Someone that invests in a business doesn't "earn" anything. They're just leeching off the labor of others. Every penny he got out of those investments was food off the table of sanitation workers or extra years they have to work before retirement.

What is "outdated" in phones these days?

I've been rocking a used Pixel 8 Pro that I picked up for $200. I put Graphene on it right away. I don't feel like I'm missing anything. Graphene is so stripped down and minimalistic that I don't feel like a newer phone would in any way enhance my experience. I don't install anything that touches google, microsoft, or a techbro ai company, so a special ai processor doesn't mean anything to me.

Performance is good. Battery life is great.

The agent is the one that gets afraid when they see people with certain skin colors.

Correct. I should have specified.

It might actually be underwater in 80 years.

I got my gmail account in the year 2001. If they ever ask me for any kind of age verification, that will be the day I delete it all. What they're doing isn't about protecting kids or age verification at all. Its about surveiling every nuance of every person's life in order to extract the most possible profit from it.

I've migrated over to Proton, but haven't quite finished migrating accounts I never log into yet to my current email. About 90% of the email they goes to my gmail account now is for other people that share my name and inadvertently made accounts with my email address. I know of at least four distinct individuals that have used my gmail address for personal and professional accounts and group emails.

The most interesting one was a prototype formula for a new toothpaste that was being discussed.

Dismissing it because it is normal is the wrong reaction. Our sense of rage at injustice needs to accumulate into meaningful action in order for anything to improve.

I don't know if it counts as science fiction or fantasy, but The Subtle Knife would be my choice (if I could use it to its full potential).

You sound like a hoopy frood.

I was being silly and sardonic. I still use checks, but I know it is waaaay outside the norm and anachronistic.

You don't use cursive when you write checks?

The three classes of ebike in the USA already makes sense and seems sensible and reasonable.

The problems arise from inconsiderate people, not the ebikes... people that mod their bikes and then ride them dangerously. I've also seen acoustic bike cyclists ride in a rude or dangerous fashion.

The laws we have already are enough. Just enforce them and encourage people to be considerate whether they are in a car, on an ebike, an acoustic bike, or on foot.

Adding more draconian laws that end up not being enforced (just like the existing laws) won't fix a single thing.