I don't need "real improvements." If it works the same tomorrow that it did yesterday but with just enough change to fix security bugs and keep working with the web sites I visit then it has done what I want it to do.

My windowing system has a theme. One I'm comfortable with. Please use it and stop going off and doing your own kooky thing.

It has happened under both.

Free speech includes lying.

Merit should always consider strictly value.

The $5K a year just gives you a $300 per person per visit discount. So pays itself back in 15 visits or so.

Plenty of us nerds can afford this and want to see news about this.

Was it a good story? If it was an engaging read then why care whether AI was used to help write it.

Garbage regulations like IP create these behemoths. If you want freedom, stop regulating monopolies into existence.

Statism creates billionaires.

The simplest and most likely explanation is that the license ran out and the copyright owner wanted too much money or some other onerous condition, so google decided to wait until the next satellite pass when they'll get all the imagery.

Democracy is for retards.

Government did this. All of this. Government regulated so much that only a rare few can afford to compete.

This is late stage statism. Retard voters are to blame.

Like you.

Unanalyzed raw video. Internet noise. Those would qualify as, "a whole lot of garbage that someone could possibly, maybe analyze to make some statistical inferences about conceivably sensitive data."

There's not 10 petabytes of sensitive data in all the world. 10 petabytes is enough to store a copy of every movie and television show ever released to DVD plus every book ever written in any language on Earth.

What they captured was some sensitive data and a whole lot of garbage that someone could possibly, maybe analyze to make some statistical inferences about conceivably sensitive data.