Your curiosity may get you deported.

"Which is to say, communists advocate for communism, whatever buzzword they call it this week..."

Or whatever buzzword you call it this week. Communism is an economic system, not a set of "democratic choices". Trump thanks you for your contribution, though.

Which is not evidence of the work week going in the wrong direction, even though it is true.

The change in direction started with Reagan, we just didn't see it at first because of the internet boom (which Reagan did not cause). Prior to Reagan, we had 40 hour work weeks and homes/cars were far more affordable.

Trump is not the problem, Trump is a symptom. We have a Supreme Court captured by billionaires that has reversed law designed to preserve democracy and prevent billionaires from buying power. Billionaires don't want 32-hour work weeks, they want 82-hour work weeks. Billionaires want you making them richer faster and then dying quickly once you are not useful. That is the direction of the country.

No quicker way to solve that problem than put a huge number of people out of work and take away their benefits!

Make a quarter of the population starve and there will be no worker shortage. That's a basic premise of the billionaire mindset.

There's an insight here that demonstrates just how depraved these people are. Current leadership believes that wealthy white men are the only people who matter, they should be the only ones with a vote if a vote should exist at all.

The reason a coalition with christian extremists exists is because the church is the most effective tool to get women to vote with "their men". They need the woman's vote long enough to take that vote away, then they don't need to suck up to the church any longer. Republicans don't care about abortion, it's just an issue to hold the church in order to ironically control a woman's vote.

Similar things are more obviously occurring regarding minority votes. It's really something when Republicans run a black candidate that advocates for restoring slavery. That's where the country is today, yet some notable posters here are strong advocates for these people...

It is not, the administration cares nothing about any class other than the ultra-rich and the money they can get. It doesn't even care about voters, it cares about removing the power of the vote. Republicans understood that democracy was their enemy decades ago, they have been pursuing permanent minority rule for my entire lifetime.

"If AI were compelled to pay royalties on the copyrighted data they trained on, it might slow down a little. But not enough."
You would need a legal basis to compel that, it's not supportable to claim training isn't fair use. Worse, AI billionaires are thieves, they will cheat as laws evolve. That won't slow anything down at all, it will just cost money chasing criminals.

"This administration is pouring gasoline on the fire because they WANT a roaring stock market and a weaker, more insecure middle class."
It's even dumber than that, the administration is nothing but grifters, they are looking to steal for themselves and have no regard for the country at all. I think you are right, the smarter ones likely feel this way. Trump doesn't, he's far too dumb.

"If you're not convinced, why are all the AI people building impregnable bunkers?"
It's a great question, but not a new one. The ultra rich often do this. A better question is why Peter Thiel is preparing to relocate in Argentina. At least one of these cretins is developing a Plan B for an upcoming backlash. Wonder where Elon will run to? Gotta be a reason for those phone calls with Vladimir.

Which is why this is suspicious. Just how do they intend to make up for the revenue losses? What fresh hell will the next "update" do to us?

Yes, Windows is slowed down mightily by the constant telemetry feeds, the ad campaigns and sheer bad code sloth.

They are not benevolent, and so their intentions are entirely suspect.

I suspect GP's point is that every malware blocker in every browser is likely to treat this kind of script as hostile, except for Chrome because Google are currently nerfing the ability for blockers to intercept hostile scripts in one of the most blatantly user-hostile changes they've ever made.

If Apple play along with Safari then every other browser and its malware blocking plugins are about to be toast in a huge retrograde step for Internet privacy. But not even Cloudflare is going to get away with blocking every iOS device if Apple continues to allow blockers to intercept this kind of script.

Did anyone mention recently that simultaneously controlling both the most popular web browser and several of the most popular ad-supported web properties might be a little anticompetitive, and that it's about time that Google was broken up? It's probably time for that drum to start beating a bit louder again.

Most of the world is not Northern Canada, which must be where they got that number from. Maine averages 4.55 peak sun hours per day, and is the northereasternmost state in the continental United States. Even Washington state is at 3.95.

Solar panels: The roof of a trailer is about 450 square feet. In the northeastern U.S., you would average only 3.5 hours of full sun, so you'd get only a little over 13 kW per day.

So the solar generation function of a panel is no sun, no power, partial sun, no power, peak sun hours, full power.

Well, I guess that you're the expert.

So in an entire day, covering the entire roof of a trailer with solar panels would add a whopping 7 miles of range

Maybe that's enough to get you over a time zone or so so that you get an extra hour of "full sun"? ;)

After all, it's not like trailers are ever sitting idle during loading, unloading, or waiting for loads. Always moving, doncha know.

Once and for all people: "it's" (with an apostrophe) is a contraction of "it is." "its" is the possessive pronoun, which was intended here.

Yes, it is. Now think of the rule for possessives with every other type of noun (ordinary and proper) - " 's ". It's like the "i" before "e" except after "c" (and sometimes "y") rule, irregular verbs, and a host of other landmines in writing down the English language.

It doesn't help that there's a group of people actively miseducating kids about pronouns and demonizing references to them. His, hers, its, yours, theirs, and ours are all bricks paving the shoulder of the road to hell.

"Sam's little hardware adventure a giant waste of money ..."

As is any project involving Jony Ive. Let's not forget all the magnificent frauds involved!

He claimed the AC moved the goalposts in response to your comment, not that your comment was wrong.

Gonorrhea exists but that doesn't mean you want it regardless of how great Elon Musk says it is.

Any self-driving system that relies on the inadequate sensors that Tesla has cheaped out on should be permanently outlawed. Frankly, FSD should never be legal.