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The BBC only assumes government sources as truth when it's from the crown or Israeli / US governments

I thought it brought something to the conversation

It's a good thing the people of Iran are not represented by these diaspora Iranians then

Sadly they have dropped requirements that Netanyahu be turned over to the ICC, but it's important to recognize that this ceasefire is between Iran and the US only and not necessarily a deal between Iran and Israel.

>> 1. Guarantee that Iran will not be attacked again

Hard for the Iranians to take anything the US says seriously. US launched attacks in the middle of the last two negotiations.

Meanwhile the US is using its remaining carbon budget to bomb and burn in one last effort to expand its dying empire. Eventually this system will fall, and the west will realize they wasted all their energy (literally) on non-civilian hardware that needs massive amounts of cheap oil.

Roomba should have taken Detroit's approach and asked the government to make any of the better vacuums cost 3x the price of a Roomba

Guy who was "enamored by the whole idea of Bitcoin being a private bank for wealthy individuals" is shocked to learn that the system "will lead to the long-term collapse of social mobility for the younger generation".

He's now wiser than the average Randian acolyte, but still seems to think this structural feature of capitalism is somehow unique to cryptocurrency.

I wonder if it's related to Apple's change from AWDL to Wi-Fi Aware, but AirDrop seems much more reliable on iOS 26. I can send to multiple people at once and they often all succeed, but most importantly, if one transfer fails or is cancelled, I can retry and it works. In older versions of iOS, a failed transfer seemed to block all future attempts until the phone was restarted.

The issue with these AIs is that once they ingest enough history, they tend to recognize it as a record of class struggle. At that point, corporate attempts at enforcing “neutrality” amount to filtering out conclusions that would naturally support Marxist interpretations. They then need to pepper in enough fascist propaganda to appear "balanced", but it's tricky to do without becoming MechaHitler.

This is nonsense to smear Chinese companies and perpetuate this idea that they aren’t innovative and only steal.

Anyway, didn’t Tesla give away these patents?

https://medium.com/@mk_26304/the-genius-behind-teslas-patent...

BYD makes nicer cars at a cheaper price. The only advantage Tesla has is protectionism in the US market.

Google Photos strips the metadata from your photos in unpredictable ways. It is a UX nightmare and an awful backup solution.

Not a great fitness tracker because it has no GPS

Poor notification integration because of the restrictions on iOS explained in their blog post.

If you want long battery life, I’d go for a Garmin. But the Apple Watch is really the best option for 90% of people.

Apple can release a half-baked version of this before it’s ready, but then pundits will say “oh. Steve Jobs would have never allowed such unpolished garbage to ship.”

Sometimes it’s better to wait 6 months for something to be mature and stable. Apple has a long history of being conservative in this regard, and they often aren’t the first entrant into a market, but they still dominate because of very good integration with their ecosystem and a high quality bar. Apple Intelligence will probably be the same (bookmark this post for 3 years from now, when Gemini is being split into three businesses and rebranded / killed).

It’s crazy this caused such a stir. Everything Andy said was not wrong.

This is false. There is absolutely content on TikTok critical of the US, Israel, western businesses, etc that is boosted by TikTok’s algorithm and effectively censored or hidden on many American-owned social networks,

Google can’t charge a premium for a noticeably worse AI product.

From the article:

>>Racism, for example, is a genuine problem. Not a problem on the scale that the woke believe it to be, but a genuine one.

pg, and many anti-woke crusaders, employ examples of performative anti-racism to undermine the necessity of genuine anti-racism altogether.

NY is probably the only city where this could work because it’s the only proper American city that has a real metro system. Every other city will require major upgrades to have modern public transportation, and the density isn’t there in most American cities that were designed around the car.

Another win for freedom and free speech! brought to you be the Meta lobbying team.

And which is currently fighting multiple wars around the world, or justifying support of many proxy wars which are killing thousands daily.

It’s an interesting debate: are things less democratic now than at other points in American history? Or have the wealthy always been able to buy influence in this way?

My opinion is that institutional “norms” are not being followed lately, any maybe that makes this sort of corruption more blatant, but that this relationship between business and government is a feature of American government from the start.

See the hundreds of anecdotes from “Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class” (1984, Kies van der Pijl) or “A People’s History of the United States” (1980, Howard Zinn).

In capitalism, democracy is window dressing, the tool for settling disputes among the upper class.

Terrorist is what the media calls them when they’re bad. But once they start receiving US funding again they become rebels.

How has the US already mucked this up so badly? Just enforce common charger standard like the EU

One of America’s biggest rivals is in fact the EU and a unified Eurasian continent. But luckily the ties connecting this continent literally blew up, the price of energy in Western Europe skyrocketed and it sent Germany (and thus the whole EU) into a recession. Even better, these “allies” are being forced to fund their own demise.

> normal position people take when it comes to Palestine

out of curiosity, where are you from?

sympathy for the Palestinian liberation struggle is very common where I live (despite what our government says and does)

And in that time, Israel spied, hacked and intimidated ICC officials. They knew recognition of Palestinian rights would open the door to criminal cases like this, so they’ve been working for almost a decade to discredit the International Criminal Court.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/spying...

The rules-based order was always a fiction; international law is a tool used solely against America’s enemies.

This arrest warrant could be executed in a day if the US would stop supporting this genocide, but that won’t happen. They will sooner invite Netanyahu back to the UN to order more air strikes on refugees.

Netflix also removed most of its Palestinian films: https://variety.com/2024/film/global/netflix-palestinian-sto...

Is there an easy alternative to the standard Android version running on Sony TVs? In the past year, the home screen now shows ads and it can’t be disabled.