"LandSpace Could Become China's First Company To Land a Reusable Rocket"
"UPDATE: Chinese Reusable Booster Explodes During First Orbital Test"

I had a chuckle at how close together these two posts are on the Slashdot front page.

Citation Needed. I mean if what you say was true why are the TLAs constantly suing and fighting with Apple rather than simply flipping their hidden privacy invasion switch?

Or does your conspiracy run so deep that the government and Apple run a perpetual legal battle rather than simply admit what you already know to be true?

Apple isn't pre-installing anything in Russia, not even their own OS because they do not sell iPhones in Russia nor do they have business there. They pulled out of the market in March 2022.

Now if someone buys an overseas iPhone and resells it in Russia that person would have to preinstall the app before selling it. And the MAX app technically doesn't breach any App Store rules so it is actually available to install.

Never go full hyperbole man. If you want to make a point then make the point. The direction the EU is going is bad, but when you equate it to dictatorships your otherwise valid complaint starts to lose credibility and look like ignorant biased drivel.

False, you even admitted it in your post. We know the dog was unleashed, hence the fault is completely with the owner of the dog who didn't take care of them. How fast or slow the dog entered the street is irrelevant. And the owner should be fined $500 as well since San Francisco as strict dog leashing laws.

100,000 dogs get killed each year by human drivers (sometimes just their own owners stupidity, like having them unsecured in the tray) https://www.petscare.com/news/...

So far Waymo has killed zero dogs, and one cat. And that dog that didn't even die was off-leash so the owner should be sued for damaging the car.

Which law? Cite it. Then ask the parent where their aunt lives and see if its applicable. Anytime you cite any law without quoting "where" or asking "where" you fucked up.

Waymo has demonstrated that they don't hit them. Unlike normal drivers. Maybe we should ban those instead.

Sigh. You get voted down because you generalise the point in a way that makes the question unanswerable. There is a proven link between health outcomes and ultra processed foods, but the specifics of it is difficult to establish.

"Choices" I don't think you understand what that word means in this context. For "choices" to be a relevant defense here those choices need to be free from undue influence. They are not in this industry. It's an industry that goes out of its way to not only stack the deck against you, but to also get you addicted. There's a reason when you fill up the car and go to pay you don't get greeted with a bunch of apples and bananas, instead you'll see a bag of crisps advertising how "healthy" they are because they are air fried, while being loaded to the brim with salt because research shows people love salt and any artificial chemical you can find to make them crunchier and last longer in the packet. There's a reason when you go to the fridge the water bottles are at the bottom and you're greeted with rows of Coca-Cola instead. Oh but you have a choice, make the healthy choice and reach for the apple juice, ... the one that had artificial sweetener added to the same amount as the coke because sugar is addictive and sells.

The consumer (yes even you, despite you probably not admitting it) has far less choice than you think. And that is born in the countless studies that have shown banning adverts or changing product displays has an impact on consumer behaviour and the "choices" they make.

Really I agree with you here. The city here is stupid. If you want to regulate / ban then regulate / ban. But regulating and permitting something then suing the companies that follow those regulations seems like a waste of the courts time.

I think his point is not the specifics but rather the body. You're right, they have regulatory bodies. The only people that should be allowed to be sued is the regulator. UPF includes additives that the regulator has deemed safe for human consumption and legal to sell. Why sue company for their legal regulated product?

Or maybe people should keep their pets on the leash.

Oh wait no actually... It turns out 100,000 pets are killed each year by car drivers in the USA. I'm actually on board with your ideal. Let's ban cars completely. I mean sure we don't give enough of a shit about shooting kids in schools to ban guns, maybe though our pet fido can enact a change and get something banned on safety grounds.

By the way, next time start your post with "Hey, whatabout". If you're going to go with a stupid whataboutism you may as well go all in.

So once again you want to sue corporations for producing something that regulators in a regulated industry have permitted to be produced rather than addressing the underlying cause?

Or grocery chains can defend themselves in court, probably easier than trying to investors why they are pulling out of a city of close to 1million wealthy westerners.

I would have left this part of your post out since you just demonstrated you don't know how sound meters work. Hint: They are not linear, in fact most sound decibel meters don't offer a dB(Z) measurement. The modes that are measured dB(A) are a weighted model that specifically aligns with human sound perception.

But honestly your experience is at odds with mine, and about half the cars in our street are electric. The only time you can hear them is when they reverse (when did reversing beeps become a thing in private cars anyway?). Maybe America just fucked up the rules on volume and everything is louder? The EU didn't, the frequency requirements specifically make the EV noise quieter than an equivalent gasoline car and are completely drowned out by road noise at around 40km/h.

In fact it was an early criticism of the law, that it didn't go far enough and the cars were too quiet compared to their petrol counterparts at low speed.

If this is the future I'm going back to bed. Having a pointless button not appear on an OS is about the least alarming thing about our current timeline. I wish we lived in a time boring enough that I had a fuck to give over this.

By the way the majority of Windows 11 installs haven't had a password prompt for a long time, thanks to Microsoft forcing you to setup a Microsoft account and then immediately enabling Hello logins (no button was ever shown to the user when entering a PIN, fingerprint, or face login).