[–] 27 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

And it's going to be necessary again in 2040.

However, this is sufficiently far in the future that it is unlikely to trouble policymakers anytime soon.

Lol.

I can't tell if the numbers are bloated for pushing an interest, but with having to spend those billions every 15-20 years, it would probably be cheaper to hire meter readers or pay to keep the 2G available.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    So my understanding is that in order to make a Star Trek food replicator, we simply need to trap 2 black holes inside a microwave oven, add some buttons and connect a bigger cable than 220v.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Management was always like this long before AI.

    They ask their assistants to do something and after a few years they lost touch with how anything works.

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  • [–] 73 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    This is newspeak, made by totalitarian facists to differentiate the in group from the out group.

    They want you to be angry about it. It makes it easier to identify the protesters that they intend to kill.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago

    I don't think it's a generational issue, just young people. Once you get kids you'll learn to cook.

    Maybe there are more singles and child free people or they take longer to settle down or whatever.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago*

    Yes, the name is irrelevant.

    Whatever it's called you'll be amazed by how few times you ever have to say it once you have it.

    The only times I've had to use a word for the "universal healthcare" that we have (which doesn't have a name) is when trying to describe it to people who don't have it already. Everyone in the world except America will understand "healthcare" in this way to begin with. If you really need to explain something that is not, you'd explicitly use "private healthcare" or "insurance" for anything else.

    It would be funny though if it was named after his wife: '"I don't really care, do you?"- care"'

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    The police uses mobile cameras where I live. They have to ask permission to set up in front of somebody's home, and this has unfortunately resulted in the people living there getting hate from random assholes.

    I don't understand how someone can be so busy that they need to drive faster than allowed while also having plenty of time to go out of their way to harass people living in the places where they drive too fast. The car brain works in mysterious ways.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    I witnessed an example of this today while driving my daughter and her friend.

    My daughter pointed at a horse and said "look the horse is in gallop!"

    Her friend who wants to be the self proclaimed all-knowing horse expert immediately responded: "That's because..." and then didn't know how to continue the sentence. Eventuelly she ended it with "the horse is training there."

    She never wanted to make a point. She just wanted to take charge of the sentence about the topic that she wanted to be the authority on.

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