A few massive differences:

• You opt-in to targeted tracking with Apple. It’s impossible to opt-out with Google. Apple also enforces per-app opt-in for tracking.

• Apple use your data, but they don’t sell it on

• Apple features protect you from 3rd party tracking at a software level (Private Relay) and hardware level (MAC randomisation)

You gotta watch out for those Lifeguards with Lugers.

You can safely swim in the pool of an operational reactor, the ocean near Fukushima is perfectly safe.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/

The proposed legislation:

https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB244/id/2832427

(ii) A product or component of an “alarm system” as defined in subdivision © of Section 7590.1 of the Business and Professions Code. Code, including a fire protection system, as defined in the California Fire Code.

For the same reason you need a licence in most places to install fire and security systems. If you make a mistake, people can die.

I thought it was kinda like the bookshelf in a hostel. You try to drop-off a book you’ve finished, and take a book you haven’t read.

You’re the one simping for the companies that are making the planet unliveable for future generations for their own profit.

Plenty of evidence for what I claimed, google it yourself if you want:

https://insideevs.com/news/612567/social-media-influencers-paid-bash-tesla-musk/

Oil companies (via “independent film makers”) have been paying influencers to shit on Tesla, ever since Tesla became a viable threat to big oil and legacy auto. Nothing new here.

Fantastic. Tremendous. This pile, and I have to say I have seen many piles, this pile, of shit, is the greatest pile of shit, that anyone has ever seen. Period. Do you think crooked Hillary has a pile like this. No. Only me.

Ubuntu. It Debian without the driver issues.

Proposing any sort of restriction on abortion will demonstrably harm people and should be the definitive end of this man’s campaign — but I’m betting it won’t be.

Even under Roe V Wade, there were restrictions on abortion. Very few people would support 39-week abortions.

Nice work!!

If you have other Apple devices, so you can make use of features like AirPlay, the Apple TV is a no-brainer.

That was me, but I also had Facebook between Digg and Reddit.

The post office system is socialist, so are functions like public roads, and fire and police services.

I’d argue that having the government provide a service isn’t enough to call something socialist. In “The Wealth of Nations”, Adam Smith said that in a free-market economy, the governments role was to provide defence, law and order, and public works (eg. roads and education). If we’re using Marx’s definitions for communism, then surely we have to use Smith’s definitions for Capitalism.

I am a little, but compared to carbon emissions it’s not a big issue.

It’s a localised problem, so affected areas can solve it without needing the entire planet to agree. And we already have both political and technical solutions available to us. The only reason we haven’t implemented the fixes, is because big agriculture lobbies government successfully and it costs them no votes. But if the average voter has to stop showering because of water shortages, you can bet politicians will “solve” the water crisis in short order.

Water for drinking isn’t the issue - that’s about 0.01% of all water usage. The issue is irrigation for food crops, which is >50% of water use in many places.

I dunno, this stuff sounds like what I hear muttered by the meth-heads at the bus stop opposite my office. These guys in their 60s-70s are popping prescribed amphetamines to keep them going, they’ve gotta come down at some point.

Facebook tried this in Australia, but backed down after a week, and now pay a significant amount to news organisations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Media_Bargaining_Code

Google and Facebook aren’t going to cut themselves out of such a big slice of interaction, they’re just throwing a tantrum and hoping the government caves.

I literally studied this exact nuclear design at University - the Westinghouse AP1000. You can look up the WNISR (World Nuclear Industry Status Report) if you don’t want to take my word for it.

Don’t forget, mining and enriching uranium still has a significant carbon footprint, far higher per tonne than any fossil fuel. Yes, it’s lower over time, but we need to be reducing emissions now, not in 50 years time.