I can't really imagine keeping 2x more trash cans in my kitchen and dealing with having to work around and walk around them....it's full as it is.

But hey, it's a free country...you do you.

I don't see any compelling reason to change a lifetime of behavior for no perceived value, and add inconvenience to my daily life.

To each his own...sounds like a major PITA to me.

Where I am...each house has 1 or more general garbage cans...but plastic things, uniform size and shape....and on trash days (2 a week) you wheel the "bin" out to the road side....the truck comes along and a big mechanical arm picks up each can and dumps it in...

There's no garbage men there to even look at what you're throwing out.

On a different day of the week, I do see folks putting out their small recycle bins, the ones that want to participate.

To save money, they've set up this system so that we don't have 2-3 guys hanging on the back of each garbage truck grabbing each can and dumping it...there's pretty much just 1 person driving the truck and the truck grabs, dumps and returns each can....

Again, I don't have anything against recycling....but participation is and should be optional...where I live.

Johnny Fever on WKRP.

"When everyone is out to get you, paranoid is just....

.......good thinking"

LOL....oh, don't forget the Phone Cops!!

Thankfully where I live....no one forces anyone to recycle.

You can if you want...but you are free to decide if you want to bother or not.

We don't have any "trash police" here....we've got better things to spend our tax dollars on.

I'm kind of mystified by the absolute visceral hostility of a large number of Americans towards recycling.

I think it has to do with some cities actually forcing people to recycle....where they actually go through what you throw out and fine you...?

Thankfully I've never lived anywhere like that, but I'd be pissed if that were the case.

I'm glad people that want to do that can....I have nothing against it, but being forced to is another thing entirely.

I don't have room in my kitchen for 3x different cans to sort and throw shit out....nor the patience or time to bother.

But I support those that wish to do so....

I'm glad that down here where I live, you don't have to bother recycling unless you are so inclined.

If you want to throw pretty much anything in the trash here, they'll take it, no questions asked.

For example, a touchscreen is nearly a requirement for decent GPS UI. There are applications where the multitouch gestures are hard to beat for the UI.

I have a phone for that....no need for another one on car touchscreen that will eventually age out....

Fuck all touch screens in cars...

I want physical controls...the ones on the central console of the old days worked great, I could do most everything by feel or if I had to look...1-2 second glance.....

I don't want a fucking ipad to control everything when I'm driving a car, especially at higher speeds...

I was going to post a very similar comment: these people are not coders but they are project managers, and they are "employing" AI as their coding employees.

The thing is - there's "nobody" to take credit for the work, so the manager gets credit for something they didn't do. So it's definitely a skill and is work, but it isn't "coding" at all.

It's an interesting world - the AI is an extremely inexpensive employee and has enough skill to displace increasingly higher-skill tiers of actual software engineering and programming.

If I was running these hackathons, I would disallow AI or I would allow people to hire "code-as-a-service" people. Those seem functionally equivalent activities, just with AI being vastly easier to manage the logistics and you don't have to pay employment taxes or benefits to the AI.

It's no wonder there is so much tension about the many uses of AI - instead of hiring people to do work, it's another instance of paying to use a machine to do work at a price point lower than paying people.

That constitutional amendment was NEVER meant to allow any foreigner to come to the US and drop a kid and have it be a US citizen ......

It was to ensure the slaves were treated as citizens...they were forcibly brought here....

Very different.

SCOTUS didn't actually rule on this.....but they need to and change the misuse of this that has haunted us till this day.

What other countries allow this so readily....that a non-citizen drops a kid in your country and it has automatic citizenship and full rights??

So remind me again why trans people acting on their own fundamental and unchangeable mental processes that don't hurt anyone are bad? Maybe also explain again why respecting these people is "identity politics" while hating on them isn't as I didn't follow your logic there. I also don't follow how struggling to find new terminology to cover a minority group that has only been recently recognized (despite having always been there) is hateful.

For grown adults...no one gives a fuck if they want to play dress up, or call themselves whatever they want to call themselves (pronouns , etc).

The problem is when they want to force the overwhelming majority of normal people in the world to play their game with them....

Throwing fits when a normal server at a restaurant calls what looks to be a male "mr" or "sir"....trying to get them fired, etc.

It comes when men calling themselves women, start to intrude into real womens' spaces...locker rooms, competing in women's sports....etc.

The real thing that sank that ship, is when they started coming for children.

Trying to force books on trans and queer on school children.....in some states, ruling against parents that refused to permanently harm their kids with medical "trans help treatments"....hormones, surgery.

Allowing ultra left teachers to hide secrets on sexuality from parents while allowing them to speak sexuality into the children's ear....

People tend to get really fucking uptight when you start fucking with their kids....and moving to that plane was a bridge too far for normal people and parents.

Again, if you're a grown adult...you can dress and act how you want to....you can chop off or surgically do whatever you want with your own body and no one care.....aside from not wanting to PAY for it....that's on you too.

How hard would it be to pull all their servers OUT of the country...and just allow connections to continue to servers outside the country?

Sure, response times would drop some...but how much response time do you need for FB??

Serious question: Is there a boat to be missed with solar and wind? That is, given that China is ahead and pulling further ahead, does that relative success present any roadblocks for other countries to do the same? China does have industries that manufacture and support solar and wind, but same question there, is there an impediment to other countries ramping up in manufacturing and support? Are the current reasons for China's current strength intrinsic or more a matter of relative national will?

For example, if the UK or the US decided to be serious about solar and wind, could they scale up quickly or are there intrinsic impediments, like technology, natural resources, insurmountable supply chain issues, etc.?

Well to allow the industry to grow in these countries, you'd need a bit of home grown protectionism...tariffs, etc....to make anything made domestically in the same price range as the Chinese stuff...

Couple this with tax breaks and other incentives and you could grow your domestic capabilities....and, considering energy in all forms is a national security interest.....I think both US and UK would be wise to do this.....

They turned me into a newt.

....I got better....

I also know that I would personally prefer someone in government making the call in regards to whether I get treatment or not rather than a for profit company which has every reason to refuse me coverage.

I've never run into my insurance refusing my care/tests/procedures my Dr's have said I needed....

I'd definitely NOT want the govt deciding what I can and cannot have done.....I mean, I don't want the same type entities that run the local SS office or DMV, or anything having a deciding hand in my medical needs....