Then, all the food was "whole food". Today, everything is pre-processed junk!

They've invested too much into these things. The pushback against the data centers will cause them to be built in China. If you look on Google Earth 3625'27.62"N 9510'39.07"E, 36 3'56.04"N 10026'32.58"E, 3722'42.20"N 9713'20.76"E, That's just the three I've found so far. Couple have a solar mirror generator too. Also, two of the three have a huge reserve of water available. If the pushback continues, you can bet China will welcome the AI Data centers with open arms.

Social media addiction is a subset of screen addiction, and screen addiction is destroying Gen Alpha at an alarming pace. I have so far found zero specialists who can help with this. It's not just a matter of taking screens away, we have literally turned an entire generation into junkies who will lie and cheat to get their fix. The adolescent mind never stood a chance; male or female.

If Meta wants a nicer spot in hell they can at least help with the mess they have profited off of. Help train the next generation of rehab specialists and help people find help. We made big tobacco do it, we can make these monsters do it as well.

That is not a trivial feat in the least. You don't have to give your kids smart phones, you don't have to have a PC at home. You can try to send your kid to a school that deemphasizes technology. And yet your kid will still end up with a screen addiction because it is that consuming. Kids don't have a chance. What today's kids face today is so far beyond what any of us grew up with that there really is no comparison.

My youngest siblings grew up on a heavy diet of Barney and Friends and it drove me up the wall. At least there was only a certain time of the day that was available on broadcast TV. And my 8 bit NES was not portable in any reasonable meaning of the word. Those barriers are gone now and the programming targeting kids makes Barney look like Mr Science.

Maybe there is a QR code or something associated with it, but if your license is on your phone, and you hand it to the officer....ummmm

Sadly, we've destroyed ourselves. It's just like with a lot of the former HUGE corporations. Sears, IBM, Xerox, American auto industry etc. They get too big for their britches, don't innovate, and someone else comes along. Of course the BIGGEST problem was what Nixon did in 72 by opening up China to trade, then Carter signed the trade agreement in 1980 "most favored nation" status. The Corporate CEO's LOVED that! Production in the United States slowly died off because everything was moved to CHINA where they had CHEAP labor. Not only that, the workers can't demand higher wages, unions like they did in America. America's glory days are behind it. Once all of the data centers are built in China, it's one more needle in their ever growing haystack. Don't think that is where the data centers will be built? Look up on Google Earth all of the HUGE, and I do mean HUGE solar panel & solar mirror farms along with large lakes to provide water. You can bet they didn't build that for their "people".

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To these new air traffic controllers. Congrats on being hired! Just remember one thing. Unlike playing a video game, there is not PAUSE button on the ATC screen, and most important, unlike a video game, if something doesn't go your way, you can toss your headset on the ground, get up and stomp off. LOL /s

Looked on their store, trade in, perfectly good working 9ProXL, $550.00 For my usage, the "telephoto" camera isn't a big deal, as is any of the camera upgrades. I only use my phone camera for snapshots in work related things. For everything else I use my d-slr. The goofy notification light on the back to me is useless. I never lay my phone on its screen anyway. Faster processor? Shoot, I probably never go anywhere near the limit my current phone can do. So, unless their sales don't go where they want and they make an incentive to upgrade, I'll just stick with my perfectly good working 9Pro XL for now.

Uber and Lyft drivers almost certainly wouldn't count on this, as they - with very few exceptions - use GPS to navigate. A taxi is a completely different animal in that regard.

Yet you took the time to reply. You could have chosen to ignore it instead. Glad we can count on folks like you to continue to drive down the signal to noise ratio here.

Yes, I know my ID is also 7 digits long. I don't consider myself longtime, even having read and posted for over 20 years here.

That this would happen? Oh, I know! Let's put a HUGE touch screen in the vehicle, make it convenient with all the bells and whistles of their phone! It will be great! Pssss and when they get use to it, we'll start INJECTING ADS and there isn't anything they can do because it's the only way to OPERATE THEIR VEHICLE. HA HA HA HA HA HA.

Not surprised. Sadly, attention span for both adults & students is decreasing as both become addicted to screens.

Advertising has been on this site for over 20 years now. The only difference is which ads are here, but that's all automated as well. We see slightly fewer mail order bride ads now, which is a likely a good thing, but otherwise its nothing different. There's no reason for a human to screen them.