My entire career creating TPS Reports is now obsolete.

If Apple thinks it's bad for the consumer, it must be good for us.

Actually it says a lot about how shit their security is if they can't even allow third party software distribution without it being a serious issue.

I bought Apple BECAUSE of "it just works" and not having to worry about crap from 3rd party vendors....

If you want all out choice (good or bad) there are other options.....I wish they'd just let Apple continue to be apple.

> It did prevent the spread of misinformation, but it also suppressed minority viewpoints.

Misinformation was common if not normal in the gatekeeping era. The idea that journalists are super-smart, super-educated people who can decide what information is true and what is false comes from people who've never spent much time around journalists.

Journalism was traditionally a job for those who were too screwed up to hold a real job and liked free drinks on an expense account.

I've been involved in several news stories over the last few decades. In almost every case, the mainstream news coverage has been wrong, often basically just made up by the journalist to suit the narrative they wanted the story to tell. The only exceptions were when the journalist happened to be a legitimate expert in the field they were reporting on and wanted to do a good job.

I don't think there are many people like them in the field any more.

But why the fuck would I want anything I REMOTELY like this?

Hell, I can't stand "Edge" too begin with....I remove it from my tool bar......

I don't want any AI running amuck on its own on my computer doing anything it wants.....

Well, you are cult member, correct?

No, but it sounds like you may be......

Only if you want to ensure that anything innovative gets filtered out and The Science becomes a circlejerk around The Established Narrative. Which the last fifty years of gatekeeping pretty much have.

Even longer, really, when you consider how long it took to convince surgeons that maybe washing their hands for surgery might be a good idea.

Yeah, there are a lot of nuts around. But there are also a lot of nuts and grifters inside The Science who don't want anyone spoiling their fun.

consider there are only 10 (ten) trans U.S. college athletes

Even if that is the case...that's 10 too many, especially if they are taking scholarships and records away from real biological women.

I thought liberals were all in about womens' rights?

I mean there's solid evidence that Republican voter suppression prevented 17 million Democrats from voting. That's a wide enough margin by far to have given Haris the win.

LOL..ok, you keep telling yourself that, rather than do a lot of retrospection and look inside to see what a poor candidate with a poor message you ran....and the republicans will continue to clean your clock.

Yep...SO much voter suppression with a Democrat president and senante during the election....not to mention the wins in DEM controlled states.....yes, keep telling yourself whatever makes you feel better.

Are they new lenses bodacious bokeh monsters!?!?!

;)

(The photographers here should catch that one...)

Covid was in the West for months before "The Pandemic" was declared. Very few people noticed it because old, sick people dying of respiratory disease is normal.

Trump's original plan to tell old, sick people to stay home while the rest of us caught it was the correct one. Instead the government wrecked the economy, got a lot of old, sick people dead, destroyed the social contract and most of us caught it in the end anyway.

> They have an aging population, not enough children to take the places of their parents, and this population is increasingly unhappy with their government.

You could say exactly the same about the West. Our rulers are trying to fix demographics by importing millions of Indians, but that just makes the population even more unhappy with their government.

The elites on all sides thought they could loot the West's wealth by shipping all the jobs to China and then moving to China and taking over. Xi happily took all that wealth but then told the elites so go to hell when they wanted to move in and rule China.

This is why they're now pushing for war with China. Their plan failed and now instead of being God-Kings of China they're stuck in the collapsing West that they destroyed.

Modern politics makes a lot more sense once you understand this. They worked diligently for decades to destroy the West and enrich China and now they're suddenly faced with having to try to fix what they deliberately destroyed. Hence the rapid flip in the US from Woke Climate Change nonsense to 'Drill Baby Drill' Christian Warrior Nationalism.

Self-driving semi + low-trust society == semi sitting at the side of the road with someone standing in front of it while their friends loot the cargo.

Crooks know the truck will stop rather than hit them and the cops won't arrive for a while after it sends an alarm to warn that it's being robbed. Unless you're going to fit it with automated machineguns to shoot thieves it's going to be an easy target for them.

None of these tech-utopia ideas work in a low-trust society. They only work in Star Trek.

Geographical mobility used to be much easier. In the age of credit scores and limited housing, it is extremely difficult to find a landlord who will admit you without a job, and much harder to find a job that will hire you without already being local.

Well, credit scores as we know them have been around since the 60's...so, not really that new.

There's PLENTY of housing....just depends on what part of the US you are in.

I see houses for sale all the time where I live (New Orleans area)....it may be scarce in NYC or west coast urban areas....but that is not the whole US.

In other parts of the US, there are homes...GOOD jobs, and cost of living is much less.

And those are regular W2 jobs.....if you jump into 1099 contracting....you can work wherever and very much often....remote.

I've done both....and if you have any job experience, you can get jobs before you moved.

I've never moved before having a job in that area....