Yeah... no. No, that's not the reason. But yes, with higher standards of living and education and the absence of religion comes lower birth rates.

All of which is currently being rolled back.

Because of a) incompetence or b) obviously inventing bullshit to get a viral post?

I see, my alien overlord, that you learned a lot about Earth from training videos and textbooks. But you failed to send someone undercover to validate.

Yes, most human assistants actually do have full control over their bosses mailbox and other data. Either through shared login data, or throught a special functionality built into the software that gives them just that. So yes, if the CEOs secretary wants to delete an e-mail, (s)he can.

Because it makes for a cool posting on social media that is guaranteed to get attention to you, your channel and/or the product you are selling.

It's the dot-com hype all over again.

Revolutionary, life-changing, grand promises. Insane investments in both capital and real value (land, hardware, etc.).

And in the end we'll end up with a few useful tools, a small number of successful companies, and a whole lot of dashed hopes.

Unless the slow destruction of the Earth's ecosystem worries you a bit. Because all of this stuff uses up resources. And while there is tons and tons of water on Earth, actual drinking water is already scarce in many parts of the world.

Not to mention that they own most of the land, which would free up that land for development such as building more AI data centers.

Win-win all around !

Yes, me personally. But not population globally. And any attempt to make laws regarding that (outside China) is considered a violation of the most basic human right.

It's not one of those "you can start with yourself" things. On the contrary, in most developed countries population is already shrinking. Which weirdly makes our politicians think they need to import people from countries that still breed like rabbits.

That's why I asked if it's a Windows thing.

The last time I actually switched off my iMac was over a year ago when I went on holiday for 2 weeks.

Don't forget Curtis Mathes. Remember when they had their own high end stores?

Probably not for long. You may as well buy that no-name TV made in Vietnam now, because name brands have ceased to mean anything in this space. Just about everyone followed RCA and GE and Philco, who all stopped making sets in the 80's, and made all their TV money licensing their names to cheap Asian third parties. There hasn't been a real RCA TV since 1986.

Uh, it's both, and crime too.

Housing got expensive because California become like New York City: A place where the young want to be because its "the center of it all", which creates luxury pricing conditions for everything, not just housing. As packed as LA and the Bay Area have become, you're only going to get more apartments by seizing single family homes by eminent domain and tearing them down. That's not America, and even in California, that'll get you a fucking riot. Go on, try it and see.

You'd be closing the circle, then. Musk founded PayPal as "X.com" in 1999. He's still the single largest shareholder. So it wouldn't shock anyone.

Bullshit. You already have that in cities. People have a variety of choices. Every big city in the US has both bus and light rail systems with very few exceptions (Cincinnati, for one). EVERY city of medium size on up has a bus system. What you really want is to force your post title on people: no cars at all. Your whole aim has nothing to do with "choice".