I mean... I know Tumblr went downhill and I abandoned it several years ago, just after it was taken over, but I wasn't really paying attention as to why.

But I never imagined for a second that the plan was to convert the entire thing to Wordpress...

I will say that London's streets are notably less smelly as EV adoption has increased. It's not just the cars - it's the buses as well. The streets are also much quieter. The future beckons.

People challenge government decisions all the time in the courts, and lobby their elected representatives for change, and write to the newspapers, and make blogs and post on socials etc. It's not a perfect system by any means -- we are human after all -- but there's mechanisms for seeking to change the law and they succeed quite frequently. And it's not like these laws that the EU have brought in are obviously pro-consumer at the expense of Apple; there's plenty of pro-consumer organisations who don't like them very much. The EU has a decidedly mixed track record on tech regulation -- for example, GDPR has worked well for consumers, for the most part, but basically everyone recognises that cookie notices have caused pointless friction for little consumer benefit. So blithely assuming that the enemy of your enemy is your friend will not always work out in your interests, when the other parties are Apple and the EC.

Yes, onerous to Apple, and creating costs and friction for consumers of their products. Obviously to Apple. Obviously Apple is going to act in what it thinks is in its interests. It's not obliged to just put up with it, it's entitled to challenge.

How is it possible for you to have been arguing about EVs for so many years, and still not understand basic things like "fast chargers are not just a straightforward replacement for slow chargers"??

We use slow chargers when we're not in a hurry to charge, which is most of the time, because cars are parked, most of the time. I have a slow charger at my house. If I go to a hotel, I need the car to be charged by morning, so I just need a slow charger. If I visit a town for a day, I just need a slow charger where I park my car. The only time I need a fast charger is when I am doing a road trip and want to stp for food and a charge.

Your concerns about the capitalist system's ability to provide all the chargers that are needed are unwarranted: the charging network is going where it's needed, and governments are actively shaping where chargers are going in for public policy aims, both as purchasers (eg local authorities buying and deploying lamp post chargers) and as regulators (eg requiring all motorway service stations to have at least six rapid chargers, requiring them to take contactless payments, etc).

As for fear of obsolescence, that's exactly why I've always got my cars on a PCP deal, and focused on TCO for the period of ownership (3 or 4 years), so that I can take advantage of rapidly improving tech. And it's paid off: my EVs went from 90 to 180 to 230 to 330 miles of range from 2015 to 2018 to 2020 to 2024. A decade of positive experiences. If you ever come to London, ping me and I'll take you on a drive around and you can see why I think they're great for tens of millions of people around the world (but not yet for you).

If it's anything like their content ID copyright enforcement mechanism, I'm sure this will go absolutely perfect and there will be no drama whatsoever.

=Smidge=

If I were going to trust someone not to leak my ID, it would be Google.

But no.

This.

People need to be setup on multiple CSPs. Not just for reliant service, but also when AZ is charging you too much you can quickly shift more of your traffic to your lower tier. And since it's a "cloud" you ought to be able to quickly spin up and spin down instances in response to price, demand, and availability.

Just slotting an app into AWS-West and walking away means you aren't going to survive a disruption and you also likely are paying too much.

But Kamala LAUGHED ok? She LAUGHED. Could you even imagine?

US politics are far too volatile and US foreign policy is far too unpredictable. Parking your money in US assets seems incredibly risky for foreign investors right now.

Some one shit the bed, or fighter jet.

What you said was idiotic and no one owes you anything for being an idiot.

Correct, but just as small businesses give much more value to most countries than large ones do, especially in higher Western democracies, the slightly less valuable smaller use cases normally end up much more valuable in total than the original bigger ones.

It’s completely reasonable that companies can challenge regulations in the courts, especially when those regulations are novel and onerous, as here.

I don't think it's a trope that I had to look up where Yemen is.

No. Robots will eventually be excellent for those who remain. Most of us won't be here by then, and this is by design.