Home appliances are dropping dead because of bullshit internet dependencies going dead. Do you really want your movie ticket logic applying to all of your personal possessions?

The consumer's personal responsibilities do not absolve the seller of their social responsibilities, and I'm tied of greedy actors (marketers, politicians, etc) telling us otherwise.

Political remedies aren't just for the rich. We the people can organize and demand political solutions for online privacy, algorithmic pricing, right to repair, Tivoization, DRM, right to root, pervasive surveillance, and all the other anti-user/anti-freedom ills born from modern technology.

The difference is people are willing to pay for one and not the other.

Now try looking at the rest of history. Genocide, slavery, war, corruption, oppression, and misogyny are the norm.

You ask for just one day where things were perfect. How tragic, I think, that you see no triumph in the day of July 4th, 1776, when the colonial elite declared that all men were equal and had rights government could not legitimately violate. And you see no triumph in the day that slavery was banished. And you see no triumph in the many separate days that American men elected to give their wives and sisters and daughters the right to vote. And you see no triumph in the day fascism was defeated in WW2. And you see no triumph in the day we passed the civil rights act. And I could go on...

But none of those days were perfect. And none of those movements won by screening their supporters for strict ideological purity. They struggled and fought and made their case for common humanity and after great sacrificed prevailed.

America is not perfect and never will be, just like you and I aren't perfect. But America is a place where the fight can be had and the good guys might, just might, prevail.

The car doesn't know that I just finished a workout and need it on the chill side. It doesn't know that I underdressed and need it a little warmer. It doesn't know that I need a blast of cold air to heighten my awareness when entering a hairy freeway interchange after a long monotonous drive.

There is no single right temperature, so while harping on the importance of HMI you might pause to remember its chief lesson: you are not the user.

You want meaningful human connection. To this,
AI is cheap, uncanny sugar. You may argue that it has its useless (and it does) or that it can be used cleverly to unlock new play experience (and it can), but overall AI will simply poison everything from your video games to your customer support experiences to your medical diagnoses.

Or like this situation, where the cops killed the kidnapped girl they were trying to rescue. Great job guys!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

Sure, let's totally dispense justice based on mainstream media reporting of the alleged crime. No way that could go wrong!

Trump has long disdained wind farms for "sullying" the views from his golf course near Aberdeenshire. It's completely a personal vendetta.

Rust grew out of a Mozilla side project in 2006 and hit stable in 2015. Several years later, the White House and NSA promoted it because the huge number of memory CVE's are a problem for individuals, businesses, and national security alike. And they didn't promote just Rust, they promoted memory-safe languages in general.

If you're seeing shadowy evil agendas where there exist clear, objective, straightforward explanations then take a break and go touch grass.

Living in a fishbowl robs you of the ability to truly discover and become yourself. As such, public surveillance should be restricted to areas of high crime and critical infrastructure. Neither you nor the police are owed a 24/7 visual history of all locations in which a crime might occur.

It will always be factual and newsworthy to report what the president is saying (no matter how incorrect or malicious it is). News media doesn't need 230 protection to report this.

I'll add to that Africa's geography is fucked... the coastline is old, smooth, and shallow which means you don't get many ports. On top of that, the African escarpment means that interior rivers tend to have huge rapids that are basically unnavigable. All of this greatly complicates logistics and hampers internal trade... for instance, getting minerals from the east Congo to the Atlantic requires ~9 different transports (e.g., switching back and forth between water and land vehicles). Europe and North America, by contrast, have an embarrassment of riches... loads of glacier-carved deep water ports, extensively navigable interior rivers, and (at least in the U.S.) lots of inter-coastal waterways.

Geography isn't the only thing that hindered Africa. Tropical diseases and the Tsetse fly also fucked things up pretty well by devastating livestock populations. Cattle means you can farm more land with fewer people (and fertilize it too), plus they're a food source. I'm sure there are other factors too, but these are big ones that would inhibit any would-be society.

Yeah, but in actual war (like Ukraine is finding out), flexibility matters. There are absolutely cells of Ukrainian engineers 3D-printing parts as they respond to our evolving understanding of drone warfare with innovative solutions.

Moreover, standardization is a long recognized enabler of industrial warfare... good standards let militaries flexibly source parts and share equipment, simplifying logistics. Letting military contractors obstruct that is our corruption... it's strategical stupid for a military that wants to be effective.

The goal is probably to bilk crypto investors from prosperous countries. While third world peoples are being exploited in some intangible sense, the main point is to use them to inflate the user count. It's bullshit because typically such users immediately cash out the meager compensation they were given for scanning their eyeball and cease any further usage of the coin.

I feel you should also list the Apple team that developed this feature... modern families are complex; how the hell could they make the "just one administrator" mistake? Having two (involved) parents is common. Having messy divorces is common. Having court ordered-custody is common. What sort of family were they designing for?