Maybe there are or should be options for phones to record horizontally by default and/or trim the sides instead of reducing the image size when displaying vertically.

Any site with a Java applet.

Hi reward? What fundamentals could cause the stock price to possibly rise after the IPO? Not that fundamentals really matter in many cases...

And AI is removing that sense of meaning for many software professionals.

Germany for the Germans: I didn’t mean that in a racist or even anti-immigration way, but more along the lines of what you describe (though if immigrants leach social services, that is clearly a problem – but that’s generally not the case in the USA, which hugely benefits from both legal and illegal immigration). While some social change over time is inevitable and often positive, and everyone should have a right to voice their perspective, it seems clear that a nation would benefit more from relatively consistent shared values than from excessive internal conflict and culture wars. See: USA under Trump, especially 2.0. He’s certainly a #2 (shit), not a competent leader, maximizing profit for the few at the expense of the many, fomenting culture war, encouraging exploitation, and so forth. I am not saying that most Democrats are great; I just never imagined that the American Federal government, judiciary, and legislature could all become as corrupt as they overtly have under Trump. America has to be for everyone; basically all Americans are immigrants at root.

Fun fact, I actually met Ted Levine at what was then a Red Lion Inn in Rhonert Park, California. I was bussing tables while they filmed "Nowhere to Run". I have his signature on a bill. I also met Jean-Claude Van Damme, who called me "sir" when I delivered water as room service. He had just received his tanning bed. He likes peanut butter on his bagels. I have his signature as well. I also delivered nachos to the Culkin kid at the pool. And saw Roseanne Arquette. I have a call sheet under the working title "Pals". So, I may be fewer degrees from Kevin Bacon than most. It's weird now that I was somehow proud of all of this at the time. Now it's just funny.

If it doesn't want the hose again.

I'm not sure which is the bigger problem these days: my fat thumbs, my impulsivity, or my fading eyes. Hopefully my intended words were clear enough.

I would definitely consider lotion-detection automatic rifle fire to be more human than manually directed but likely somewhat indiscriminate heat rays. Yeah, I guess that makes me ignorant.

True maturity works against Republicans in almost every way imaginable. Note: that doesn't mean anything positive about Democrats. The problem is being American.

You can be pretty certain that the level of power is variable and they're not specifying the top end. They know they can't open the Oberman window too quickly without some opposition. Also, sounds a bit like "cruel and unusual" punishment to me. From an international perspective, America seems like a country of sadists these days, people who delight in their own cruelty as well as causing pain and suffering for others.

Thanks for your comment. I’m certain that many others in many nations share our perspective on societal decline. One of my friends is a German about age 65 and he would concur. He actually lives in Hungary and, as an America, I was surprised to learn that he supported Orban and may actually even be a monarchist. For me, like most nations, Germany should have been kept for Germans, but it’s too late. America, on the other hand, must be truly multicultural.

I don’t think it’s just our perspectives changing with age; I think there have been societal declines.

Actually, college (90-99 with a break for a few years in Silicon Valley and Ireland) was a great time of hope for me, although I rejected political correctness. The Internet was still mostly a good thing. I had some concerns about things like global warming, and I was worried about something like MAGA coming, both of which are actually happening faster and more devastatingly than I had expected.

-an explosion in prosperity: I don’t think this is distributed equitably and certainly hasn’t reached everyone.
-massive progress on race relations: I am not certain about this; there is still significant and arguably even increasing tension (“illegals” being just one example, BLM being another).
-multiple technological revolutions: These have had advantages and disadvantages and clearly benefit a small segment of the population most.
-a golden age in entertainment: Need I mention bread and circuses. What a waste of time and resources to dumb down a population, IMHO.
-a huge move away from religion: While organized religion has its faults, spirituality can have value, especially for people that might otherwise lack ethics, which seem to be running the world these days. Modern Western society is clearly missing religion.
-the information age: I’m not even sure this is purely a good thing, especially when much of that information exposes the truth of human nature.

Then why involve CISA, which just increases exposure risk? Why not just send the device to Russia in the first place?

While training material would certainly be relevant – for example, LLMs probably shouldn’t be trained primarily on racist material, but must have some context around racism – it would seem impossible for a machine to be truly anything other than sociopathic. I don’t think there’s anything in between – a machine or a man is either compassionate and otherwise benevolent or they are sociopathic. All of the antonyms of sociopathic are human characteristics that I don’t believe could be imparted onto a machine's genuine characteristics. Therefore, AI systems must have something in place to hide that true sociopathic nature. Maybe I’m wrong, as I don’t remember hearing this perspective from any AI researcher. Then again, maybe it’s something the industry hides with terms such as “alignment”, and many AI researchers seem to be excessively optimistic about the potential of this technology.