"I saw someone post something on Twitter"

I think this disregards the social aspect of consuming media. Game of Thrones, for example, wasn't a cultural phenomenon just because it was quality entertainment. It was also the fact that (seemingly) everyone was watching. You'd hear jokes about it on late night, talk to coworkers about it over the water cooler, etc. That's lost in the decentralized world you describe.

I think you're missing the point (the value proposition here (for those who value it) is that it's the data you've put onto Snapchat's social network, not 5 GB of cloud storage), but to humor the argument:

What happens if you lose the $10 drive or it fails? Do you have a resilient backup and business continuity strategies? If so, how much time and money are you spending on maintaining them?

Whenever someone says "the cloud is too expensive: I can roll my own solution for much less" it's rare that the homegrown solution is actually an apples-to-apples comparison with what you get with a cloud provider.

Will it?

According to the AI overlords the average American highway maintenance worker earns $50k/yr. Factor in the costs of providing healthcare/pensions and the fact that the robo truck isn't restricted to an 8hr workday, and I can easily imagine a $1M truck paying for itself in the lifespan of a piece of industrial equipment. Hell, with the unfortunate state of American healthcare costs, it might pay for itself if it prevents a single highway worker from needing to be hospitalized.

If a pregnant woman decides not to take Tylenol to bring down a high fever, that could certainly cause some harm.

One might come back and say that's a scenario where it is in fact "ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY" to take Tylenol, but if so, maybe the president should have included a bit more nuance in his communication with the public.

Well, I don't know what to tell you other than that they're not the same phenomenon based on my real-world data.

I'd love an iPad that I could fit in my pocket. Reading or watching videos on a larger screen is much more pleasant.

A friend has a foldable that folds like a flip phone, but utility seems somewhat limited. It seems like you need to unfold the device to do much of anything with it other than checking a notification, which just adds an extra step, and as a man I've never had trouble fitting an un-folded phone in my pockets. But I do acknowledge it's fun to fidget with, and maybe if you're a member of the gender that typically has smaller pockets in their trousers there'd be some value there.

"Anymore"? iPhone sales have been more or less flat for about a decade. I still call it a success to sell hundreds of billions of dollars of product based on (generally) small iterations version-to-version.

When did Apple claim to be the first to do either of those things?

They, like many other companies, claim that their implementation is the best the world has ever seen, but the meme of "Apple pretends they invented stuff" is so overblown.

The main issue for Britain, which the summary misses, is that their bond yields are the highest in the OECD. They can't spend their way out of problems without the bond markets throwing a fit and making it unsustainable to service their debt.

Agreed that looking at headline debt misses the point, but the UK is indeed an outlier. Their 10 year government bond yields are 4.71% compared to 3.57% for France, 4.1% for the US, and just 1.64% for Japan. They're the worst in the OECD by that metric. They don't have the headroom to spend their way out of problems without bond markets throwing a fit.

In descending order:

Bush Jr.: +27% increase in debt to GDP ratio

Trump: +24% (in one term!)

Obama: +21%

Reagan: +18%

Bush Sr.: +13%

Clinton: -7%

Biden: -2%

So, yeah, there does seem to be a case that one party tends to increase debt more than the other. I'll leave as an exercise to the reader to figure out which.

How so? I've never experienced noise associated with walking. I have experienced noise associated with chewing.

For most of the past 45 years, your headphones wouldn't have had a consumable part: the li-ion battery.

No. I use AirPods Pro daily and have never experienced this. It is quite noisy if I'm eating, though.