People who vape must either not care about their own health, or to put it bluntly, be stupid.
Given that, why would you expect them to care about anyone else, or proper disposal?

It's not that bad yet, but I think it is a lot closer than the average American believes it is. All the mechanisms are in place, they just haven't been fully employed yet because they're being pushed a little at a time so there's no big incitement to revolution.

It's too late for that, 'law enforcement' has unfettered access to Americans within the US. It doesn't matter what OS you use when they can just march in and disappear you.

Tech bros are difficult to classify. I think they might be the new version of the 80s finance bros; people who have control of an industry where money seems easy to make, influence and power come with the job, but who don't really have the expertise that should be required for the job... except mix that a bit with a toxic engineer personality instead of a toxic jock personality.

You need a national program pushing Linux right now. Windows is a backdoor into every company that uses it - Microsoft can install whatever it wants, monitor whatever it wants, exfiltrate whatever it wants.

365 is exponentially worse, because you can't even shut the computer off if you discover it's happening. Microsoft will tell you the data is, as per your local laws, in a data center in an approved region... but it's all accessible from the USA.

It's one call from the Trump admin away from being an active compromise. It's not like the Trump admin hasn't already been dumb enough, multiple times, to pull the trigger on things that only work once and then make everything worse for themselves going forward.

Yes it makes use of the thumbwheels, but that's missing the point. You have to go to the touch screen first before being able to do ANY of that. Sure, it's fine once you're in that mode for the scrollwheels, but getting there is completely obnoxious when you're also trying to drive.

Go to the screen...menu -> controls -> mirror icon. Adjust one. Fumble with screen to select the other mirror, adjust.

On my Mazda3 and every other car I've owned it's a selector switch and a joystick on the door. Very intuitive and within easy reach without ever looking at it. They've been that way since the 80s when power mirrors came to the masses. My '85 Celica had the same setup.

AC? If it's not in the little controls in the bottom corner you have to flip-up the larger control screen, and do weird pinchy things with your fingers to adjust the vents, looking at the screen while driving. Fumble for the fan speed at the bottom of the screen. Try to slide around to adjust the temperature at the bottom of the screen.

Compare to conventional car with knobs where you can take one glance at where your hand is going and do it by feel.

There are reasons why certain things are the way they are. It's because a company spent a LOT of time doing ergonomic studies and trials. I hate it when people throw out all that work in lieu of something else just because it's different, without a lot of thought and study first. It's putting the cart before the horse.

"OK, what would you do if you couldn't have any buttons, how could you make it suck less?" I feel they're working backwards from 'terrible' to 'only mostly terrible'. Not much of an improvement.

She wanted it, and she actually likes it. I found it ridiculous when I drove it, but she likes all the creature comforts. More power to her, I just avoid it. I think I'm a more of a driver-centric experience sort of person. She likes all the bling and frilly features and does not drive as much as I do.

Why? You must be aware that US and Russia have been cooperating in space since the 1970s?
And today the US and China are far more inter-woven than US - Soviets in the cold war days.

Lets be honest, the only reason US politicians care enough about the moon is that their rival does. Its not a bad thing, a little competition. Maybe the commies will learn from that :-)

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preferably on Brave. And there are other ways.

Everything in this space lately has been a huge turnoff. Modern cars were never so physically capable, safe, and smooth handling, and yet they are absolute garbage in the human interface department. Giant touchscreens and gadgets are the equivalent of chrome and giant tailfins gone amok in the 1950s.

Quite happy with my 2016-era Mazda with a basic infotainment setup, bluetooth to my phone which has everything I need. My truck that I use to haul things occasionally is 26 years old. I have a bluetooth to cassette adapter in that one (a lawful-evil wedding of technology) and yet it works fine.

The wife has a Tesla, and while it has an amazing powertrain, it is just so aggravating to interface with in so many ways. No buttons for the mirrors. No buttons for the wiper. (there's one button on the end of a stalk to activate the wiper+spray automatic thing) If you leave the auto-wiper on it randomly activates and smears the windshield in the driest of weather. The door handles are terrible. The lack of any kind of physical controls for climate and entertainment is terrible. It is super distracting to try to do anything while driving. It calls home to mother and reports on everything you're doing. The auto dimming mirror, like all auto-dimming mirrors, doesn't dim enough nor when you want it to. The adaptive cruise control constantly slams on the brakes on highways with grade level intersections or if you're coming up on a hump on a road that hasn't been graded flat. The insurance is sky high. The tires wear out quickly due to the weight, and are very expensive. Anything saved in gas is made up for in those other things.

You can see where they had all these ideas and just didn't think them through. Whereas traditional auto manufacturers understand a lot of these things and even on their electric offerings still have plenty of physical buttons and not-ridiculous interface peculiarities. I got a ride in a friend's Hyundai Ioniq5 a little ago and it was great. Felt like a regular car with lots of buttons. But they are priced as such that any savings in gas is made up for in the overall cost of ownership of the car. So you're not doing it for that, you're doing it just to have the other features of an electric car or feel better about yourself. I don't feel it's worth it for that. My cars are paid for and the daily driver is absurdly cheap to fuel and maintain, so I'll stick with it until some sanity returns to the modern car market. (unlikely...)

Well, that suggests you are at least as much in a bubble as he is.
Western liberalism is a bubble in itself, leaning far to the supremacy of the individual over the group, compared to other cultures.
And partisan "liberalism" in the US is a smaller bubble still. The US conservatives, for all their guns, god and flag waving, at least manage to understand the left's values better than you do theirs. You folks have to get over such bitter tribalism, or the country is screwed.

It honestly should... but 'good porn'. It can be the worst sex ed ever, but there's no reason it can't introduce kids to what sex is like - or should be like according to whoever is curating the 'good porn' collection.

It could be teaching kids a general level of comfort with sex to avoid some of the first time awkwardness. It could be showing some proper foreplay. Maybe filter out the 'twist the woman into whatever shape gives the camera a good angle and the guy best access to hammer her anus and then go ATM' stuff. Amateur couples porn that isn't targeting OnlyFans would probably be a decent starting place.

Now show me the parents who would sign off on that and I'll show you a bunch of whack jobs who could never be a large enough group to make it happen.

Whatever you focus on, you will get better at. You can play piano obsessively and never be Beethoven, but you will (eventually) acquire competence unless you have a significant mental impairment.

So why would we expect anything else from obsessive focusing during childhood and adolescence? Use your screens to watch interesting, thoughtful, or informative things and you're conditioning your brain with those things. Use them to indulge your worst social instincts on social media and you're going to get 'better' at that, which unfortunately means turning yourself into a miserable person.

Doing this as a kid, when you don't have a couple of decades of other experiences under your belt to soften the impact makes it worse.

 

Spirit is kaput. Google is picking up wreckage from the scene at scrap value.

But you do make a point that most people underappreciate. The Spirit airline experience was bad, but one of the bigger factors in the poor experience was that everyone on the planes were extremely grumpy. You could avoid being nickel and dimed but there was no escape from the foul mood. No other airlines have ever come close.

Myopic? WTF does debt-funded share market speculation in 1929 have to do with consumer debt now?
This is not a story about people buying tech stocks on Klarna, bubble or not.

paywall-free link to TFA

BNPL services are a fast-growing behavioral trend, but not yet a large share of overall consumer debt. The loan balances are very small compared to credit card debts.
TFA is more anecdote than facts - no mention of how much money is actually borrowed for rent. But the trend of people living beyond their means is only increasing, especially as housing costs go up, and means go down.
    Maybe they are copying Washington, which has been getting away with it for decades. But they can print money.