In 2023, Meta had a mandatory return-to-office mandate. Now Zuck gets an AI clone to handle his own "interactions" activity.

Do you suppose rank-and-file employees can start working remotely again, maybe with AI clones to maintain sufficient "live" interaction? I mean, if it's good enough for the CEO...

We have had digital price labels in some supermarkets here in Australia for a while now and we do not have dynamic pricing or other issues. To be fair we have strong consumer laws and a regulator with teeth enforcing the laws.

That's good and all, but does Australia have the right number of people actively look to enforce those laws?

"Bigger punishment if caught" is way different (and much less effective) than "bigger chance of getting caught".

So why is it such a problem in grocery stores?

Grocery stores are unusual in that you routinely buy a large variety of various small-ish items. People don't often do that at clothing stores, home-decor stores, etc.

It's hard enough to do comparison shopping on groceries as it is (who wants to track the price of 50 individual products?), but now the prices might not even stay mostly the same from day-to-day, or even morning-to-afternoon.

Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2 are "carefully engineered to extract money from consumers, including children

How much money do children have? Don't you think that a purported evil gambling company (Valve?) would know that children don't have much money at all, let alone access to their own credit cards with which to purchase in-game currency? ... What's that? Some children have stolen their parents' credit cards and used them online?

Whether it's gambling or not doesn't depend on who actually owns the money being put up.

Wow... has that ONLY happened with Valve loot boxes or has it happened with Amazon purchases

Buying stuff from Amazon isn't gambling. Unless you count the non-zero chance of getting a cheap Chinese knock-off of what you actually ordered.

A "Big Battery Boom"? That's kind of ambiguous, made me wonder if there was a massive lithium-battery explosion or something.

The oceans have also been 3-5m higher than they are now. I agree we shouldn't make things worse than needed, but let's not forget that the climate changes on its own up and down over time.

Rate of change matters. Just because I can use the brakes in my car to reduce speed slowly doesn't mean stopping by hitting a brick wall at full speed is at all safe.

Ecosystems need time to adjust to new temperatures, so they don't collapse.

Player are taken off the field and giving medical checks for suspected concussion, tackles that were standard are now banned,

The NFL's we'll just ignore it

The NFL has mandatory injury checks (including for concussion) and banned dangerous types of tackles also.

There are lots of games that use an oval ball and don't wear helmets. All of those have made major moves over the last decades to reduce the likelihood of concussions by making certain moves illegal in the game, with significant penalties. Spear tackles, grabbing around the neck, dumping people head first, slamming the back of the head into the turf, etc.

So why doesn't American football do the same?

What exactly are you talking about? All those things ("Spear tackles, grabbing around the neck, dumping people head first, slamming the back of the head into the turf") are already illegal in American football, and result in on-field penalties plus financial penalties (fines or suspension) for the offending player.

They found bugs in infotainment systems? Wonder if I could use that to fix the damn bugs in the media s/w in my one vehicle (and the enshittifications in the other, newer vehicle)?

It's insane that the routine expectation is for an 18 year old still in high school to commit to 5 figures of debt before they've even had their first real job (no, McD's doesn't count as a real job).

Is that really the expectation for all/most high schoolers, or is it a less common expectation that somehow people get fixated on? I have to hope that counselors/teachers take students' abilities and interests into account when suggesting a path.

Although for some students (ie- those bright+motivated enough to graduate and put the degree to good use), even a 5-figure debt is absolutely worth it as an investment on the future. (It definitely was for me.) Otherwise where will tomorrow's training-required professionals come from? I hate to imagine a world where only the well-to-do's children ever have the chance to have certain professions, while the vast majority are pre-destined to live then die in the same lower class they were born in.

Adams had resources to fight his cancer that the middle American can only dream of.

Expanding on that, Adams publicly asked the current president (and got the "On it!" reply) for personal help in getting a cancer treatment which his insurance had previously denied.

Which is a little ironic, considering today's conservatives' "self reliance" mantra on medical insurance and well-being.

https://www.independent.co.uk/...

Drones can crash on your roof or fly through your window, and then burn your house down with a lithium battery fire.

And delivery trucks can crash through the front of your house, and then burn your house down with the gasoline from an engine fire.

A human won't accidentally make up facts, cases, or sources. A human won't write summaries of things that don't exist. A human won't accidentally directly contradict a source while citing it.

Clearly you're not on social media. And you're not a politician.

Where nobody cares about whether a problem is actually solved. Only about who gets control of the millions of dollars allocated towards solving it.

This is in no way specific to California. Or to the United States, for that matter.

Was it a blanket indictment? I hope they will be cozy in prison, but the way law and order are handled now they might be in bed with powerful people.

You laugh, but now the case is all sewn up.