I'm in favor of enforcement of laws which protect rights, but it's cheap and easy to get such devices, and there are valid reasons for them to exist — like knives.

You could cook with only shorter knives. It would be a lot more difficult (I also cook) but it would be possible.

Isn't that their target demographic?

Great... now explain to me why I keep getting ads for women's loungerie, when I'm a 65 year old man...

Actually, the next frontier in ad targetting is eye tracking. Guess what all the VR goggles do now?

I always wondered what Nuerolink was for...

Troll? Really?!? See the "Factory Model School" article on Wikipedia. I'm not the first person to suggest that's what our schools were designed for.

The education at Stanford is no better than most colleges. The real value of a Stanford education is who you meet while going to school there, many of them will go on to found startups. Sand Hill Road venture capitalists are located literally across the street from Stanford!

I don't think most people who can afford a thousand dollars for a phone plan to keep their phone for longer than the 7 years Google will support their Pixel devices these days, nor do they want to buy a phone which has been out for very long. The poors will accept last year's iPhone, or an even older one, or the Shitty Edition bundled into their phone plan.

For a non-Pixel device you'd have a solid point, as most other Android phones have abysmally short support lifespans. Then again, many of those phones are so much cheaper you can buy one every three years...

It's partly end stage for a nearly dead country that causes us to have to talk about politics now.

But it's also partly because we didn't take politics seriously, and get involved enough in it. If we had discussed it a lot more sooner, maybe we wouldn't have to discuss it so much now.

Even if it could find the answer it might mess it up before it gave it to you. It might give you the right answer sometimes and not other times, especially if the right answer has changed...

Wikipedia wasn't banned, though one asshole did introduce a bill which tried.

You can't cite ANY encyclopedias after elementary school, whether it's claimed they are particularly inaccurate when they aren't, or not.

Rich kid schools? Ironically, Caitlin Gable, the $30/k year school for rich kids in Portland, was the school that had all the kids with head lice... because their families could afford to vacation in remote places where head lice were prevalent.

We would have fixed this with wind and solar already if the money holders didn't think nuclear was going to solve these problems any day now.

Our modern school system was initially designed to train good little workers for boring, repetitive assembly line work. That's why they emphasis rote memorization instead of creativity. Art classes may be an exception to that rule, that's why art teachers are looked down on by the rest of the faculty members.

I asked the Google AI the same question 3 times, and got three completely different answers. I deduced that AI couldn't find the answer, so it just made up a plausible answer all three times. I asked it for the Manufacturer ID of a company that had not yet been assigned a Manufacturer ID, so it gave me the Manufacturer ID of three other companies... all equally valid answers, all 100% incorrect.