Gas furnaces took out the chimney sweeps...
Computers took out many office workers...
Automation took out many factory workers...
AI is taking out entire departments through many industries. BIG DIFFERENCE.
AI is at another scale.. instead of just one industry it is taking out many at the same time. So what now? let jobs go away so AI and the government can tell us what to do every waking moment of our lives?

I do not care about the hyperlocal content and non-existant entertainment. The benefit is when you are driving down a highway in the middle of nowhere, where you are far from any FM stations and possibly cell service, AM still carries emergency stations you can tune into. Often, if you are paying attention, you can see signs on the road telling you where to tune in. AM can be transmitted hundreds of miles away so it is not likely to be impacted by whatever is happening where you are.. where more local towers for cell or FM may be. The interference can suck sometimes. So my point is not about what exists on there for entertainment, but it can be used for emergency notifications. At least it isn't shortwave.

Provided the app gets banned (no comment on that)... If your content is aimed only at the US then you will have lost most of your audience (and income / influence). Most people are not going to try to sideload / manually install an app. If content is more rounded, doesn't rely so much on language, culture or region to the point the rest of the world where the app is legal still watches it, then maybe it will be worth it.

your point is no different. I bet you blindly believe anything you like as a fact without checking how that issue was determined to be a fact. Variables can and are often skewed, altered or incorrectly used among other things.

lol. It's called economics, look it up. Don't like it, I can give you any reason you give me not to like it and turn it on psychology and pshyciatry. But I bet you are all for stats about how people should be treated. Choose your battle wisely, not ignorantly.

What is a business for, in any country? Not to make you happy. I am not going to get into the discussion of how the social and economical aspects have to work together or they will both flop (which is why I hate anyone who thinks their party is the only way). Instead, all I will mention is that companies are there to make money. Not just in the US either. Regulations may be different but the goal is the same. I was a low level manager at a company and when they started letting people WFH, efficiency dropped like a rock. Projects were falling behind, people were unreachable for hours at a time despite the company giving pay raises. Had great benefits, time off, was great for parents with kids etc. Almost immediately they started losing money and eventually closed their doors and everyone lost their jobs, including me. I have heard this same story from many others that held positions like mine. If you want WFH, prove you can stay as productive. Don't complain about how expensive things get when all you do is demand and want. That has economic impacts like you are seeing now. Don't like it? keep it up, see what happens. And some people wonder how certain people make it to office (whether you like that person or not). All actions have consequences, just because they sound good, doesn't mean it will end good for you or anyone.

I don't side with much of anyone, there are so many skewed lies across corporations, political parties and so on. You cannot blindly believe "facts" unless you know how they were determined to be a fact. Research does not on its own make anything a fact, though many believe it does. Has any alternatives been found? Anything that may prove that research otherwise? Statistics can be severely skewed if variables are cherry picked to match a desired outcome. Visual confirmation does not mean every instance of what you saw will be true, just what you saw in that moment. We live in a society where people fact check but do not even know what facts they should actually be checking or if they are actually relevant to what they are talking about (that is they think they know the subject they are talking about, but don't).

This is a world issue. People who do not understand economy push for AI, sheep follow it like it is a God, then complain when the world starts falling apart. AI should be regulated. This is not the simple Chimney sweeper being replaced by a gas furnace, this is whole sectors of employees being lost to ignorance. Don't like what I said, you can pay my bills, I spent years going to school and have decades of experience. Just because something sounds good does not mean it is good in the long run.

"One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough about a subject to think you're right, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong." Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Unfortunately, I find the above a problem with so many parts of debates and politics now days, regardless of who is making the argument, what political position they hold or what they do in life. The "I saw / read this somewhere so it must be true" mindset is awful whether it is a conspiracy theorist or someone reading a scientific experiment that resulted in something that has not been tested enough to be considered scientifically validated. (that is NOT a COVID vaccine reference FYI as I am vaccinated).

As someone who uses it for medical purposes:
Without it I have a hard time functioning let alone doing my job. The caveat here is that I use only as much as I need to function. I usually take it at night a couple hours before bed. By morning the high is gone, I can drive, have good control over my medical issues and I can work during the day. Compared to regular medications I get from a pharmacy, I have many less side effects and can deal with them easily. IF USED RESPONSIBLY, I do not think it is any worse than drinking and like anything else if abused it will cause problems. Coming to work, driving, etc while high is just as unacceptable as doing the same while drunk. I agree, toking up before driving is not acceptable at all. However, I do not see the issue with it being legalized. Granted they are still doing research, my personal experience is that I can tolerate being a little high much better than I can drunk. No, that does not excuse someone coming to work high.

The government and companies are so worried about things their grandpa said about pot 50 years ago that wrapping their heads around why people use it seems foreign to them. IMO that is very unfortunate, especially for people like me who use it to function. It limits where I can live and where I can work. Sucks.

The old saying: If it is not broken, don't fix it!

I wonder how much more material is needed to support those blades? A 19% increase in size would probably require a much stronger support tower. It will be interesting to see how it does once installed.

While I understand the security behind this and that they are trying to make more profit vs what happened with win 10... Implementation would be the key here and forcing this down someone's throat isn't going to make them say "Oh, I need to have that" it is just going to turn them away. Most people I know on these subs are techy and have TPM devices on their machines, etc. I know alot of non-techy people who have personal computers with NO TPM module on the MB, no tpm in the cpu and no expansion port to add one. These people will either switch entirely to their phone / tablet or try to dump their old equipment. These people want something they understand, which will be a phone or a Windows PC... most will not even consider Linux or Apple. There has already been an uproar in some parts of the world about allowing phones to be repaired by the customer to help reduce electronic waste and now I can see this causing a similar uproar. Microsoft computers are way more common than Chromebooks and when the majority of people end up ditching their old machines the old trash that is no longer upgradable is going to to end up in someone's back yard. The state I live in has laws about disposing of electronics, but there are still tons of people who don't care and just trash or dump their parts anyway even at the risk of being fined.

I personally think that this will only sell for those who understand the importance of it or were planning to upgrade to a new machine anyway. The thought of having to buy a new machine to upgrade is going to piss alot of people off and the trash this is going to leave behind will be ridiculous. Personally, I think when a company pulls a stunt like this they should be responsible for the cleanup of the fallout of machines that no longer work... wishful thinking... At least windows 10 will be good until 2025.

I just wish they would do something.

Every year everyone is all over the Daylight Saving issue... but nothing happens. I see all kinds of explanation for it and nothing really makes sense. Personally, it would be nice to have one set time that does not change. I have 3 small children (2 with special needs) and adjusting their wake / sleep cycle because of a time change is a nightmare that I have to deal with twice every year - especially the spring forward change. Where I live you don't walk to school (even without the pandemic) so that is a no-issue here but when your kids don't sleep neither do you, most parents know that. Changing their bed/wake time does not work well when everything else has shifted.

Even if I did not have kids, having it set would mitigate issues with my sleep, etc.. humans lived for a long time without anything like DST, it just needs to go, I would rather watch the daylight shift on its own it allows my body to slowly adjust without the sudden time adjustment shock.

This method still has the majority of the countries population to back it with taxes / donations. Of course a small sample like this is going to work. True deception.
When the number of people needing basic income increases it will become harder to keep these payments going. It takes money to give money. Where does that come from? Some people really do not have any idea and will make any excuse because it is what they want.. without any idea of how it works or the trade off (economics) you will be introducing. The typical, make other people do more work so others don't have to. Despicable.

Everything & every decision like this has a trade off and economics are there, like it or not. Any method you try will have economics behind them... Your not getting rid of economics any easier than you will physics.

Again people... it is time to learn all things have a trade off. You wont find a perfect solution, at best you will find a good balance and that is what you should be looking for. But hey we teach kids how to work at school then expect them to understand something like trade offs? I am dreaming apparently. It makes no difference. It will work and everyone who wants it will be like - look look it works! Based on a not so good experiment.