So why isnt it mandated for homes and all devices that receive radio currently?

Why is my car the only thing that *has* to receive AM?

This is another bullshit “I have a hobby horse and Im going to fucking ride it at everyone elses expense” political move.

Prussia invented modern schooling to indoctrinate kids, so it's weird to see people complaining about business getting in on the act.

The state needed compliant soldiers and factory workers, so it built schools to create them (and separate schools for turning smarter kids into middle-managers). And most of the West copied that system.

> There use to be news, with editors that would filter out the nonsense

You must be a Boomer. I've been involved in several news stories and most of them were somewhere between nonsense and outright lies.

What you and the people pushing this censorship want is a return those Good Old Days when people were only able to read Government-Approved Nonsense and not whatever nonsense other people posted online.

"OH NOES! PEOPLE AREN'T VOTING FOR THE CANDIDATES WE TELL THEM TO VOTE FOR! OUR DEMOCRACY IS IN DANGER!"

That's basically what this headline is really saying. Their democracy is where they tell us who to vote for and we vote for them... and that's failing hard in a world where people aren't limited to whatever "news" the Telescreen feeds them.

Again, you make my point for me. We know that taking women's rights away will fix the collapsing birth rate. You complain but offer no alternative that hasn't been tried and failed.

It works. Nothing else anyone has tried does.

Like I said, it won't happen before liberal society collapses and you just demonstrated why.

It's been tried and doesn't work. Heck, Britain's fertility rate was several times higher when the masses lived in slums and worked in mills until they died in an accident or from respiratory illness.

If you want to increase birth rates you need to stop educating girls beyond what's required to be a mother. But no liberal country can do that so they will die out instead.

Because no-one has been arrested. It appears Big AI can break laws at will with no repercussions.

Democracy is the reason we're ruled by foreign psychopathich billionaires who want to Terminate us. They don't care who you vote for because they've already bought both sides.

"Excluded" with extreme prejudice.

They fed the gullible masses the propaganda about machines doing all the work, but left out the part where the now-useless workers would be Terminated.

"The magic of dots is when they bring you work done the way you would do it, sometimes before you even think to ask...." ... and once we've fully trained it on the work you do your employer will be able to sack you and just pay us instead.

Regardless of its faults, China is a serious country like the US and Europe used to be.

Serious countries don't let people with important skills and knowledge travel to hostile countries where they might be kidnapped or defect. It's so obviously a bad idea that it's bizarre that I even have to point it out.

These were people who worked in defence so anywhere behind the Iron Curtain was right out and I imagine Cuba would have been too. Even Austria was considered a risk, probably because so many spies would hang out there from both sides.

Or so they told me. I can't be entirely sure they weren't exagerrating.

You're right. Some of my friends were banned from travel to communist or communist-adjacent countries during the Cold War, by a supposedly 'freedom-loving' country.

And I don't think Western countries typically allow people under investigation for serious crimes to leave unless they're pedos with connections.

NASA followed the "we launch when the paperwork weights more than the rocket" model where everything had to be tested to death on the ground. Even so, many people expected the first Saturn V launch to fail, and they only launched a complete rocket because it was faster than testing the first stage with a mass simulator on top. And it was never fully debugged before the program was shut down.

SpaceX follow the software development model where you break things fast, and complaining that they didn't get to orbit the first time (something they haven't even tried to do before this flight) is like complaining that someone wrote some code from scratch and the first try didn't compile. They've also been able to test a lot of potential failure modes (e.g. deliberately removing heatshield tiles or flying more dangerous reentries) because they're flying often and willing to break things.

One result of this is that a single SLS engine probably costs more than an entire Starship/Super Heavy stack. Even the ones that were taken off Space Shuttles and refurbished.

33% is more than enough to power the world without blanketing every inch in solar panels.

Love new technology, always have, but these kinds of advances pale in comparison to JUST PUTTING PANELS ON.

My house is a tiny, tiny (60sq m.... yes 60) house. My smart meter tells me - I pull at absolute max 10KW at any one time (and that rarely and briefly). I pull 8.5KWh / day, on average, over the last 4 years. My house is entirely electric so that's everything - that's heating, lighting, my computers, cooking, appliances, etc. etc. etc.

My roof space is ~30sq m (I have some extra panels on an outdoor shed, my front is NOT covered entirely in panels, I have about 8-10KW of panels). I can satisfy the above by covering my roof space at a less-than-ideal facing, tilted at a less-than-ideal angle, at a less-than-ideal latitude (the UK), and with less-than-ideal panels, having a battery pack consisting of less-than-ideal batteries.

In the summer, I'm constantly in excess (hell, I'm still in excess now and it's nearly October). In winter *sometimes* I have to fall back to grid (but my heating is entirely heatpumps, and they pull a maximum of 800W each, but more like 250W once the temperature is where it should be).

Oh and the above - is an entirely homemade system. I cut and crimped every cable, I lifted, railed and fixed every panel, I joined all the batteries together myself, I fused and RCD'd and MCB'd the entire thing. I operate them as entirely separate to my grid power system (though the new micro-inverters are about to change that as they've been approved in my country now).

If I can do that, so can much of the world, especially with professional deployment, and so SHOULD those portions of the world where it's viable be made to do this.