I'm in favour of grants being given with zero strings attached. It doesn't really matter what the conditions are, as soon as you let some faceless bureaucrat start dictating the makeup of your team, you politely refuse the cheque

We have eight billion batteries I think you mean!

It's almost like slashing public spending and leaving the nearest trading bloc is a shockingly shortsighted idea

Kids missed out on a lot of socialisation during the lockdown era and I'd estimate that adults today spend considerably less time on average in conversations than a decade ago - verbal skills just seem to be in decline, maybe hastened by the move to typing rather than talking? Just a thought. The limited verbal skills added to the lack of filter that social media brings enhances my perception that society is becoming stupid!

I love my retro gaming but $150 for this? I guess it's a fancy paperweight, since nobody is playing this for more than an hour

Not only do you get an overly heavy car stuffed with an expensive and resource-hungry battery but you still get to pollute cities as you drive. Face it, these cars are simply greenwashing

Has any country really got a profitable economy or is it a giant game of Jenga, with every country borrowing to make the figures look good??!

Since the blog post didn't sound convincing I tracked the story back a level or two: https://www.macobserver.com/ne... Why anyone felt the need to muck about with a calculator is anyone's guess I suppose!

Netflix is full of cheap Asian action movies, or just cheap action movies full stop. The sort that get a solid 5.8 on IMDB. With so many channels and platforms to fill I have to wonder who is actually watching some of this stuff

So either jobs have inexplicably gotten worse over the last five years or people are more sensitive nowadays? What changed? I know people don't routinely go out with their colleagues for beers so much nowadays, in fact if you believe Reddit then socialising with colleagues would be insane behaviour. I don't remember people being actually 'stressed' about work, they went out with their team and blew off steam together. Maybe they actually went home later and cried and nobody knew but I find it very hard to believe these figures

Wait until climate change sends millions marching towards more hospitable areas

I look forward to Prime day every year - when I get to buy the same product at the same price but Amazon pretends it's 39% cheaper

'Enshittification' is just capitalism isn't it? Examples - I buy a gardening fork or a pair of branded jeans or a tin opener. The versions from 30 years ago were well made but now they're cheap crap made by offshore factories. People doing manual jobs are familiar with the process of enshittification, even if the symptoms are slightly different

A sentient browser seems like a solution looking for a problem and if this isn't another indicator that the AI bubble is about to burst, then I don't know what is!

Old people know lots of things and are lonely - send the boffins in to chat to old people and train models. Old people get to chat, companies get to make money