If they want to use it, they kind of have to. AGPL infects all of your products source code for every project that uses it. You either need to relicense it under a more restrictive license or basically release all of your source code for every product you own. Siemens is a for profit company, they will do that vs what Stalin... er, I mean Stallman wants.

I really have no skin in this game right now, but I've seen what highly infectious licenses can do when you're putting in thousands of hours coding a commercial product on top (basically, the GPL2 rebranded GPL3 DLL code all had to be removed). Yeah, if it was all paid for by someone, great, but it wasn't. The FOSS model is actually built on top of OS companies footing the bill for software products to be built on top of them, not what people think, which is people developing software in their free time. I do the latter, for FOSS, but it doesn't pay my bills.

> 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.

I feel like the number of people with a working vehicle is much, MUCH larger than the number of people with "an emergency kit containing an AM radio."

The main point being that, if you happen to be traveling at the time in a potential emergency situation (either because bad luck or actively trying to evacuate), you can use the AM radio in the car to receive news and important information.

Just put the radio in the car where it's most likely to be used when needed.
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If you're going to slop and still picked C over Rust in 2026... Ouch.

> The electronics that drive such powerful motors produce HUGE quantities of RFI

The electronics that drive such powerful motors are inside thick, cast aluminum housings, as are the motors themselves, and those two things are usually bolted directly to each other to form one massive lump. I don't think you appreciate how much RF shielding goes into all that already because, y'know, there are a lot of other electronics in the vehicle that might get fucked up by it. The $5 worth of metal" would be the shielding can around the radio itself, not the HV inverter circuitry that is already encased.

The "Electric vehicle electronics interfere with the AM radio signals" argument is complete horseshit. The AM radio in my 2020 Kona EV often works better than the FM radio for some reason. It's not an especially expensive vehicle so the cost of making it work certainly isn't a reason to not do it.
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What else is new? Stupid humans relying on error prone satellite early launch detection systems already almost started WW3 on September 26, 1983. A Soviet Lieutenant identified it as a false alarm because no other system reported it and the "retalitory" nuke launch was aborted.

Forty bucks lets you turn pages on a non-paper device. What a world we live in.

I live in a city with no streetlights. In fact, you have to drive 15-20 minutes just to encounter one. I drive that 15-20 mins just to get to the closest grocery store. I can see the northern lights in my back yard when a solar storm hits and can use a telescope for more celestial browsing. This part of the world is plenty dark and has been for years.

The point is, we moved out of the city to enjoy a quieter (and less nocturnally illuminated) life. No noisy urban madness. No super bright lights. No riff-raff.

You will never achieve low light, noise, or sidewalk safety in urban settings. If you want to achieve those things, you have to move out of the city. Plain and simple.

I don't see this as performative bullshit, and I'm not sure anyone with a lick of sense would.

Let's say I'm a public official. I want to take bribes but I'll go to jail for that. Instead, I can mint myself a cryptocoin and people who want to bribe me can buy them, effectively giving me money in exchange for nothing. I mean that's exactly what Trump did, and there's no reason to think others won't try it if it goes unchallenged.

Whether or not it will be *effectual* as a law will come down to how it's enforced.
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I don't think the article mentioned "Human-Caused" enough times. Because if it did, maybe people would stop electing the same people who accept the same lobbyist bribes to never change the status quo, so old men in power can retire to yachts and island villas with their golden parachutes, while I drink my iced coffee with a paper straw.

> They already run a large web store and they could have done this anytime but it's clear they have not.

I mean, they have but whatever. The part you're not considering is the immediacy of buying at a physical location.

Browsing online has a different set of tools the merchant can use to FOMO you into buying it. If you see something online you can easily come back to it hours or days later and reconsider; if you're there in the store you're probably not very likely to come back tomorrow. If you're going to buy something at the store you're most likely going to buy it during that visit, which makes you more vulnerable to surge pricing.

> They'd be caught very quickly if they did this in a retail store.

And the consequences would be... what, exactly?

Personally I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop; sign up for WalMart Customer Plus for $19.99/mo and skip the surge pricing!
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You mean super AMERICA intelligence, because everything with AMERICA in it is 100 zilliongoogleplexTRUMPISNUMBERONE!!!! more better that duper. Duper is for pussies in the lunch line getting beaten for their change. Dupers pee their beds.

Actually, having narcisstic personality disorder and a superiority complex is kind of fun. I need some better made up putdowns, but still fun.

There have already been improvements. The practice was banned outright, by everyone, 30 years ago.

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Why would that be *critical* information?

Would the problem be worse or lessened if it was from the US? Britain? France? Japan? It is more or less a disaster if it's military weapons waste or civilian power waste?

Or are you just upset you don't get to point fingers?
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True enough - Comcast for years paid a monopoly fee on fiber and coax and passed it on to consumers, for a while it was even listed as a monopoly fee, then they changed it to a local service fee or something like that. It was basically a $5-7 a month tax for Comcast to maintain a monopoly. That all disintegrated during 5g offering competition, thankfully, but Comcast still gouges hard for business service.

It'll be American Intelligence in just a couple of hours. From Planet America, in the American Galaxy after the Big Bang of America Truth.