Some paywalls do indeed work this way, but nytimes is not none of them. It cuts the text off in the html so the article text is not there to be read unless you have a subscription.

That may not be fair ball.

If they were just scraping whatever they find on the web, more-or-less at random, then that's one thing.

If they're taking positive steps to buy subscriptions for the sole purpose of scraping that content, that's something else.

If the nytimes articles are truly hidden behind a paywall, how does perplexity get access to it?

If I drove through a school bus unloading zone like that 21 times my drivers license would be suspended, probably for a very long time.

Why isn't Waymo's license suspended for the same period mine would be?

Actually, after 21 infractions it would probably be permanently cancelled.

"There are serious effects now"
Really?

As far as I can tell, the "current serious effects" are always handwavy either wrong or framing-dependent bullshit like:
1) "there's a drought in California" (entirely disregarding that we happen to have settled it in an extremely wet phase, while for the last 1000+ years the US SW has been much drier for *centuries* at a time), or
2) every time it rains in Charleston "global warming is making hurricanes worse" or "...more frequent" or both (both of which have been repeatedly debunked as an artifact of our North-Atlantic-Data focus, in regards to both 'severe' storms and total hurricane energy, EITHER in the NAtl or globally), or
3) the 'look at all the people that die from heat!' (invariably after a hot week in summer; again routinely and repeatedly debunked by statistics that show 6-10x more people die from cold than heat whether we're talking regionally or global scales).

So please, elaborate these 'serious effects NOW'? What did I miss? The 'sinking islands' that aren't actually sinking?

Not everyone lives in a fantastically rich petrostate.

Would this be the Starlink system Musk rushed to Ukraine and afaik continues to allow UKR to use free if charge? (I believe that some donor nations do pay sub fees for the systems they've purchased for Ukr, to be clear.)

Musk repeatedly said that he won't allow Starlink to be used to support offensive operations. Yes, sometimes free gifts come with strings attached.

Your insistence that because Musk doesn't do everything Ukraine wants without question, "we know where his sympathies lie" is childish.

Yes, I can see the argument that an offensive to retake Ukr territory should be allowed, but I can also see the argument that it is an offensive. Musk, a rather pacifistic person who routinely gets collywobbles when confirmed with violence as pacifists often do, probably sees it that way (and your own linked article mentioned that Biden military & intel people at the time thought Putin 's retaliatory threats were increasingly credible). My guess is that he was confronted with Russian threats to himself or his companies globally.

Would it be better if Starlink just entirely shut down all service to the region? Would that be better for Ukraine?
If that's not what you want, then maybe shut the fuck up?

What is happening to Ukraine is terrible. Ukraine's defense against a sociopathic neighbor has been heroic. That doesn't mean everyone, everywhere, 24/7 makes "what's best for Ukraine" their priority.

The keys were stolen last week but the developer doesn't bother to tell anyone about it until after the malware has been distributed.

Was he sleeping between last week and today?

I find that my phone is just too damn small to read on a long-term basis.

Receiving a text message, reading a single article on a website, looking at a picture, that's all fine and good. But reading all of this morning's news? I want something that's big enough that I can sit back in my chair and read comfortably, without squinting at the tiny print on my phone screen.

but you couldn't carry that in your pocket, which seems to be the objective here.

John Money was the first of the batshit legion (that I'm aware of; his entire oeuvre sickens me so pardon if I haven't delved too deeply) to believe gender was distinct from actual sex.

"My deeply flawed views" are the facts that stand unchanging, despite fads.
Humans are either xx or xy chromosomes, producing large or small gametes respectively.

The tiny percent that aren't that, are mutations that happened to survive, like people being born without eyes or legless or conjoined. None of them are to be brutalized, none of them are to be treated with anything but respect and sympathy; it doesn't make them normal except insofar as 'mutations' in heterosexual reproduction are normal.

Give up; your bullshit carried through the crazy-years of 2020-2024, but nature is healing. Fucked up ideological gaslighting is fading before things like actual facts. We're calling MAPs pedophiles again, and people are recognizing how wrong were the lies that fueled Mengele-like brutal transgender experiments on CHILDREN, ruining their fucking lives. You can't "undo" castration chemicals given to prepubescent teens. You can't just wear a girl-mask and insist you're a woman. If you believe that, you need help and counseling, not endorsement.

Much as I hate to defend Microsoft, if this is an update that's clearly marked as a "preview" or "testing", then it shouldn't be a shock if it breaks since that's the purpose of doing a test release.

"The city has issued an order" and "it's unclear whether Waymo will comply".

Since when does Waymo get to decide if they'll comply with local laws or not?

Now the next step is to take them to court, shut their operation down completely and ban them from setting up shop again until or unless they show that they have figured out how to comply with the law.

...which makes it super convenient when you can just use that label on everyone, right?

No it isn't. Neither a teeny little collection of actual hermaphrodites and genetic sports, nor male fetishplay justifies the rewriting of common sense.

Humans are divided into two sexes, except when something goes WRONG.

Your view is complete bullshit, an ideology-cloaked-in-"science" promulgated by John Money, a sadistic pedophile whose kinks ended up destroying at least one family with BOTH sons suiciding eventually from his "therapies" but hey, at least he took ample photos when he compelled them to play sex games with each other, right?