More to the point, it's unsustainable to just let anyone do anything just because they want to. There's a broad range of behaviors which fall into that non-category, and some of them are fine because they're not hurting anyone and some of them aren't because they are. Right to swing fist, end of my nose, etc etc.

I enjoy vroom vroom noises myself but I also appreciate that there are more important issues at hand than my own selfish gratification.

You literally cannot prevent that in an app which can make consensual nude images. Therefore the word nonconsensual is being used in order to trigger people into having a specific opinion. A better description is "an app which can be used to create fake nude images" since it can't literally show you what someone would look like unclothed.

The interesting thing about that statement is that it's the fascists that have brought us to this point where we have all these highly polluting coal plants.

They are if the end user can charge at home and aren't if they can't.
The intelligent thing to do would have been to mandate charger installation on new construction or any significant remodel or electrical system upgrade, years ago. But we can't agree to do things intelligently because we have to fight with each other over whether corporations have a right to make a profit. (They don't have one written into the law, but they seem to have a de facto one in that they can buy protectionist laws.)

Yes, that's my point. That limitation is crippling, and there was no good reason for the law to restrict their authority to navigable waterways, only a bad and corporatism-serving reason.

Cryptocurrency miners can buy land in a catbox state and put in a solar array. It's going to be cheaper than coal. Then they can mine while the sun shines. This isn't a move to stop cryptocurrency. This is a move to force coal plant operators to do what they claimed they were doing all along. We can find coal plants emitting more than they are legally allowed as fast as we can pay people to sample their emissions.

I disagree with you because I've learned to follow the money.

The phrase was coined in the 1976 film "All the President's Men", which by the way is pretty great if you're into things like that. You do have to have an attention span longer than the time between a SOCK and a POW in a Marvel movie, though.

You are welcome to catch up to the wisdom of over four decades ago.

Twitter only needed to show a profit for one year, and they only showed a profit for one year. What a remarkable coincidence!

You should kill whoever wrote that comment, then.

Quite possible, but Microsoft stole and included Stacker and that also caused quite a lot of data loss since it also sucked.

It actually made sense on the Mac, because programs were officially called "applications" and even had the type code APPL.

So DOS 4 is Vista, and DOS 5 is Windows 7... oh how history repeats

I'm talking about, if I may invoke fiction vaguely, a machine made in the likeness of the human mind. I'm talking about what separates us from software, and how for some jobs it isn't much at all. I'm talking about how slavery never ended and the wealthy would like to replace all of us with very small shell scripts. And to them, that's actually viable. They don't understand any of the reasons why it isn't; even the ones that are that smart aren't that educated in that way. If they were, they couldn't do what they do simply because they could see it's unsustainable.

That's very much my point. They are already doing a shit job because it was all that was available. Now what are they supposed to get, a shittier job? It's hard to find one that pays, as backwards as that is.

I'm not new, friend.

Please please please write a screed explaining how forcing Apple to use stuff that users want them to use and support things users want them to support with absolutely zero harm to other users who simply don't turn on any additional features which will be disabled by default is bad for consumers. And don't cheat and use AI, really lean into it.