Given the vast amount of data that is collected and sent to the mothership in modern "connected" cars, maybe they realised they can sell that on? Apart from all the obvious stuff like realtime tracking data and telemetry on your driving style while you are are on the road, there's your preferences on playlists, what kind of temperature you prefer (from which health info can be inferred), what stores you prefer and where your friends and family live, (extracted from parking location data), all tied into the real ID you used to buy and register the car - no "dark profiles" here.

It's a model that seems to be working very well for browers and certain OSs, as well as pretty much all of the Internet of Shit. It might cost a bit more and be a lot larger than some connencted $20+tariffs widget, but a modern car is still just another component of the IoS. It's said the margin on a mass market car is around 5-10%; care to bet that the captured data is being sold on to info brokers for a whole lot more?

Just a reminder, those "corals" you reference which formed during the Cambrian Period are all extinct. No survivors, no descendants. They all died, 100%, in the end-Permian extinction. After a while-- tens of millions of years-- new species rose up to occupy the same ecological niches, and we also call those corals, but they are unrelated, and in fact even use a different mineral for reef forming.

It doesn't have to be UTC, you can use your local timezone. The point is to not do DST changes.

Don't change my clocks, don't bother supporting it in my software, state all times as UTC when corresponding, don't change my schedules.

It's a little bit of work when e.g. we are getting another hour of free electricity due to all the renewable energy in the UK tomorrow, so I've scheduled the car to charge up, and had to adjust the stated time to UTC when entering it.

Not exactly. You can see fossils of organisms that are called "corals", but they are not related to the organisms we call coral today.

Rugose and tabulate corals became extinct in the Permian–Triassic extinction event 250 million years ago, and a different form of reef-building organism arose ten of millions of years later.

"Virtually all corals" is not all corals.

"In the Atlantic Ocean" is not "on the planet".

Headline is very misleading.

I wish there wasn't so much stigma with animated shows. Star Trek Prodigy is some of the best we have had in years, but was relegated to being a "kids show" and cancelled. If those types of shows were marketed towards adults more, not just edgey adult comedy cartoons, it could open up a whole new market of quality shows produced on a lower budget and on a shorter timeline.

Marvel is kinda trying to with What If, but like most Marvel stuff it's shit.

By that standard there was never a golden age. TV has always been mostly filler and cheap crap.

What they are referring to here is the recent glut of high production value shows produced by new entrants to the streaming market. Lots of miniseries, and some longer form stuff. Sadly a lot of good shows got cancelled.

Now those same services seem to be cutting back budgets and thinning out release schedules.

Mounjaro and Wegovy might though.

They can both be bad guys, the world doesn't have to always be goodies vs baddies.

Western projections about China tend to be overly pessimistic.

Why didn't the schools just start an hour later?

The US has 6 timezones already. It couldn't be much worse if you just let each state decide.

I opted out of this bullshit years ago. Permanent UTC now. Even that has leap second nonsense. Contemplating switching to TAI.

I have never had a satisfactory answer as to why people can't just adjust their personal schedule to whatever suits them. If a community wants the schools to open an hour later, let them do it. No need to change the time for everyone.

All the racist things he says and does.

Actually it's not even worth defending, all that matters is that many people in China think he is a racist and want China to be less reliant on the US as a result. China has been making great progress towards that goal, far better than the US has done in reverse.