My own life would be better without infinite scrolling, and I'm over 14.

Those heat records were set during the Dust Bowl era.

And it will shame the honest ones into reporting fewer hours so they get paid $60k instead of $200k for that last year right before they quit and forfeit the bonus.

They need to put in some false positives to make sure the humans are paying attention.

the problem is going to the supermarket at, say, 0600 on a Tuesday morning and the 28-ounce container of Maxwell House coffee is $14.99, but if you shop at 1100 on a Saturday, the same product is tagged $16.99, because there are more shoppers and more demand.

Why would they sell it for $14.99 in the morning when they could sell it for $16.99 later the same day?

Or make the browser mine a fraction of a bitcoin before the post goes through. Anyone who doesn't want to use their CPU/GPU in that way can pay by the post, or by the word like for classified ads. Something high enough to discourage bots but not so high that it discourages humans.

Did anyone who voted for Obama or Bush ever get eaten

Yes because Trump is the result of a backlash against Obama's policies, so anyone who voted for Obama got eaten. I think the world would be a better place if we had elected Romney.

Bolt cutters are good against cable locks. A crowbar can break open a U lock. A thief is unlikely to carry both tools, and so I recommend the Sheldon Brown lock strategy.

many of the downsides were brought about not by those companies, but rather the end user's hunger for the product.

Addiction.

Even now we know the incredible dangers and yet people will happily pour oil into their cars...

That's just typical addict behavior.

buying isolated homes in the suburbs

That's not so much by choice as because it's illegal in most neighborhoods for developers to build anything but single family homes. That's the opposite of freedom.

At some point we need to stop pointing at others and except some personal fucking responsibility.

It's always the addict's fault for getting and staying addicted, right?

Addiction is slavery.

Fossil fuels addicted us, fattened us, sickened us, endangered us, imprisoned us, and decimated our cities.

And the pimp/enslaver/prison guard says, "you never had it so good, you should be more appreciative!"

Science Fiction has often been socially progressive, for example Kirk & Uhura's interracial kiss, and how in Star Trek the pursuit of wealth is no longer the driving force in people's lives. Sci-fi writers are not limited by today's politics, they have much more freedom to explore the human condition. It is in that context that we should judge Doctor Who.

Dispatchable power is more important than baseload power, and neither nuclear nor renewables is dispatchable. The carbon-free upgrade for both is grid storage, and Europe's biggest mistake was not adding enough of it.

The real supply chain risk is having a single organization that can, intentionally or otherwise, disrupt your supply chain (single point of failure).

So in this case, the Pentagon is Anthropic's supply chain risk!

Then someone needs to work on being in the good times, and not making more bad ones.

That's a good idea. If governments spent less during economic booms when unemployment is low and wages are high, and spent more during downturns when unemployment is high and people are willing to work for less, it would help to stabilize the economy. And as a bonus, we would get more for our tax dollar!

And if you want to smoke inside a home with children and elderly, that should be your choice too, right?