Because it's infuriating digging through a drawer that has multiple USB cables to try to remember which are power only, thus safe to use in public USB chargers.

Let me check: ...nope, I asked: nobody gives the faintest shit about drug runners.
And no, they weren't fishermen, lol. If a guy jumps out of an alley with a knife do you assume he must be a surgeon?

Stops Signs are red. Stop Lights are red. Cameras generate revenue. Unfortunately the hidden cost of red light cameras are that there are MORE problems and aren't "orderly".

I did a very shitty job in my post. And for that I'm sorry.

"Society" doesn't care about anyone in particular, only in perhaps ... maybe .. possibly .. in the most generic sense there is. But that is debatable because we'll just run the playbook of ________(Insert Sob Story Here).

Society isn't care about anyone, and anyone trying to pretend it does, or even should, is selling you something worthless. It is literally impossible for everyone to care about everyone else equally. That is why we have families, tribes, communities and the like. Lets tear those apart and see how society thrives (sarcasm)

You have been fined for running that red light by a camera operated by "not a government" tech company on behalf of said government, with only money flowing to the city and very low oversight. Because it is AI.

I was speaking along these lines. Not the Social Media sites themselves.

But it doesn't matter, because "there ought to be a law" rules people these days.

Unless you're penalizing the CONSUMER, this has zero chance of having any real effect.

"There ought to be a law" - Every Karen Ever

Sounds like another leftist death threat.
You guys just can't resist.

Most of these things are long-known and well-understood principles.

The problem is the McMBA's being churned out by US(mostly) business schools aren't being taught to /prioritize/ these things.

Things like persistence, durability, consistency, reputation - do they matter?

I was told by a near-retirement mid-level manager at Pillsbury in the early 1990s that the MBAs swarming into corporate America simply saw reputation as a piggy-bank they could squeeze. Do you have a great name (cf Pillsbury) that consumers trust because of a century of careful production, high quality, and the best possible inputs?

Let someone who's got shitty factories rent that name and logo!

The more consumers trust it, the LONGER you could go by farming out your production from US (expensive) factories to shitty Asian and Mexican factories, and still have the sales based on that century-old reputation no matter how bad your product.

(profit)
I mean eventually consumers would figure it out that your product was awful now no matter how trusted your brand, but in the meanwhile think of the $$.

Yes, but that's a _later_ problem.

The CCP is incredibly good at kicking the can down the road. I mean, most governments do a fair amount of that (not necessarily with regard to stuff in space specifically, only a handful of countries even have stuff in space; but there are other kinds of cans to kick down roads), but China is on another level. Short-term thinking is pretty much their whole modus operandi.

... Until they can figure out how to wring union dues from AI systems, anyway.

Every company should lock those precious and above all, widely demanded AI resources behind stringent pay walls. Why should the plebs get a browser that anticipates what they want, offers suggestions, and will summarize web content for you? They don't deserve such services for free.

Whatever happens, I certainly hope as a non paying user I'm not left with a lightweight, simple browser that integrated none of those functions, hell, it would probably do nothing more than render web pages cleanly.

That would be terrible.

Are we going to likewise celebrate other cult founders like Jim Jones, or L Ron Hubbard?

I'll credit Jobs with being good at marketing, but I'd genuinely like to know if he did anything for the computer industry substantively. Would we have had GUI desktops without Apple? I think so, Parc was working on that stuff long before Jobs ever said "what if we made computer stuff in white?"

Until they told him to stop, and then he took a nice little payout to stfu so her highness could finally get the presidency she deserved.

"women file for divorce in the vast majority of cases"
Including lesbian relationships. Gay marriage in the US is well-established, enough that we should be able to draw meaningful conclusions from the statistics.

âoein 2019, 56% of same-sex marriages were between women. However, the divorce rate for lesbians was much higher, with 72% of same-sex divorces in 2019 coming from lesbian couples, about 3 times higher than gay male couples. The lesbian divorce rate was 78% in 2016, 74% in 2017 and 75% in 2018.â
The current divorce rate for heterosexual couples is 43% (for 1st marriages).

It's not the men that are the problem.