I can just see it now: GOP will bleep with it to require a birth certificate to watch a free cat video, but not to buy an AR15.

"NewScummyIdea"

You mean like the PATRIOT act?

Thanks I should have thought of that it seems so obvious when somebody says it. I'm actually surprised that hasn't shown up as a risk in Apple's stock reports. The iMessage Mafia is that big a deal.

Also hilariously I wonder if iMessage is gradually going to become associated with old people like regular SMS messaging is. I think it definitely will if Apple doesn't do something to stop it and I just wonder what that something might be

For their kids iPhone they absolutely do not keep their phones longer. After 2 years like clockwork and iPhone starts to have weird behavior. Most commonly this is because the battery is wearing out and the software is doing all sorts of weird tricks to hide that from the user. Those weird tricks cause all sorts of headaches most notably you'll start to get messages late because the phone isn't driving the radio is hard in an effort to spare battery life.

Meanwhile I'm at three and a half years and I'm just now thinking of replacing my Android battery because it doesn't last as long through the day. But the phone's performance hasn't degraded I just have to charge it halfway through the day.

iPhone users yeah they can just get a new battery but I speak from experience they don't want a new battery they want a new phone. And with the way cell phones are sold through carriers most of the time they're just going to get one and pay an extra 20 or 30 a month to have it rather than the 60 or 70 it costs to replace the battery. Not very economical but I can hardly complain if they're not buying a bunch of new computer hardware every few years like I do. Never did get the kid into PC gaming.

in an effort to get the people who make a living off tik toks to lobby congress. Which is silly. If they were going to do this they should've done it months ago.

They also did something *really* dumb. If you've got the app installed they sent a noticed to call your congress critter about the "ban". Which a lot of people did. Which sounds great, but if you're trying to convince a Congressman that your app can't influence American politics that's probably not the best way to do it...

None of this matters since as others have pointed out they can just buy all our data from x.com and Facebook (mostly Facebook, does anyone really still use x.com?) and use that for election interference.

93% of the recent protests were peaceful. Of that 7% it was almost entirely counter protestors. Google "autozone window guy", or look up who started those fires at the 2 police stations (hint, it was right wing provocateurs). I guess there was that one girl who got run over at the "Unite the Right" protest, but while terrible that was one murder. I don't think even they turned over any cars.

That's protests. There were some minor riots and burned cars after the last super bowl, if that's what you mean. But those are football hooligans (or Soccer if you're a Yank like me).

I mean, if you're on the left wing you need to keep it *very* buttoned up. For one thing cops are 3 times more likely to use violence against you and for another the Supreme Court just shut down pretty much all left wing protests since if literally *anything* goes south the organizes can be held liable, even if it's just some rando counter protestor causing trouble... which of course they will now.

This isn't about viewpoints. One side is about objective reality and the other side isn't. it's up to you to pick a side.

USDC has missed it "peg" (e.g. it's dropped to a value of below a dollar) more than once, and there's a *lot* of evidence that it's been off it's peg for ages and that market manipulation is hiding it (google it).

It's primarily used to get real money (e.g. fiat currency) into and out of the crypto markets.

We learned from a recent story that minting $1m in crypto costs around $3.5m. We all know what's making crypto run these days is crime of one form or another. Money laundering mostly.

That's all well and good, but integrating that into our main line economy is eventually going to cause a massive crash that'll hit us all. If we let that happen it'll make 2008 look like the .com boom days.

Personally I'd like a plug-in hybrid (PIH), and hope those are perfected soon. It gives one more fuel options. For normal commuting I could plug in at night to charge and never have to visit a gas station, yet have gasoline as an option for longer trips or blackouts.

I expect more pandemics, civil wars, Yellowstone eruptions, petulant Presidents, and/or zombie apocalypses. PIH's are a better fit for chaos.

A shutdown would cause a political stir in the US because it's a popular app.

But this shut-down threat may be a ploy to scare USA regulators etc. If the algorithms were really that unique, they'd patent them to protect them, and then agree to license them to the split-off as part of the settlement as long as the split-off doesn't use or sell them for other apps.

If they are relying on trade-secrecy instead of patents to protect their ideas, they are probably already swiped via mole employees, and/or deemed obvious by others.

Instead of a cooperative one then or gradually going to see profit go away as an important metric. That's because we're going to gradually become a kind of neo feudal civilization with a very very tiny handful of kings and queens at the top (socially we will probably still call them CEOs or just company owners) a tiny handful of people who serve and protect them and then a massive number of people living in staggeringly abject poverty.

You're kind of assuming that everything is going to stay the way it is socially because it's really hard to think of those kind of massive social changes to completely remake the fabric of our civilization. But with the huge automation pushes going on and more and more and more consolidation every year into the hands of a smaller group of people at some point they're just going to take their ball and go home and they're going to have ai-powered drones and robots that will gun anyone down who tries to fuck with them.

Again this all assumes we stay on the course we're on right to the moment. There are plenty of people who can see this coming and are trying to do something about it. And younger voters are smart enough to know it's coming. It's just a question of whether or not the major world powers are going to be democracies long enough. The older generation is hell-bent on giving up democracy for a variety of stupid reasons and if democracy goes we lose that fight and we become a Neo feudal dystopia.

My cat is related to Chairman Meow.

I've heard that also. Plants don't have to outrun predators and thus can waste more DNA weight on marginal genes.

A species known as "the cops". We warned you about your tentacle porn.

Looks like somebody beat us to it.