I don't give a shit if some Russian/Kazakh/Malaysian bot farmer wants to take over my phone.

So you do no banking on your phone? Unlikely.

For the 99% of people that do in fact use a phone for banking, protection from lower level criminals is invaluable. For most people there is real financial loss possible from a phone being taken over, at the very least to monitor banking access mechanisms.

For 20 years, plus or minus, personal computers reversed that idea.

Unless Trump was the one who personally built all these models that companies are trying to replace workers with, I don't think he's much of the reason there are so many more people out of work.

ChatGPT making up things and incorrectly following policy would merely be in line with the current editorial pool, who ignores policy when it suits them and fabricates material if an article has any kind of political content.

There are a lot of details you donâ(TM)t have right here. For example many places require landlords to allow you to have a licensed contractor install a EV charger, and most landlords are fine is you pay someone qualified to improve their property. Second example there are a lot of solutions for charging multiple EVs by hooking them all up overnight and the chargers figure out how to allocate the limited power.

that doesnâ(TM)t mean there are no issues. For example renters are not wild about spending say $350 to improve a landlordâ(TM)s property even if they get use of the improvements for a year or two.

I use to rent a place in CA with a small garage (or really half the garage had been converted into another bedroom). What was left of the garage was the laundry area and tool storage. Car was in the driveway.

The driveway right in front of the garage, which is super common. EV charger ended up in the garage (shared the 30A with the dryer, auto switch that gave the dryer priority when it was on, otherwise the EV got it).

No problem, charge cable went right under the garage door. I guess if someone had wanted to steel $1 worth of electricity per hour they could have done it while I wasn’t parked. Nobody ever bothered to. So I really don’t see “all the junk” in garages blocking EV adoption. It isn’t even a speed bump. Maybe not having a garage at all, but even then if you have a driveway you can make it work.

On street parking is where it starts falling apart. When you can’t be sure you will get to park in front of your home, or if you can’t always do that, if you aren’t “allowed” to run power from your house across the city “right of way” on your own property to your parking space, that could be a problem.

If the service (even a good one) is priced too high, piracy is the inevitable result.

If a service is too expensive for what it offers, too little value, then I'd argue it's no longer a good service. Other than that I'm in complete agreement.

What everyone does not seem to realize, is that MNAY of the choices we are making to "save the climate" are equally stupid. They are just less obviously stupid.

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

Having a wimpy direct path that just goes from Airport - Downtown - Convention center is perfect for a huge number of cities.

So many places it can be really rough to get from the airport to the downtown area any time around rush hour (which in a lot of cities is around a 3-4 hour window).

Some places with rail kind of have this - like the train that goes from Midway into Chicago. But even THAT has a lot of stops and is not great for travelers, even if it's nice for residents.

I also have to say that a system where you are riding in smaller vehicles I am a big fan of because it eliminates the problem where homeless people are just handing up on the train which create danger, nasty messes, and of course awful smells. Though awful smells is not restricted to the homeless of course, that can be any other passengers also so nice to be removed from them too.

A group of runner women wanting to make sure that they're not fucking a dude that 10 other women are fucking.
Women have rosters of men. But it's not okay for men to do the same thing.

Men seem to care if a women has fucked 10 different men over his life. Women are mostly just making sure the men aren’t fucking ten women right now. Either way I think people owe their potential partners the truth, although for the most part I think expecting people to have had zero or close to zero prior partners isn’t a reasonable expectation while expecting them not to have other current partners is a common and reasonable (although not universal) expectation.

Who in their right mind would post that kind of stuff on a "dating safety app?”

I think the disconnect is you think the women are posting “I’m cheating on my husband and it feels so good!”, they are posting “I think my husband is cheating on me” (and some info about the husband) and getting back “He is, that bastard told me he is single!” (and maybe some info to confirm it, like intimate pictures the wife never saw, or dates he was with the other woman).

In other words it is getting some actual value (assuming the “other women” are telling the truth, which if the various wives have a reasonable standard of proof is going to be not too too hard to establish -- like someone won’t have pics of their husbands in any sort of sexy pose unless the husband at the very least was distributing them with the intent to cheat, maybe they haven’t actually had sex with anyone else yet, but they would have been doing the “check out my horse sized cock, wanna screw” type thing at the very least).

They are, I’m sure TEA has violated laws, but in general a jury is receptive to “no, we totally didn't give this info to anyone we shouldn’t have, some other dude broke in and stole it (online attack == broke in)” so they won’t be heard accountable by a court for violating user privacy, but they WILL be held accountable by potential future customers who for at least some time into the foreseeable future will remember “oh TEA the people that can’t keep anything private? I think I won’t be signing up”, which will likely also result in them not making growth milestones and not getting additional rounds of funding, and just sort of withering and vanishing from the earth.

Which helps future non-users not get their private data hijacked.

It doesn’t help them find out their husbands are cheating, or talk to other women who might be able to get them through tough times by telling them how it sucked for them too but it “got better” or whatever (yeah “whatever”, if I knew what helped maybe I would be better at helping people with emotional issues work through them, but I’m crap at that, so as much as I would like to be the kind of friend that supports my friends in tough times I’m more the kind of friend you go have dinner with and play some boardgames with and don’t really unburden your soul to ‘cause I’m full of useless suggestions and no real helpful whatever it is people offer each other).

If the moon is split in two and we are living through Thundarr the Barbarian I can first shot at wooing the princess!

Being a huge fan of the original cartoons, I was really sad to hear the whole story of Coyote vs Acme being canned. So while I am not sure how good the actual movie is, I'm really glad it gets a chance to exist and I will probably see it just to support the pushback effort.

There's not much other stuff I am really waiting for but am cautiously hopeful about Tron, and actually will try to see Alien: Earth which looks like more fun than a lot of SF Horror has been recently. But I am keeping expectations low for both.