Except there is faaar more than enough for everyone. Nobody needs to starve.

Reolink here too. They support open protocols and work locally with no internet access. Picture quality is decent. You can record to your own server, or fit an SD card, or both.

What this really tells us is that the number of people that can get by on their own income is decreasing while the cost of things is increasing. Overall, inequality in the US is rapidly increasing.

Technically they can't ban them but they can't throw you in prison for using one. And they can throw people in prison for running them of course.

This is the ultra wealthy and the ruling elite moving the take over the last form of media where regular people can access information without their consent.

But hey, the girl who hands you your coffee says Merry Christmas now so that's a fair trade right?

And if you don't understand what that means that's the problem.

Greed is never satiated.

After exports start, they will have established the basis that their product is not a threat to national security. This will give them all the leverage they need to file a suit against the US government.

No because greed is never satiated.

Pulling repeated hardware platform switches underneath without bothering customers too much is a thing that only a very competent company could do, and Apple is a very competent company.

Apple nowadays is bound to avoid any huge missteps, because it has become a very conservative company.

Granted they blew some on the Vision Pro, but not much, for them. They folded on the electric car project, which now seems like a shame as Tesla is vulnerable.

What revolutionary product has Apple launched since Steve Jobs died? It has been 14 years, and I'm still waiting.

Thanks, but even looking at the full context and with that definition, I'm missing the joke. So why haven't the moderators rated it Funny already?

I have to disagree regarding the human cloning. However I think it is being hidden quite carefully because it is illegal.

Having said that, I think the most interesting clone candidate would actually be John Henry. I'm sure there are some gene samples available since he didn't die until 2007.

Pretty sure "gyre" is intended as a joke, but websearch failed me [just] now. Care to clarify the joke?

The "future shape" I was thinking of actually involved smartphone-enhanced clothing. Still don't understand why no one (that I know of) is making clothing with suitable adaptations for smartphones. Also shower proof pouches for people who worry about missing a message when they are in the shower...

We were actively hiding the cost of college by giving colleges direct Cash subsidies from state and federal governments. They were passing those cash subsidies onto the students in the form of lower tuition. I do not know how much simpler I can explain this to you.

If you look at the actual operating expenses of colleges they have not increased substantially in the last 40 years. You will find some increases because there is more technology. Yes 70 years ago colleges did not need computers or advanced medical equipment to train doctors on. They also didn't need staff to keep all those computers and all that equipment running. So there is some increase due to do technology.

But that increase is relatively small. And can easily be accounted for by the new technology.

Meanwhile all of those subsidies are gone.

Suppose what we should have done is when you went to college we should have handed you a check and had you walk it to the finance office so that you would understand what the cost of college actually was instead of hiding that from you.

The reason we didn't do that is we were fighting a war with people who pretended to be socialists. So you needed to get socialism because that made America stronger country that could actually stand up to those enemies but we didn't want you to get comfortable with socialism so we hid socialism from you.

We did the same thing with the housing market where trillions of dollars were spent on infrastructure to subsidize baby boomer houses so that they could actually afford to buy houses. We also heavily subsidized the loans they got for those houses.

But if you really want to piss off somebody over 50 try explaining to them that they received a massive amount of benefit from socialism.

Everything is a grift. Capitalism is breaking down, or rather it's being broken down by monopolies and billionaires. So people have to try to find money any way they can and since you can't do it the traditional way of competing in a free market, because there is no free market anymore, you have to try to grift your way to a living.

Where did that BS come from? having balls doesn't do any good.

Aggression? yes that is connected; but the kind of sociopath aggression that is over the top requires mental illness not balls. Some courageous people "have balls" but that is courage not aggression. Plenty of descriptive words to use but this "man up" crap and "big balls" is idiotic too. Promoted by writers who suck at English lowering IQs with pop culture. Don't get me started on these "musicians" who can't even rhyme or are marketing / egomaniacs trying to coin a new term into a speech fad just to show their influence. Now we have influencers dreaming of such shows of power.

courage. keep the word. use it appropriately.
maturity is "adulting." bring the word back.

Calling people scrotums is a great new idea. Pussy is actually about CATS from pussyfooting - similar to walking on eggshells except one is situational and the other is behavioral.

Americans are too corrupt and despotic to deserve anything but a despot who represents them. I'm in the minority now. He is not a king until he hands power down to his children. China is a republic too. Not having a king is just a republic. Many despots have existed and in a way are worse since they don't have a line of succession to attack like a monarchy.

Trump doesn't care if you are scum like him, only that he has the power to make you kiss his ass and do what you are told. He loves people to subjugate and embarrass themselves for him.

ICE is the secret police. People need to call them what they are.

We actively helped China the whole time. Even now we are too stupid and just charge them 25% to help them LONG TERM because we somehow are so shortsighted... it's like Trump doesn't have object permanence. That is actually a joke I've heard more than once about him; you've got to be exceptionally stupid to organically have so many people make those jokes.