To make something that small requires a level of integration that is not conducive to repair. Using connectors, cases that can somehow open or come apart (but not coming apart too easily so they aren't actually prone to breaking more often), etc, is not something that is practical in the first place.
My grandfather used to repair CBs and amateur radio equipment back in the 70s. Then everything was comprised of discrete components (IE each component, like a transistor, capacitor, diode, etc was a separate thing), and they were soldered onto a circuit board and each component could be replaced. However you would never repair an individual component, like somehow opening a transistor and fixing it internally - you had to replace it. At some level you have that tiniest discrete part that is either good or bad, and gets replaced when it fails.
Then when ICs came into existence, and allowed the insane miniaturization we enjoy today, multiples of those discrete components were packaged together into one "black box" that was impossible to repair. So then instead of replacing an off-the-shelf transistor easily and cheaply, you had to obtain the correct IC, which was proprietary and cost a fortune.
Anyway my point is that incredible miniaturization, which the iPods are certain a pinnacle of and state-of-the-art, come with a price, which is they get engineered as a discrete component that cannot be replaced or repaired.
I'm not defending Apple here, and I don't even own a pair of Airpods. I'm just saying that it's zero surprise that something that tightly integrated and miniaturized can't be repaired.
Meta has been banning people for posting links to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust - the official charity established and funded by the UK Government to promote and support Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) in the UK.
The only moral thing to do with every Meta entity - Facebook, Instagram, etc. - is to ignore it. Let your account go fallow or better yet, disable.
Mark Zuckerberg is a disgusting fucking Nazi, and all his companies are 100% tainted.
so we get the nonbinary blue/green/pink-haired
It's called aposematism, and it's there to ward off predators. No doubt if it's repelling you, you're a fucking childraper.
If we want to talk about habitats changing that affects birds, climate change is absolutely trivial compared to the deforestation that occurred in the late 1800s. The impact that had on birds was incredible. Even now, though large areas of forest lands have grown back, they are not the same kinds of trees, and have forever impacted the bird habitation regions across the US.
So I imagine there were many other new hybridizations that happened then because of human activity, where various species of birds began to overlap that hadn't before.
Definition: "Fascism is an authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology that emphasizes a dictatorial leader, the suppression of opposition, and strict societal and economic control."
China is in fact a fascist dictatorship, not a "communist" anything.
Treason Shitbag Nazi Trump is taking the USA closer to a fascist authoritarian dictatorship every day, and his Shitrag Nazi MAGAturds are applauding it because they're anitsemitic fucking garbage.
So you're saying you're historically illiterate.
OPEC (and now "OPEC+") have been trying to take over economic dominance since the 1970s. One of the DUMBEST fucking things that America Hating Senile Bitchtraitor Reagan did was get in bed with OPEC and the Iranians so that they would help him win the 1980 election by holding hostages and keeping their oil embargo going
The Repukelikan Klan Party have been America-betraying Shitbags ever since Nixon went behind Johnson's back to keep Vietnam going, so this dumb behavior wasn't really surprising.
I lost family in Vietnam thanks to Nixon and the Treason Shitbag Repukelikan Party. Every member of the GOP should be arrested and jailed till they fucking die for their fucking America Hating Treason. The MAGA Terrorist shitbags should all just get a summary firing squad for theirs.
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A 2022 study found that half of medical students who consider specializing in radiology as 1 of their top 3 choices are concerned about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the field
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If results from a survey of medical students in the U.S. are any indication, the misperception that artificial intelligence (AI) will replace radiologists poses by far a bigger threat to the specialty than the technology itself, according to research published online June 27 in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.
After surveying over 150 medical students from radiology interest groups at medical schools around the country, a research team led by Dr. Christian Park of Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, PA, found that nearly half of the respondents were less enthusiastic about radiology due to AI.
"The significance of this is not to be understated in that half of potential candidates to the specialty feel as though there is limited opportunity due to an emerging technology such as AI," the authors wrote. "These sentiments have the potential to create downstream effects such as reduction in recruitment to the field of radiology or even medicine as whole."
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A total of 156 students responded with representation from each year of medical school. Over 75% agreed that AI would have a significant role in the future of medicine. Most (66%) agreed that diagnostic radiology would be the specialty most greatly affected
Nearly half (44%) reported that AI made them less enthusiastic about radiology.
On and on.
We're not talking about 2025, but the last decade. What's your source and what was the trend over that period of time?
(A) it's his real name.
(B) he's a fucking toad.
(C) here's hoping Nintendo finally fucking dies, goes like Sega and just starts publishing to PC. Fuck their DRM crap and their xenophobic company.
Mater artium necessitas. [Necessity is the mother of invention].