Total bullshit. People are hesitant to change theories, but there's countless examples of physicists and other scientists becoming aware of new theories and realizing they're true. Are you involved in the sciences at all? I can't imagine going to a college science class where the professor rejects all new theories.

These people have PhDs. Do you seriously think they've never considered this?

"Causation doesn't equal correlation" needs to die. It's true, but it's basic shit that even a small child knows. But people on Slashdot repeat it endlessly any time any sort of science at all comes up, in any context.

It's an open marketplace, and the US has become the #1 producer of oil and gas.

It's not like if consumption goes down, people will keep buying the same amount of oil from the US at the same prices, and Russian oil prices will drop to 0. Even with an embargo going on, Russia is still selling oil/gas at market values.

Nonetheless, a person with a 120 IQ is going to be smarter than a person with an 80 IQ, and everybody knows it, and I wonder if this is an exercise in pedantry.

The link between glysophates and autism has been heavily tested and never established. Autism is becoming more common even in places where people are not exposed to glysophates.

Try sitting down and closing your eyes and I doubt you can do it - or at least that you fumble.

What are you talking about. As far as we know, life has popped up one single time, ever, in the Solar System - all living things on Earth are, somehow, related.

You choose the least bad option. I agree the price for the hardware is too high. At the same time, Linux isn't really an option, and I'm willing to price in the fact that MacOS is way the fuck better than Windows.

Most people don't game or do virtual rendering or whatever. They need a computer, they don't need the most powerful. For instance my wife runs a successful small business off her computer. If I was a gamer or various other computation-heavy needs, yeah I guess I'd be forced into Windows.

I dunnow...test drove the EQS, and sure the interior is nicer than a Tesla, but honestly I was wildly underwhelmed for a $100k+ vehicle. I decided against the vehicle out of hand, and I wonder if it would be a complete bomb if it didn't have a Mercedes nameplate on the back of the car.

They actively throttle old batteries because that's the best solution. I once had a Samsung Galaxy (before throttling), after it got a few years old it used to have a thing where if it got to like 25%, it would suddenly turn off if you tried to use a power-hungry app.

It's not fair to blame Apple for a basic problem with aging batteries, and anyway replacing the battery is pretty painless.

Which recent product launches did you not like then? AirPods? The watch? They donâ(TM)t release that many products. Your post was a whole lot of rambling and personal anecdote just to say you didnâ(TM)t like the commercials for a single product.

I want to see Steam running on an XBox!

Eh...I guess I've gotten good at just paying attention to the screen and blocking out the world around me. The question of it looking like a 100 foot tall screen that's 200 feet away or a 13 " monitor that's two feet away is a non-issue, it takes the same FOV to your eyes. But sure, maybe at a much cheaper price point having the world outside the screen blocked is cool.

It's not VR, but I remember Sony used to sell movie glasses that projected a largescreen TV in front of your eyes. It wasn't VR - the monitor was always directly in front of you. They actually worked really well, and did exactly what you would have wanted for a movie or monitor on an airplane. They were relatively small (much smaller than VR goggles) and I seem to recall they cost like $800 in the early 2000s. Tech worked great but nobody bought it, AFAIK nobody currently sells anything like that.

I love VR. I think it's an amazing, cool gimmick, and I have some kind of blind faith that eventually some great use case will come up. Video phones were a useless sci fi idea for a long time, and now everybody facetimes or zooms.

But...using VR on planes? As a screen replacement? I honestly don't see the advantage over a laptop screen, plus there's the discomfort inherent to strapping it on your head and having screens two inches from your eyes.

If you need a real computer, you don't use a museum piece.

Sure, once upon a time, people needed a computer just for basic internet access. Anything was fine. But for basic internetting today, cell phones are fine or maybe even superior.