I voted for Giant Meteor in 2024.

If you were bored, you'd light up a cigarette. Obviously not for children, but for 14+ it was how many of us coped with the lack of an immediately rewarding stimulus in the analog world.

Sears used to own a bunch of real estate and a trucking fleet. This let them ship things anywhere in the country in a reasonably timely fashion and keep costs low on both ends. They did absolutely, pathetically flub web sales, but it really wasn't too late to fix that. They at least had done the work of getting the product information digitized, even if the web site was otherwise a loss. (It really was terrible, and so were the prices, wtf.)

You didn't need to have a dependency on Clippy, just a prohibition on uninstalling it. Personally, I never liked it, and disabled it after a few days, but many organizations have a stricter configuration policy.

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Apple bought Next, but I believe that MS developed it's own software after the first few years. Not that I agree any of it is "a great product", but at least until around 1995 most of it was pretty usable. (At that point I switched to Apple for a few years before moving on to Linux, so I don't know about recent MS products, but I'm pretty sure most of them were developed in-house.)

Compared to cryptocurrency, LLMs are dramatically useful. They don't do just of the things their proponents claim they do, and probably never will, but at least they do some things. Cryptocurrency is only a way for a different group of assholes to get rich enabling crime. It does nothing you couldn't do with just another normal fiat currency.

Even if it's all true, it's all irrelevant. Not only are these problems not those problems but we don't have decades. It's small comfort though that the ultra wealthy won't get what they want because even if they killed off literally all of the rest of us, AGW would not stop.

Sears did not "fail", they were willfully destroyed by a vulture capitalist.

Explain why relying on storage is a bad thing when renewables plus storage are cheaper than nuclear. Explain it like you're twelve, because mentally, you are - nuclear is shiny so you want it.

China was working to self-sufficiency anyway. Unstable trade wars and tariffs have just made that more blatantly important.

Having a rotating camera, or multiple cameras, doesn't seem ridiculously hard. The problem is quickly interpreting the received images. (Knowing the distance helps a lot in that regard.)

But they'll last forever and can be resoled as needed....

So how many people has he actually plowed into? I am guessing none? right?

So the reality, all those people where correct, their much nicer car than he can afford on a bus driver salary, is more than capable of accelerating and getting out of the way before he collides with them.

It not surprising they have better perception and judgement than he does, given they are not civil employees.

There are clearly identifiable victims, everyone else on or near the road who was endangered by you traveling beyond the socially agreed risk level.

Now who did Binance hurt? and how?