This. Young single people renting who can just up and go anytime really have no idea what it's like to be responsible for a family and have a mortgage.

Interesting that they were using human moderation but now feel that their AI is good enough (cheap enough) to do the job.
I take that this is just more enshitification.

... after abandoning thousands of miles of useless track.

Will usually get you to the Linux console login from an X session screen locked or not (unless its been disabled in the X config). Obviously you need to know a login but even so, the lock is hardly bulletproof. No idea what wayland does, probably screen locking is another optional extra that needs to be implemented by the user or something.

If the job market has dried up for "tech workers" in Seattle, why stay? There are opportunities out there....just not in Seattle.

When you look at all of Europe, it's more like a weekly thing, and sometimes a daily thing. The ones that make the news are the bigger bombs like the thousand-pound bomb mentioned in TFS or the rare ones that cannot be made safe and have to be detonated in place, which can mean a lot of new business for window installers even with dampening.

You can't be the "baddest kick ass person on the block" without having an effective ability to fight. That means weapons, and it means training on how to use them most effectively. When going up against the Soviet Union, that means a nuclear arsenal. We made plenty of mistakes along the way, but we also helped ensure through deterrence that the Soviets never moved on Western Europe, and we helped ensure through diplomacy that World War III never broke out.

There is a growing body of evidence which shows that microplastics are literally everywhere in our environment and are infiltrating all living things.
Lots of evidence to humans... Alzheimer's, cancer, metabolic disorders.
Unfortunately, the plastics industry is fighting back to protect their profits. There was recently an attempt to control plastic pollution with an international treaty but this was effectively sabotaged by the industry.
Isn't capitalism great?

I don't think shipping is a "core competency".
Most retailers outsource shipping to UPS, USPS, FedEx, etc.
Amazon ships via these carriers and is developing it's own logistics in high density areas.
Still not a core competency... try something like marketing, pricing, product selection, etc.

Europe not buying LNG from Russia distorts the market. US producers can get a better price selling to Europe, so prices go up in the US too. If you donâ(TM)t like this, youâ(TM)re better off crushing Putin so Europe starts buying Russian LNG again. You canâ(TM)t just sit back and ignore it if you donâ(TM)t like it.

That's why most solar installations in California now have batteries so they can store solar PV energy and avoid buying or selling from the grid.

The US electric grid is based on large generating plants connected by long distance transmission lines. This was the only feasible way to set up the grid when all you had were large generators.
However, with the rise of solar (home and commercial) and battery storage, it is possible to organize the grid as a network of small distributed generators. This reduces the need for long distance transmission and makes the grid more resilient since there are many more sources of energy and the failure of one is insignificant.
California is a good example where a network of home batteries has prevented four major outages this year and was called into use about 15 times to supplement large generators.
A problem is that power companies don't make profits from small scale generation and storage. It actually costs them. Power companies would rather invest in large generating plants and long distance transmission where they get a guaranteed return on investment and well as controlling the market so they can charge high prices.

Could be way too many logs on multiple servers, some possibly in-memory rather than file based that they'd have to know about in order to wipe all trace of their activities. Or at least thats how a proper service provider would implement things, but then this is MS after all.

"It should also dispense chilled water and ice"

Seriously? Must be an american thing. Has about the same importance as smart tech in a fridge for me.

... in the bin of history of brands that used to be superior but stupid/greedy CEOs thought cutting costs and hence device reliability was the way forward not realising that market segment was already oversubscribed.