While there’s truth there, the SR-71 still holds the records for highest sustained speed and altitude of any publicly-known air-breathing aircraft 60 years after they were adopted.

But an unclear coat on it.

Checkmate.

The mileage tax on average will make average petrol cars pay double what EVs will be paying in road taxes ( and it’s not even happening until 2028).

I never see shorts or AI videos, but I get that others aren’t so lucky.

My Dad’s is all AI slop, shorts, and right-wing talking heads.

I’ve actual stopped sobbing to channels I want to follow, because I’ve noticed my feed doesn’t really show many of my my subscriptions, but the channels I watch regularly without subbing always have 100% of their new videos at the to0 of my feed.

It’s not even necessarily the end of support and updates for old products. If I have a Black and Decker drill from 1920, it’s not reasonable to expect them to still service it.

But what is unreasonable is allowing Black and Decker to break my drill. And that’s what Amazon is doing when they restrict access to content that was previously viewable on the older models.

Not al of us r rich enuf 2 by Xtra leters

If the fridge operation depends on a simple thermostat and compressor, then it’s more reliable and can be repaired with lamp wire and a soldering iron if it does break. Samsung would rather have a system depending on a control board they build for $3 and sell you for $600 when it breaks.

Somebody’s got to make the phones. You’re not going to find a bunch of modders who can manufacture millions of devices, so there’s gonna be corporate involvement somewhere along the line. Now that Google is no longer sharing the Pixel firmware, GrapheneOS is working directly with a manufacturer that will.

The current AI push is specifically for killing people. The billionaires know their days are numbered, and that they’ll eventually vibe called to answer for their crimes. They’re trying to build a system to protect their power and wealth that doesn’t depend on potentially disloyal guards and militaries.

I also think companies should start paying for commute times, and that the time paid should be adjusted based on the cost of living in the area and the salary.

Of someone chooses to live 3 hours away when they could live in walking distance, that’s one thing. But I work for a municipality in a prohibitively expensive area. 0 city employees live in the city they work and literally 100% of households are multi-millionaires or better. I have a 90-120 minute commute depending on traffic because that’s where I can afford to live on my salary, but it also means I’m essentially working 3-4 hours extra a day.

Of course the city isn’t gonna pay me 50% again more money, but if they were required to pay for my commute time they’d suddenly agree that I only really need to be in the office about once a week for public meetings since mostly what I do is Teams meetings, plan review, phone calls and emails, which could be done just as easily from my home office as at City Hall.

Shit - I get more done remote because I don’t have to deal with people walking in without an appointment and demanding a meeting.

Deisel is a resource used globally. The US doesn’t have to be purchasing Russian oil for Russian supplies to impact oil prices in the US.

It’s also why the whole argument about drilling in the US to make oil cheaper falls apart. Oil from Venezuala, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Texas, Trinidad, Abu Dhabi, or Alaska all end up in the same international commodity markets.

They stop recording for 12 minutes a day.

Also SharePoint/OneDrive (the line between the 2 is getting blurry) for shared documents.

This is how we’ll end up with that hyperintelligent snail, isn’t it?

It reaches out.

You run 5 amps through a USB?

Yeah. We built a new building and actually have a pregnant employee, so we’re all annoyed that we can’t use the breast-feeding room for storage anymore.

I think the HIPAA stuff specifically could fuck them HARD. That can be more easily pursued civily. Criminal Courts don’t mean much to companies because they have to pay a minor fine and it goes away, because criminal courts don’t seek relief or compensation. Civil courts are where corporations can get gigafucked.

Depending on the TOS details, that may very well be a legit crime. Even in 1-party consent states this wouldn’t slide because LG isn’t a participant in the conversations it’s recording, and not everyone talking near a TV has agreed to the TOS.

And even with generous TOS, there’s gonna be legal issues. HIPAA, for instance, could really fuck them if the TVs are in a medical facility and are recording and transmitting private medical data without consent of the patients.