When I shop for seafood, I intentionally avoid buying a product of a certain country with the largest fleet of fishing vessels aiming to flood the market with cheap frozen seafood and try to monopolize supply. This country also has a record of unsustainable fishing practices, including target Galapagos.

This grave offender will remain unnamed - I'll leave it as an exercise for you to find out.

> You were persecute for being an asshole

In a civil society, people are prosecuted instead of persecuted.

Great to hear! I'm so assured.

I would not be surprised if all of these are orchestrated by national adversaries of USA to strip its next generation in STEM.

I'll believe Meta if they stop forcing in-app browser down our throats. External links should open in the user's browser of choice by default.

https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/1h57x02/facebook_forces_you_to_use_the_inapp_browser/#:~:text=It's%20intentional%20as%20it's%20getting,use%20external%20browser%20for%20everything

The motivation is 100% greed and control.

radioactive waste is overrated. carbon output vs energy output should be *all* we care right now. tens of thousands of years? quite sure global warming will eradicate humanity first before we get close to 1000 years.

Whoever submitted the topic is absolutely not an American if you ask him.

It is strange. When advancements are made by entities in other countries, it's often said "University of AAA" or "BBB Company" invented something.

However, when advancements are made by entities in China, it's almost always said "China" did X.

I wonder why.

We even give it a name, PEBKAC. The only new piece of info here is that training cannot completely make up for stupidity, which is also another piece of well-known fact.

Totally laughable. They have been running a nationalist agenda for years and boycotts of US goods happen regularly, therefore a tariff on US imports isn't going to do much anyway. OTOH US's tariffs will wean their citizen off relying on cheap M.I.C. imports. It's a good thing they start looking at goods made elsewhere.

While they're at it, I suspect there are backdoor commands on the ESP 8266, or Teensy, or other microchips made in the same country. Maybe still OK to use for game controllers, toy robots, music generators, but I'd be extremely wary about using them for anything mission critical like door locks, or anything that can connect to your network.

I never need to give mine to employers. What are the reasons Disney's employee passport numbers could be found?

Remember Prime used to be always 1 day shipping?
Remember Prime Video used to have no tiers?
Now this.

I'm not surprised every 15 years or so a "disruptor" appears. In a sense they don't really disrupt. They're just bringing things back from pre-enshittification, a long-forgotten era.

Opposing $3.9 billion for a feasibility study, is not the same as preferring they "plough ahead without adequate planning".

Adequate planning can be done with less than $3.9 billion. Show the plan of the feasibility study and I'm certain there are a LOT of sections relevant to neither safety nor environmental impact, nor the budget.

and a transfer of public funds into friends + families. $3.9 billion for *just* consultation. I'd love to be that consultation firm.