How about the people who made the food who fed the people who created those tools, the chairs they sat in, the cars they drove, beds they slept in, maybe eve their mothers for giving birth to them? I know, people today will argue that the responsibility is always on the person or entity with deepest pockets.

I miss the days when people were held responsible for their own actions.

Your botched headlight upgrade ideally would have been discovered had you had mandatory inspections. Then you could go back on Amazon or Ebay or whatever, and post a review warning to others that if they install it, they will have to remove and pay for OEM solution to pass inspection. Not blaming you by the way, you probably just trusted some yahoo on the internet who told you it would work for your truck. Any upgrade parts should always meet manufacturer specifications, or be tested against regulations. This is no different than buying upgraded wheels, which seemed to fit, but they were not rated for the weight of the car, or swapping in any part, including lightbulbs which are different shape, therefore don't work as designed with the lenses which focus on the wrong part of the new light bulb.

Or any time after. The previous administration directed the government regulators to make adaptive headlights level. They took two years to come up with a new standard, incompatible with what the rest of the world has been using for well over a decade, which could be enabled on cars driving around United States. They could have grandfathered in the global standard, then set their sights on making new regulations for the future, but no, they blocked everyone for a couple of years, then came back with new regulations which exclude all existing systems, requiring car companies to design new, US specific headlights, which will take time. The new rules only add incremental improvements, such as shades of gray around the exclusion box instead of sharp line, but since today's designs (other than Rivian) don't support shades of grey for their headlights we are stuck unable to enable those lights on thousands of cars already on US roads or being sold in the US today.

Then there are "consumer friendly" laws passed by various state governments in the name of social equity or whatever latest fad reason, such as banning police stops for driving with high beams on, or eliminating the need to periodic inspections for cars which ensured cars has working brakes, tires with tread, and yes, headlights which worked and were properly adjusted. So today, plenty of cars drive with badly aligned headlights blinding others, or they drive with permanent high beams on because their low beam has burned out and they don't want to pay to replace it. The car makers have made the latter worse, by making all integrated headlights, which means instead of a $50 bulb, you have to replace a $900 headlight (can be $2,000 or more for higher end cars).

So bottom line, it doesn't matter which party is ruling, they all both equally incompetent and driven by populism instead of facts and reason.

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I turn off all the AI boatware and spyware (Microsoft Recall anyone?). I would prefer it simply didn't come with it in the first place. If I want to use AI, I will install the stack I want.

There are options in between popping up already, often cheaper than 1st class but limited schedule or departing/arriving airports (which isn't always a negative to fly in-out of smaller airports). I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but from people who tried it, it's a jet with 20-30 passengers. As for elite status upgrades, I might as well play the lottery to buy my own plane. I had a high elite status with an airline for a while before COVID, was on the upgrade list for every flight, flew over 30 times a year across the continent, got upgraded once ever, and only on a short flight to a hub. I hear chances now are even worse. Early boarding was pretty much the only perk. The miles I earned did get me one first class trip (coast to coast) after a couple of years.

All land agreements will from now on include an exclusion list containing every possible mineral know to exist, perhaps even all possible combinations of letters and numbers up to X characters (to keep it under few thousand petabytes) just to cover any new minerals or elements that may be discovered. Good luck printing such a contract on paper ;-)

Not a new concept, as it has been used in software development for decades. It would easily point out the jokers who added it, and the incompetent reviewers who signed off on this. But I get that no politicians wants this, as there would be no way to sneak any side deals, bribes, and other such things into laws if there was such transparency.

Not necessarily no damage to developed brains. Observing my parents spending a ton of time on the internet, I realized a few things. For one, they find their own political or philosophical echo chambers - that alone has thinned their circle of friends (friends who subscribe to different echo chambers have disconnected from their crowd, even some family members no longer talk to each other as they are part of different political camps). Two, the internet serves fast paced headlines ready to consume with conclusions. This has caused their brains to stop being able to focus on almost anything for longer than 60 seconds, or think for them selves. Heck, my dad used to play chess since he was a kid, he does not have enough patience to focus on a game today (he will sit through it, but you can tell he's not following his own game anymore after a minute or two). he will however happily regurgitate the latest political headlines for hours if you let him, though unable to dive into discussion about any of them, as he will utilize any tangent he can to jump onto the next headline. He used to be able to have a logical discussion, today thinking for himself seems like an impossible task - his opinions are simply regurgitating the news he consumes from his echo-chamber. Three, their friends pick up a lot of internet myths/fads, so even my parents complain about how their friends used to be able to throw a party and everyone came and enjoyed themselves, today each person has different dietary demands - one will not eat anything which has ever been in a microwave, another will not touch anything that has white sugar in it, yet another won't eat anything which might have an ingredient sourced from whatever country, or food with names that resemble something they heard somewhere has some negative effects, etc, etc. They told me meets/parties are really hard to arrange with so many different food preferences, resulting in friends meeting less often, and in smaller circles as there isn't even a restaurant which can cater to everyone's demands.

So bottom line, I think the internet is rotting their generation's brain too.

To me it would serve as a notice the company has reached their enshittification phase. This means that unless you're willing to pay increasingly more over time (and yes, they will come after the paid subscribers too), it's time to look for a new product.

So they feed all SpaceX related information they can get their hands on into an AI, which in turn spits out a business plan for a billion dollar startup?

Ironic, considering its vast mental health benefits for adults.

Banning anything is never 100% effective. Murder is illegal in the US, yet there are people getting murdered every year. Same with illegal drugs. By your logic, the criminal laws are not worth much, since the illegal stuff still happens. You cannot possibly be arguing that we should just get rid of criminal law, because banned activities are still occurring.

The purpose of sanctions is to significantly reduce access, increase prices. Nobody is kidding themselves thinking a ban on anything will ever be 100% effective.

Unrelated, irrelevant question. EU already buys plenty of Chinese products/parts/materials. This issue is not about stopping all trade with China.

If you primarily care about zero emissions, buy inexpensive Chinese EVs. Then, in parallel, figure out how to create a competitive domestic offering.

According to chatgpt, the difference is in whether or not the suggesting party gets paid for it. It also equates suggestion with recommendation. In short, according to OpenAI ChatGPT, unpaid ads are suggestions, a.k.a. recommendations. I presume it only applies to direct payment.