This is wildly untrue. Hamberger prices (for example) are based on people's willingness to pay, not just worker's wages. Famously, when you compare McDonalds' prices globally, their prices are higher in the US despite the wages they pay being far lower than in Europe. And food wasn't wildly expensive in the US back in the 1970s when the minimum wage was the equivalent of $15 (accounting for inflation). The minimum wage has been dropping in the US for decades (in constant dollars), while food prices have gone up - that's not driven by wages, that's driven by food corporation profits, which are at record highs.

Don't try to pretend that "both sides" are the same. Trump and Carlson, for example, straight out lie to their audiences to manipulate them. Sanders makes fact-based arguments for his policies, policies which are mainstream and effective in many other countries. You might not like what he's saying, but telling the truth and making fact-based arguments for policies is clearly legitimate political dialogue.

According to MSG's statement, they banned all attorneys involved in active litigation against MSG, which is just the attorneys working on a case against MSG, NOT the same thing as all attorneys at any law firm with someone working on such a case.

Right, it's probably a bad idea for MSG to announce a policy that they can't implement so instead implementing a completely different policy that's easy to implement. And since both the announced policy (banning attorneys involved in cases against them) and their actual policy (banning all attorneys that work at law firms that have anyone working on a case against MSG) are illegal (already established, they lost a case on the same grounds already) the fact that their actual policy isn't what they declared is somewhat moot.

I love this in theory. My concern is that in practice all the seams and connectors (latches, screws) introduce points of failure. The reason that Apple, etc., laptops have become so unified and hard to work on is that the result is more reliable in the field because all the battery doors, etc., were causes of failures due to water, etc., getting into the laptops, and they drive up the complexity and thus cost of manufacturing. But if a more repairable laptop can be at least as reliable that would be fantastic!

This article by the person who did the work is MUCH better than the summary in other media, and it's much more balanced. If I could upvote it, I would.

Apple already supports that - turn off public file drops, just allow files from contacts.

The 'problem' is that it's a hassle to set up credentials for one-off file transfers, e.g. sharing some photos at a party or conference) when you're never going to see that person again. So 'open public file drops for ten minutes' is a middle-ground between totally open and totally locked down - it gives almost the same convenience, but you're safe from unwanted file drops except when you choose to open up for ten minutes. Or from the 'anonymous anti-government sharing' perspective, you can't really share info anonymously out to a crowd any more, you need to communicate a bit to get people to turn on sharing (or put up a sign, etc.). So it adds friction, and reduces the flow of information, but it's still better than completely locked down.

Well, there are two different use cases. Most common, people who leave public file sharing open can get 'flashed' with unwanted files dropped onto their device. And in China and a few other countries where the governments are very control oriented, you're right, it's the government that doesn't want to allow people to communicate easily anonymously. In the first case, people tend to leave file sharing open so that they don't have to deal with setting up specific sharing credentials random people who they just met and won't see again, e.g. getting some photo's shared at a conference or party. So for them, "opening up for ten minutes" is one click, much easier than exchanging credentials, etc., so not quite as easy as leaving it open all the time, but pretty close, so it pretty much closes down the 'unwanted flashing' problem - you're only vulnerable for ten minutes, not all the time. The 'government doesn't want people to communicate anonymously easily' problem, which Apple didn't want to solve but got forced into by the Chinese government, it's good enough to make the government happy, but doesn't shut it down completely, but yeah, it's a bummer.

Still, Apple had a tough choice. When a government requires a company to do something contrary to their principles, does the company follow the laws of that country, or do they pull out the country. As far as I can recall, Apple's fought as hard as they could to stick to their principles, trying to negotiate some acceptable middle-ground, but ultimately would rather sell into a major market, even with some bonkers restrictions...

The only way this gets fixed is if there are national standards, so the states aren't competing with each other to give away our money in return for nothing.

That's part of the problem - the politicians want to stand up with the company and announce the awesome deal they cut, and they don't care much if the jobs don't appear. And if they tried to get the companies to make a real commitment, the company wouldn't do the deal, they'd just to go the next most desperate state and take their money in return for nothing.

Sadly, this makes perfect sense. Recycling plastic is tricky since it has to be sorted by specific plastic type, etc. Better to reduce consumption first - cardboard instead of plastic packaging, for example, is better since cardboard is a renewable resource (trees).

This is the old "work the ref" right-wing strategy. By whining aggressively when they don't get special treatment, they're trying to train everyone to go out of their way to appease them in order to not have to deal with the complaining. They've been doing it for decades to the news media, so they've trained the media just to repeat what right-wingers say without providing the context (e.g. that they're lying). And now they're trying to get their spam not to get spam filtered...

FSD is the one exception. It started out as a one-time purchase, but these days you can also buy for it month-to-month.

Software has ongoing costs - you need to continue development, provide maintenance and support, etc.

True-ish, though of course the same hardware provides much more functionality than FSD. Autopilot, which is included in every Tesla, uses the same cameras and CPU, and when activated cuts the collision rate by about 90% compared to manually driven cars. That's not such a bad deal, for free.