Mistakes were made.

They call them baby boomers for a reason - they are the biggest generation, by cohort size. A lot of the policies that benefited them were made on the assumption that the next generation would be even bigger, and that the economy would keep growing proportionally, and the workers would share in that wealth.

None of that turned out to be true. There were fewer gen X, even fewer Millennials, and far fewer gen Z. Wages didn't keep up with GDP growth.

In the UK, there were about 14 people per retiree to cover pensions and healthcare costs, back in the 1950s. There are about 5 today. It's not just state pensions either, boomers had access to defined benefit pensions that turned out to be unaffordable, so the schemes were closed to new applicants but workers today still have to pay the boomers who got them.

The massive increase in property value relative to wages was a one off too. If Gen Z manage to buy a house, they aren't going to see it go up in value by hundreds of percent over their lifetimes.

And then you have climate change. Too little, too late, with massive costs coming.

So sure, individually boomers may have had hard lives, may have worked hard to get what they have, no disputing that. But mistakes were made at policy level and now nobody has the balls to even try to really fix them. Younger generations are actually screwed. They can't expect the same opportunities that their parents and grandparents had.

Sure, but Google doesn't need it to be better than it is today, just the same or better. I imagine that most Chromebooks will primarily run Chrome and nothing else.

No need to wonder, just go try one.

For example, with DeepSeek if you download their AI and run it locally, it doesn't care about what the CCP wants and will happily tell you what you ask for. If you use it on their website, it depends if you are in China or not.

In other words, it's exactly like Western AIs. If you ask Siri about Tienanmen Square, the answer will depend on if you are in China or not.

Less about porn and more about social media and shopping.

While it is possible to bypass age verification on social media, by its social nature that makes it less usable. It's also harder to get away with, because many of the things people do on social media reveal their location. These companies' business models are knowing where you are so they can send you targeted ads.

Journalists think that laypeople need something to compare these numbers to, to have a sense of scale. Like Libraries of Congress or football fields or double decker busses.

Comparing Japan's domestic internet to other countries is interesting though. You haven't been able to order new DSL lines for years, it's fibre or nothing. The basic fibre service is 10Gbps, with many places offering 20 now. As well as internet, you can get 8k TV and POTS over it too.

This isn't really unification though, because Chrome OS only supports two kinds of apps: Progressive web apps, and Android apps. I.e. it's a web browser and Android subsystem, built on top of a minimal Linux.

Android recently ditched support for progressive web apps, and is also built on top of a minimal Linux.

So they are already 90% the same thing. From an app's point of view they are exactly the same. Most of the work will probably be around managing the transition from running Chrome OS to running a build of Android on Chromebooks.

I would say it's less about unknown things like that, and more about situations where there is a lot of history and neither side is entirely blameless.

It's worse than that. People should have learned from the pandemic. When we collectively get together to push development of these things forward, the results are hugely beneficial. Governments acting on our behalf to get mRNA vaccines funded and released in record time is going to have long term positive effects for all sorts of conditions.

The same thing happened during WW2. Massive advances in technology. In the UK after the war, the new socialist government ran on a platform of continuing those big national collaborative projects, and the benefits were huge. Lots of infrastructure, affordable housing, socialized healthcare, a state pension... The US did some similar things with the GI Act, and also back in the 1930s with the New Deal, and again with Apollo.

What makes it worse than just rejection of science is rejection of the kind of collaboration and national projects that reap huge rewards.

Don't Russian troll farms want the stupid ones to survive? It's the intelligent Americans that they would be opposed to.

I think it's just an effort to cause general division and conflict, as well as worsening America's health overall.

I find the evidence submitted by South Africa, and the subsequent evidence from other sources, to be quite credible.

Today a former Israeli PM condemned the plans to open concentration camps for Gazans. His words, "concentration camps".

More than that, people are actually leaving.

It takes a lot to make people leave. Usually it's an idle threat to avoid being taxed, but once you start really messing with people - taking away their healthcare, deporting members of their families, destroying their research, that sort of thing - you start to see people with the skills and the motivation actually doing it.

The US tried that in Afghanistan. They had drone pilots in nice air conditioned offices in the US, flying over Afghanistan. Some of them got PTSD, made worse because when a soldier is on the battlefield they at least feel like killing is justified to ensure their own survival, or as revenge for what the enemy did to them and their comrades. Sat in an office thousands of kilometres away though, it's harder to rationalize.

The Afghans started to put big pictures of children on the ground near civilian targets to discourage the drone operators from firing on them too. A lot of civilians were killed, either accidentally as of "collateral damage".

There is some truth in it. Fossil fuel interests support nuclear because every time a new plant is announced it means 25+ years more gas or coal while waiting for it to become available. It means the grid won't be transitioned away from big central generation for another few decades.

And then there are the ones who are just bizarrely obsessed with nuclear power, like MacMann. I don't know what's up with them.

As it mentions in the summary, it's not full self driving, it's just driver aids that are common in cars now. Cruise control that automatically maintains the distance to the car in front. Automatic emergency braking. Self parking and summon. The only bit specific to scooters is the self balancing. It seems like it only works at low speed and uses the steering system to do it, not a gyro or something like that.

None of the bad DC movies were bad because they were "woke". They were just badly written on a technical level, and the stories were not that interesting. There was clearly a requirement from on high to make them into franchise set-up vehicles. The early Marvel stuff that was actually good worked because they were good movies by themselves, and most of the new stuff is bad in no small part because it's just there to set up the next thing.

The Snider ones had their own issues of course.

Gunn seems to have the formula. Movies that are good as stand alone stories, and he leans into the silliness of the comics. Peacemaker is a great example - low level criminal who for some reason that is never explained has access to sci-fi level weaponry from the pocket dimension accessible from his old white supremacist dad's house.

And ironically that show was actually kinda woke, at least as far as it mocked both white supremacists and gullible believe-everything-they-read-on-Facebook types. It's not the wokeness that is the issue, it's just plain old bad writing.