Right. I've seen that YouTube video too.

Terrawatts of power

Well stop worrying then. The entire world uses about 18 TW of energy from all sources. That's not electricity, that's everything. There's no possible way Austria is installing plural (or even singular) TW unless they've discovered zero point energy and are about to be all our overlords.

Or did you mean the charming unit terawatt hours per year of electricity? In which case, meh.

Your cynicism has turned off your brain. A common occurrence these days in the USA.
THINK and you'll realize. Stop feeding into the despots; who benefit from cynicism!

I say this as one but that doesn't mean I shutdown. Sure both parties cave to powerful wealthy people but the least impacted the most resistant one gets my vote. The Rank Choice Voting proponent gets my vote no matter what scumbag they are - as long as they support that 1 issue. No other issues matter in a failing democracy than restoring the vote. We're headed towards modern despotism where fake elections appease enough slow people to be worth faking. Projection! always it seems to be projection. You know who is doing everything he accuses others of. not hard to see.

I don't know how many billions they have to trash. This is a scam.
A recent tax accounting conference to update accountants on the new laws etc. just happened in my city. People travel around the country for these things. The Trump savings account for children is complete shit. Nobody could understand the benefit to doing it; even the banks that manage it gain little and the IRS is somehow supposed to admin the things because the parents are NOT co-owners on the fund. Also, it must have Trumps NAME in the account title or it doesn't work.
What was said is that before it was amended away, it was going to allow it all to be in crypto. The general assumption by these experts was that it was a crypo lobbied scheme that failed at the last second. That doesn't mean it won't get another law to adjust it later so it becomes something.
If you are a bank running this thing and found some loophole then you could make money from it; the government itself is dumping $1000 tax payer money into each account. There are fixed returns and taxes on it - it's better to do your own IRA or something; it has zero benefit for the children other than it's a free $1000. Will they remember and get access to it in their future? maybe... some kind of management loophole could result in money being made by people like the Dells who are invested in banks who know the gimmick.

As far as taxes; they make no sense.

They say financial literacy is poor in the US.

Did you miss the part where it has to be invested in a market tracking index fund? The S&P 500, which is what people usually mean when they say "the market" has returned almost 10% / year over the last hundred years. Index fund fees are usually a fraction of a percent. So ~9% / year, subtract the US average inflation rate this century of 3% and you've got 6% real growth. No imaginary leverage scams needed.

The future always has been in the cities. The rural folk will destroy democracy because they never really were for it; just nationalism or whatever cult they belong to...were indoctrinated into. Also, fitting that they think everybody else is "brainwashed" (they are more so.) They'd be for restoring slavery if it would help save them...maybe conditions will return; everything else has been reverting...

The masses are moving towards 90% in the cities; less than 2 centuries ago it was the opposite. Suburbs are a non sustainable hybrid and cities designed around that will suffer as wealth continues to be extracted.

The conflict with cities will only grow and we frankly need to ditch the whole land=vote concept; it's long long overdue for people to realize the inequality of it. Automation continues to eliminate rural living along with capitalism and for the majority their economy. I'd have government take all that over before we end up with a monopoly controlling all our food. It's not communism; you need labor for that and labor is what is being eliminated! The few rural jobs can be prison jobs. Furthermore, I'm sick of us subsidizing everything the rural fools get; too busy inbreeding to realize the only reason they have internet, roads, power, medicine, and don't economically collapse is their welfare coming from the cities.

lose enough.

But having known a range of Republicans; it's irrational tribalism, plus lots of fear. You are poor because you are inferior. You are successful because you are superior and most the rest is rationalizations (shifting blame is like breathing.)

IPv4 is old. Force IPv6 and legally ban NAT which facilitates the ability to block and censor as far as the ISP is concerned. People will have to learn how to circumvent that but no longer an ISP problem unless they don't ban IPs or MAC.

SCOTUS doesn't care much about due process... it's more a process of finding out what amount is due to them $$$

Fascism:
National CEO. Subsidiaries can do whatever they like until they get orders from the top CEO.

You'd hope people would have enough sense to never elect any businessman. Better to elect a pedophile for the job. Well, now we have both. Too bad he isn't as good at business like he was at being a rapist. At least then he could manage something without bankrupting it.

King or Fascist - not much difference between them. He is a fascist by definition, by every expert, historian... When Don Jr. takes over then he is a king.

Being authentically and openly corrupt is EXTREMELY harmful and undermines society in long lasting ways that are really hard to undo. It's why Russia never could turn around; the culture has been ruined since it was born - it's their most powerful weapon, export and affliction: societal subversion.

Okay. Thanks for all but admitting that exactly none of those needs are actually solved by the feature we're talking about.

You don't have a need. You just don't want your routine to be disrupted by a company taking away a feature that works for you. And it's entirely okay to feel that way. But it's not really a good reason to have designed such an overly complex and, at least in the real world, frequently under-performing protocol in the first place.

Keep telling yourself that I'm the one who doesn't understand the tech if it helps you sleep at night.

Until they cosplay Nazi and do a proper Nazi solute instead of an Italian one...(BTW, the original) Americans won't think it is fascism!

Trivial juvenile arguments win the day here. Vance can run circles around those and the fools don't buy it because it's above them.

Then neither will casting, because casting by definition requires the TV to have Internet. It's a handoff process whereby the TV itself retrieves the content from the Netflix servers, and all your phone does is handle the authentication and key delivery plus playback controls.

You can do screen mirroring with a non-Internet-capable or disconnected TV, but not you can't use the ridiculously designed feature that I'm talking about.

So everything I'm saying is useless is useless for you, too.

My latest pet peeve is when Siri violates basic privacy standards by compelling data collection that isn't necessary.

A couple of days ago, I asked it for a list of restaurants near a particular town where I would be in a couple of hours. Siri immediately told me I had to enable location services for that query. What? Why? My query didn't ask for a list of restaurants near me. I asked for a list of restaurants near a different town, and more to the point, I gave both the name of the town and the state.

I attempted probably half a dozen different variations of that query, including things like avoiding the word "near", and Siri failed in the same way every single time, so this isn't just a one-off glitch specific to how I worded the query. It's a general problem with the way Siri handles queries that involve location.

This violates the first rule of location services, which is do not ask for the user's location unless you actually need the user's location. If the user is asking for restaurants in Panama City, Florida, Siri does NOT need to know that the user is currently in Charleston, South Carolina. It's none of Siri's d**n business. And more to the point, if Siri actually tried to do literally anything with that location data, it would be pretty much guaranteed to reduce the quality of the results rather than increase it, so having the data is just an invitation for any AI that might be involved to do something utterly stupid.

It's not a recall when you do a firmware update on our phone or laptop.

Right. It's a recall when you need to get a certified technician to do it.