"People are selfish, and will not sacrifice their lifestyle now for a vague better future later.

The answer is government, with good leadership."

Unfortunately, there's a fatal flaw in that solution. Government IS people. Expecting government to be less selfish than the people who make it up is futile.

I know I'm not--I've seen my control of Google search slipping away for some years now. I'm just happy not to be forced to take another giant step on that path.

I don't think they understand how this works.
It's going to be an eternal game of whack-a-mole.
Good luck, though.

LK

Good. That's the best thing I've heard about Google AI search this month.

"In other words: Tennessee has just outlawed clouds."

Clouds, hell. They just outlawed *breathing.*

"Lithium based batteries can combust like an incendiary bomb"

Unlike a tank full of gasoline, which will never, ever catch fire.

then of course. You can't put a stick shift on an EV.

"What if"s don't mean a damn thing. You can sit here and spin "what if"s for eternity. You need facts, not what ifs.

What if Trump publicly confessed to being a Satanist and eating babies?

to be addicted to outrage and fear.

This is a relatively new phenomenon

Your ignorance of history is astounding. Go back and look at the polemics of Protestants and Catholics during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation when both sides regularly accused the other side of eating babies. And that's far from the only example.

Not a real Nigerian?? Next you'll be telling me he's not a real prince!

"Even if there were good reasons to use DST...However, there are no good reasons"

Sez you. As I get older and my night vision gets worse, I appreciate more and more having another hour of daylight in the evening. But I don't appreciate having my mornings in the dark. Keeping sunrise more or less at the same time over the course of a year requires Daylight Saving Time.

Didn't that get abandoned six years ago?

Unless it dies first, it will eventually become impossible to mine Bitcoin at all. There's a built-in ceiling of 21 million, after which mining operations will not yield any Bitcoins at all (actually, because of the way the Bitcoin algorithms round, production of Bitcoin should come to a complete halt when there is just short of 21 million).

They have one use: They can make you look like you're located somewhere else. This is particularly useful when you want to access something that will block you if you use a local IP address. Granted, this is a rather overcomplicated way to get a proxy address, but it's the easiest way to do it for a lot of people.

And there's nothing as temporary as a permanent solution. There's no better way than spending man-years to ensure the extensibility and modularity of a project to guarantee that it will all be discarded in a few years.