Few people are going to spend the several months of free time it would take to watch all ten seasons of SG-1 in one large binge session. Conversely most won't have a problem watching a couple episodes of the new show each day, especially if they're relatively short, over the next week or so.

My nephew and I totally binged that Jurassic Park cartoon Camp Cretaceous over the course of a couple weekends because we could get three episodes an hour in, whereas our run through of that old classic Knight Rider - he's got a big crush on Bonnie and loves, and wants to own, KITT - has been much slower (we average about one episode a month, currently in the middle of Season 2) because he's gotta be in the mood to sit for the nearly 50 minutes it takes to finish a single story. Same thing here, I'd get around to all of SG-1 eventually but no way I'm binging it for several months straight to do it - it'd probably take me a year or two to get all the way through.

YouTube is basically the equivalent of TV now, except you get to watch what interests you rather than what's spoon fed to you by a team of programmers. I watch quite a bit of it myself and I'm 50!

Shows on how to repair retro computers, how to build a deck / fence / small shed in the backyard, how to safely use a resin 3d printer, battle reports of the games that use the minis I just 3d printed, watching a city planner play Cities Skylines and learning why cities are built the way they are, etc... There's a tonne of interesting content on there these days, commercials are short(ish) and often skipable after 10-15 seconds.

All this is just the same "moral panic" parents had when I was a kid about kids watching too much TV, or them new fangled BBSes, or playing D&D, or listening to KISS albums backwards so you can get the secret messages from Satan. My only concern is that some parents aren't going to be as good at media literacy as others, if their kids aren't being properly monitored they're gonna start watching some pretty sketchy shit that'll teach them that reality isn't real or go down the "manosphere" incel crackpot conspiracy nutter rabbit hole.

Fellow Canadian here, so gonna weigh in.

Arguments like this are akin to a child throwing their trash into their sibling's room and then bragging about how clean their own room is, any reasonably decent parent will see right through that shit and make you help clean your sibling's room.

I'm 50 so I grew up during the "golden age" of early 80's 8-bit computing, bought a C64 back in 1985 when I was 12 after saving a year's worth of paper route money to do it. Upgraded to a PC 5 years later when I got my first part-time job. I used to love tinkering with those old machines, spending hours figuring out how stuff worked and making it do stuff it shouldn't have been able to do - that first time I managed to figure out how to cram all the drivers I needed to run a new game into expanded memory so I'd have all 640k free was incredible.

But I'm 50 now and unlike my youth, where I had tons of free time, my evenings are a lot shorter than they used to be and so when I have time to do shit on the computer the last thing I wanna do is figure out how to get it to do what I want - I just want it to work so I can do what I want to do before I gotta go to sleep for work in the morning. With my computer skills and experience I could definitely setup a Linux box and transition much of my workflow over to it, but I don't want to spend hours digging through various MAN files learning the arcane program arguments, trying to decipher FAQs which refer to an outdated version because a new one hasn't been written yet, or even more hours on forums hoping to find the details I need to configure the damned thing to work for my specific hardware.

The "normal" user who just gets a preconfigured PC at Staples or Best Buy, forget it - they're just gonna accept the AI overlord without question as long as it "just works and does what I want".

You mean that same People's Republic of China whom the Western capitalist businesses have shifted the majority of their manufacturing jobs to, which somehow happens to coincide with their increased pollution, in order to suppress Western wages while simultaneously securing higher corporate profits.

You do realize you don't get to puff out your chest and gloat about how clean your room is after throwing all your trash into your sibling's room, right? Any parent worth a damn will see right through that shit, rightfully call you out on it, then force you to help clean it up.

My sister has three kids - 19f, 17f, 13m. I've noticed that even though they're intelligent kids, biased I know, they just don't viscerally understand computers like people my own age (50m) tend to. Everything is all tables or point and click, software is downloaded and installed, OSes come on a thumbdrive and almost magically install. They don't have to think about it.

They'll never know what it's like to have to PEEK() and POKE() into memory to get the old 8-bit computers to do things, or have monstrous manuals that came with them which told you all about it's internals and how to use them. Then later in the PC age how to install and manage interface cards, play with various drivers and resolve IRQ / DMA conflicts, play around in the Windows Registry, or update AUTOEXEC.BAT or other configuration files.

While it sounds tedious, because it is, all that knowledge has come in handy over the years because I often know how to fix stuff because I can understand how it all fits together at a "base" level when troubleshooting. I've tried to teach them, oh how I've tried, but they just don't get why they need to learn it - it's always why do all that hard work to learn how to do things so they can play on something "old" when they can just go to their App Store of choice and get something "new" instantly?

I love my 2015 Nissan LEAF, and since they shut down the 3G network towers here in Canada it no longer connects to the "mothership" so I don't have to worry about random phantom updates coming in over the air. The only part I miss about the connectivity is the ability to go into the Nissan app to see my energy usage over a period of time, it was nice getting those kWh totals over a period of time and how much of it came from regeneration.

So I just got an bluetooth ODB2 reader and installed LEAFSpy on my phone, don't get the yearly values like the Nissan app did but I get real-time energy usage and it's come in handy when I'm at a low state of charge and deciding if I have enough to get home or if I need to stop at a charger first.

I've been here a while and I remember reading a Q and A years ago where someone asked about this. From what I remember it's something about how they wanted to prevent people from going back and edit their comments after receiving "negative" responses, making it look like they're being attacked for "nothing". Essentially if you're going to say something then own it, don't try to weasel your way out later when others hold you accountable for what you said.

That said I've always wished for a 10-15 minute window to edit because there have been many a time, after hitting submit, where I'll notice a grammar / spelling error missed during my original proofread.

Yes, entitlements that taxpayers have paid for and earned. But now that it's time for the government to pay the citizens their earned benefits they paid for it's suddenly a big problem?

And it's not like it was an opt-out thing either, everyone was forced to pay in with the reasoning being that by doing so there'd be enough to pay out what you'd earned at the end. So now we're going to tell all those people who were forced to pay in, and were banking on that money for their retirement, that their money was effectively stolen by the people who forced them to pay and that there's nothing to do about it?

Yeah yeah, "Should have put money into a retirement plan, everyone knew that Social Security was gonna default!" except many people don't have the extract income to do that. So now what, "We forced you to buy in while you were poor and could have used that money for survival, or to invest in your own retirement, but now we can't pay you. Sure, we stole from you over the past 40 years but here's a SNAP card you can use to buy some food - just don't buy anything too good with it okay because people taking handouts totally shouldn't have nice things."

And don't forget the $500 for the roller wheels on the Mac Pro!

It's the standard "top down" approach most automakers take. Build out the expensive products which have high margins, use the profits from that to fix early process bugs and create the scale needed to get costs down for the mass market products with lower margins.

While that's true now, people often forget that a vehicle's production timeline is often spread over 7-10 years. Sourcing of materials for the battery chemistry and the buildout the factories to build those batteries would have been decided a decade, or more, ago. A decade ago everyone knew about LiFPO4 batteries, but the chemistry was also fairly new and energy densities weren't that high compared to the standard LiON cells everyone else was using in their EVs.

It's only been a recent change, thanks to continued research over the past 10 years, that LiFPO4 cells are catching up to the point that automakers are giving them serious consideration for their vehicles.

Not really a fan of the Blizzard games myself, but I did spent a tonne of time playing the two Warcaft games on LAN with friends back in the day and so I'd love to see that come back with some graphic updates and the ability to use the larger resolutions we get on modern hardware now. Really miss being able to click on the peons and have them all be "Zug Zug, Zorboo, and WHAAATTT!!!"

This was the day Jared realized all the girls professing their undying love and devotion for him were actually 50 year old Pentiums in a mouldy basement.

Unfortunately this takes a fair bit of nuance to understand, but basically the major problem with politics in the US is their funding model. It takes an incredible amount of money to fund an election campaign along with keeping that public relations machine moving after being elected, so politicians on both sides of the aisle are largely funded with campaign contributions. While this is supposed to come from local constituents, all to often the money comes from large multi-national corporations through donations to Political Action Committees (PAC / Super PAC).

The corporations, for the most part, fund the election campaigns of BOTH parties and they largely don't care who wins, as long as the ones who do make laws which further corporate interests.

Republican policies tend to be unpopular with voters, they tend to result in horrific living conditions for local communities through deregulation along with reduced services citizens tend to use equally regardless of affiliation. Unfortunately those same voters tend to be easily swayed with wedge "cultural issues" which take up so much political discourse it's easy to muddy the waters and convince them the (insert bugaboo of the day here) is "out to get them".

Democratic policies tend to be popular with voters, cleaning up local environments through stringent regulation along with increasing services citizens tend to use equally regardless of affiliation. Unfortunately those policies are massively unpopular with the corporations who fund their campaigns since they get in the way of making profits, so all their efforts are instead diverted to "fighting against the divisive cultural wars perpetuated by the right" thus destroying any political capital which could be used to enact policies the citizenry actually want.

Basically both parties are paid to fail while ensuring corporations remain able to favourably increase quarterly profits with minimal interruption. The 50/50 deadlock in the House / Senate has been purposely designed to ensure no one party can easily pass legislation popular with the citizenry and, when that balance gets disrupted in any significant way, they'll spend an incredibly amount of effort to be "bipartisan" and wasting time with filibusters despite claiming they have the majorities needed to pass the legislation.

The ideas here are good ones, reducing reliance on fossil fuels for transportation while keeping the remaining petroleum for use in products not currently easy to replace makes complete sense. Even if you're on the "global warming is a hoax" side of things, no-one can dispute that air and water quality is pretty damned important for human longevity so cleaning up the environment for the sake of not poisoning ourselves isn't entirely a bad idea on it's own, but doing that gets in the way of oil and gas company profits and we just can't have that now can we?