My response was specifically to the original poster who, for some reason, was taking a "we are losing the class wars; breed faster!" position rather than the "if you are already losing the class war why would you even think about putting in that much effort and cost so your children can deal with a bad or worse outcome?" position.

It would honestly not surprise me if that is a nontrivial contributing factor: If you aren't emotionally invested in children as an end in themselves the wage and cost of living numbers have done very little to encourage you to see them as affordable since roughly the late 70s(with a combination of substantial stagnation for anyone who is primarily wages rather than capital gains; and such good news as there is mostly confined to people who complete at least undergraduate education and remain in a career track full time) and people who are emotionally invested in children are often willing to go to considerable lengths to try to improve their children's outcomes; but are presumably discouraged by the prospect that they will most likely be downwardly mobile instead.

It's not a surprise that people who want labor, cannon fodder, or taxpayers to be abundant for them are fretting about it; but it's hard to see why most of us should care. Why do things that are good for society when society is pretty overtly disinterested in being good for you? You may be able to squeeze the current labor market a bit; because people who already exist tend to take the "or starve" possibility pretty seriously when deciding what they will put up with; but if you offer nothing but the demand for a toiling underclass to encourage people to have children that's not terribly compelling, either for those who aren't interested in sacrificing for children and see hitting education and career hard as increasingly existential or for people who would sacrifice a lot to better things for their children but are more or less accurate in seeing it as highly unlikely that they will be able to.

I'm rather doubtful of the plan's viability; but if they are willing to justify the company name by chaining Bezos to a rock so a bird can eat his liver repeatedly I could be persuaded.

Only if you treat them like shit.

Effects.

Treating women like shit makes them not want to pump out babies. Now they have a choice, so they are doing a lot less of it. Literally all it would take to get a large portion (a majority IMO) of them to do it without support from a decent partner would be to gracefully and quietly fund the programs that ensure they will be able to feed and provide medical care for their children even if their circumstances change, but there seems to be a problem even meeting that bar.

But then your entire fucking point becomes pointless about 8 seconds later, literally before I could read it and roll my eyes about it.

Except it doesn't. It's shit all day. It makes people upset all day. This means it's costing productivity all day. See, in the real world with real humans, these user pain points have real impacts on those real people.

HTH, HAND!

Same for if it is made in America. If it's not FOSS, then it's not trustworthy, and even then it's limited to e.g. devices you can build your own firmware for.

Yes, at least that is at least on paper a solution. As long as you can't just buy your way out of it more cheaply because the legal system works, that is. I can't speak to their efficacy there, only here, where... Well, you know.

Yes, when it's necessary, not just when someone is scared.

If he's not following the law, then... anyone? Everyone?

California's highways have a minimum speed, too. It's "drivers cannot drive so slowly that they block or impede the normal flow of traffic". So if he's going 30, and everyone else wants to go faster, he's breaking the law. Also, California state law requires that if you are on a highway and there are five or more people behind you, YOU MUST PULL OVER AT THE FIRST SAFE OPPORTUNITY TO PERMIT THEM TO PASS. This is an extremely underappreciated and underenforced law. I've seen someone pulled over for it just once, they were operating construction equipment and there were dozens to hundreds of people stuck behind them — I could not see the end of the line, so I only know about dozens.

Windows 8 could at least be mostly unshittified and actually came with some substantial improvements over Windows 7, like the desktop duplication API.

Windows 11 offers zero improvements over Windows 10 and makes things a lot worse in a lot of categories. It's way worse than 8.

Kinda. They don't have the same accuracy because of the drive-by nature of the activity. They also skip a lot of roads, they can't leave roads or trails, etc.

Nope. They were in apparently random locations that Niantic wanted scanned. They fill in the gaps left by scanning programs like gmaps.

It's literally not repurposing. They always intended the game to deliver high resolution imagery coupled with positioning information that could be used for non-game purposes.

You're asking why a video of a police officer beating someone should be posted? Are you new?

Uh yeah, we realize this is Poland, right. Are you new?

YES WE FUCKING REALIZE IT'S POLAND.

You're not getting it. This is about price inflation, not monetary inflation. Monetary inflation is only one cause of price inflation, which outstrips monetary inflation significantly. There are lots of other causes, like consolidation reducing competition.

GP comment explains the why, you're explaining the what, we already know what the what is. And some of us know what the why is, but not you. Therefore you're stupid and your comment is stupid.

Just absolute clown shit.