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YcYc10··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
> Canadian boycots of US products due to tariff wars

Not just Canada

YcYc10··on Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences
Is this surprising? Google has been returning poor results for a long time.
YcYc10··on The LLMentalist Effect (2023)
This didn't age very well.
YcYc10··on I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline
I wish I could do the same.
YcYc10··on Your phone is about to stop being yours
This flow will be managed by google play services, not locally.
YcYc10··on Scott Adams has died
Care to elaborate?
YcYc10··on Scott Adams has died
Who has a TV in every room that's constantly on? That's pretty weird.
YcYc10··on Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
Same with OpenAI. There's no point in listening to any ethical mission statements coming from any big tech company - it's all corporate BS.
YcYc10··on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
But Netflix content breadth and quality varies a lot from country to country. There's not one Netflix.
YcYc10··on Red Alert 2 in web browser
But what is the point of the project?
YcYc10··on Eating stinging nettles
There's not much to this blogpost. Do most people not realise that nettles are edible?
YcYc10··on Some people can't see mental images
I think it might be. I'm pretty sure I don't have an internal monologue the way people describe it, and I definitely can't conjure up actual images in my mind. I can however imagine sounds or music.
YcYc10··on Some people can't see mental images
I was about to write something almost exactly this. However I can "hear something" if I try but definitely not picture something in the literal sense.

Edit: I also have trouble recognising the faces of people I've only met once or twice, and I'm assuming the two things are related. Do you have the same?

YcYc10··on Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update
Who will buy this? This is insane.
YcYc10··on Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division
Yeah a classic euphemism.
YcYc10··on Mathematicians discover prime number pattern in fractal chaos
It is broccoli.
YcYc10··on Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing
I'm assuming that's a joke, but who knows.
YcYc10··on Larry Ellison – 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid nonstop recording
Your edited comment is still ageist.

>Why is it that every single person born between 1940 and 1965 (or making more than $1 million per year)

Every single person in that age range?

YcYc10··on What 30k Free Users Taught Me About Charging $10/Month
> My biggest lesson? Charge early.

How do you know that you wouldn't end up with even fewer paying customers if you'd taken that path?

YcYc10··on Bulletproof host Stark Industries evades EU sanctions
Criminal-friendly
YcYc10··on We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that
Amazon? Who cares. Air BnB? Not really an issue unless you trash a place. Same with Uber. Instagram? Please.
YcYc10··on The Burnout Machine
That sounds awful.
YcYc10··on Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data
Really? Which ones?
YcYc10··on macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)
Any recommendations for some kind of file manager to replace finder?