I think they're an... AI company now? ;-)

We used to call this "Nobody gets fired for picking IBM".

"Shrill TDS rants about anti-abortion boogymen aren't helpful."

Now that the GOP controls all branches of government, I suppose we shall fuck around and find out, eh?

You can backup your iOS device to any PC or Mac, which can then utilize Backblaze, Google Drive or whatever cloud thingy you want to use.

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Sounds like the people bringing this suit are wanna be software architects with little imagination.

"I don't see how this is economically feasible"

We're in pre-enshitification of AI. Once one or two dominate the technology, they will start "monetizing" it. Also, the more AI shit you can spout on earnings calls, the more horny wall street gets for your sweet sweet stock.

Sorry, I assumed you were making a density argument, when I guess you were making a population argument. So you're saying that Los Angeles County can't do it because it has twice the population? Can only counties with Norway's population or lower do it?

The only reason you got away breaching Seven of Nine so far was because she's no longer part of the collective. But she's captain of the Enterprise now so you are probably in trouble.

I see these arguments a lot and they're kind of contradictory:

1. It won't work in the US because there's too many people in the US! Norway is a sparsely-populated country!

2. It won't work in the US because there's too few people in the US! The US is a sparsely populated country!

It's a dumb comparison because you can just take any given US state in isolation the same way you can take European countries in isolation. Norway is about the same size with the same population density as Utah, and like Utah has most of its population concentrated around one major city, and has about the same median income as Utah. (Norway is much richer in GDP per capita but the average joe actually buying a car makes about the same).

If Norway can do it then surely Utah can do it.

Gas was cheap and cars were cheap. Your car is a consumable commodity that you have to factor in to the cost of the drive too. Insurance companies are also moving toward mileage-based fee structures so if that's your situation it figures in to the cost as well. Furthermore you have to figure in the cost of your labor in operating the vehicle and if you value that more or less than sitting back and watching a movie or playing a game on your portable console/phone/laptop.

It doesn't have to be that way. In many places public transit works more like a Star Trek transporter. You go somewhere, go down some stairs, and come up another set of stairs in a distant place. It's not as fast but it's reasonably quick. The only problem is this kind of transit is alien to most parts of the US, and the few cities that do have it also don't manage their extremely mentally ill and/or criminal population.

The kind of transit you're thinking of is the only transit much of the US has built -- commuter transit. That kind of transit sucks and most people don't use it.

It's not *very* organic though, since the coal ash is what's left over after you've burned most of the carbon.

There's a lot of speculation about a rather prominent crypto developer who died very suspiciously shortly after Satoshi's farewell message.

lol I shouldn't post tired. Quick look on wikipedia informs that they did an occultation mapping for the asteroid with another star in September so they could be ready for a more detailed one now.

A really cool trick you can do when this happens is have various observers around the globe time the occlusion. This lets you build a really accurate image of the shape of the asteroid at the time. It's pretty neat.

What do you call the diesel and E85 pumps? And before that you had to make sure you pumped from the leaded/unleaded pumps.

Yeah the CONNECTOR isn't an issue but that doesn't mean the pump is compatible with your vehicle. (Though one actual connector incompatibility I can think of is that truck diesel nozzles are too large to fit in diesel passenger car ports)