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Comment Hmmmm. (Score 1) 17

It's basically a year to a year and a half off people's life expectancies, from the heat alone.

Although this is not trivial, the antivaxxer movement will likely chop 10-15 years off life expectancies and greatly reduce quality of life for much of the remainder, same again for the expected massive reduction in air quality that will result from modern political movements, and the absurd puritanical movement in the US will likely chop another 10-15 years off the life expectancies of women.

These are, therefore, substantially more significant, although politically impossible to deal with right now.

I fully expect that, if current trends prevail, by 2040, life expectancies will resemble those of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.

Comment Re: From the UK (Score 1) 25

The US and UK are both members of five eyes, an intelligence sharing coalition created to get around certain countries' laws against spying on their citizens by having other coalition members do it for them.

But wait, the US is altering the deal, and wants to stop that sharing.

That is what this is really about. They want to spy on us and not share the info with these former allies.

I'm not against stopping the information sharing, which was always really just a way to go around laws designed to protect citizens. But this is not for our benefit, it's for the purpose of punishing other nations by reducing international cooperation.

Comment Re: This is sideloading being locked. (Score 1) 43

I'm ok without those apps, not excited but I don't use them anyway. (I have used Uber about three times, but not in literally years.) My employer issued me a phone because they are not stupid enough to embrace the security nightmare that is BYOD, so my authenticator has a place to run.

I don't pretend it won't be inconvenient, but this is unacceptable.

Comment Re: Defeating the point of side loading (Score 2) 43

"I recent swapped out my wife's cheap Motorola for a Pixel precisely because I wanted to get us all on a platform where we have more control and where we can disable invasive AI and microphone monitoring that seems to be the latest fad in the mobile industry"

But that makes no sense. Google is one of the most invasive purveyors of that crap, and Moto/Lenovo only pushes Google's on you just as Google does, so what you've accomplished is spending more for a phone that will do exactly the same amount of unwanted AI spying.

Comment Re: Motivation (Score 1) 181

I go to the office once a week. I actually like being there, because my coworkers and even my manager are great. But I also like working from home the rest of the week, because it saves me three hundred bucks in fuel alone per month. And my commute is just slightly SHORTER than average.

My employer required that I demonstrate the ability to work independently before I could WfH. Seems like this solves a lot of potential problems, at the expense of limiting the talent pool to people who are in a position to do that. But at least this is logical and not just made up to preserve the value of real estate investment.

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