The other guy's right. You're full of shit. Talk about butthurt! Go play in the dark with your iPhone or Samsung, or whatever. No doubt Samsung's fake moon pix had you jacking yourself off over the quality of the phone's camera.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23637401/samsung-fake-moon-photos-ai-galaxy-s21-s23-ultra

Leave discussions of photography for people who have a clue. You don't.

Yeah, the laissez faire approach has worked SO well in the US (sarc).

"Libraries could provide "100GB of encrypted file storage, photo-sharing and document collaboration tools, and media streaming services -- all for free."

Libraries are one of the few remaining places where the weight of one's wallet doesn't determine what access one has to the world of knowledge. It would be good to see them expand into this area.

It doesn't really matter to me how much a US-made laptop would cost. I'm not buying anything from there for a while, nor will I be visiting.

Yeah, really. The guy accuses the EU of being everything the US has become under Trump...a vicious, anti-democratic autocracy.

How do you think he was identified?

If you're an American and you're writing this, the level of irony is absolutely off the chart.

Heil Drumpf!

OK, so this one guy happens to be CEO of a small-medium sized tech company, and he got caught being a naughty boy. For the most part, people at the upper end of the social food chain don't have to worry about their personal information being used against them, or a few seconds of bad behaviour ruining their life.

I hope this one-in-a-million occurrence doesn't wind up being used as "proof" that the rest of us shouldn't worry about who has access to our personal information, or that our every twitch and fart is being caught on camera whenever we step out of the house. The argument will be that there's nothing unfair going on, that we're all in this together, even the big shots.

And that's just not true.

""That's about 4 million times the average internet speed in the U.S.

It might be more informative to compare the Japanese researchers' accomplishment with the average internet speed of South Korea, or Finland or Canada. Comparing them with a Third World country seems misleading.

Sounds like you actually believe the Farmer's Almanac and a dozen imitators, with their annual forecasts and seasonal predictions, was accurate. I hate to disillusion you, so I'll just leave you alone in your blissful ignorance. Whatever you do, avoid comparing the forecasts of your "market full of private providers" with records of what the weather actually was.

If what you say is true, it's shocking that Texas hadn't already stepped up to pay a private weather forecasting company to let them know dangerous conditions are coming. Perhaps such a company could work with the non-grid power producers who have done such a wonderful job down there in Crony Capitalist Utopia.

It must be difficult for those interested in cosmic bodies to deal with plasma. It's not solid, liquid or gas, but something...else.

Americans face a real chance of losing their health care if their job circumstances change. Those of us who live in civilized countries tend to forget the US is the only (putatively) non-Third World nation without universal health care.

Love it! Notice how quickly the far right trolls modded me down to zero. -1 incoming quickly, I expect.

I wonder whether citizen meteorologists might be able to pick up the slack created by all the DOGE layoffs and restore US weather forecasting to previous competency. Perhaps another incident like the deadly flash flood incident in Texas could be avoided.