI trip lately 
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On my submarine the “new guy fool’s errand” was “we need an a gang punch, run up to Machinery One and get one.” Machinery One, the compartment, was manned by the Machinery One Watch, which was covered by the Auxiliary Division…commonly called “A gangers.” A gang operated and maintained a lot of machinery that involved a whole lot of valves, and they all had forearms like Popeye. Suffice to say that anyone showing up in machinery one and asking for an A gang punch would always get one, usually right in the sternum so they could consider their life choices for a few minutes until they could breathe normally again.
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Nothing like being trapped on a submarine with nowhere to run.
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Torturing new guys related more to having nothing to do than having nowhere to run.
Another favorite, tell the new guy he has mail buoy duty. Next time we come to periscope depth report to the hatch, in full foul weather gear and safety harness, with the fourteen foot boat hook, because we will be surfacing to meet the mail buoy.
This leads to a frantic scramble to get their letters home written and hilarious pictures of the new guy all decked out in foul weather gear, holding the boat hook and a huge ‘mail bag,’ while the rest of the crew finds any excuse to file through machinery one upper level to see them.
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There’s one I’ve seen pulled on fire stations - it’s not funny.
There is an NCO on the watch - we’ll call him “Tommy”. A couple of people will drop into conversation with the new guy “Tommy’s sister is a ballet dancer - he’s really proud of her. If you want to get on with him, just ask about her dancing - he’ll talk to you all day”.
So the new guy does. And Tommy turns to him, stone faced, and says “My sister’s got no legs”.
That’s what people called a joke in the seventies.
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But it looks like the joke “has legs.” 
Couldn’t resist the pun.
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Was very quick to put it in effect and enforce it, but not so quick to pull it away even though its been deemed unlawful.
Good news for once but a weird one because a lot of pointless bad and wasted time had to happen first, a lot of senseless harm that never needed to exist, for that good news to exist.
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Governments seek to bypass safety and ethical AI controls to develop AI weapons. Who’d have thought it?
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Well they handed Grok to the Pentagon. Weird things started happening to my phone and stopped when I removed X. Then a report came out, and I have lost it now, they are using AI to track all social media posts by Americans. Searching for any negative comments…
Without any regulations or safety standards, they can do whatever they want
I doubt this is the only country where this is happening
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That’s why I said “governments”, not “The American government”. I don’t imagine for one moment that the Americans are the only ones doing this.
That’s why I think any idea of AI regulation is a joke. Do we really imagine wotld governments will ignore the military potential of AI? Can any government afford to?
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It’s the newest arms race.
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I’ve been reading a lot of financial news.
A lot of companies are folding.
A lot of things are merging and being bought out.
When us peons on the street are no longer feeding them from the bottom, and it is already happening, that’s why so many are folding, and then they start buying each other out…at what point are they only making money off of each other?
It’s like a game of hot potato. If I can unload this burning business fast enough, I can at least relieve myself of the burden of holding it and I might profit a little and be able to retire to the countryside.
Whoever buys up the most, is holding what? A bucket of hot potatoes?
If people on the ground can’t spend and don’t want what you are offering, less money comes in. You then use AI to reduce your spending and lay off 1000s. Those people are now unemployed or employed at lower wages. Even less money comes in because even fewer want or can afford what you offer. You package it all up and sell it to the highest bidder. They inherit something that doesn’t perform any better than it did before.
I guess we all get potato soup? But by then, it will be cold.
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What’s it like other places?
I was at the college. Campus police was ramped way up. They were wandering campus and meeting up under the flag pole at a regular interval.
There are state police out in force. Cars pulled over on the interstate.
I am hearing reports from friends of high police presence all over the state.
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No obvious reaction here. I imagine ports and airports may be different, but on the streets, you’d never know anything was going on. That will change if someone explodes something.
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Disappointed to say our government’s doing the ol show and dance of st patricks tradition and shaking trumps hand instead of taking a stance.
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