Just tried this and I'm not getting ads when asking for directions. Maybe I'm lucky?

I think you are right I just subconsciously ignore those. What I usually do with maps is click on the little indicators in the maps, this seems to show the one I clicked on without any "sponsored". So far that (and directly searching for a place by name) has not introduced a "sponsored" result. Hopefully Apple is doing the same.

Circumpolar launches of starlink are done from Vandenberg. It also has a big ocean south of it.

Holy crap you are showing the desperation of somebody who is losing their argument.

Yes the DSA talks about ranked choice voting and increasing the size of the house and the Supreme Court and reducing the senate's power and so on. But these are all so moderates and proportional representation have a chance. It is not "marxist" in any way whatsoever, in fact it is the opposite.

I do fear the DSA, if the win, and feel they will still be preferred over extreme-right candidates, will suddenly have amnesia and forget all these promises (since they still help moderates, who would win over the extreme left just like they would win over the extreme right). But you are a fool to say these ideas are "marxist".

Google Maps is *not* putting ads into search results so at least for now Apple is doing worse.

Ancient Rome made amazing aqueducts. One day they had built all the ones they really needed and with no new projects for a new generation to learn from, they quickly just forgot how to make aqueducts.

"Big Tech" is now entering this phase. In a generation all innovation will be gone.

900$ for a base model with 256GB SSD is pathetic.

Iovine, the music executive and Dr. Dre's partner in Beats by Dre, [ ... ]

...Yeah, thought so.

Sony MDR-V6 forever, dudes...

Then make it retroactive. Donate the proceeds to the victims of this program who had to train their replacements.

Not in 2003 it wasn't

Her name is Pamela Jones, she was a paralegal. She's done real interviews in the past. She was/is real!

With executive pay at all time highs and the gap between executive and workers larger than ever, I would agree. This is a failure in the system where boards of directors are not holding executives accountable. The system can't hold for long.

"It is clear Flock has aspirations far beyond ALPRs to become a digital platform for policing," [emphasis mine]

They misspelled, "Orwellian suveillance and harrassment."

Law enforcement officers are already abusing Flock's existing capabilities for stalking. This will not improve matters one iota.

It's only local to China in the sense that they choose what {packages/CCP poison} go in there.

For all values of u, Linux is local to u in the sense that u chooses what packages go in there.

The baby killers always lie. Absolute scum of the earth