Trillion dollar US corporations are still under US law, which does include security requests and gag orders from secret services.

so you're saying there's a chance?

Why should they welcome you in the house they use to LIVE in? As opposed a house they use to make money out of, without contributing anything to society, like landlords do?

Landlords contribute plenty to society: they provide optionality. Without landlords, folks would be forced to pay or borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars ahead of time to build or purchase homes[0]; they would be forced to incur more severe transaction costs (having to sell) when moving; they would be forced to find the funds to handle maintenance issues; they would be forced to have a significant portion of their net worth tied up in housing. A tenant avoids all of that: he only has to make a relatively small deposit; he can leave relatively quickly and easily; he can rely on someone else to handle maintenance; he doesn’t care if housing prices decrease. Those benefits are not free, of course: they cost money, because they have value.

Indeed, given how many people flat-out couldn’t afford to buy in a world without landlords, landlords prevent homelessness. Just like farmers, distributors and grocers prevent starvation.

There are plenty of live-in landlords that rent rooms to people and live in the same house.

Many renter commenters assume that anyone owning a house automatically owes the society to provide housing to those that don't. Of course such people don't actually like taking care of the house or pretend that depreciation and maintenance don't exist.

You should probably fix that also, no? Unless you want all housing to look like abandoned blocks in Detroit.

Well ice is there to UNDO some of our body's responses, so it does not do something the body could not theoretically achieve.

Overdoing it with one mechanism then compensating for that with some other mechanism is so like biology though. Biology is like a junior programmer who is rushing to meet a deadline. If it can slap a bandaid on somewhere instead of refactoring, it will nearly always do that.

I guess because they can be used as weapons, if the said lasers can transfer enough energy with enough accuracy to cover real energy needs.

Also because they get blocked by clouds. If you're not getting 24/7 power, you might as well put your solar panels on the ground.

What do you mean? Does a more efficient way of biologically using sun's energy exist?

That animals convert grass and plants in general to meat is undeniable. But I think the issue is, livestock is generally fed with human grown plants, which could be fed directly to humans and save a lot of energy (food and water) wasted in the process, because the amount of calories, for example, that you take off meat is nowhere near the calories contained in the food the animal consumed during its lifetime. Now, regarding if nutrients are missing from a plants only diet, that's another matter.

What is the information given when someone states "I am a woman/man"?

The E2EE here is not about privacy, but about being able to send whatever data you want (like binary) since WhatsApp will only see one type of data (encrypted) in transit, in contrast to needing to send data in a specific format to have it transferred at all. Meta can peek at the original "messages" all they want, they will see encrypted packet data anyway.

The problem when you do not perceive class, is that you view those of the same class as adversaries on your way to the top rather than people on the same boat as you, needing to cooperate to improve your overall position and fix your problems. Lower class problems are other people's problems, because you are not really a part of it or won't be for long more (so you think).

Basic human life conditions should really not be up to a game of "success" that by definition has few winners. In my opinion at least.

Well all decisions ARE made in the brain, conscious or not, and whatever consciousness is, it resides in those neurons. That is also influenced by various inputs of the rest of the body, of course, but I think we can safely assume "self" exists in the brain. Thinking it reversely, can we really say an organism with various complex parts but no brain has consciousness?

You are not a disconnected consciousness, but some body parts are more easily discarded than others, and I think the brain tops most (all?) of the others regarding survivability - and is irreplaceable regarding the "self".

How can we be certain that the consciousness is in the head-brain? For example, there are 100M neuro cells in the stomach. We also talk about making decisions based on "gut feeling". I am not saying it is any kind of proof, but hints that this saying might be based on physical experience about gut being involved in the decision making. Also, meditation traditions talk about various body parts having various kind of impact on the consciousness, stomach being one of them.

Another interesting example is the octopus. If you cut a tentacle off from the octopus, the tentacle sometimes still continues to feed the head of the octopus. So the tentacle appears to have a "brain".