*Used to* be Democrats and really, that was more California osmosis than their actual beliefs which always leaned sorta-libertarian (cuz taxes) and they did the "both sides" because it was smarter to stay apolitical and thus was so very easily co-opted by the current fashy personality cult regime where they get a taste of sweet oligarchy.

Also I am not talking rank-and-file which is all over map but the upper echelon. I mean Musk bought Twitter pretty much to affect the election, Andreesen is in the White House, Larry Ellison is kinda the shadow VP and is turning CBS into another Fox right now. Want me to go on? Just own it already, Republicans are not victims.

And no, I don't mean technocrats, there's a very obvious authoritarian thing happening here. Techno-Authoritarianism? Is that a thing? Did American just will that into being?

Pundits, wags. Maybe it was just something i read on social media but it's been a term since like the 70's. You get the idea though. The premise I read it in was that in 2020 during the pandemic with WFH and stimulus payments and other relief it really honestly gave employees more bargaining power with their employers and 2024 with the noted swing of the tech industry rightward was a sort of revenge for that happening.

The filter that was working no longer does

There is no reason why applications which choose to implement both types of interfaces can't do so. There's also no reason why users should be limited to one type of interface or the other. Both things coexist completely peacefully on Android. You can connect a mouse to your tablet (or even phone) and treat it like a desktop system with shitty storage (practically all phones, it takes a lot of power to have fast storage.)

The primary use case for tablet computers in olden times was data entry and acquisition, for example the military used their magnesium-case gridpads to do inventory.

Yeah but are they web scale?

I really want to agree with you, honestly, I do. All of your points are valid: Fashion isn't for everybody. There are absolutely things I won't compromise on. I have stickers on my desktop at home. Etc. Etc.

But holy hell, I just cannot understand the need or desire to pay 10x or 100x the price for something because it's "designer". The "things I won't compromise on" generally boils down to compatibility or suitability for purpose. I've been racking my brain trying to come up with an answer for something I won't compromise on, this is the best I could come up with: Cheap tools, or cheap consumables for tools. For the most part, I'll begrudgingly pay 2x the harbor-freight price for something that will last 10x longer. The ONLY exception to that I could think of is my socket/wrench sets. I did pay a bit more than I could have to replace a socket that I lost, only because it would drive me absolutely bonkers if that one socket was different than the 180-some others in the set.

Why does he need compensation? People don't pay for music, or movies, or software, why should he be any different and get paid for the work he did?

Not like they arrest anyone in the country legally and for "reasons" luckily he was released after 73 days. Imagine the mayhem this hospital chaplain could have done! https://ohiocapitaljournal.com...

Phones and tablets have supported rudimentary multitasking from the beginning. Some 15 years ago both iOS and Android introduced features to keep multiple apps active and running even if they weren't displaying anything. Split screening multiple apps were introduced on Android 7.0 in 2016.

There's nothing in the hardware preventing this. By the way iPadOS 26 introduced a full window manager.

Yep, that is unrealised potential. Apple being the limiting factor is what the entire story is about.

No a recession is a decline in the economy. You can cut one industry without going into a recession in a country. But yeah China has in part produced less steel and cement. Now do you want to discuss the everloving fuckton of solar, wind, and storage they are building out along with the fact that there are nearly 40million EVs on Chinese roads compared to close to zero in 2014?

But yes one must focus on cement and steel and ignore the words "in part"

And yet the results of the analysis align nicely with the amount of green energy they have brought online. It also is an analysis of all CCP statistics, the same statistics that had no problem pointing out emissions were rising in the past.

I don't know what your point is. Do you have any real criticism other than an ad hominem attack?

CO2 and smog are not related to each other. That much is evident at home where places like LA have *increased* CO2 emissions while eliminated the thick smog that used to blanket the city.

By the way China's air pollution in urban centres peaked back in 2006 but stayed steady for a few years after that while their CO2 emissions skyrocketted. However along with their greening ambitions they launched in a decade ago they also launched a clean air policy, and all pollution metrics have nearly halved in the past decade which is a HUGE DECLINE compared to their emissions.

There's lies, damn lies, and statistics. This one falls in the latter. The USA has a wonderful combination of a horrendous starting point, and a large population to distribute the problem across.

Absolute:
They've gone from 5.25bn to 4.62bn tonnes. Kudos. But let's compare them with say a comparable chunk of the western emitters: Europe went from 4.22bn to 3.52bn, bugger they loose to western peers on a similar scale. It's easy to claim wins in absolute emission reduction when you're such a big emitter. But wait, why not look at it in different ways...

Percent change:
The USA has had a -1.3% change in average annual emissions over the past decade. That places them 25th on the list of countries sorted by emission reduction percentage.

Pollution percentage of total:
The USA currently generates 13% of global emissions. That's a lot for a country which represents 4.2% of the population.

Maybe if the USA wasn't one of the abysmal countries who increased natural gas flaring emissions:
0.7% increase average per annum (even China has a -0.6% / annum) is horrendous for emissions that are tired directly to waste due to piss poor regulations and not tied into energy production or consumption.

Anyway not to shit on the USA completely their efforts have meant they are now only the 3rd worst emitter per capita in the west. They have successfully beaten out Canada and Australia. They are still miles ahead of every other western country without a rounding error of a population, but hey you can blame Canada and Australia now.

By the way Per the 2024 Statistical Review of World Energy, the USA achieved close to fuck all reductions last year. They did have a good effort in 2023 I'll give them that though. But I sincerely hope you're not on the start of a trend, but given El Presidente's Drill baby Drill mandate combined with scrapping anything with green in the name, I suspect people will be focused on the 2023 review of world energy like a 50 year old woman is focused on celebrating her 35th birthday for the 15th time.

I would love for you to tell me what of my post represents a thought terminating cliche and for you to actually debunk anything in my post.

And I would love even better for you to explain a path forward for humanity that doesn't involve guys like you getting the shit all over people beneath you on the social ladder. I'm not going to bother pointing out again that you will be at the bottom because there is no way in hell your mental facilities could imagine or envision that happening. You are simply too amazing and too glorious to end up as one of the many billions stuck on the reservations occasionally being fire bombed by drones...

Say hi to the world leaders at G5 this year for me.

Wait if it is CVE Slop why not just label WONTFIX and move on? Something doesn't add up here.