"candor"? I think you mean: arrogant, incompetent, macho, and unqualified.

Then many apps don't work or won't install. For example, there's an app to troubleshoot problems with my refrigerator (LG), but it requires access to precise location in order to operate. I just want the app to interpret the error code, not tell LG my location within a few meters. But precise location is *required* or the app won't work. Deleting it is not a solution because then I have to call the repair guy for a minimum $90 visit charge.

What I would like is the ability for my phone to spoof its location, for example to tell LG I'm at Apple Park in CA, so it thinks the location is working but it is just completely wrong.

...when I can cook at home?

Sometimes I don't have the time to cook at home. Or it is too much trouble. Or I just want someone else to take care of the dishes and menu planning. Or I'm just lazy. But I'm not paying $1000 for a burger. Maybe $20 for the burger plus the service and convenience.

Same thing with SaaS. Most SaaS is a huge ripoff, and has been even before AI. Now it is easier than ever to replicate SaaS. There might still be good reasons to choose SaaS, but it had better be much, much cheaper.

HAHAHAHA

Too funny

No seriously, that's funny.

Tobacco companies obviously can't literally shove a cigarette in your mouth. (But if they could have, they would have.)

They manipulated their products - intentionally - to make them more addictive.
They buried science and as much evidence as they could that even suggested a link between smoking and bad health. They produced their own "research" - often misleading or faked - that intentionally muddied the waters so they could say "the science is inconclusive!"
They fought all restrictions to where smoking was allowed - it was even allowed on airplanes! - so even if you "chose" not to smoke, you still inhaled it every time you went out into public.
Children in the homes of smokers never had a choice about whether to breathe smoke all day long, either!
Smoking was promoted relentlessly on movies, TV, magazines, and intentionally targeted those who were most easy to manipulate and addict - often children.

Tobacco companies DID make people smoke. My grandma died a long, horrible death from emphysema. She thought it was safe. She saw movie stars, doctors, "science" reports, smoking away...and after those first few packs, she was addicted with no real way out. How's that a "choice?"

This is the exact same argument made by the tobacco industry. Everyone smoked! It was their choice! They could have quit any time!

Except the tobacco companies knew their product caused cancer and was addictive, and actively worked to make it even more addictive.

The oil and gas companies are no different. They sold a product that causes considerable damage to the place we call home, all while seeking to maximize their profit. And they knew the damage their product causes, and worked hard to bury and hide that damage, all while pushing for more and more and more use of their products, even when better alternatives are available.

Sorry, no sympathy at all from me for the oil and gas companies. Where are they going to spend all that profit when most of the world is a desert or under water?

Yeah, but now it's your neighbor, your roommate, the random guy at the coffee shop who want to break your leg because you missed an inconsequential free-throw in last night's game...

Sports are supposed to be a fun, entertaining way to escape the nonsense and violence of the real world. With open sports gambling, they've invited the violence of the real world into the games and it just isn't as much fun any more.

Yes, we need people who enforce the law. There is good evidence that laws, and appropriate law enforcement makes a difference in reducing unwanted behaviors (such as auto theft).

Laws and law enforcement are not the ONLY things, obviously, that reduce crime. Having a good job, affordable housing, good nutrition, clean water, good schools, etc. all matter too. But laws and law enforcement are part of that puzzle.

What we DON'T need are a bunch of macho, cosplaying, psychopath, racist, bigoted, power-hungry zealots who are immune from the consequences of their actions.

all Kid Rock concerts are a ripoff and no one should attend them ever. So they aren't wrong about that.

they sue the City of Fargo, the (now retired) police chief, the "investigating" officers, and the prosecutor. Extreme dereliction of responsibility. Even the most basic of investigation would have showed she was in Tennessee during the time the crimes occurred - she cashed a check, purchased several items, and had numerous witnesses who put her in Tennessee at the time the crimes occurred in North Dakota.

I won't say "defund the police" because we do need to police and people who enforce the law, but I will say fuck those guys for not doing their job even at the most basic level. I hope she gets payout in the seven figure range for this malpractice.

That is a solvable problem; China more than doubled its charging network in 18 months. It's a bit chicken-and-the-egg problem, but when chargers start showing up more in the U.S. people will demand cheap EVs, which will all be made by China. Honda is doomed.

It is complex - it looks like if you can source 75% of the items from North America, you pay no tariffs at all (https://blogs.tradlinx.com/auto-tariffs-101-how-u-s-car-import-duties-really-work-in-2025/), although in 2026...who knows as it is a moving target thanks to the cheeto man...but even if you are paying a tariff of 15% on, say, an imported engine from Japan, that still is less of a penalty than paying a tariff on the whole vehicle.

This whole thing is reminiscent of the 1970s and 1980s where U.S. car manufacturers were destroyed by Japanese imports because the U.S. manufacturers were focused on short-term profits and not long-term market trends, and U.S. manufacturers got lazy and didn't know how to compete.

Now it's a Japanese manufacturer and China is the innovator who is leaps and bounds ahead, and even Honda is pretty much throwing in the towel on trying to compete with them.

First they claim this is because of tariffs...but aren't vehicles with final assembly in the U.S. free from most tariffs?

Then, they claim their product is not competitive with Chinese competitors...with a vehicle they were going to assemble in the U.S.? That also makes no sense. Why wouldn't the manufacture it in Asia?

Then, they claim this will cost them $15.8 billion in financial losses. Unless that is a wildy-inflated made-up number, that represents ludicrously bad management.

Honda is doomed. In 20 years we will all be driving Chinese EVs.

The kill shot came when the officer was standing on the side of the SUV - he shot her in the head through the driver's side window. How is he going to get run over when he's standing BESIDE the vehicle? Your claim is total bullshit.

"Breaking the law" and "blocking traffic" are not capitol offenses, and no police force in the country would justify deadly force for someone "blocking traffic."

Zurich is objectively safer than Boston. (https://www.numbeo.com/crime/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Switzerland&city1=Zurich&country2=United+States&city2=Boston%2C+MA)

And Trump's war on Iran has made all U.S. cities a target for revenge attacks.

Give me a plane ticket and a steady job in Zurich, you'll never see me in the U.S. again.

Most theaters near where I live have given up, some are closed during slower days (M-W) and some only have one showing per evening. Everything is falling apart in the theaters, they are retro but not in the good way, with torn seat cushions, out-of-date bathroom fixtures, etc. I'm not a particularly luxury-oriented person, but I do have my limits. They seem to be just milking the last few remaining $$ until retirement and are not investing at all in the experience.

There IS a market for in-person movie experiences, but this isn't it. It will have to be reimagined and will take an investment, and it won't look like it did during the "glory days" of the 1990s and early 2000s. And that's fine. For everything there is a season.

Future movie experiences will need to be part of a bigger entertainment destination, with food, drink, other activities, and special events and presentations that you can't get at home. And it needs to be safe, easy to access, and friendly for families. Do that well, and the money will flow no matter what movies are out.