Trump's plans are for making the government less capable, and more aligned with the whim of current politics. Think what political appointees will do to the running of e.g. the EPA. Research destroyed, enforcement of environmental laws sabotaged by defunding the people responsible for that enforcement, etc.

London streets are extremely cramped. Those buses are 2.5 m wide, and the mirrors extend beyond that. The lanes are barely over 2.5 m in many places, which means those mirrors sweep the sidewalk.
The sidewalks are also narrow, and people walk along the edge of the sidewalk to avoid groups of people coming in the other direction.

I disagree. Once the USSR collapsed, all of the newly-independent countries made it clear they weren't going to be ruled by Russia again, because none of them have good memories of that time.

Putin desperately wants his legacy to be 'restored the USSR', and is stopping at nothing to carry that out. The dream of hegemony is his.

"the US proxy war against Russia"

You have that backwards. The only coercion going on in states that used to be part of the USSR is by Russia.

Never having had AOL, I tend to associate the phrase "You've got mail" with Meg Ryan's voice instead (thanks to the eponymous movie).

That's not the cost cutting they're talking about. This is about the cost of developing and manufacturing the physical button clusters.

Take those steering wheel buttons for instance. To get those, you need at least four precision injection mouldings. Creating the moulds costs several hundred thousand. Then you need two PCBs. You need the electromechanical switches under those buttons.
Then a whole bunch of assembly steps for every vehicle. The costs add up quickly.

Voice recognition is what, 95% correct? You need something like 5 words to give one command, so that means one in four commands will fail. Button presses fail far less frequently than that.
Voice commands are useless at things like adjusting volume or temperature. They are too slow for emergencies.

The real reason these clowns are pushing away from buttons is because touchscreens and voice control have become cheaper than buttons.

Pretty soon the system used to track the amount of this fine will overflow the number of bits assigned to the amount, the amount will reset and Google can pay a fine of 1 Ruble.

I just checked. In Safari on my Mac, search results are a series of tiles that contain an image and the title of the show. You have to click on the tile to get any description.

home page > Find by category: same: results are a series of tiles that contain an image and the title of the show. You have to click on the tile to get any description.

I have an AppleTV+ subscription at the moment for a few shows I know I wanted to see (found through reviews and ads elsewhere). But it's hard to browse for new shows I. The website is close to useless. No categories, no text description of shows, just an image. It's the Coverflow debacle all over again, back when Apple made iTunes useless for finding anything because they thought everybody should use album cover images for searching instead of something as old-fashioned as text.

It's costing $212M to replace the train control system. A side effect of that is that the floppy disks are phased out.

No, the influx of non-Tibetan people is not cultural genocide. Forbidding the teaching of Tibetan language and culture is.

It's revolting! And shocking! We should resist this with all our power.

(ok, I'm done now)

Verbing weirds language. (Bill Watterson)

There's a Firefox extension named Unhook that allows you to hide Shorts, hide the sidebar list of videos, hide videos you've already seen etc.