So, "But our car violates Part 15" is not exactly what I'd call a good reason to let them drop AM receivers.

And selling a car that violates Part 15 can cause BIG problems for the owner of the car. The FCC can show up and tell you that you're not allowed to operate your car. So unintentional radiation is something that MUST be fixed no matter whether the car has an AM radio or not. And car manufacturers shipping cars that don't meet Part 15 is eventually going to get them sued, and going to result in them losing and having to pay a LOT of money.

Manufacturers should not even be trying to fight this. Their liability exposure is potentially huge if they're shipping RF noisy cars.

AM radios in cars only cover the small intersection of people who don't already have an emergency kit containing an AM radio, but do happen to be in a working vehicle during a disaster.
It's useless for anyone who's outside of a vehicle for whatever reason - eg vehicle is damaged, out of fuel, had to be abandoned, or was not available nearby when the disaster struck.

And what about people without a car?
Also if you've been forced to abandon your car due to the disaster, there goes your radio too since you can't easily remove it and wouldn't be able to operate it even if you could. A portable radio can be taken with you.

Depends on the nature of the disaster.
High winds can easily destroy solar panels.
Thick clouds will massively reduce the amount of power they can produce.
Thick smoke would be even worse.

At least he didn't write "I hope you are well"...

AM radio has very poor audio quality, you wouldn't want to be listening to music that way.
And your problem is trying to stream. Modern phones can have more than a terabyte of capacity, more than enough to store anything you'd want to listen to at a reasonable quality level.

So, the reason for mandating it in cars isn't the right wing talk garbage.

It's the highway information radios. The ones the transportation departments have set up in cities and around construction projects, along with the signs with flashing lights that say things like "tune to 1620 AM when flashing" to let you know there's something going on with the road that you should know about. The low power AM signal propagates further than low power FM would, and the band is less crowded.

And it's not a couple hundred bucks. It's maybe $5 worth of parts. And the car companies can't market it as an add-on if it's mandatory.

AM works just fine in my plug-in hybrid, and those electric motors are spinning any time the car is moving.

I don't believe teams has e2ee at all?
In any case you typically don't need or want that in a work environment. Encryption between client and server is enough, as the org controls the server and wants to be able to view/monitor communications between its employees.

Any company that was using something else before teams came along also complains bitterly about teams - it's different and in many ways inferior.

I know several places that switched from slack to teams, they all universally hate teams.

islam? You mean the religion with a pedophile 'prophet'? The 'prophet' who split the moon in half?

That islam?

It's a fucking ridiculous cult.

Unsoldering the ram chips and replacing them takes some effort and skill, and then you end up paying for 2 sets of ram chips - the old ones (which you cant do anything with) and the new ones. Given the effort and cost involved, this is only worth doing if:

1) the higher ram model is heavily marked up vs the incremental component cost so buying the ram yourself is significantly cheaper.
2) the same ram is genuinely expensive, but much cheaper ram is available and still works without noticeable side effects

If it's all about markup then it's pure profiteering and screwing the users.

If the only way to undercut the official models sufficiently to make the whole operation worth doing is by using inferior components then there is *some* legitimacy to trying to stop this, but the approach is wrong.
If someone is going to the effort of replacing the ram chips with something inferior to resell the unit then they're not going to think twice about shipping with an old bootloader either, or modifying the bootloader to bypass the check, or working out how to get the bootloader from the genuine larger ram models to work on the lower ram models etc.
Sure the hacked/old bootloader might get noticed later if someone tries to update it and bricks the device, but low quality ram or a poor soldering job could just as easily brick the device too. By the time this happens the seller will be long gone anyway.

This DOES hinder repairs. For instance you might have multiple faulty units with different faults so you take the working RAM from unit A which has a faulty CPU, and switch it onto unit B which had bad ram.

Exactly this.
I bought a PS3 because it advertised both the ability to play games *and* the ability to run linux.
Some time later i was forced to make a choice between continuing to run linux by retaining the old firmware and not being able to play online or play newer games, or update the firmware to play those games while losing the ability to run linux (and losing access to any data in the linux partition too). I have not bought another sony product since then.

It would be a LOT better off if the war had gone to plan and the IRGC had been toppled quickly. But wars rarely go to plan, and there is often short term pain as the war is fought.

Britain and France declared war on Germany in September 1939, a year later in 1940 you could have legitimately asked the same question - how is the world better off now than it was before? It was much worse for Britain and France at that point.

Looking back now it's obvious how much better off the world is, but in 1940 many people in occupied paris or bomb ravaged london would have thought differently.

You don't get rid of an entrenched abhorrent regime over night, and the longer they're allowed to exist the stronger and more entrenched they become.

Well first gen tech might not work very well, but the idea is good and will be refined over time.

It could also just be that this guy isn't familiar with how to use the functionality of the glasses yet.

It being pitch black would be beneficial to someone who was blind, it would not only level the playing field but actually tilt it in their favor as they would have much more experience operating without sight.