Lots of the Netherlands sits below sea level.

So why should we be concerned even slightly about cities subsiding when we already can easily deal with places that exist many meters below sea level?

It is literally true. Every word of it.

Jordan (formerly Transjordan) is the Arab state carved out of the British Mandate of Palestine after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

The rest was designated as a Jewish homeland, but the Arabs violently objected.

Of course, every other party of the Ottoman Empire except Turkey itself is also now an Arab state.

In the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, one day after the modern state of Israel was created, it was invaded by the combined armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen.

Israel won, but Jordan annexed the West Bank and Egypt annexed the Gaza Strip.

Based on what evidence? Faith in Musk?

Over one billion miles driven using FSD.

Looking that that graph is should be obvious where it is going, and how soon.

Interesting. I thought I thought a change along these lines had already happened. ScummVM has been on the AppStore for a couple of months now. You can hook it up to cloud services (Dropbox etc) or copy files from iCloud/etc to ScummVM storage on the ipad. It works really well.

The last I heard about the taxi idea, they mentioned they were considering letting people send out their cars as taxis when not in use, and thus owning a Tesla could actually make you money.

That does depend on true self driving to work but it seems like they are pretty close now.

A fact which renders these trackers completely useless as anti-theft devices

Not really, even if a thief is alerted something is being tracked if they can't find the tracker they will throw out the object they stole... which you can then recover. and also potentially get video evidence from around where it was dumped to ID the thief if they still have something from your backpack...

I have a hidden compartment in my backpack where I often put cash so I very much would be happy to recover even just the empty backpack without contents.

Or if you had an AirTag hidden in a car they might just ditch the car rather than take it to a chop shop, and you can at least find where it was ditched.

Also did you forget "unintentional theft" exists, where for example an airline rather than flying your bags to your destination, takes them elsewhere... and when that happens sometimes they have no clue where the bags are. If you have a tracker, you can tell them what city and facility your bags are in, and even play a sound to help locate them.

AirTags (and the new Android form) are incredibly useful even with tracking detection abilities, you are really missing out on this super cheap insurance and recovery aid.

Got it, thanks - good to know!

I guess since it considers it an "unknown tracker" it would only warn you about it, not feed back to Apple information about that AirTag location.

Didn't see this mentioned in the summary, when support for this launches does this mean Android will also warn you if an AirTag is tracking you? Which would mean it helps with the recognition network being larger for both tracking devices.

Or has Android already supported detecting AirTags tracking?

There is a famous investment quote that goes "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent".

If you join in the pack shorting something like this, you open yourself up to the possibility some kind of irrational buying flood comes in and wipes you out.

Remember that these days very few stocks are actually priced according to value, so it doesn't seem like a Trump based stock would be any exception.

I bought an AirPods Pro, received a *case* instead.

Returned by Amazon denied my return since I didn't send back what I had ordered.

Tried to reverse the charge on my Amazon credit card, Amazon denied it and refused to reverse the charge.

So I was just out of luck on that one. However since then I buy pretty much anywhere but Amazon if at all possible, even if I pay more. And I cancelled Prime. In the end I guess it was a cheap way to learn the lesson you cannot trust Amazon in any way.

It'd be like a FOREX trader moving ~$2.25B USD.
Unsure if the impact on FOREX would be as pronounced as it was on BTC, but I bet it'd be something

Only 3 billion USD? Not even a quiver of movement.

Total M2 money supply - 20,783 billion

National debt? Rising at 1 trillion every 100 days, or 100 billion per day.

With so many dollars sloshing around you'd have to go into serious numbers to even have it be felt.

No, no. Nothing needs to be sent back to the servers. That doesn't mean it won't be.

It does if Apple says it does, because they actually have a track record of stuff not going back to servers if you don't want it to.

If they say they aren't collecting your data? They're lying.

Maybe you are incapable of running a traffic proxy to verify but many are not. Apple does keep their word on this.

Even Apple couldn't make the Smart Home concept "just work", which told me all I needed to know about the reliability of other similar systems.

So I've stayed away (except for a few security cams) until I can see a solidly working concept in action, that stays working... holding out hope for Matter in this regard.

So now AI thinks up the ideas and writes the specs, and real people do all the work to make this crap work.

It's more like AI opens a door that you can take advantage of people going through.

Sort of more like a force of nature than a boss.

Or if you like, it is recognizing a shortcoming by pretending something does not exist when plainly it would be useful, and someone opts to fill that hole for the benefit of mankind. Although in truth that scenario feels a bit like AI is a boss. :-)

As cool as this sounds, and I would love to go, I have to say that unless you are SUPER into being on board with Shatner and the astronaut you could get this same quality trip much cheaper.

Any trip that goes on land (not all do, anything I think over 200 people just sails around looking) will include some visit to a penguin rookery. They are super cool and also extremely smelly.

Most trips that have landings also include some historical sites, or research centers. and lectures.

I didn't go on a trip with a submarine but someone I know did, and there is really not much to see down in Antarctic waters, it's pretty murky stuff (which is also why there are so many whales of all kinds and seals and things, rich with nutrients). So I'm not sure it's worth paying for this extra, as opposed to something like camping out on land or being able to ocean kayak.

But I think the people who do spring for this will have an amazing time even if the price is steeper than I'm willing to pay! I would never look down on someone willing to trade money for an amazing and unique experience, and this is definitely that.