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Comment Just don't live in that cesspit of a city (Score 1, Troll) 134

Don't get me wrong, San Francisco the PLACE is beautiful, absolutely stunning. The Bay, the Point - some of the most consistently beautiful geography on the planet.

But the people of the city (at least, the ones that run it, who are elected to that position by the others) are the fucking worst humans. They have failed to run the city so badly that they have a full time crew to JUST pick up human feces?

At what point can one consider one's city government failed, if not that?

Do you know that at the same time they were criticizing Texas for sending them busses of illegals (despite their status as a 'sanctuary city' suggesting that they want them), THEY WERE THE FIRST city to implement 30+ years ago a program where the city would pay homeless 1 bus fare to go anywhere else but SFO?

Comment Re:Not surprising (Score 1) 181

It's hard to argue with repeated, ubiquitous video evidence of criminality, and then tacit if not explicit endorsement by political leaders as long as it's aligned with their particular dogma.

Yes, violent crime has been falling widely and persistently. And yes, certain events get escalated by media more interested in being inflammatory than factual (Cf George Floyd, if you need an example - or did you agree with that one, so it's true?).

Then again, neither are people stupid. Things have changed over the last 10 years and not for the better.
Are you asserting that people broadly ransacking stores isn't new? That the - daily - new video evidence of some store being looted, or widespread closures in our inner cities are FoxNews propaganda?

Comment expected (Score 1) 27

As Disney has woke-slammed the beloved franchise into the dust regain and again, we can probably expect their promotion of whatever can resuscitate fans interest to reach hyperbolic levels.

I mean, it's probably easier than saying "we were wrong, sorry. We didn't realize you just wanted an adventure series and not a sermon" (shrug)

Comment Nice of them to confirm our choice to leave (Score 1) 12

Unity 3D, now the engine for bait'n'switch advert delivery "games" and nothing else.

The head of Zynga.

Head. Of. Zynga.

To recover from loss of customers because of deceptive and bad faith business practices.

Well, at least it's shut up the last dissenting voice who was dragging his feet about getting on board with the new toolsets.

Comment limited good news (Score 3, Informative) 93

Let's be clear, a 700teu vessel is not what most people would think of when they think container ship, it's more like a local parcel truck or delivery van. (Typical ocean container ships today are 12000-25000 teus - 2 teus is roughly a semi truck trailer of cargo.)
It's good news experimentally, certainly, and was likely to first be launched in Asia where waterborne local cargo is a thing. But 5% of the cargo capacity dedicated to battery packs - and likely needing to be changed out roughly every couple of days - doesn't scale much yet.

https://www.offshore-energy.bi...

Comment I'm routinely surprised (Score 1) 121

...(but shouldn't be) by the meticulous, nearly atomic-level precision modern commercial systems can manage and deal with massive amounts of data when it comes to TRACKING THE FUCK OUT OF US* but simple stuff like "your 2-year digit code in your ticketing disregards that some people who travel live more than 100 years" never seems to get fixed.

*I mean that literally: when you click on some links, your info goes out on AUCTION to be bid around for which advertising they're going to show you, they have the auction, resolve it, and decide who's sending you what ad in the moments of the page coming up. Meanwhile, copies of everything you do, what you like, where you spend time browsing, even your mouse position while browsing a site is all being hoovered (pun definitely intended....sigh) by at least a half dozen government agencies of your own country, probably a dozen inimical actors, and at least SCORES of commercial services all joining in the ebukkake of selling your data back and forth.

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