https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2025%2F0... Bezos is a Trump bootlicker.

Despite the requests to stop doing that so folks aren't profiled from "out of the area". Stupid governments - oh wait; they're the ones looking for the "outsiders"...

But that's exactly what we have to do today. We don't get to do whatever we want in EU countries for example, we have to follow GDPR or safe harbor rules that were negotiated around this - it doesn't just happen.

I'm not sure why this concept is so hard to understand. Shopify built a profile for me without my consent and suddenly I had a shopify account that I didn't know existed. Turns out I can request to delete the data and I did but anytime I make an online purchase I still get a text from their platform despite asking to have that data removed. I didn't ask for any of this and it's illegal by California law. Doesn't matter if their servers or cookie headers are from "elsewhere" - the actions were applied _here_ therefore jurisdiction.

Fucking moron. There are far more ways to address this rather than stick it to the public like is being done now. A really great start would be to staff up the IRS to get the taxes we are OWED and then start ratcheting up taxes on the billionaires. You perpetuate the LIE that we don't have enough wealth here to cover SS and MC (as you call them) and suggest we need to cut other things. FALSE. God damnit I am so tired of stupid people that think they have the answers.

Actually I think there was another layer to the discussion IIRC - wasn't there also something about how content providers also own the pipes that deliver the content and can shape traffic to suit their content vs. actual needs. In other words the content providers should be kept at arms length or more from the content delivery...

Completely incorrect about Apple. The R&D facilities that Apple maintains in China are about manufacturing and tackling problems specific to those manufacturing lines. Almost all the actual R&D - hardware, firmware, software are outside China with the bulk in the US but also spread around the planet depending on what company Apple purchased as they tend to leave the team intact and in place in many cases.

uncontrolled experiments with brain damage in children due to low level lead exposure is not worth the risk you fucking moron

While I understand your response to blanket racism that doesn't mean the person is not at least partially correct. I've seen and experienced this even in FAANG companies. Let's just say that in the not so recent past a well known "personal assistant" backend engineering team was known for this at a company that blares "diversity" everywhere.

Sodium batteries are not there, yet. They need significantly more development but they are getting close.

"In the US we generally call the main street in a town... main street". Depends on where in the US most likely. Western towns were created later and tend to follow a grid with named/numbered streets and not usually a Main street but A Street or First Ave, that sort of thing.

Oh FFS - Apple is not a monopoly. You have many choices for phones, computers, etc.

Probably the area where smartwatches like the Apple Watch do best is in health and fitness monitoring especially as a background process over time. These are not the things for which people buy them, however, despite the fact they do actually work and there are plenty of anecdotal evidence they surface health conditions of which people haven't been aware of themselves. As I age I think more about actually getting an updated Apple Watch but I'm not big on wearing things on my body - clothing is a bit of a compromise that society forces me to make :)

I can see English is not a strength for you. The statement as written is completely correct according to what you say. "Half of the world's climate-heating carbon emissions come from the fossil fuels produced by just 36 companies" != "Half of the world's climate-heating carbon emissions come from the fossil fuels production of just 36 companies" Do you see the difference?

Wow - great example of a frog in the pan of water that's getting warmer. Can you give examples of scientific-based claims that have not been borne out?