JohnEdwa

And even ones that want kids take one look at the economy and their bank accounts, and decide to wait until both look better, because they want to be able to afford the kids a happy childhood. The worst thing for population growth is giving people the ability to choose when, if ever, to get kids, and an environment they don’t want to have them in.

Two ways to fix that issue. Which one is used tells a lot.

It is a month old account with 275 posts, quickly scrolling all of them are news. Not sure where they post them, but that is still quite a few per day.

And this is why the UK has separated hot and cold water taps.
Your hot water used to come from a rainwater tank on the roof, and it was illegal to pipe it to a mixing faucet because if something went wrong with the cold water site it could pull undrinkable hot water from these tanks and faucets and contaminate all the drinking water.

Works for these plug-in solar panels too - illegal here in Finland, because if the grid went down, these types of panels could keep feeding the house, out to the street, and electrocute a line worker.

(Also because installing solar panels is a well protected job over here, can’t touch that occupation and their revenue stream)

The same exception the UK had, didn’t join it in 1992. Specifically they got an opt-out for those specific parts.

It wasn’t. It is now.

It was one of the special exceptions that the UK had, gained in 1992 when the Maastricht Treaty was negotiated.

There are a lot of requirements to be able to join the EU, and many of them are deal breakers for the UK that they never implemented - like having to switch to the Euro and joining Schengen. They would undoubtedly demand to get the same special exceptions they had before, and require every EU country to unanimously agree to give them, which almost certainly would never happen.

And even before that, one of the requirements is a “significant, stable and long-lasting majority public opinion in favour of rejoining”. One interpretation of this was requiring a few years of at least 65% public approval for the join.

Blocking all 3rd party cookies tends to break quite a few things, as websites often use different domains to handle things like logins.

I’ve found addons like Cookie Autodelete to be a more functional option, it allows those cookies to exist until I close the tab, and if the domain isn’t on a whitelist, they get deleted five minutes later. And it works for first party cookies too.
It does take a while to build that whitelist, and sometimes you forget to set it and wipe something you’d rather have kept, though.

You do not need to ask for consent to use functional cookies, only for ones that are used for tracking, which is why you’ll still have some cookies left afterwards and why properly coded sites don’t break from the rejection.

Most websites could strip out all of the 3rd party spyware and by doing so get rid of the popup entirely. They’ll never do it because money, obviously, and sometimes instead cripple their site to blackmail you into accepting them.

Or that we keep concentrating only on the total output. China has 4.2 times as many people as the US, yet their total Co2 emissions are only 2.4 times higher.

It’s like complaining that a family of four is eating too much food from the buffet when you have over half of their total amount on your own plate.

They keep building coal power plants because the total need of electricity in China is rapidly increasing, but they are also building everything else at an even higher rate so less of the total is actually generated by coal. Also many of them are replacing old obsolete plants with cleaner more efficient ones.

Many of them are also being built specifically because of the increase of renewable sources, to stabilize dips and provide reliability, so the overall usage of those plants has decreased.

That’s the benefit of using AI and machine learning - once you have enough source material, you can throw it all in and it’ll eventually spit out a model.
Which is exactly what Meta did with their Massively Multilingual Speech project which supports text-to-speech and speech-to-text for 1107 different languages.

Is it actually any good in 99% of them, I don’t have a clue, but it exists.

Yet it is.

You can go to a company and ask to buy their office building. Or the name trademark. Or staff. Or customer database. Or website. And you continue this until you’ve acquired literally everything the company has except the actual company itself - it’s called an “asset acquisition” - so you get all the stuff, but because the original company technically still exists it’s left with most of the liabilities.
Most, because some liabilities thankfully do transfer.

In this instance:

According to VPNSecure’s owners, their acquisition netted them “the tech, the brand, and the infrastructure/technology—but none of the company, contracts, payments, or obligations from the previous owners.”

…how you can claim not to have gotten the contracts, yet be in a position to cancel them sound a bit of a, well, lie.

100kg-125kg (220-275lbs) are fairly common weight ratings yeah. Half of it is because the frame needs to handle you dropping a curb without snapping like a pretzel, but the other half is because gravity is a bitch and trying to go up even a small hill takes a lot of power.
Most escooters promise 25-30% climb capability, but hauling 300lbs up a 30% grade at just 10mph requires 2200 watts, while most smaller escooters max out at 500-1000W.
Even that 1000W is only enough for ~4.5mph.

Maximum GDPR fine is 4% of your revenue. For Lufthansa, that would be ~$1.4 billion, Air France ~$650 million, both of which are roughly their entire net income for one year.

Not sure if anyone has been hit with the maximum ever though, as everyone just keeps track of the dollars and not percentage of revenue.

Fully driverless cars are not legally allowed yet - they all need to have a driver in the drivers seat supervising

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/waymos-self-driving-cars-are-in-a-growing-number-of-cities-heres-everything-to-know/

I’m fairly certain he pays every last cent he government asks of him.
The problem is that the government has been unwilling to ask for more, and the current one certainly won’t.

He has been advocating for higher taxes for while though, like backing the Washington Income Tax initiative with his father:

Bill Gates Sr., father of the Microsoft Corp. co-founder, and about two dozen other supporters of Initiative 1098 turned in 350,000 petition signatures Thursday in Olympia, many more than the roughly 241,000 required to get on the ballot. The campaign says it will turn in an additional 20,000 Friday. Gates said that it was time “to make our tax code fair for the middle class and small businesses.”

So then, Bill isn’t a billionaire, by definition?

But honestly it does kinda fit, someone like Elon Musk is a billionaire with the sole goal of gaining more useless wealth at any costs, while Gates kinda realised over three decades ago that he has so much already he doesn’t have a need to actually get more.
He’s already given around $100 billion in donations, and probably actually would have ran out of money by now if not for the fact that even though he has sold off his Microsoft stock from the initial 45% down to just around 1%, that 1% has been growing like crazy -15 years ago, it would have been worth around $2.5 billion, today it’s over $40 billion.

That original 45% would be worth 1.5 trillion today, btw.

FSD (Supervised) is not for situations where there is no driver - it’s for situations where the driver wants to just supervise while the car drives itself.

The “(Supervised) Full Self Driving” isn’t for situations where the car is Full Self Driving, because Tesla has no functionality that meets SAE level 3/4/5 requirements for Full Self Driving. If you must supervise the driving, then it’s not full self driving.
Not a confusing naming at all.

But still down 20% from the start of the year, when Trump was supposed to make it soar.
It’s not going to survive this high for long with the abysmal sales figures coming from the rest of the world, even if the Musk cult currently still keeps pretending everything is going great.

Supervised self driving would be fine. “Full self driving” means SAE level 4 or 5, which the Tesla autopilot isn’t, and they don’t need “supervised” in the name as they are specifically for a situations where there simply is no driver - like a robotaxi - so there can be no supervision.