Sugared soft drinks dwarf any of this vague bullshit in harmful effect.

I would argue that if you get married quickly after your spouse dies then it is a sign you had a very good marriage. I know people who've told me that once their spouse dies, they are never getting married again because they don't want to ever get trapped again.

Reference please. Adam Smith and Andrey Markov were  2-nd cousins ...

You should not be building on/in/about wetlands or beaches or  old-growth forests. Live near other people where children populate K-12. . Don't enshittify the environs with your old grubby human finger-prints where brook-trout or red-fish might reproduce.

True as that may be...for $2,450, one could buy a Galaxy S25 *AND* an S10+ Tablet *AND* a Michael Kors bag to put them in.

Or, with a few compromises...one could buy a Galaxy S25FE, a Galaxy Tab S10FE, a Samsung Galaxy Book 5 2-in-1, *and* a leather Samsonite briefcase to carry it all.

Props to Samsung for figuring out a way to enable those with a pile of money to visibly demonstrate their affluence, but that price tag is so eye-wateringly high that there's no amount of functionality that can justify just buying a phone and a tablet.

You sound like a seriously disabled person, envying your  hyper-productive  betters. Perhaps liberal pedophilic billionaires fed off family trust-funds, but the wealthy in my extended family bootstrapped from poverty. So either you are mentally/physically too weak to produce anything of value, or you are a professional poor-person/parasite sucking the financial blood from any metabolism close-by. In either case I certainly hope our gene-pool avoids your contribution , noting that in a civilized culture you would already live in a barb-wired, stone-breaking gulag. 

Indeed, Trump is a "Kennedy" Democrat. Post-mod DemoRat leadership has moved so far Dadaist-left that thoughtful pork-chop (de)mocrats have jumped ship. Now, call us MAGA for upholding a Western/nationalist cultural meme ( Kennedy/Buchanan/Perot/Moynahan/Trump/Manchan ...) . If the Bush family neo-cons succeed in retaking Republican leadership we will drop them like a rabid pig.

In return for the United States providing a safe haven for Flock ( and other companies ) , Flock preferentially hires USA citizens for their workforce, It's called the social contract ( or hemlock-cup for the Randists ). Pork-chop eating workers allow caviar-noshing C-Suites and investors. You say otherwise ? Then a just king would feed Flock executives to the palace lions ... gnosh gnoshgnosh ... gawd don't ya just hate it when feeding lions leave only the feet ...

The volunteers are those in the "Insider" program -- downloading and running Beta software.

She said they fixed it, but they'd have to, a month of that and someone is going postal and shoot every waymo in the lot ... justifiably.

Why is this labeled "flame bait".  Engineers build ... MBAs destroy. It's absolutely true. Must be a sect/nest/cult of MBAs hovering about /. ( or Chi.com disinformation agents ) to destroy any useful insights presented. Or mebby stooges for  slimy  big-4 consulting companies ...

Exactly. Problems like this should be discovered long before a Beta release. This isn't some kind of esoteric corner case.

Translation: Microsoft has outsourced its QA to volunteers.

Critical thinking and left-wing politics do not mix. The core fundamentals of left wing politics are envy, government-owned monopolies  and a blind  historically unjustified faith in authority; Trotsky Lenin and Stalin knew this and acted accordingly. It's endemic among primitive tribes and "effete" parasitic non-producers.  The  self-organizing  natural order with some people at the top, some people in the middle and some people in the bottom is a feature of (re)publican market cultures.  This ansatz  has long-lasting benefits both in physical wealth and social structures such as trade, technology  and marriage . 

Gender identity does not exist, excepting the fevered  mind of febs, felons, fools and freaks.  And political operatives looking to score votes no-matter the insanity required.

That's been done by Frank Herbert as well, in Destination: Void. Not a great book though.