There's a reason why companies that go by this definition don't exist any more. They got outcompeted by companies that can get people who can actually do things that matter, instead of being a school and a kindergarten for adults.

Competition is a bitch.

Sure, there are those that buy every new iteration, but I doubt even those were jumping for the promised AI. Most people buy new phones when the old one quits working, or it breaks. So, is there anyone outside of the extremely small but very vocal AI prophet crowd that bought an iPhone on the promise of better AI? If so, what was it they were hoping that AI would do for them that can't be done some other way? Or was it just the new promised shiny that drew you in?

I think the push for AI everything that seems to have the tech world all aflutter hasn't really trickled down to the common userbase. It's barely trickled down to the tech-oriented userbase. I know *ONE* person out of dozens that are tech-oriented that is excited about AI. The rest are essentially testing it here or there and waiting for a use-case that provides something to them, rather than just being used as a data-gathering excuse by the AI owners. Am I living in some alternate reality, or is this the general experience? If so, is this ad really just preaching to a vanishingly small choir?

Apparently you'll only get it as soon as you find your daughter playing against a man. And back to my point, why are there no trans men in men's sports? You seem to have trouble with that one.

No, it's realizing this is a psychological issue, not one based on the reality of the situation. Go watch the movie, "What Is a Woman?" The end is great. They bring up the issue with an African tribe in, IIRC, Kenya. This is humans in their most basic and natural state. It's great. They've never of heard of such a thing and think it's completely wacko. That's how we know it's psychological and why we know it's not a civil right. Also, I don't believe for one bit that a trans should be participating in women's sports. I do believe a trans has a right to psychological therapy. They can start with their therapy by finding out why their parent's were so vicious against people of their biological gender. Why would you want to be a boy if your parents treated boys like shit and your sisters like saints? They also have a civil right not to have been put through this. The reality is that you have a family perspective and an outside perspective while growing up. When there are contradictions, you can either fall back on the family perspective or the outside perspective. The latter keeps you a lot more sane.

Absolutely. Those used to be jobs that Americans held, then people like you come around and try to race bate us. I've watched crews who do roofing go from being Americans to being illegal immigrants. I've seen so many manual labor jobs in general go from being held by Americans to being held by illegal immigrants because they can work for less because they don't have to pay income taxes. I've meanwhile watched Americans get stuck working at Arby's, people who used to work these manual labor jobs that pay more. I've watched as Americans have watched their jobs get shipped overseas, which leave them stuck at jobs like McDonald's. So yeah, I'm completely behind helping my fellow Americans get high-paying, middle class jobs. 100%. We can thank both parties for all of this. And before you go down that route, yes, the owners of these firms are also to blame just as much. Look, I'm not anti-immigrant. I am anti-illegal immigrant. People pay a lot of money to legally immigrate to this country. Let's not undercut these people, who are generally also anti-illegal immigrant because of that. And lets not reward bad behavior. Or are you the type that gives your kid an ice cream cone when they misbehave as well?

Until yesterday, I'd never heard anyone call a wasp nest a hive. I wasn't suggesting they didn't gather in a structure, just queried the use of HIVE.

If I had followed your plan I would have delayed many family trips until my wife was gone. I wouldn't have got her into our dream house before she was gone. Again, I'm happy that it worked out for you but life is way too short to miss experiencing it until that late in life. As it happens I at least have precious memories of the family doing things together while she was alive.

Boomer isn't an age group anymore it's a state of mind summed up by the phrase I got mine fuck you.

That's why I exclusively hire North Koreans posing as trained monkeys.

About deferred prosecution agreements that really highlights how our entire legal system is designed to let corporations off the hook.

Like I mentioned on another comment since most voters are preoccupied with moral panics we can't get any actual action on large corporations.

Never mind too big to fail being a problem. Like the John Oliver piece pointed out we let companies become so large that if we seriously punish them we risk tens of thousands of layoffs and because we have no safety net for workers whatsoever we basically have to back down from any serious enforcement.

Basically you're a hostage. Corporations have set it up so that if you go against them they take you down with them. It's one of the many many things in our economy that people make it a point not to think about.

They have absolutely no meaningful competition. So they can do pretty much whatever they want.

And anytime there is any chance of any meaningful competition Microsoft just pulls out the same antitrust playbook they've been using for 50 years and we don't enforce laws in this country so it works.

We could fix this but we would have to give up the moral panics and America loves their moral panics.

But GartnerGPT predicts it will never go out of business.

At least not past high school and honestly as a old man I'm not terribly interested in girls high school sports. Although I suspect a lot of people reading this are unpleasantly interested in them...

Trans girls can't compete because of the hormones. It's not the actual hormones themselves that are the problem it's the dirty little secret of competitive sports of any kind

Everybody dopes. Everybody. We learned that from Lance armstrong. There are tricks to get around doping checks and frankly the public wants people who dope because nobody wants to watch boring old baseline human beings doing boring old baseline human beings stuff. So we all just collectively pretend nobody dopes when we all really know everybody dopes.

So a trans girl goes on the gender affirming healthcare treatments and suddenly they need to stop doping. The doping itself is counterproductive for the treatment and anyway their are blood levels are being monitored so closely by so many different people there's no way they can get away with doping.

Remember everybody dopes. But only because we let them. It's a wink and a nod situation.

So trans girls are going to have to be on their hormones and that means they're not doping and so by the time they are in a position to be allowed to compete they are completely uncompetitive. They just get their clocks cleaned along with the other people who refused to dope and are a really just hobbyists.

There were two cases that got a lot of press from the right wing news media, frankly the news media as a whole because like I said there is no non-right-wing news medium.

In both cases the trans women were allowed to compete too early and as soon as that was realized they lost their titles but Jokers like you just can't let it go.

Trans girls in sports is a complete non-issue because of how competitive sports depends entirely on doping but we can't talk about that so here we are...

Ah, deflection. LMK when a trans man plays linebacker in the NFL. Or man's college football. Hell, even men's high school football. Or men's rugby. Or men's basketball. There seems to be a trend here.

As does mine. I agree there would be no issue for the right if the left dropped the trans issue completely,. We should ban trans athletes completely from women's sports, just as we should ban people who think they're Jesus from telling everyone they are and they should worship them. Women have a right not to play against men in women's sports, even if the man thinks he's a woman. That is a civil right. Delusions are not a civil right, they are issues that require mental help.

They publish articles that attract clicks, like any website. Look at Tesla and other EVs and what they have to do with computers.

Tariffs are so easy to beat: they can just put their manufacturing plants in the US. GM faces more tariffs than Honda because most of a CRV is made in the US while most of a GM car is made in Mexico and Canada because it's cheaper. The offshoring of jobs by GM was the warning that unions gave when Clinton established NAFTA.