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USA was still very much on the rise at the advent of the internet. If you define the advent of the internet to be Arpanet, then that was 1969, the same year the USA landed on the moon. If you define the advent of the internet to be the first use of the World Wide Web that would be 1989 the same year the Berlin wall came down and 3 years before the Soviet Union collapsed, which was arguably the most powerful the USA has ever been as it was before China’s rise.

Just because its not sent in doesn’t mean it was forgotten.

Not defending apple, but they’re not talking about themselves. My reading of their point is: “If you force us to give away our tech, then that rule must apply to everyone with tech. If that applies to everyone with tech, why would anyone spend the millions or billions developing anything if they’ll be forced to give it away for free”.

Again, I’m not agreeing with Apple, I’m just able to understand their language.

“Source close to to the Milei administration share plans about future sources of revenue” /s

Why can’t humans stop being dicks to other humans for even like 5 minutes?

Being dicks to one another is where the huge majority of wealth and power come from. Asking humans to give up being dicks to one another is asking them to be satisfied with the tiny fraction of wealth and power that is derived from NOT being dicks to one another. Being satisfied with less is not really human nature.

Did Britain or Rome know the moments when Pax Britannia or Pax Romana had hit their tipping point to decline? I doubt it.

I think the tipping point will only be observable through the lens of history many years from now with a subject heading of: This event was the beginning of the end of Pax Americana.

“People receiving money from the government should be tested regularly for illegal drugs” - Conservatives in every OTHER conversation

Not my joke, but a good one:

Dentist: When was the last time these teeth have been flossed?

Patient: You should know, doc. You did it.

There’s a history of Chinese ships dragging their anchors and damaging undersea infrastructure:

Russian communication lines and Baltic natural gas pipeline severed Nov 2023

Time magazine “Person of the year” doesn’t necessarily mean “good” it means “pivotal to change”. The “change” may not be a good change.

Hitler, Stalin, Khrushchev, Kissinger, Ted Turner, Newt Gingrich, Putin, Zuckerberg, and Turmp have all been Person of the Year.

Don’t think that things like “rescinding your apology” are necessary - just be done. If you can support yourself, and have friends or other people you can emotionally rely on, I would just simply “stop” with your family.

This so much. If you’ve already concluded that the people in your family have a poor opinion of you for illegitimate reasons, then why are you trying to change their opinions with the “rescinding”? Just decide that you’ve already said your last words and be done with them.

Move forward with your life and build a family of your choosing, not the one you were forced to be in because of birth.

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A few years ago I had a connecting flight through the New Delhi international airport. The air pollution was insane! Looking out the windows was a thick haze that you couldn’t even see the runways of planes taking off and landing through it. Further that haze was also inside the airport terminal. It had an orange tinge to it and hung visually about 20 feet above the floor. Walking from gate to gate had that haze and smelled like you were walking through some heavy industrial factory. I was only there for a few hours. I can’t imagine what life must be like for people that have to live there.

If you get all the extras it many times bumps you higher than a normal ticket from the larger airlines. As long as you know that, and are willing to fly very light and basic, it can be very cheap to fly the ultra-low cost airlines (like Spirit or Frontier).

In short, if you want full service flight, don’t go ultra-low cost.

Gee, it’s almost like offering absolute shit service, making everything an additional fee, constantly canceling flights, and never being on-time is a poor business model. Who knew?

That isn’t the reason the ultra-low cost airlines (like Spirit) are struggling. Its the opposite. The bigger air carriers simply copied the Spirit business model. Check out United’s Basic Economy fare. Its the same “cheap seat, but nickel and dime for every upgrade” that Spirit does.

I recall that subdomains are their own record inside a DNS

Well, not a record, but a zone. A subdomain is its own zone. There are additional DNS records that support a separate zone though.

which would imply that anyone can claim that their server is a non-existent subdomain of the real domain

False. The person wanting control of the subdomain must be delegated control from the parent domain. Owners of the parent domain don’t just hand that out to anyone. The mechanism is called DNS Delegation.

The worlds first AI generated TV ad was for Toys-R-us (Canada, I believe) and was surprisingly decent. Not amazing, but certainly passable compared to plenty of non-AI ads. When I saw that I knew we’d have many more AI ads because the cost of producing them is likely startlingly cheap and lightning fast compared to the casting, set design, shooting, and editing needed for traditional ads.

12v are great for “car” accessories.

The hardest thing to throw away was the mystery power cables/bricks. Even though everything I own has its power cable with it and labeled with no exceptions, and even though I haven’t touched the mystery power cable for 10 years, I still felt like I’d discover its purpose the moment I got rid of it. Hasn’t happened yet, but I’m still anxious.

I keep those but convert their use to replace disposable battery powered devices.

All those spare USB wall warts you have are 5 volt and at least 1 amp DC power supplies. Anything you have that takes 3 AA or AAA batteries is a 4.5v supply. Almost all of them can tolerate the extra .5 volt. Clip the mini-USB/micro-USB/classic iPod/lightening connector off the cable and run those (I usually solder them) to your device. Now you can plug it into the wall and never have to worry about batteries again.

6 volt DC wall warts can be used to replace things that take 4 AA or AAA batteries.

If recent history is the template, to be unaccountable you must be:

• white
• male
• rich
• racist
• misogynistic

…if you aren’t all of these then I’m sorry, the rules of accountability apply to you.

In a small win for Progressives, with the power wielded by Peter Thiel to swing elections and public policy, one attribute was removed from the above list:

• heterosexual