Mayor of New York isn't the end goal
RegalPotoo
No.
But...
The adage that "the dose makes the poison" is working in your favor here. A large city supply delivers millions of liters of water per day; by the time you dilute your poison into millions of liters of water you'll either be adding absurd amounts of poison (someone is going to notice massive line of tanker trucks queued up outside the treatment plant), or you are dealing with large - but not unweildly - volumes of something so horrendously toxic that it's still deadly when diluted that much. There are very few substances that toxic, and someone is going to notice if you start procuring hundreds of liters of botulism toxin or Vx because at that point you are dealing with outlawed chemical warfare agents
Initially I thought "burner kids" ment actual children who were failing school and OP was a teacher
You can't use logic to talk someone out of a position they didn't use logic to get into in the first place
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by the internet being held together by chewing gum, string, and an informal agreement that the few thousand people who keep the whole mess running won't all go to the pub at the same time
This only works with rational actors
Maybe don't engage in a war of escalation with unstable people
Your presence on an illegal, sedicious, and - worst of all - unsanctioned messaging server has been noted, citizen; have a treason star. In addition, it has been noted that you failed to file form TA-616/17B (Official Notice of Intent to Engage in Sedicious Activity) with your local IntSec office before engaging in the aforementioned activity - you are fined 50 XP Points.
Moxy and chutzpah are stats in Paranoia
People keep imagining AGI like its going to be benevolent skynet, when it's probably going to be more like the Tyrell corporation from Blade Runner
This pleases me