This, I was not aware of. Guess I'll just go on with my day.

I'm old enough to remember when Google was cool.

How can we expect a femtosecond accurate clock when walking across the room towards it will cause your time to drift relative to its time?

And shrinking the population is not a bad thing, except if you're running the world's largest ponzi schemes that depend on an ever growing population, like, you know, social security and Medicare.

He is already fortifying the white house with a military defense system to prevent him being removed from office when he is either impeached or finishes his term.

Their population model didn't capture the billionaires making it too expensive to have children or to even have a parent stay home to care for them. The "everyone must work to make billionaires richer" paradigm that took hold under Reagan and Bush Sr. slowed population growth globally. We're still going to annihilate ourselves but it'll be by destroying the environment we live in and making food unobtainable for the non-billionaire class

See, that's the thing - you think "honky" is an awful insult, when I grew up it was a punchline on national TV.

In a dire emergency, your car is the last place you should be, and the last thing you should try to hang onto. FEMA's official disaster preparedness communication calls for you to have a PORTABLE AM radio and to avoid travel unless absolutely necessary. "Let's get in the car and go to Disney" is not part of FEMA's official recommendations.

Also, to assume that AM radio will even work in an emergency or disaster is a stretch in the first place. Ancient broadcasting equipment living in swamps with hundreds of meter tall towers, seldom internet access, and nonredundant uplinks, are not reliable.

When Helene hit us in 2024, AM/FM radio was the first thing to go off the air, followed by the land-based Internet providers, followed by the cellular networks. We got by with local amateur radio operators who were able to communicate outside the zone on batteries and solar panels.

There is no "one thing" that is going to be universally reliable in a disaster. You have to have an "all of the above" mindset and prepare to communicate by different available means.

It's not about emergency preparedness.

Slave labor in the developing world helps keep prices down as well.

The question with these kinds of tech articles is always "can this be scaled to mass market levels" and the answer is almost always "No."

Please cite a time when any European country has held a CEO personally and criminally liable for something.

It won't be. Facebook will just cut a check for $79 million and go on with life.

This is exactly analogous to the power companies pushing people to "efficiency" programs at the cost of comfort just so they don't have to spend money to build out infrastructure.

"We'll provide a worse experience for you so the powers that be don't have to do anything substantive to solve the problem"