Kinda makes sense in an idiotic sort of way - Fox News viewers don't seem to be able to understand that its not news but Op/Ed, so having an editorial section in a scientific journal might confuse people. You know those scientists have a hard time telling fact from fiction...

What federal laws is California trying to nullify in the state exactly?

Yes they are - all the damn time. I made the mistake of picking up my phone in my car in San Francisco once and a cop spotted me and instantly pulled me over to give me a ticket. The only place that probably WONT happen is in Oakland because the police are just too busy fucking prostitutes to be bothered.

This is exactly correct. And really what the goal seems to be is to remove as many impediments as possible between the idea and execution - who needs a pesky technologist group to implement your ideas that then turns on you because of some sense of shared morality? Such things have no place in a capitalist society so removing the technologists that are currently required to implement these ideas would be ideal.

Youâ(TM)re basing claims on a myth?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/0... Bezos is a Trump bootlicker.

Despite the requests to stop doing that so folks aren't profiled from "out of the area". Stupid governments - oh wait; they're the ones looking for the "outsiders"...

But that's exactly what we have to do today. We don't get to do whatever we want in EU countries for example, we have to follow GDPR or safe harbor rules that were negotiated around this - it doesn't just happen.

I'm not sure why this concept is so hard to understand. Shopify built a profile for me without my consent and suddenly I had a shopify account that I didn't know existed. Turns out I can request to delete the data and I did but anytime I make an online purchase I still get a text from their platform despite asking to have that data removed. I didn't ask for any of this and it's illegal by California law. Doesn't matter if their servers or cookie headers are from "elsewhere" - the actions were applied _here_ therefore jurisdiction.

Fucking moron. There are far more ways to address this rather than stick it to the public like is being done now. A really great start would be to staff up the IRS to get the taxes we are OWED and then start ratcheting up taxes on the billionaires. You perpetuate the LIE that we don't have enough wealth here to cover SS and MC (as you call them) and suggest we need to cut other things. FALSE. God damnit I am so tired of stupid people that think they have the answers.

Actually I think there was another layer to the discussion IIRC - wasn't there also something about how content providers also own the pipes that deliver the content and can shape traffic to suit their content vs. actual needs. In other words the content providers should be kept at arms length or more from the content delivery...

Completely incorrect about Apple. The R&D facilities that Apple maintains in China are about manufacturing and tackling problems specific to those manufacturing lines. Almost all the actual R&D - hardware, firmware, software are outside China with the bulk in the US but also spread around the planet depending on what company Apple purchased as they tend to leave the team intact and in place in many cases.

uncontrolled experiments with brain damage in children due to low level lead exposure is not worth the risk you fucking moron

While I understand your response to blanket racism that doesn't mean the person is not at least partially correct. I've seen and experienced this even in FAANG companies. Let's just say that in the not so recent past a well known "personal assistant" backend engineering team was known for this at a company that blares "diversity" everywhere.

Sodium batteries are not there, yet. They need significantly more development but they are getting close.