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Comment Re: Repeat after me (Score 1) 127

I mean, you can't "block" anything, but you effectively can.

You can't but you can? Take two steps forward, and two steps back, and then two steps forward, and two steps back, and now we're doing the cha-cha.

I want their content to disappear as if it never was, whether it was modded up or not. That would be blocking, unlike what you propose.

Comment Re: Have they solved the economic viability proble (Score 1) 72

I never understand when people say solar takes up a lot of land. Just use the parking lots.

And cover canals, and mandate it on new manufacturing plants... there's just so much low-hanging fruit before you get to residential roofs, and before you need to build solar farms. But corporations love to do big singular capital projects because they are easy and predictable.

Comment Re:I wished I had enthusiasm for this... (Score 1) 72

There are a couple of actual flying car designs now. They are based on multicopters, and they can take off from a parking space, making them actually flying cars and not roadable airplanes or some other such thing. But there's still no point because of the energy use. It still makes more sense to have the rich people who can afford to use them just hire a car to drive them around town when necessary.

Comment Re:Foldable phones seem like a solution (Score 1) 38

Hard to fit a tablet in one's pocket.

I can put a Nexus 7 in my pocket, you insensitive clod! Though I wouldn't, because I'd probably sit down and smush it against something with my leg and break it. I destroyed three palm pilots that way, they just didn't have the rigidity to survive in a driver's pocket. Luckily, they were all used.

But a foldable phone doesn't get you a tablet sized screen in your pocket anyway, it's maybe 2/3 of a small tablet. So great, you get a weird narrow screen in exchange for a whole bunch of money? And it's barely bigger than my regular phone? Meh.

Comment Re:make sure to give them more money though (Score 1) 134

That leaves Microsoft, a company also well known for its monopolistic and user-hostile behaviors

Somehow they are least worst in consoles, unless you count Steam Deck I guess. Which now I think of it, I guess is at least close to reasonable. You can password it and lock it into gaming mode.

Comment Re: When does it stop? (Score 1) 144

You grow that much food with water that comes from other states.

How terrible, the food people eat in other states is grown with water from other states. What a shame.

Just Ike the shipping lanes to your ports are protected by sailors from other states.

They can feel free to stop, if they don't want the things that come through our ports. Normally, I mean, not while the stupid shitgibbon fucks up trade.

Comment Re: “Investors” (Score 2) 34

A high false anything rate is never good for any test, but money is in charge of health care in America so... You run the cheap tests first and then if you get a positive you follow it up with a more expensive test if it's indicated by the other details of your condition. You don't just assume that a test with a high false positive rate means you're positive. Naturally this is the danger of allowing people to get their own tests, because there won't be any responsible and educated medical professional there to interpret them for them.

Theranos was a scam not because the idea of automated testing in a box is a bad idea, but because they claimed they were achieving things they weren't, and because their plan was to have the results delivered to the subject without expert analysis. On the other hand, it's getting harder and harder to get an expert's opinion (more and more Americans are underserved when it comes to medical care, especially in rural communities) so being able to get something would be an improvement for a lot of people. Then you could call "telehealth" and they could do something with the results.

Comment Re:May have purchased one of these devices (Score 1) 16

You flashed it to OpenWRT and then back to factory? You were so close.

I never buy any router which I cannot load with OpenWRT, and then I keep it that way. Somewhere along the line it just got to be so super easy to set them up (all it took was their adoption of some sensible defaults) that there's no longer any benefit to manufacturer firmware. I have a Linksys router (not one of the named devices) and I bought it specifically because it was advertised to work with OpenWRT (and also had been shown to do so.) I paid well more than average at the time because it was good for that, too, with ample memory and flash. Today the memory is slightly tight, but the flash remains adequate, and it does the job it needs to do (backhaul to the cable modem/AP, and firewalling me off from their equipment.)

Comment Re:Odd choice (Score 1) 248

Isn't it all of the above? Or was the existence of anti-suicide nets imagined? Factory jobs are usually terrible at best, that's why we look down on them. Then we go on to looking down on workers, which is a shitty tendency, but China is generally not considered to be one of the best places to be a worker. Do the savings not come from multiple terrible things? Isn't that the general tendency for capitalism, and especially corporatism, where the people profiting are separated from the workers by any potential number of layers of irresponsibility?

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