Consumers are going to stop buying everything eventually. Because the enshittification isn't limited to a single vendor. And there does not seem to be any market pressure to provide more features and more services for less cost. We're on a direct route to rentier capitalism, and I'm afraid I have no suggestions on how to avoid ending up there.

Its right up there with excessive sugar in breakfast cereal for things we should stop tolerating.

That's typical in most countries. Famously in the UK, but also much of Europe. And this concept of Free Speech has arrived in the US. Well really, it's been like this in the US for as long as I've been alive, but I think people are starting to realize what load of hogwash the promise of free speech is.

Stuff that isn't compliant will be easily available anywhere near one of California's major ports. Many of these ports are significant foreign-trade zones that not only avoid Federal customs inspections, they of course completely side-step any California state regulation thanks to the supremacy clause.

A nation-wide ban might be more effective. But really, replacing your 3D printer's software with a different package is trivial and often a prerequisite to even getting it set up in the first place.

This law belongs in the dust bin along with California's age verification requirements for devices. It's bone headed legislation that isn't going to yield any positive results, at best it inconveniences everyone, at worse it gums up the economy and puts California beyond other markets.

Why can't both be wrong.

Also, I don't recall armed agents knocking on doors because you didn't like masks. So not EXACTLY the same.

The fine taste of boot leather on your lips

These days it is easier to just live in Canada if you want to critize the US government.

Those consequences do not include 1st and 4th amendment violations by the federal government.

Hunger and greed cannot be underestimated. A car salesman will skirt and break the law if that is what it takes to get his commission.

An AI will lie to your face because it doesn't know any better. A car salesman will tell you one lie while agreeing to tell your wife a different lie.

The military answers to the civilian government.

Eventually you won't be able to buy RAM or GPUs, only rent them

I don't know. If you smashed two protons you would only have 6 quarks among them, and they wouldn't be spin aligned, as there are three quarks in a proton and spin alignment only works between pairs.

Unfortunately I couldn't read the article without subscribing and my particle physics knowledge is pretty similar to what's in a vacuum: mostly virtual particles if I put enough energy into it.

If the cheerleaders would have dated us in high school this never would have happened

It's reasonable to conflate the two when the proof is in the pudding.

Obesity tends to lower fertility rates in both men and women too.