What is this obsession with pedophilia? I'm really getting rather suspicious of MAGA. I suspect your average Catholic priest or Southern Baptist youth pastor thinks about nude children less than most MAGA individuals.

We never shut down anti-vax talk, that's why it failed. We should have. So many people have died who didn't need to because we're afraid of offending bros and Karens.

As long as the government isn't in full control of the degrees in question... it's a bad solution to a worse problem.

We're living in a world where old diseases are coming back because we couldn't shut down anti-vax talk as quickly as the asshole who started it all to discredit vaccines in production so he could sell his own and get rich. He took a big hit because he had something to take away... the greedy fools who followed did not.

You shouldn't be able to give medical advice - even if you slap "for entertainment purposes only" on your message - unless you have a medical degree that is relevant to the kind of advice you're giving. Because the alternative is, apparently, the return of polio.

It's 2025. We've known for a couple of decades that Win32/Win64 and Windows and its main ecosystem only work because various hacks into the kernel to make it all run more smoothly. Even the video driver architecture basically has built in restarts when buffers blow up.

It's a shitty proprietary operating system which somehow, every time they try to clean it up, it gets worse under and on top of the hood. I stopped using Windows for my own personal devices four years ago, and will not go back. Ubuntu, Debian and MacOS offer cleaner UIs, and even if the software libraries are a bit smaller, at least I'm not a prisoner to endless ads.

Christ I had to set up a Win11 laptop yesterday, and between setting up the OS and Edge I had to turn down "offers" and additional tracking functionality around seven or eight times. Actually more, because then I set up a non-privileged user profile, and had to do it all again. And that was Win11 Pro. I can only imagine how much worse the Home editions are.

There's no speculation that increases CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere lead to the more heat being trapped. We've known that since the late 19th century.

Sure... go work yourself to death so the guy at the top can try to become the next member of the billionaire club. Forget about anything other than the potential of getting a little bit more of that money for yourself.

WTF is the point of living if all you do is work?

It just goes to show you, there's none more gullible than the paranoid.

I agree. The functions provided by this bed do not require internet connectivity AT ALL, let alone some ridiculous cloud based architecture. $5000 is enough to include a $200 miniPC to monitor temp and positional sensors.

When I want to point out to the kind of morons who post on the Internet, I'll tuck this post away.

Yup, the sad truth is that if you really want to save children, you need to ban parents.

Who in their right mind would give their personal health information to a corporation that also has their billing information and can associate the two?

It's a matter of time before the database is cracked or sold (or, more likely, access is discretely rented). Then you try to get insurance, or it becomes part of employment background checks, or it's used to target you with yet more advertising.

If it could run locally and had a single upfront price, it might be an interesting health tool. As it likely really is, it's nothing but a privacy nightmare.

It depends on your local laws.

Where I live, it's the sharing and not the downloading that's illegal. Rip streams all you want, the issue of legality is on the host... but use a torrent app and you are sharing, which is illegal.

Sony infected consumers with malware, deliberately, as corporate policy.

I give Sony just as much respect as they give me. None at all.

The problem was that you were part of that chain of obligations to, and the guy above you could grab your wife, or in the case of James II of England (James VI of Scotland), he could grab you.

China's population decline, as standards of living increase, will largely take care of the problem. China, like every nation that is now on the other side of the economic growth-population growth curve, will have to figure out how to deal with the next half century. But nothing is going to make factories less automated, and between population decline and foreign tariffs, they are only going to push automation further to fill the gap.