What I haven't quite figured out is why every single organized religion goes out of their way to hide the pedophiles when they find them instead of just giving them over to the police. They all do it (except for the ones like the episcopals that don't care if their preachers are gay or married or gay married). But I don't get why.

That's easy. Revelation cults are - at best - evolutionary useful mind viruses that prevent people from becoming nihilistic or toxically hedonist and help position individuals in useful positions, such as father and mother of (many) children.

The problem with revelation cults is, well, that they are _revelation_ cults. Meaning they perpetuate the - very often bullshit and very easily abused - concept of truth by revelation not truth by insight and reason. This means they are very useful in putting people (often excess men with no sweatheart to call their own) in power who otherwise wouldn't have any or not nearly as much. That's why when some buddy in a cult abuses a child there is a veil of silence because calling out the crime would rub off on every member or that cult. Collectively preaching non-sense and avoiding/shunning reasoning helps strengthen this sort of toxic solidarity. This is a very similar reason to why abusive nuns get to torture young "lost" ladies. It's a lot about power and maintaining it.

The most prominent example being the Amazonian rainforest, once heralded as the "earths lung", now has turned into a net zero factor in recent years. The area is getting so hot that some native tribes are already bugging out.

We are screwed. How hard is up to us.

... Is why the big players do not offer outdoor/rugged versions of their phones. They'd make a fortune, like apple with the apple watch ultra. I'd have started this 10 years about at least.

Drip is the shit version of coffee. Good instant coffee doesn't filter out the crema like drip does. In fact, good modern instant coffee is often even better than pressured "hand made" espresso, because you have to be skilled at grinding and operating the steam coffee maker in order to get anything of value out of it which most people can't. Espresso is what the name says: a fast pressured version of drip, originally invented to make lots of coffee fast.
Same with espresso bots. Price/performance is pretty much the worst with those. I'll take a good single serving instant espresso over one of those any time. For fancy nothing beats a good French press.

If you _have_ to spend lots of money for good coffee, I recommend cometeer coffee. They pre-brew their coffee at an expertly tuned industrial scale and then seal almost dry pellets of that coffee in single serves. You just pour boiling water over it and get the best coffee ever with zero the ceremony. Not cheap, but still lengths cheaper and better than Nespresso or similar nonsense.

... putting the people who came up with such brilliant ideas like the Rings of Power in charge of a nuclear fission plant? Think that's a good idea?

Don't say they can't be useful. I like this. I generally also like laws like the GDPR that enable EU regulators to fine megacorps for 50 bazillion Euros if they choose to get pissy with the rules and ignore them. Good stuff. Gotta hand it to the EU.

At least US carmakers are scared. German carmakers are still stuck in the steam age because "luxury". Although they are getting a clobbering as we speak. And of course they're demanding a bailout which the new "conservative" government is willing to provide because they've been in bed with carmakers since the dawn of time.

Just plain pathetic. I would want my performance EV just to "naturally" whine as they do. I find that sound waaaay more impressive and intimidating anyway. You're literally hearing the pure torque at work. Sound of like the ground version of the Tie Fighter scream from Star Wars.

Mixer up the i and w there, sorry.

EOM

... to move to old-school open solutions like IRC and such and result in them learning a thing or two about computers, networks and administration. And perhaps they'll learn about anonymity and it's importance just like we did in the 80ies.

That generative AI is voiding 90%+ of jobs in media production should be obvious by now. What's interesting is that these jobs, just like software development, are only a (very) small portion of the workforce. I am just some wide and far between senior webdev getting ready to move into marketing or customer service and taking a ~15k hit on my income. No huge impact to society.

Just wait until the robots start driving our vehicles and replacing drivers. That's when the real fun starts.

It tries a tad to hard to be hilarious and is obnoxious in that way but overall the whole short film does lean into the major system level difference between W1ndows and macOS. It also shows how someone might actually solve the problem by quickly switching to macOS. They cleverly plug the Mac Mini as a gateway device for this. Which it actually in reality often is.

It pushes the diversity shtick/fad a little hard (the masOS geek that saves the day is a women - because of course _she_ is), but she is exaggerated in a plausible way. And they lean into the geek speaking vs. ords listening dichotomy rather than anything boss-baby. At least. All protagonists and situations are goofy enough as to provoke some laughs.

As a European I did notice how nearly all protagonists were (notably) overweight. I guess that's an accurate representation of the US population.

The 8-minute add is quite neat for such a thing and not a CWOT. Which is good enough I'd say.

... that by and large there is absolutely no lack of USB cables.

I don't use the ones that ship anyway. I have long thick ones with fabric isolation and little LED lights on the plugs that tell me if they are live or not.