No we didn't. Precisely no one who has said "come into the office or you're fired" has said "stay home". Literally no one. Not one major company has annouced a policy shift recently.

You seem to be unable to separate the will of corporations and the guidance from government. They are two different things. You should learn to separate the concepts because even AI could replace your post and make it more productive at this point ;-)

I think you missed the point. The *FORCED* work from home is because of evil real estate owning bosses. Places with truly flexible working still exist.

You missed the part where as a cyclist you are most likely to die due to a car accident, and with less cars on the road (and less peak hour stress causing less anger among motorists) your trip becomes safer. So sure *you* may not benefit since you have a segregated path, but other cyclists would.

And this is precisely why you didn't understand the premise being made. Small companies are not the cause or even a contributing factor here. The problem is corporations.

You're not making a counterpoint to anything. You're just telling us how it doesn't affect you personally. Now as for the other billion people living and working in the west...

A Swedish design Chinese owned car headed by a German CEO is suddenly "American"? There's nothing country specific about any car country. You buy a Tesla model 3 it's American. I buy a Tesla model 3 it's Chinese. You buy a Tesla Model S it's American. I buy a Tesla model S it's German.

Same car, same company we're purchasing from, wildly different sourcing. Your policy makes no sense.

Hardly. The owners already had a factory in the USA. There's no reason not to adopt this approach when the facility is already in place. It's just moving production around to minimise cost.

We know you're completely and utterly ignorant about EVs. That's fine, more cars for the rest of us who have a more intellectual approach than you looking at a video and thinking you're a battery monitoring expert.

Of course there is, but that reason may be completely benign. For example my car is going on the used market next year for no reason other than the lease agreement expires and I automatically get a new one. A few cars back I sold my car because I moved country. My sister sold her last car because it didn't have the space for a baby seat and a pram and needed something larger. My dad sold his last car because my mother couldn't climb into the cab and they needed something smaller.

Sure in between all that I sold a car for the reason that the maintenance was getting too high and I was suffering failures. But that was reflected in the price. It was closer to $250 than it was to $25k.

Your downbeat view is sort of reflected by looking at numbers in a single point. Yeah they lost $35000 per vehicle sold, but this is a reduction in losses from the past. This is one industry where a few things are important: Volume and product range, and Polestar has made strides in both in the past 2 years.

Their products going back a bit were somewhat rubbish. That new CEO as a first order of business questioned why the former Volvo "performance" unit would ever produce a front-wheel drive car (Polestar 2 pre 2024) and his big demand was that a car company that promotes itself as a luxury brand should actually produce products to match. The second order of business was questioning why one model made up 80% of their cars on the road. They've expanded their product range, expanded their trim options, and they have more in the pipeline now as well.

They've been on a bit of an upward trajectory the last few years. There's lots to be upbeat about.

The Island. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0...

No all you've proven is that people have different perceptions of risk/reward. Your example here is a case of survivor bias. There are plenty of examples out there of people who paid their own production cost only to create complete flops as well. Battlefield Earth failed to get funded until Travolta put a significant amount of his own money into funding the film and it was objectively a trash movie and today is used as a textbook example of not understanding art or the concepts within it (entire thesis have been written on the use of the Dutch tilt in that movie).

Both Harrison and Travolta had a different risk tolerance than people who refused to fund it. Fortunately you (and I) both align with Harrison's vision and we got something good in the end. Unfortunately Battlefield Earth also saw the light of day. Not sure what you thought of that one, but the memory of me paying $10 to see it back in the day still makes me sick.

No. One of the benefits of the orbit for Starlink is that it is well within the drag of the earth's atmosphere. That's one of the reason these satellites have only a 5 year life time anyway, without any propulsion they drop into the atmosphere and burn up.

These particulates will be short lived, and even if they take out all satellites in their orbit in a chain reaction, the impact will be at most a couple of years.

I spend my time reading /. where we run stories such as that estimations of microplastics may be incorrectly overreported. Maybe the problem isn't the media but rather what you choose to commit to memory from it?

Yeah but The Guardian is alarmist trash right? They wouldn't ever run stories like this that say science is overreporting something https://www.theguardian.com/en... No sirree.

Except Notepad is already a native app. The two concepts are unrelated. The outage was related to a license check (a stupid one), which literally any app could suffer from regardless of whether it is native or written in shitty web frameworks.

Did that, tried to run one of those EXE and got an error. What do I do now?

WhatsApp clearly needs to learn from Discord here and have a one line code that causes it to simply close and restart itself when the Electron framework finally has shat enough over your system resources that you're out of memory.

I'm obviously being sarcastic here, but I am unfortunately not joking about Discord: https://www.remio.ai/post/disc...

The thing about free as in beer is that you're fundamentally within your right to give that beer to someone else. There's a difference between charging for a product and gatekeeping its use. Any attempt to gatekeep fundamentally corrects itself and often comes close to sinking the original project.

Just look to examples like Elasticsearch. Put up a paygate and find your project forked (it was free as in beer after all) and watch yourself slowly slip into irrelevance.
It's just one example of many which have followed this path.