I remember in 2013 when Andy Rubin took over both Android and ChromeOS businesses. We were certain that the two platforms would merge into one common one. Finally the issue of Binder and other weird Android-isms could be solved in the Linux kernel.
Google promised us that they would be separate but then there was often this hint that something would be merged between them.

Eventually some of the groups at Google got tired of this and made another kernel, Fuchsia, that was more embedded-friendly and less dependent on the display and UI for either Android or ChromeOS. There really is probably no hope of Fuchsia getting merged with either Android or ChromeOS, it's more likely that it gets buried and abandoned when Nest and smartwatches not directly running Android are swept away as not being part of Alphabet's core business.

I don't want to have to make a second internet that is centrally managed, connected to schools, and a bit more regulated on its content and purpose.

Tops out at around 300 Mbps. But for what it is, Starlink is a very good deal with some caveats due to the technology. Tough to beat their their roaming package when compared to other providers, that's the area they really shine. But physical wires or fiber optics to a near by gateway are far more efficient than radio transmission to low Earth orbit. Starlink thrives in places with poor infrastructure and spread out populations, so shithole countries and fly over states.

Require a nominal fee, say 100 Euros, to submit a paper for review. If the paper is determined to be AI slop, keep the deposit. If the paper is accepted or rejectee, then refund the deposit. Sitting on the deposits for months makes it slightly harder to scale the submission of thousands of papers.
Use the proceeds to fund a reputation system where repeat offended can finally be discovered and turned away.

That weak little bitch BEGGED Vice President Pence to throw out the electors.

There's a step inbetween. Fascists are incompentent and disloyal. When on fascist regime secures power, another faction is planning a violent takeover. Thst's just how these guys are. When it is time to hand the keys to the country over to J.D. Vance, someone close to Trump is going to be like: "No! It's MY time. I am the one that DESERVES to rule."

After a cycle of lunatics off each other, and America is in tatters. Then maybe some of my family members will agree that we shouldn't have put these dopes in power. By then it will gave been too late of course.

In the end, tge American people will stand by waiting for a way out that doesn't come at much personal cost or personal risk. We want a democratic republic with recognition of inalienable individual freedoms. But we also don't want to maintain the one we have or fight to create a new one from scratch.

Perfect being the enemy of good enough.

The push from management to use Copilot and other tools has been a pointless farce. They've become so focused on adopting the new tools and even track our usage metrics. They they forgot that we have actual products and releases to address, and that we have cross functional bugs that aren't receiving the attention they need from management.

I feel like I could replace some of what project managers do with ChatGPT. Just get it some prompts to work out nag emails and track what outstanding bugs and features are at risk as the branch cut off approaches.

Nearly everything is supported on those modern macs.
I still have Ubuntu 4.10 (warty) installed on my PowerMac G3 B&W (1999). A 20 year old Linux distro running on a 25+ year old Mac, that's vintage.

I kinda hate all the Samsung account nagging on their phones.

It is going to evaporate, slowly....

The system needs to support his kids so they can hopefully grow up to become productive adults instead of deadbeats. We'll eventually get a return on that investment when kids grow up safe and happy and educated.

Of course, if we punish children for being born to poor parents and they grow up with no future. Then we're not going to gain anything from them, they'll probably not improve their lot in life, and may even be anti-social, addicts, or criminals.

We reap what we sow.

Spending less time outdoors and not smoking tends to keep your skin more youthful looking.

I could see how women wouldn't find misogynist incels and man-boy gamers with no future very attractive mates.
The manosphere has emasculated more young men than all the microplastic, hormones, and single-mothers ever could.

As for low-T in first world countries, you have to look no further than obesity. We know inactivity and body fat can send testosterone crashing. There's a very straight forward fix that doesn't involve buying any online snake oil: Shift your ass and fix your diet.

Pre-industrial lifestyle isn't as like as a post-Holocene epoch. A few mass extinctions will make neither industrial or pre-industrial lifestyles possible.

Seem fair to push retirement ages up, because everyone lives to the same age right?