Sounds pretty good tbh. Peaceful, secure, quiet, lots of trees, low taxes.

Of course the ideal is to find someplace where you need neither house nor car keys.

Hey, I’m from the 20th century. It was a cataclysmic hundred years, not some kind of stable condition that could be restored. The prosperity of its last few decades was fuelled by burning the furniture made by the labour movement, and we’re almost out of fuel.

https://www.zippia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/union-membership-and-income-inequality-over-time.png

At some point in human history there was only one human, the first one.

*for some definition of “human”

No, just one of your data security needs. Thus my suggestion that they should take the opportunity to use their excellent reputation for reliable computer security products to offer more complete infosec service.

Sure, who wouldn’t entrust all their data security needs to a porn website? They should start an infosec consulting business while they’re at it.

They bought into the “age verification” scam.

Well I dunno, I just watched their demo video and otherwise know nothing about it, but it looks like an interesting experiment. Maybe some day — if they keep throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at it for another decade or two — it’ll get good enough to justify however much it costs to run.

Just remove the “S” and it’d be nearer the mark.

“This is a turning point when we see emissions plateauing.”

That’s a pretty depressing way to sum it up. It’s consistent with what the IEA reported in July:

[coal] demand declined in China and India due to weaker growth in electricity consumption and strong increases in power generation from renewable sources. By contrast, coal use grew by around 10% in the United States as robust growth in electricity demand combined with higher natural gas prices drove up coal consumption for power generation. In the European Union, coal demand was broadly flat, with lower consumption by industry offsetting higher demand from electricity generation.

Despite these short-term variations, the report notes that the underlying structural drivers of the world’s coal use remain broadly unchanged.

To be fair, if they weren’t too heavy to move then by the time England got there they probably would’ve found that some of them had already been relocated to Rome or Medina.

That would result in massive protests.

Sure. Why should the third car on the train follow the cars ahead? Break free from the track, accept the bribe, jump the rails and chart your own course.

There’s still a catch, though — you have to keep running Windows 10.

More like cable TV packages. Full of stuff you don’t want, mostly made for and by fools, very expensive.

More like cable TV packages.

I think it would sell better if it had more surface areas for sensors, one near the mouth for a mic, and a big compartment over the nose to contain the battery.

I dunno whether that’s Facebook pushing it more often to men (because their analytics shows it works on their audience) or men clicking on it more often because it works on the Facebook audience.

Some fraction of the harm they do is by carelessness rather than malice. That some mindless algorithm designed to find and exploit for advertising purposes the posts that got the most engagement disproportionately selected ones featuring images of cute teenagers does not seem unlikely even if it wasn’t aimed specifically at middle-aged parents…

Weird that the man assumes those images were chosen to target him, but horrifying that he might be right.