So, you can already plug your iPhone into a dock that is connected to a monitor. Or a USB-C directly to a monitor. You can also connect a keyboard and mouse, or a playstation controller, to a iPhone via bluetooth. Of course the software isn't ideal to be used this way; but if you are just using safari, sometime like google docks, playing videos, or videos games it works just fine.

At this point Apple could, but they won't, create a hypervisor so that when it sensed it was plugged into a dock or monitor it would run a MacOS. I mean, the iPhone 17 Pro I just bought has a 1 TB of storage; 6core CPU with 2 performance and 4 efficiency cores; 6core GPU with Neural Accelerators; 16core Neural Engine; Hardwareaccelerated ray tracing; and 12 gigs of RAM. That is way more than the Window 11 Laptop the kids mostly use from 5 years ago.

It is because 10 years the ago the chips in the phones were way underpowered compared to even a budget laptop. Today that is not the case. The chips in the today's top of the line phones and tablets could certainly run a full desktop/laptop OS if they were allowed to do so.

I chalk it up to a combination of being weary of scammers and that almost everyone you see is trying to reach some destination. People in cars usually don’t have friendly conversations with other people in traffic and people commuting by foot and train usually are just as disinterested in stopping for a chat vs continuing to their planned destination.

I lived in the Mountain West for 25 years. During that time I took for granted that I could see the milky way if I drove out the city for an hour. And really, really see if if I drove for a few more. In the years I've lived elsewhere I have seen the Milky Way only a handful of times. And all but one time it involved an airplane to get to the place where I could. Given most people in the world live in urban areas which are not surrounded by vast undeveloped areas, you are probably right it is already the case for the majority of people. That said; even if it is a day or three drive, or a trip on an airplane; it is still far easier for someone to see the Milky Way than having to get on a rocket into space first. However, perhaps at some point in the future hopping on a rocket will be almost as ordinary as flying overseas is today.

I suppose.

A lot of people certainly agree with you and likely don't like the time shift. I don't think it makes up the majority. But it certainly makes up the majority of the people who bring it up year after year.

And for a lot of people, perhaps even the majority, that is the only time shift they experience most years. Perhaps it is more like over a five year period instead of most years, the majority of people in developed countries will indeed cross timezones for longer than 24 hours. Maybe it is 7 years? Still while I know my experience isn't typical; spending time in Alaska one time at the end of summer over 11 nights; darkness went from about 3 hours out of 24 to almost 5 hours out of 24. Even if it had stayed 3 hours the whole time it would have been wild. Or taking trips to/from East Asia/US where according to the clocks when you return to the US it is before you actually left showed to me how relative "time" to daylight actually is. Those experiences definitely affect my opinion on the matter. To me it doesn't seem like a big deal at all. And I enjoy the extra hour over the weekend in the fall more than I dislike the loss of the hour in the spring.

Eventually seeing the Milky Way will only be something people read about in stories or have to take trips beyond the satellite cloud to actually see with their own eyes.

How many people live near an edge of a time zone? 50 million 60 million? You don't need to take a long distance trip to cross a time zone. Sure you can travel well over a thousands miles by car and not cross a time zone. There are also places in the USA where you can cross time zones three times in less than 25 miles by only going in a straight line. And of course there are people who cross time zones on monthly or more basis for work and/or pleasure, are they dying at higher numbers than average because of stokes too?

The majority of Americans cross time zones for more than twenty-four hours at least once a year. The majority for pleasure trip. With a large percentage of people crossing multiple time zones. A significant percentage of people work jobs which don’t let them have a constant sleep schedule. All of these things affect people more a twice yearly time change that makes it easier for most people to have access to more mood boosting in daylight. People complaining about this just like to complain. Don’t mess with a good thing daylight savings was and still is a genius idea. Getting rid of it would make life worse and not prevent anything when the majority of people still willingly travel across time zones for fun. And no one saying people should disrupt their sleep for money.

"....they are fair and balanced." I mean they must be. it says it right on the screen.

Just imagine the party you hold in that cargo hold while cruising through the sky!

So when the rocket goes boom it can spread radioactive material far and wide. Seems like a solid plan.

This is dystopian AF. It’s like right out of SiFi from the 70s.

Seems like a prudent time to scare immigrants from studying in the Untied States. -Republicans.

Whether someone is pay more or less total taxes are irrelevant to someone’s lived experience. The percentage someone’s total income someone pays is far more relevant. High consumption taxes with low capital gains, low real estate, and flat income taxes results in the poor paying much more of their income in taxes every month. Why? Because they spend all the money the make every month where the wealthy likely does not. And everything they buy is taxed.

More total taxes paid matters to the government. Which is why they like to have as many high earners as possible live in their jurisdictions. But to the individual’s quality of life, the percentage paid makes the most difference.

What it actually will do is make sure the ruling party has 100% control over public procurement by setting the parameters of the algorithm for the so called AI.