It could be useful. In my house, the kids are responsible for doing their own laundry. Everyone getting a notification when the washer is free or the dryer is done would be helpful. It's not a game changing technology, and shouldn't use more than a few kb of traffic per day, and it's certainly not something that I'd pay extra for, but if a machine I was buying anyway had that feature it could be useful.

I suspect that there's a financial incentive for them to keep playing the same stuff over and over. Like maybe they only pay an artist per person who listens to a track in any given month. So if they play the same track twice, they only have to pay once maybe? So they limit the number of unique songs that they present to a listener? That's the only reason I can think of that this is still like this, and apparently is this way on other services too.

I'm about ready to just download all this shit via torrent again and just listen that way like I used to.

Hey Spotify, before fucking around with AI can you please just make the random function actually be random? My playlist of roughly 2,500 songs is on a repeat of around 100 songs. It's annoying as hell. I don't want the shuffle feature to be smart. It doesn't need AI. Just make it random.

Once you've got that wrapped up, feel free to add the AI playlist, along with all of the other features taht you've implemented that I'll also ignore. Be a music streaming service. Not a podcast provider, not a tiktok clone.

Get rid of fines completely in any cases involving cars. Parking tickets and moving violations.

Replace it with community service, which MUST be done by whoever is in control of the vehicle. If that's uncertain, it's the registered owner's responsibility to either do the community service, or provide proof of who was driving.

As it is now, a $300 ticket will financially devastate a lot of people, and will be such a minor inconvenience it's simply a cost of driving to many others. Give everyone a community service fine instead. If a guy worth millions has to spend a few weekends out picking up trash off the side of the highway because he was going an unsafe speed or ran through a red light, he might think twice next time. If a guy who can't afford to feed his family and pay the fine gets a ticket, he'll think twice the next time and won't have to worry about how he's going to make rent in addition to paying.

In your example, make the corporate board of Waymo responsible. If they don't think their vehicles are advanced enough to drive around without committing traffic offenses, then they're not ready to be on public roads.

1. a) You're assuming that Davies is trying to upset people when it seems that what he is doing is celebrating people who are not often celebrated. If one feels personally attacked by someone else getting the attention, then one is seriously immature. 1b) The show is for children, who paradoxically aren't as immature about seeing people who aren't like themselves. Children themselves are not as set in stone about what "normal" is — particularly not sexual identity — and therefore do not think anything is particularly weirder than anything else. It's gross when everyone's parents' kiss, for example. 1c) This back-door "go woke, go broke" argument is widely and easily discredited as conservative wishful thinking (with a rhyming scheme).

2. If Doctor Who's original mission was science education, that was lost in the mix in the first season. As a fan since the 1970s, I can say that it's basically always been anti-fascist science fiction, and there's a reason the Dalek creators (the Kaled) dressed like Nazis. There was a line in the latest special where the Doctor corrected Ruby that what he was doing was a science and she countered with a paraphrasing of Arthur C Clarke: sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

3. This is not where it gets fun. What about this show turned you into a progressive 40 years ago? Watching white people run around with other white people doing white things in white London? Was it the overtly sexist way that Leela paraded around in a leather skirt or was it episodes of the overtly racist Talons of Weng-Chiang? Did you feel included by the space virus trying to eat the Doctor's mind in "The Invisible Enemy"?

4. Every one of your examples of the Doctor giving up power that he did not actually want in the first place. That's not sacrifice. That's power brokering. He doesn't want to be president of the Time Lords — and living on Gallifrey — because he wants to run off and do his own thing. Running off was what he wanted to do, and if he was sacrificing he'd do what he didn't want to do for the sake of others. Donna, as you noted, did, in fact, give up something she wanted. Not wanting it means it's not a sacrifice. It's OK to regret sacrifice even though you know you'd do it again. And recognizing that is not a sign of brain damage.

5. (You wrote a second 4 after calling people stupid, but I'll call it 5 for you.) The idea of justice has always evolved, and it evolves faster now. There was a time when it was OK to own other people. It is now considered a bad thing. Freeing enslaved people used to be a criminal act; now it is considered at the very least justice to capture someone who enslaves people and put them in prison. That's just an easy example that you can't argue with. In America when Doctor Who first aired 60 years ago, some people considered it perfectly acceptable in many states to have racially segregated public spaces — places where Blacks weren't allowed to use the same water fountains and public pools. Places where they had to enter through the back door so they wouldn't be seen by white customers. The thing that pisses off right-wingers about changing the notion of justice is that it often moves the goalposts to put them on the losing side of things. If your great grandpa thought Black people should sit at the back of the bus if they were going to be on it at all, then he gets made to be on the wrong side of modern thinking. And he gets mad about it. And he thinks how much better it used to be in the old days. In the old days he was happy and didn't have to consider other people's feelings. He didn't have to worry about Justice because it was whatever he thought it was at exactly that time and how dare *they* change it around him. Of course, what has happened is that the cruelty of the status quo has been reveled to enough people that they have said "actually, let's not behave that way anymore because of observable outcomes of that behavior." And, collectively, eventually, the notion of justice changes over time. Now imagine a Time Lord being slightly ahead of you on that curve.

Maybe 10 years ago, and maybe in some markets. But around here, even shitbox fixer-upper starter homes are going for around $1 million, and there's people lined up to buy them with cash for over asking price.

If I was selling in this market, I'd avoid the agent and hire a lawyer to make sure everything is done properly and save that $60,000+.

I doubt that there's more than a handful of performers who will create a unique show for just this one venue.

They need a resident act there, with a really compelling and well-designed show. Change that act every 6-12 months. I bet cirque du soleil could come up with some interesting shows there.

That's great that you've never been driving through a small town in a different state and have the cops pull you over while you're not breaking any laws, write you a completely bogus speeding ticket while knowing full well that to fight it you've got to travel back across the country to the little podunk town for at least one court appearance and likely two that will be heard in a small town court by a judge that's likely as corrupt as the cop who wrote the ticket in the first place. And of course they'll let you plead it down to a non-moving violation without needing to show up in court, but the fine for that is the exact same as if you paid the original fine, just as long as they get their money.

Fuck you, Jennings, LA.

How about they fix their suggestion algorithm on the front page first? It keeps suggesting things I've already watched, things I have no interest in, and things tangentially related to something that I watched once several months ago. It's showing me suggestions for everything except videos from channels that I've subscribed to.

And yes, I know I can go to the "Subscriptions" tab to see all of the newest stuff from my subscriptions, but I'd like a mix of new and old stuff from my subscriptions that I haven't seen yet. Their algorithm is absolutely useless.

A while ago I decided to try the family YouTube premium plan. I signed up for the trial, then very quickly found out that since my email is using one of the Google Suite plans that they heavily pushed on early adopters with personal domains years ago, I can't actually use the service.

Which is the same experience that I had when I tried the Google Music family subscription, a Nest thermostat I bought (And had to return), a Google Home device that I was given, and YouTube TV, as well as a handful of other services they've offered through the years.

So now I just avoid paying Google any money at all, and typically look for non-Google alternatives to give my money to. And I refuse to create a new gmail account to log into these other services with because Google can't get their shit together.

You think Tesla is any better? Frankly I'm shocked that they're still allowed to market and sell "Full Self Driving", let along having it enabled on public roads with ordinary drivers.

Tesla Emergency Brake Test — Full Self Driving Beta 11.4.4

Watch a Tesla Run A Red Light on FSD Beta!

Tesla Automatic Emergency Braking - Real World Test

How to Bypass Tesla Driver Monitoring System

Speaking as someone who frequently rides a bike to work, Teslas are terrifying.

I do have a Thunderbolt docking station connected, it's never really occurred to me that that might be the culprit.

Is there any way to prevent this with the docking station, beyond always turning the machine on while it's either connected or disconnected?

They've got other ways.

For example, on one of my laptops about half the time I'm powering it up, it would require me to enter my recovery key. Which would require me to use my phone, log into their service, then copy a 48 character key from my phone to my laptop. It's a complete and total pain in the ass, but if I want my drive encrypted, I have to leave it enabled. Thanks, Microsoft.

I live in the suburbs (Orange County, CA - Not the really rich part, either), and have a 5GB fiber option available at my home for less than $250/month. We also have 2 other fiber providers available, one "only" offers 2GB, the other a lowly 1GB synchronous connection.

So yeah, a lot of people either have access to this capacity now, or will in a short time.

Not to mention the benefits of intranet traffic, like if you have a media server or file server on your home network.

$160 million, and they couldn't spring the $25 to throw an air tag in it?