TSA is a specifically US agency. Ryanair does not operate in US airspace, much less fly to US airports. EU security checks are focussed on security, with some theatre at times, not looking for thoughtcrime.

nice one!

"Nano Banana editing will produce AI slop, yes, but it's better slop. " Flailing around desperately trying to find a niche where accuracy and truth don't matter.

Oh come on, "precedent in Cupertino". This isn't some amazing new innovation. Heck they could have just followed the original plans for Epcot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... . Designed to be a wheel with spokes from a central hub,.

While Germany struggled to build 27,000 trucks in 1943, America produced over 560,000 GMC trucks alone.

There are other factors to take into account: for example, the difference in population by a factor of two, or the fact that only one of those two nations was under heavy bombing of its industrial zones at the time.

"famous for their honesty and decency" And keep in mind, most judges were lawyers!
And what does that say about the trust we should have in today's justice system and government in general? Lots of lawyers in government!

The law firms are hit with huge (firm destroying) penalties and lawyers are disbarred for the lies under oath since they submitted the briefs to the court.

"Did OpenAI go so fast that they didn't consider the privacy implications" of course they did, privacy is contrary to their data acquisition goal.

6800 pages sounds about right and then you add the supplemental publications and the # explodes. But for a vast majority, I still think it is pretty simple. Because, most of the tax code applies to special nterests and not your main street taxpayers.

DirectFile was a nice effort but the reality is that after spending 25 million dollars developing it the product was nowhere near as mature as the free commercial services that are already out there. It would have cost many millions more to enhance it further, scale it up, and support it going forward and that was just to provide Federal tax filing services. You would still need to do a state return which again the available free services already offered.

If you think the project has merit then take the source code and run with it: https://github.com/IRS-Public/...

Bingo! Never used a tax prep service. And I am self employed (so no ez-form for me). For me the government(open or closed) is a money sink, which provides little useful return in day to day life.

Taxes are pretty simple really. Uncle Guido(the government) takes x% of every dollar you make. it is November so I'm paying 15.3 Fed and Fica, all my current income atm is in the 22% bracket and the state and local taxes(blue state) takes another 6-8%. So just add it up and send the money.

Apple has always offered choices. From what they pre selected.

a playskool feel to it.

Autmattic's good name

Have a care: you could be responsible for a lot of people dying of laughter.

And your shocked it is a walled garden! Funny!