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I agree, from the perspective of what industry creates, but keep in mind that the effect on the consumer space varied throughout that history significantly. There was no consumer room sized computer.

Realistically I think the future is already here with a proliferation of specialized mobile devices. This is why Apple took away the headphone jack: so they could sell AirPods. OP was right in the sense that glasses will be coming into this model, I just differ as to how central they’ll be to the future computing environment.

I’m hoping that there will be a bit of a backlash to the Saasification of consumer tech, with its implications on privacy/control. Though I have to say I’m not very optimistic.

Convergence is something that’s been talked about for a long time, but I don’t see it being something the large consumer companies want to actually drive forward.

Looking at the direction of Apple/Microsoft/Google, they’d much rather sell you more devices and keep your data synced in cloud services than let you own in all in one unit locally, so that’ll probably be the main direction we go in.

The main exception will be in the indie/enthusiast/hacker space with devices like the pine phone/purism units.

While I’m sure AR glasses are coming and will be popular, the notion that they’ll be so popular that smart phones won’t even have screens is particularly bold.

Smartphones didn’t replace PDAs, most people didn’t have a PDA to replace. Smart phones replaced whole categories of devices and bundled them into one: cameras, camera phones, PDAs, MP3 players, watches, timers, alarm clocks etc.

People keep looking for “the next big thing” and it just isn’t coming. The smartphone was a singular event in the history of computing and it wont be replicated within our lifetimes. At most it will be unbundled again, unevenly (eg, smart watches, and glasses)

> Here is the crux of the issue: the graphs and the source do not say that the non-wealthy Texans actually pay more money in taxes. Instead, they contribute higher share of total tax revenue.

Did we read the same article? Because that isn’t what it said, look at the graph again:

https://i.redd.it/7pdcf4q65kg91.jpg

Subtitle: total state and local taxes as a share of family income by income group

Pointing out that conflating two things is incorrect isn’t the same thing as defending either of those bad things.

Your points are dishonest and sloppy, and this subject is too serious to just accept it.

Most of the world doesn’t even use iMessage, it’s all WhatsApp/messenger/WeChat. This controversy is such a nothing burger in comparison to App Store policies.

There’s plenty of cross platform chat clients out there and new ones sprouting up all the time. I have an iPhone and I only communicate with a handful of people on iMessage, it’s not even that great of a chat app and it’s hardly the moat that people make it out to be.

The US is still has the second largest manufacturing output in the world.

This also isn’t the 1940s anymore in the sense that, while the world and the US are particularly dependent on China, China is also dependent on the rest of the world. Supply chains are global and span multiple countries for even basic items.

> when Russia does something to protect their border, ooooohhh, big bad russia

That’s funny, I didn’t realize that Ukraine was inside of Russia’s borders. I thought it was it’s own sovereign country.

1. Ah I see, because Israel never signed the document they’re a-okay. It doesn’t matter what actions you take as long as you have meaningless pieces of paper that back you up.

Note that Iran still hasn’t violated the NPT. If all that matters to you is international law, they can continue their enrichment program until they are ready to make a weapon and then just withdraw from the treaty.

2. Neither of those things are the same thing as advocating/desiring genocide.

1. It’s widely known that Israel has developed nuclear weapons long after the NPT was international law. Iran has mirrored Israel in that regard.

2. As stated above, Iran openly calls for destruction of the state of israel. To my understanding, “wiping Israel off the map” in that sense isn’t the same thing as calling for genocide. It’s called regime change. I don’t think I need to go through a list of every example wherein the US has done regime change, but suffice to say, Israel and the US have been attempting overthrow of the Iranian regime since its inception.

You’re making the false equivalence here. I never made the assertion that they were no different, only that they have done the same things that you were accusing Iran of, which is correct.

I’m not saying that Iran is beyond criticism, it certainly deserves quite a bit, but as an American, yes, we do need to have nuanced and sophisticated discussions about this topic.

Sorry to rain on your jingoism parade.

The US/Israel are guilty of all three of those things (to my knowledge, Iran hasn’t actually stated genocidal intent towards Israel, only that they support destruction of the state of Israel, which is often conflated as such)

Tesla doesn’t have a fully integrated battery supply chain, though.

Panasonic, LG, CATL, BYD, etc are going to be the leaders in the battery supply chain from what I can tell, and the legacy manufacturers will be able to buy from them just fine.

The impact of foreign investment has been much greater in Vancouver, though. 40% of the population was born outside of Canada.

Not saying it’s a bad thing, but it’s not just seething racism at play, there were major waves of immigration into the city, which drove up housing prices.

TOTP is an open standard, as you noted, you can just keep and exported file of the seeds and store them in an encrypted back up file, and import them into and TOTP app on any platform.

Services like authy make it difficult to export your seeds however, so it’s not a great option.

As if privacy isn’t political.

The fourth amendment exists for a reason.

That’s a them problem.

It’s marginally useful, but it also is extremely slow to roll out given the extremely limited range of the cell towers (at least the ultra high speed ones anyways).

Personally I have it turned off on my device, there’s not enough of a noticeable benefit and a non zero hit to my battery to have that part of the modem turned on.

I was with you until the 5G one. The only bubble I’m aware of related to 5G is the telecom people who keep hyping it.

I have never ran into anyone anywhere, cyberspace nor meatspace, who has claimed that 5G was actually useful for something.

Why not use an email aliasing service instead of continually making throwaway emails?

3G is being shut down in the US.

It is, but is distinct from the meaning of “identity politics” and not making that distinction causes confusion.

I realize that, but it’s a redefinition that makes it very challenging for people engaging in fleeting internet conversations to follow the thread.

Identity politics and partisanship have fairly well defined meanings within political discourse, and so when you say “identity is the problem” the assumption for many people is that you’re talking about issues like BLM, trans issues, etc.

You’re confusing partisanship with identity.

I realize it’s seemingly a small difference or amounts to the same thing, but not making the distinction really muddies the conversation.

How is identity at the crux of “defund the FBI”?

“Identity politics” are generally considered to be issues related to things like race, gender, social class, etc

I feel like calling that “identity” muddles the term, as identity politics generally refers to categories like race and gender, and maps to feelings on issues such as abortion and the Black Lives Matter movement.

To attempt to be helpful, I’d suggest that what you’re referring to is more of an issue of uber partisanship than identity per se.

Do you have particular examples of identity being a core part of the issue?

I see people complain about identity politics all the time, but when it comes down to it, the individual issues that fall under that umbrella are things that people deeply care about and can’t just be dismissed.

Again, the point was never that you have to be perfect, it’s that it’s shouldn’t just happen to perfectly align with Americas foreign policy agenda.

I wasn’t specific enough.

My point was that people are inconsistent due to the intersection between their advocacy and their own sense of nationalism. The issues are amplified when they pertain to Americas enemies and lessened when it pertains to Americas Allies.