> And, in that case, why add a new law versus just adding to the CCPA?
It is an amendment to the CCPA. Websites covered by the CCPA are required by law to honor the opt-out, and browsers are required to implement it.

I really hit a bullseye on this, didn't I? Replies are everything from "this is a conspiracy theory" to "this is bipartisan (and vaccines because why not)" to "I will DARVO you for this!" to "doctors can't be activists, and certainly don't want to have their thing get more money, and there's absolutely no historic precedent otherwise (please ignore massive amounts of precedent to contrary!)"

This is indeed a "conspiracy theory" in that it's a fact that is unpalatable for activists. It is indeed bipartisan in that activists included everything from "dollar signs in their eyes" doctors to soccer mommies who got a reason their Billy is not just SPECIAL, but SUPER SPECIAL, which makes her way more important than other soccer mommies at their next book club meeting. To the political activists who assumed that the more fake grievances they can generate in people, the more votes they can grab for their cause.

Yes, because "right wing conspiracy" stands for "facts left wing doesn't like".

Have a gander at a list of other "facts left wing doesn't like" presented in another reply.

"Look at data (which I choose to call "facts" because I'm very smart). Don't look at context".

I award you "redditor on slashdot" award.

It's pretty well understood that current "let's get everything under the same umbrella so activists can claim they have more support" has been modus operandi for far left activists for a while now. Autism is one of those things: they bolted together "being quirky" and "can't be toilet trained, can't speak, constant random bouts of uncontrollable rage and violence" under the same umbrella. This enables former to claim victimhood and ask for political changes and resources based on the latter's situation.

When in reality, they have nothing in common. This isn't even diabetes kind of a situation, where causes are completely different but treatment is partially similar. This isn't even hepatitis like situation where treatments are different, but at least the illness is in the same place.

It's many completely different things, many of which aren't even an illness, all being grouped together for political reasons.

"Some" does all the heavy lifting in this one. Because tens to hundreds of thousands is not "some" by any reasonable measure, and internet is choke full of them now that bodycams have become ubiquitous, and youtubers know how to request them.

Considering how many responses here miss the point and instead of going "yeah, we need to work harder on this" went full on "I got mine, it works for me, and fuck you"...

We're not going to have a shortage of those proclamations. In fact, abundance of those proclamations will likely be only matched by utter lack of install base.

Local account still needs to exist for a wide variety of reasons, so it's unlikely to go away.

What is increasingly going away is a way for a home user to install the entire OS using only a local account. Custom ISOs will likely continue to offer an option to enable local account only.

The sad part? While linux fanboys continue chanting this mantra and setting up these silly websites, microsoft has been actively making windows worse for desktop for a very long time now. While linux people have been actively working to make it better on desktop.

And linux on desktop remains so god awful, that windows is still an obvious choice for a desktop PC. In spite of all of the above.

The sadness is real.

The particular reason is tolerances. These things require hilariously tight tolerances. If it's even slightly off, it will either leak or stop rotating properly.

Chinese ran into the same issue two decades ago. They couldn't mass produce them for a very long time, much less mass produce them at a competitive costs.

All the low tech stuff can be done where ever. But the high tech part, that's Japan only.

Still.

I recommend watching some police bodycam videos if you are hell bent on misinterpreting reality in such an insane way. Youtube is choke full of them.

This will quickly dispel your delusions about police work, as biggest danger there isn't "car accident". It's "actually not using massive amounts of force against yet another criminal scumbag whom you must treat with silk gloves as he/she continues to shit on society, normal people and you".

That moment when AC redditor doesn't understand sarcasm.

Just another day on the internet.

"Other professionals" does all the heavy lifting in that one. Especially once you read most of that page, and why that specific phrasing was used becomes clear.

Because it doesn't count the fact that most people in US drive very long distances to work and back, and THAT ISN'T COUNTED. So "driving is dangerous" becomes "only taxi drivers drive professionally, therefore..."

"Relatively" does all of the heavy lifting in that sentence. No, it's not a dangerous job by any reasonable measure.