Let's not forget that crypto is 99% scams, so they are bound to fall out with each other within minutes as one steals the other's shitty JPEGs and uses the "code is law" defence.

Another option would be that if your purchase stops working for any reason (server goes away, disc fails etc.) you are legally allowed to pirate it or crack the DRM.

It's only theft you peasants do it. When billion dollar companies pirate it's fair use.

It's surprising that there isn't a really good library for C/Unicode string handling that has become a de facto standard. Then again, Unicode is itself a bit of a disaster.

Same with time handling. It's an annoying but not unsolvable problem, yet there is no really good standard implementation.

It seems like the Democrats are just unwilling to undo the damage. Look at Biden, he could have done something about abortion rights, he could have done something about SCOTUS, he could have done something about many things that Trump did the first time around, but didn't.

It seems like they are just too stuck on doing things the "right" way, while the Republicans are focused only on results by any means possible. Even if Trump does leave office and a D gets in, they won't be able to do much.

We have a similar problem in the UK and it's probably irreversible.

Much of the appeal of music is the cultural context. People don't buy the crap churned out by the winner of some reality TV contest because it's good, they buy it because they became involved in that person's struggle.

Even before that kind of slop, the music people tend to want to keep listening to had a special meaning at some point in their life. It brings back memories, the lyrics have some meaning to them, that kind of thing.

I'd be fine with "buying" it, if when they inevitably revoked my ability to view it I got a full refund.

No change there then. This man will fit right in the music industry.

This is the part in the story where Stalin adopts the ideas of Lysenko, and a fuck-ton of people die as a result.

There is massive building of new energy sources... In China.

It's very upsetting to some people. They were sure that transitioning to renewables would bankrupt the economy and the lights would go out.

Restaurants have been known to live stream their cameras. Anyone holding a phone could be recording audio and/or video, and live streaming it. Any bag could have a camera hidden in it. Any shirt button could be a camera.

It's way too late to get paranoid about cameras watching you.

IR LEDs aren't all that effective. Newer cameras are better at dealing with them and often have a visible light night vision mode for when IR doesn't work. To cover your whole body you would need a lot of LEDs, a lot of heat, a lot of energy to run them for a useful amount of time.

There are some people who need these kinds of things for medical reasons. Face blindness is a real thing.

There are already tools that do things like record audio and produce a real-time transcription. They usually don't store the recording, as facial recognition glasses probably wouldn't.

I get that people want privacy, and don't like being filmed either, but there should be a balance of rights for technology can significantly improve someone's life while only being a little bit annoying to you.

I wonder if the pandemic had anything to do with it. Apparently it had quite an impact on some children's social skills.

A bit too early to tell, although I have my suspicions, but under previous administrations (including Trump 1.0) doing this a few times with each sender was a *very* effective unsubscribe function.