There are still good reasons for those dealership laws, they're designed to keep some money in the local communities and ensure that major purchases which require dealer support like vehicles will not be entirely at the whim of a company that has no significant ties to the state.

The fix is to remove the Turdla carveout, not give Rivian another one.

Nah, there will be a few dozen jobs watching the robots at any automated factory. They won't be skilled jobs, and they won't pay much. And there will be somebody sweeping up.

But people really DO want to work in factories. I know people who used to make t-shirt fabric, people who used to make bluejeans. They enjoyed their jobs, believe it or not. Those factories are closed now, shut down maybe a couple decades ago. The union (actually used to be ILGWU before it was UNITE HERE!) even closed up shop here about a decade ago, the union hall is a pain clinic now.

But yeah, the people who used to make your Levi's didn't hate their jobs. They're not big fans of the service jobs they're working now for less money, though.

Just give us 10 year certs back. There's no reason for this nonsense.

That's NOT what's happening, and you know it.

If it's practically impossible to not violate parking laws, enforcement isn't the problem, the law is.

Because Merrick Garland and Jack Smith are incompetent, and Aileen Cannon is corrupt.

Putin is NOT a communist. He's a capitalist oligarch kleptocrat dictator. Russia was NEVER actually communist, but hasn't even called itself communist since 1991 - over 30 years ago.

I have no idea why this idiocy persists that Russia has any sort of connection to communism in 2025.

The GPL is not an economic system.

The GPL is a workaround for the attack on freedom that is copyright law. It exists to use the evil of copyright law against itself.

Don't like the GPL, work to repeal copyright.

That's no way to get a pardon from the felon-in-chief.

They stopped requiring serial numbers for Windoze installs years ago.

And MAS is on Github, they haven't done anything about it.

That doesn't mean Lightning does audio. Those have their own DAC and amplifier, they're essentially USB audio cards shrunk to cable size. Lightning isn't capable of transporting an audio signal.

Lightning DOES NOT do audio. It's an idiotic proprietary USB connector. There are no audio pins in there.

The old Apple dock connector did audio, maybe you're thinking of that.

The "ask a young person" advice was never valid.

In any age group, there are people who find computing interesting and learn about it. From a 90 year old retired CS professor to a 12 year old kid, that interest exists. But it's never been a majority of people, no matter how old they are. A young person today probably knows how to use the ticktocks, but doesn't understand the concepts behind the screen. A person who is my age probably played Oregon Trail and didn't hit return when the cursor got to the end of the line in a word processor, but had no deeper understanding.

So you're sort of wrong. I know 80 year olds who understand computing better than most 40 year olds. And there was never a generation where most people had any particular aptitude for technology.

The logical fallacy meaning of "begs the question" is essentially obsolete. English isn't Latin, it's not a dead language, and "begs the question" is now synonymous with "raises the question".

The use of "literally" to mean "figuratively" still bugs me, but I suspect we're going to have to live with it, it's part of the language now.

Smaller screen and lower resolution than an iPad mini gets you excited?