"Women over 40 have the lowest birth rate" shouldn't come as a shock to anyone

Older does tend to mean wiser, after all. Well... okay, for some people.

Destroying middle class has predictable consequence of tanking birth rate. News at 11.

"We must have constant inflation or people might, you know, save!"

Then... basics cost (a lot) more and mid- to low-tier wages don't even come close to keeping up

Brutal housing, education, medical, food, vehicle, and fuel costs, crushing taxes on the lower tier workers... gee, sounds like a great circumstance to bring some ever-more-expensive rug rats into.

The "American Dream" is deader than Trump's diaper contents for a large swath of those of an age to be pumping out crotch goblins. But hey: The stock market is doing Great!

Or perhaps it's just that no one wants to hump someone with their pants falling off their butt — or otherwise dressing like a refugee.

Obligatory: get off my lawn.

Umm... how long do you think the ability to turn it off will be available? This is Microsoft putting their toes in the water. They learned from Palladium that you can't just wholeheartedly force such evilness upon people. You have to do it slowly.

Now, every computer has Palladium but Microsoft lost a key part of it: They are not the sole entity allowed to specify the certificates. They will not make the same mistake with the ads. The money is too important.

The owners of DeBeers changed a few years ago. I assume they saw the writing on the wall and sold off to some naive idiots who were eager to get into the exploitation game like their predecessors.

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Eh? Why would we want to make corruption more difficult? This is the only way to pass bad law with any sort of regularity. Why would you want to stop that? Are you not one of the beneficiaries of such policies? Stop whining about your bad luck if you are not.

Tit for tat behavior will ensure that equilibrium is never reached. Go away with such primitive ideas.

That being said, Tik Tok is indeed a threat to the social order of the USA... but, so is Facebook and Reddit and and and. No other company that is a threat is being dismantled; therefore, this legislation is bad and must be rescinded. Any law that is made regarding this must apply equally to ALL actors, both foreign and domestic.

That is a dangerously myopic view.

The US Constitution espouses certain principles and it also places obligations on whatever government is in charge of the USA on its behavior. This does indeed protect citizens, but that is not its sole purpose. It is largely a document that spends most of its time enumerating the various restrictions that government must operate under.

When those restrictions are violated, we are all in danger, both citizens and non-citizens. I suspect this law would not pass Constitutional muster; however, there is currently nobody around who will challenge it.

Google half destroyed their search business at a critical moment in time. AI will ruin the remainder and there will be no money left to fund Chrome development.
These delays mean to me that Google isn't likely to get to it, as they will inevitably restructure in the coming years.

Ought to have a police report written about him by an AI.

Sounds good, how about a landscape slider phone? My F(x)tec Pro1 is getting a bit long in the tooth...

Yep. Mr. Raghavan isn't the illness, he's just a symptom of ordinary market forces that innovative tech startups can only resist for so long.

Have you ever visited Kuwait? America will become what Kuwait is: A few REALLY rich people and a bunch of imported slaves that will never be eligible for citizenship or to own property.

They don't care what it looks like. They just want things and that is what it will end up looking like.

In the meantime, millions of us will die for no reason other than society doesn't want us anymore. It will be fun.

(it is interesting that 'society' is decided by just a few people when it takes everyone to make a society)

LOL, so? Who cares. It is YOU that is not needed. Go away. Society doesn't have a use for you so you should just go off somewhere and die.

(just in case you think that I really think like this, I do not. My statements are the statements that society has made to me numerous times throughout my life... and yet, here I am and they are dead.)

You mean the Founding Fathers didn't think to enshrine in the Constitution my right to make bathtub yogurt? Those communist!