“The media has wildly succeeded in its effort to misinform many voters” would be more correct. This has been a relentless, deliberate strategy. If they had just been incompetent it would not be this lopsidedly wrong.

OP said “no hardware vendor”, not “ no networked hardware vendor”.

“Why does this microwave oven cost $1500?”

“Two reasons. The first is that it has to have a full network stack to allow it to download software from competing appliance vendors. The second is the cost that the manufacturer had to bear to develop software for every single other microwave sold. There are some pretty weird architectures out there, and they had to hire a whole bunch of programmers.”

People keep complaining that solar and wind give us “too much electricity at the wrong time”, causing power prices to go negative (as if this is a problem). Having a beneficial process like co2 removal that you can do at any time of day (the co2 isn’t going anywhere) that would soak up all that energy seems like a win win.

Full self crashing

No, the question is why not?

Light emitting diode -> smoke emitting diode -> flame emitting diode

But what is the value of having those interviews? Platforming somebody who is just going to tell flat out lies, and not calling them out, doesn’t inform the viewer of anything other than that watching that news outlet is a waste of time.

They’ve been doing that at least since the GWB years, which is why I stopped listening to them then.

What logistics? You put him in a jail. Works for other people. “What about secret service protection?” They can go there with him. They can go home at night though. If you worry about his safety, put him in his own personal prison on an abandoned military base. It worked for Rudolph Hess.

It’s only hard if you make it hard.

You’d think that, but since the 80s they’ve managed to do an enormous amount of damage and drag the country to the brink of ruin just by being obstructionist and crazy. Seems like a strategy, and a fairly effective one.

You are eaten by a grue

CopyMeThat https://apps.apple.com/us/app/copy-me-that-recipe-manager/id956800243 is great. Give it the url, it extracts the recipe. It not only gets rid of the ads, but also the obligatory family history of how the recipe was brought by Nana from the old country, followed by a tedious retelling of a touching story about her. And optionally saves it to your account so you always have it. And there’s web access so you can use anywhere it and a safari extension on the Mac.

You mean like this?

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/netanyahu-from-river-sea-israel-control-1234949408/

“I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.”

If you thought that making this comment was a good idea, you may be too misogynistic for life.

A “final solution” if you will.

Can we just skip to the end part of the Ceaucescu story?

“We spent 3 years exploring whether spending the engineering effort to make it work the way we wanted on Android would end up making us more money in the long run, and decided it wouldn’t. Because we are a business, and that’s literally how we make every decision.”

You did. I jumped the gun after reading the first paragraph. Sorry.