Hum... You think I was collecting virus in the system folders?
And Linux could do backups perfectly well back then. I just didn't have offline backups of the virus, and the online one got erased too. Why would Linux do OS snapshots anyway? It's not something one would need.
It's actually very real machines, doing extremely well controlled chemical reactions, and no AI unless you count all computer software as AI (ok, processors have neural networks controlling them nowadays, so just "normal" amount of AI).
Some (many? most? IDK) gold sellers are scammers. They will sell you overvalued stuff and insist it's extra-valuable because of some feature they made up. They are the ones being loud on the web and making you hear about it all the time. So, if you hear an ad, and buy gold, you've probably fallen for a scam.
But investing in gold by itself is just like any other commodity. And just to say, the rule on that last phrase is valid for almost everything (it's absolutely valid for stocks and investment funds).
No, there are several regional cabals of people with iffy not-really-collaborative relations, and each one of those have some power taken by smaller, less powerful cabals of people with varying degrees of alignment.
Hum... The US is imploding in general, but there's nothing on the horizon that could collapse the IT job market.