In order to get the numbers that they want it they have to include break-ins not just thefts. Yeah 24/7 surveillance will make it easier to catch somebody who steals your car. We won't do it of course because why the fuck would we but it does make it easier.

But you can't get the numbers from the study with just stolen cars and if somebody breaks into your car no having all that surveillance isn't really going to help. It doesn't help that they know your license plate when your window gets broken in.

As for why the drop in crime besides the fact that crime is way down and keeps going down right around this time the police did a huge huge push going after car break-ins. A shitload of manpower was put to the task that's all this is. Yeah if you want to spend a boatload of money on police to keep your car from being broken in you can do that but the window is going to be a lot cheaper than the taxes you're going to pay for the army of cops needed to enforce that law at the level they're at.

Incidentally they won't be able to keep this up forever so eventually the crime numbers will go back up and when they do I'm sure that we'll get another article somewhere where the police talk about how crime is on the rise and they need more money...

I guess what I'm saying is, I'm so fucking tired of being lied to. And in such fucking obvious ways.

Younger generations gave up on radio because it sucks. One company bought virtually everything. AM radio is mostly right wing talk shows now. FM radio is the same handful slop music shoved in our faces whether we like it or not pretending to be local radio while owned by clear channel.

You can't shitify a product that much for that long and have anyone give a shit. Who the hell cares if I can get a radio station from thousands of miles away when it's the exact same content because it's from the exact same mega corporation?

And as for emergencies just buy a radio. Don't force me to spend an extra couple hundred bucks on my car radio or more if you're buying a electric car because of the Herculean engineering task needed to make them work around electric car motors.

We spent the last 50 years building out infrastructure for radio. It's called a cell phone. You don't need AM radio in your car anymore.

Yeah sure go ahead and have one of those little radios that you crank and run off batteries. You can even keep on in your car if you want. They are cheap.

But I don't need a bunch of extra expense in my car because a bunch of politicians want to keep talk radio around because it's political useful to them and a bunch of broadcasters want to keep it around because that's how they make their living.

I noticed that people are all in on the market until it's costing them money and then all of a sudden they get real socialist real fast and start running to the government to protect them. The farmers have been doing that for a while. All the small farmers are long since gone because after decades of engineered recessions those guys have long since lost their land to Rich assholes but those Rich assholes keep pretending they're small farmers to get your taxpayer money. It's called the Red Barn illusion.

You get a lot of people with a lot of different views some of which are just fucking stupid and they're only there because the other side wants to murder them.

The Republican party is basically composed of three groups. You've got the racists, you've got the religious lunatics and you have the ultra wealthy who want to screw us all over. That makes them a lot more cohesive and it's less obvious when there is corruption because being corrupt doesn't conflict with the goals of any of those three groups.

The Democrat party is everybody else. That's because America has first passed the post winner take all voting and that means you've got two parties because if you don't you just have one party and a bunch of small parties that keep losing elections.

In the Democrat party when the party is in good shape this kind of corruption is irrelevant because it doesn't make it very far. You'll notice that it's the Democrat party machine in San Francisco that's all in but they're not really going to be able to do much of anything at a state level let alone in national level by themselves. The corrupt elements of the democratic party will partner with the entire Republican party to screw you over.

But if you took out the Republican party the corrupt elements of the democratic party would be pretty fucking weak. It is only by crossing the aisle that they become a problem. This is how you get fuckers like Kirsten Sinema and Fetterment. And they are a problem only because so many people vote Republican that the Democrats have weak majorities if they ever get one.

Too long didn't read, stop voting Republican and the problem solves itself

Maybe they are anticipating rivals entering that space and want to move on to something where they have more temporary exclusivity. One or more of the US ones will get there sooner or later, and Chinese companies are well on the way too.

It may also be some pressure from the US government, with the goal of getting back to the moon before China does. More resources for Starship, which is supposed to be able to do the whole mission (take off from Earth, fly to the moon, land, take off again, return to Earth, land).

It frustrates me that Steam has become the only platform for a lot of games. While not quite indie, the IL-2 series isn't from a massive developer. You don't seem to be able to buy it anywhere else and simply download an installer.

I need to check if has any DRM too, because I'm not installing that shit on my computer.

It's been the playbook since at least 9/11. If the electorate ever temporarily regains control of their bowels, an new threat is quickly manufactured.

I'm just waiting for them to start whining that the Chinese stole the idea that they rightfully stole first.

A better use of those AI tokens would have been to re-work Firefox into something that is easier to build and work on. The code is horrible and difficult to even compile, which really holds Firefox back and keeps everyone using Chromium as the base of their browsers (Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi etc).

Because nobody is going to use this browser daily and the only way to reduce the dominance of Chrome is to get more browsers to switch away to basing themselves on Firefox. At the moment every Firefox "fork" is little more than a mild re-skin and some changed defaults, or unusable due to being so outdated (Palemoon).

I went to Subway and told the lady to give me a 6 inch chicken tikka on Hearty Italian (TM) with cheese and some sweet sauce. My wife was really impressed by the sandwich I made.

You have to put up with shitty software for at least 5 or 10 years while your guys catch up.

As crappy as Windows 11 is Teams mostly works now. Microsoft kept getting their asses handed to them by other software companies and because they have limitless money from the office and windows monopolies they can just keep plugging away until they get it which they did.

Other software is still better but teams has finally achieved good enough. And good enough is always good enough.

When you start I new a software package out it is not going to be good enough. So you are the pour money into it until it is or you just force everybody to use it until eventually it gets fixed.

Or you stop using it and you go back to the Monopoly from a nation that is rapidly becoming fascist and hostile to your Nation...

Sure, and it's not adequate in many regions.

The answer is no. Moving up the work hours would mean fewer work hours available. Americans are pushing 50 hours a week on average. You have to work longer hours because pay had keeps going down but rent keeps going up.

The only option is to keep increasing your productivity and hope you get enough to keep your head just barely above water.

If you want to do away with daylight savings time you're going to have to do away with our current anarco capitalist system. You can't have a few nice things in a terrible world. You are going to have all the nice things or you have none of the nice things.

You have to get your kids up and make sure they get dressed and get to school. And you have to do that early because you have to get to work.

Now we could build a civilization around something other than work especially given how much automation we keep doing but fuck that right?

You might be right. I wonder about the bandwidth too. Starlink is already over subscribed and starting to enforce limits on its unlimited service.