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I wouldn't even say a common goal. There's plenty of opinions on what the ideal Earth's climate would be like. Some people strive for what they view as "natural", vs other people who aim to reduce natural disasters, and yet even more who just think we should be reducing our impact in general.

You're right to an extent, but personal use electric vehicles are still a step in the right direction. Even if all the power generated for them comes from coal, which is another argument people make against them. I would wager that EV buyers are more willing to look at smaller electric vehicles like ebikes and scooters as compared to the average person.

If all our vehicles were electric, it would be much simpler to transition to greener methods of electricity production. ICE vehicles don't have this kind of flexibility.

Plenty of artists make art for commercial purposes. In fact, that's kind of the dividing line between "professional" and "amateur" artist.

I understand that there is an entire culture surrounding these machines and that people enjoy collecting and restoring them. Hell, I would even like to build a cabinet myself one day.

But there's a reason they are disappearing. They're old and obsolete. While they may have value to a niche group, they are overall viewed as mostly worthless.

Secondly, there's a very simple solution to disliking what someone else does with their own property. Purchase it before they do whatever you dislike. Either from them or by beating them to the punch and buying it from the previous owner before they do.

It's interesting how advocating for backdoors into consumer products (like the US wanted DJI to do) suddenly makes you uneasy that there are other backdoors into those products.

I don't like Apple, but this was exactly their argument against putting in backdoors to unlock people's devices, and I support them in that.

Exactly this!

Replace "novel" with "nude pictures" and the moral side of this becomes much more obvious.

It doesn't matter if he had dementia. It doesn't matter if people appreciate the novel or if his kids feel that "it's important to release it". The novel was his creation and he specifically did not want it released.

Unsurprisingly though, money outweighs his requests.

He's almost as good as the guy that killed Hitler. Really doing the world a favor.

'It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?'

I bet it will be marketed as "more affordable prices for people struggling, offset by higher prices for the rich".

It really has nothing to do with Democracy or Capitalism. It has everything to do with suppressing the votes of certain demographics.

He only said there is no legal "right", not that gun ownership was completely illegal.

The point being, reasonable countries view gun ownership as a privilege that can be lost, instead of a right that cannot.

And the Constitution is immutable, right? What would you even call a ratified change to the Constitution?

OTOH, how many children got Kinder Eggs ~without~ knowing that there was a small plastic toy inside? That was kind of the whole gimmick.

Also, there have been 9 reported deaths worldwide that have been linked to choking on the toy inside a Kinder Egg. 7 Children in the US die ~every day~ from being shot. It seems pretty clear to me which one is a bigger issue.

Have you ever tried running a gas furnace off of a solar panel?

"Accelerating a transition" != "this has been 100% accomplished"

Just a nitpick - The main character in Snow Crash is named Hiro, not Hero.

Would you buy a rental car for only a 10-20% discount?

Children may not be able to make good decisions with their money, but many adults aren't either, especially when it is someone else's money (ie, their kids).

A child should retain full control of their own money up to a certain value. Above that, they should be assigned a fiduciary to take care of the rest.

You could just as easily claim that since AI are not human artists that copyright does not apply to them.

So in your world, we make no attempt to improve anything unless we can achieve 100% perfection? Sounds like a terrible plan.

There's shorter, handier terms for those two types of people:

"naive", and "realistic", respectively.

she emailed me in the morning and I responded in the afternoon

Real question: How long should she sit at her desk and twiddle her thumbs, waiting for your reply, before she moves on to emailing/phoning/interviewing a different candidate?

Or perhaps she should pursue multiple candidates at the same time, to immensely speed up the process and reduce her time wasted just waiting to hear back from potential candidates who may never respond back?

Well, at least you got the first part right. That is a truly stupid idea.

In the olden days, people took time to apply for each job. Nowadays, they spam out applications to hundreds of places in a day.

The problem is on both ends and stems from rewarding quantity over quality.

Cellophane is called Cellophane.

This floor is made of floor

Going by the Velcro website, you should be saying "Adobe Brand Photoshop Brand Elements software".

Ridiculous.

Virtually every product is made by killing animals. I'd say vegetarians/vegans only really care about products that ~require~ the killing of an animal, and care very little about the products that only kill animals incidentally.

I'd argue that 2 entities taking turns vocalizing (or similar) with each other with the intent of the other responding back is the base definition of a conversation.

No, they didn't discuss the finer points of Hume's philosophy. It was just the "first" conversation, after all.

You mean nineteen eighty-fourteen.

If it's difficult to tell, does it really matter?

Isn't windows 11 forcing an annual prescription?

Freudian slip ftw

If all some companies are doing is throwing a flashy control panel onto FOSS and reselling it, perhaps FOSS should refocus a bit more on the user experience and provide the control panel themselves?