And you have the option of turning the entertainment system off.

Dont be a prick and think that you should force that on the rest of us - you have your option, we want ours.

I currently own two GM cars, a Malibu and an Acadia, and I like them a lot. But like you said, there is NO value to ANY consumer in dropping CarPlay and Android Auto, since they could even offer it side-by-side with their proprietary and most likely subscription-based garbage that nobody wants if they thought it could compete.

It doesn't say anything about being clean.

You say it was an echo chamber but remember how much Donald Trump used it? Everybody used it.

Granted that was falling apart by the end of Trump's term and he was banned for comments relating to Jan 6.

Look how twitter got destroyed as a common medium for communication, with no replacement. X (right) and Bluesky (left) together are not a replacement for what twitter used to be. Now wikipedia as a store of knowledge goes the same route? Can't we just have one reality, but have different opinions about it?

Some people make real money in this "market," or try to. Check this out:

I Spent 24 Hours with CS2 Millionaires

I'm not saying any of this is real, but I bet some sizable purchases have been driven by dreams of such.

Cockroaches!

Already 100 million years old when those johnny-come-lately dinosaurs came along.

I guess Pokeman cards were just too tangible.

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” Albert Einstein

Having just left Microsoft, my perception was that they were starving the other divisions to go all-in on AI build out, which of course isn't producing any income currently. Which begs the question, what are the margins on your AI business, Microsoft? Ai loses a lot of money on every sale, but they make up for it in VOLUME!

No way to get 30% margins on hardware. But games have tiny marginal cost per unit, they should have 90% margins.

Microsoft is trying to get out of the hardware business. XBox hardware pretty much sells at cost. The games, on the other hand, have extremely low marginal cost per unit sold. Sarah Bond is smart enough to let someone else sell the hardware (probably ASUS) and focus on the high-margin games themselves... which would make 30% margins easy.

On this page they identify 1.5C as the initial "tipping point" of specific bad things. There is a fairly wide uncertainty around that estimate, but it's considered the best estimate so in that sense it wasn't picked out of thin air.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"Which means that we're going to have a period, bigger or smaller, with higher or lower intensity, above 1.5C in the years to come"

You cut off the conclusive part - we're going 1.5C above baseline. How much, being open in part to what we do now.

ok I'm going to wave the white flag on this one.