Of course there is force.

When your basic needs are tied to employment then you have to be employed to have them met.

Thanks to ongoing improvements in productivity, less work must be done by humans to provide for those needs than ever before, but the owning class has sucked up all of those improvements so that they can make ever more money instead.

If employers are allowed to run off with all those profits and make workers work longer and longer hours then there will be more and more unemployed people whose needs aren't being met. This can, does, will, and will continue to have negative effects on everyone but the ultra wealthy.

Therefore it is not in the best interests of The People to allow it to continue.

The government's job is to ensure the welfare of the people, and if it can't do that then it's worthless at best.

Restricting the number of hours an employer can require you to work is therefore in everyone's best interests, since even the wealthy will lose if the system collapses. They are simply too stupid to realize this.

Windows ME wasn't a memory hog, its big problem was destroying backwards compatibility and making changes for no reason. Windows 8 is Windows ME redux, though.

Every colleague ridiculed me for switching to Linux.

For most of history there's been more workers than jobs. Covid amplified things, between people retiring early, and/or, somewhere in the range of 1% (additional) of the population dying in a single year. These kinds of "worker leverage" situations only arise perhaps once in a generation.

What's wrong with roundabouts? I HATE four way stops and incessant traffic lights!

Roundabouts keep traffic flowing. They're also safer because they introduce an angle so you don't get completely t-boned if you pull in front of somebody.

I'm not against them removing the apps, I'm against the headline trying to make me feel a certain way. Present the facts, I'll decide how I feel about them.

When you put a bunch of cylinders in a box you by definition have wasted space.

When you put boxes in a box you can have no wasted space.

How does using cylindrical cells improve density?

Using cylindrical cells also means having to have more parallelism to achieve a specific capacity, which means more connections, which means less reliability. This is a big part of the reason why post-collision Tesla model S batteries are unsafe for RV power storage. You can't reasonably detect bonding faults.

More to the point, it's unsustainable to just let anyone do anything just because they want to. There's a broad range of behaviors which fall into that non-category, and some of them are fine because they're not hurting anyone and some of them aren't because they are. Right to swing fist, end of my nose, etc etc.

I enjoy vroom vroom noises myself but I also appreciate that there are more important issues at hand than my own selfish gratification.

You literally cannot prevent that in an app which can make consensual nude images. Therefore the word nonconsensual is being used in order to trigger people into having a specific opinion. A better description is "an app which can be used to create fake nude images" since it can't literally show you what someone would look like unclothed.

The interesting thing about that statement is that it's the fascists that have brought us to this point where we have all these highly polluting coal plants.

They are if the end user can charge at home and aren't if they can't.
The intelligent thing to do would have been to mandate charger installation on new construction or any significant remodel or electrical system upgrade, years ago. But we can't agree to do things intelligently because we have to fight with each other over whether corporations have a right to make a profit. (They don't have one written into the law, but they seem to have a de facto one in that they can buy protectionist laws.)

Probably an AI will advise the Board.

Yes, that's my point. That limitation is crippling, and there was no good reason for the law to restrict their authority to navigable waterways, only a bad and corporatism-serving reason.

Cryptocurrency miners can buy land in a catbox state and put in a solar array. It's going to be cheaper than coal. Then they can mine while the sun shines. This isn't a move to stop cryptocurrency. This is a move to force coal plant operators to do what they claimed they were doing all along. We can find coal plants emitting more than they are legally allowed as fast as we can pay people to sample their emissions.

I disagree with you because I've learned to follow the money.

The phrase was coined in the 1976 film "All the President's Men", which by the way is pretty great if you're into things like that. You do have to have an attention span longer than the time between a SOCK and a POW in a Marvel movie, though.

You are welcome to catch up to the wisdom of over four decades ago.