Thank god for that. Unicode is full of useless & annoying junk like emojis.

To me, emojis seem dumb and something only a child would use. (Over)using them conveys writing laziness, but adults and corporations adopted them and keep using them in all forms of text messages and email.
Nothing makes me want to ignore an email more than when the subject line is full of useless and annoying emojis.

Give Trinity Desktop https://www.trinitydesktop.org/ a try if you want a return to a usable UI that is also immensely customizeable. You may notice that it is based on KDE3.

X [could, can, might, may, possibly, suggests] cause Y.
Welcome to the reverse scientific "research" model of the 2020s, where an already predetermined conclusion directs the experiment, observation, and hypothesis.

You are picking the nicest fairy-tale solution instead of being objective and realistic to how difficulty it would have been to take Japan via ground assault. It still took a whole year for Germany to surrender after D-day. Japan's population was 'fanatically hostile' and wouldn't just surrender as soon as the first American soldier landed.

Japan was beaten. It had little naval ships, no carriers, small airforce, few big weapons, and very importantly, no oil source to fuel their remaining military. Basically no military except poorly equipped infantry vs American's might, but still were not surrendering. Japanese civilians, especially women and young boys-the ones who had the best chance of causing American solders to let their guard down-were being trained to be kamikaze suicide bombers "For Emperor Hirohito's honor" in preparation for the inevitable invasion of Japan. Japanese men were taught how to Banzai attack in huge numbers.

The atomic bombs shorted the War in the Pacific by years, not months. It saved millions of lives-American, allied, and Japanese. The invasion of Japan could take years and the estimated casualties were 1M to 10M. A very grim prospect.

I wouldn't bet on it. AI has made most things worse. I find that over the past year or two the accuracy of searches have noticeably lessened. Search terms are ignored even when +forced. I long for the days where + or - switches were religiously obeyed. It's like AI is delibertly trying to tell you that it is 'smarter' than you and knows more about what you want to search for than you.

AI generated written content is easy to spot if you are looking for it. Proper grammar and syntax, but it just doesn't read like how a human would write. Too many weird thesaurus substitions, sentences that run into each other, and too many short abrupt sentences.

AI's main purpose will be advertising. Quick and easy advertisement put together with AI generated images and models in no time.

Well, to get another perspective: my natural gas furnace, gas stove, SUV, F-250, boat, snowmobiles, jet-skis, propane BBQ, and sport car will produce less GHG emissions in my lifetime than the emissions from one highfalutin "elite" taking their private jet on one overseas trip. And I'm just a normal guy-those elites have all my toys x 10. Semi-retarded "How dare you" Greta now owns four properties and 8 cars, and is worth $20M just from looking retarded at retarded protests.

No one should cut their emissions when the ones telling everyone to cut their emissions aren't leading by example by cutting THEIR emissions. If they are not taking womanmade (women now consume 80% of all production) climate change seriously no one else should be asked to sacrifice their lifestyle.

"AI"-generated articles that ramble on for pages upon pages

You mean those 50 screens-per-recipe websites that came out of nowhere about five years ago? The ones that display 3 pics of each ingredient, the website is talking all about the author instead of the recipe, and you have to scroll to page 47 to find the actual recipe?

Those aren't AI-generated, those are written by women.

40 years ago, those 60-70+ years olds on the board today WERE the 25-35 year-olds employeed in the company.
Experience, acquired knowledge, and maturity count for much.

Canadian beavers were imported to Argentina in the 1950s, and those slippery hairy critters have been spreading so wide and fast the country now considers them to be a menace. Seriously...look it up.

Yeah ZDNet!
There was a time, 15-25 years ago, when they were one of the best daily websites for tech news. Back in the long-gone free & open days of the information superhighway.
Before the Dark Times. Before the Google-Microsoft-Apple-Meta-Amazon-Reddit Empire.

"Nygren wants the launch delayed and the tribe consulted immediately about how many $millions of $dollars NASA needs to give us to, once again, to conveniently ignore our "sacred beliefs" in exchange for $money."

Because the special is a wholesome story about the gang getting together to give Chewbacca a party, and it deserves to be enjoyed at 4k.

Leia, Han, Luke, Fred, Daphne, Scooby, Shaggy, Velma racing through hyperspace and being chased by Star Destroyers in the Mystery Millenium to Kzzzisk, or whatever Chewie's planet is called, to wish their friend a "Happy Life Day" on the beginning of his 245th cycle.

Thank the great maker that Lucas didn't choose that plot for the second movie.

Google can remotely change settings on your desktop's or smartphone's Chrome browser.

Fewer fat people. Fit & slim people eat less & poop less, thus less food consumed and less waste produced.