They probably need to keep the data around for a while, for legal reasons. They might get sued, and if it was deleted it will be worse for them. They might get a law enforcement request for the data, and it would look bad if they deleted it.

The bigger issue is that unless you get lucky and go viral, there is no way to get this kind of thing resolved and all you can do is sue to get your costs covered.

And also diver's watches, so there is no excuse for smart watches not having a replaceable battery either. People understand perfectly well that they need to have the gasket properly replaced if they want to maintain water resistance. Not that anyone would warranty a smart watch by the time the battery needs replacing.

It's almost impossible to anonymize search data. Google can do it internally and simply avoid processing it in a way that could reveal identities, to comply with GDPR, but other companies will not be so limited. In theory GDPR applies to them too, but the danger is that we end up in a Facebook like situation with shadow profiles on people who have never used their services.

Ours doesn't like being picked up either, although he is slowly coming around to it. Something traumatic happened to him, and I wonder if it involved being picked up.

It is not the case that 9.1% of the population is without power at any given moment, it is that over the course of a month (30 days) at some point in that month 0.1% of the population experience a power outage.

That is not a reasonable representation of the U.S. power grid - the statistics have been misrepresented or misinterpreted by you.

Ironically, the countries all doing so well went ahead and completely destroyed their infrastructure 75 + years ago, whereas we maintained a power grid that has evolved in-place for the last 100+ years...

Please, elaborate - as I understand it, the R administration is kicking ineligible recipients off Medicaid. If you are healthy, have no dependents, and no special, extenuating conditions, you are removed as ineligible. Likewise, if your status in this country is, as the kids say, "undocumented", you have no place on Medicaid.

There are federal funds to provide charity care, but that's separate from Medicare.

U.S. is 350M people, EU is 450M, if you want to get your parties in a bunch over Ukraine, exclude it - oh, wait, Ukraine isn't part of EU - so let's compare EU to US, relatively speaking, how often are there power outages in the EU?

I recently visited Italy, apparently they chose to do things like not run AC on very hot days - perhaps because their citizens are used to following gov't orders they all simply go along with gov't policies and mandates regarding power usage?

Buy some solar panels, dig a water well, invest in a septic field - the choice to subscribe to the corporations you clearly despise for power, water, and sewage treatment is just that, a choice.

Wait a minute - the U.S. power grid serves 350 million people, the EU has about 450 million people - not a perfect match, but possibly comparable.

We can talk about power outages in Germany cs a similar state in the U.S., but we can't compare German power grid to the entire U.S. power grid (Germany has about 1/4th the population of the U.S.).

Let's try and compare similar population/geographical bodies, OK?

Sure, I'll concede that at least once a month, somewhere in America, suffers a "major power outage", based on either duration or population impacted, but can anyone reasonably argue that the EU has fewer than one "major power outage" per month? Really?

This is really a pointless metric...

We think ours did formerly belong to someone, but was in a poor state when he came to us. No microchip and nobody recognized him on the local noticeboards. He's very shy around people, but was definitely house trained before we got him. Over time he is getting a little better with people, but it's a very slow process.

You clearly haven't met my cat. We rescued him and he's not very cuddly. I suppose he is kinda cute sometimes.

That's the problem, in my experience those chatbots can't resist telling you how great you are. I had to ask Google Gemini to tone it down a bit.

Hilarious that this was modded "troll". I just didn't get around to doing one clock one year, and noticed that it was no real effort to add 1 to it, and that I need not bother with the other ones.

Because I do a lot of GNSS and time related stuff anyway, I tend to be working with UTC a lot of the time. During summer time I have to remember to add one to all the timestamps anyway.

Sure, and I wasn't saying that they are the same as human relationships. I'm saying that as an engineer I see this is a flaw in the "design" of humans, one that cats and AI are able to exploit. Affection is an incredibly powerful drug, and you don't even have to spike the victim's drink to administer it.