Same here. Looks really cool, but I use a lot of sport features of my Garmin watch.

They didn’t realize the problem with the holocaust was the genocide bit, instead of the Jewish part. That’s the only explanation for this behavior: they keep talking about their mistake, but obviously learned the wrong lesson.

Haven’t seen any prominent lib even use violent rhethoric in connection with pointing out Trump’s dangerous plans for his second term, so I was surprised you bring up stochastic terrorism. The fact that Democrats are running a horrible candidate against him just shows that they don’t take this seriously at all. Maybe that’s what you tried to say in your first message.

I agree that democratic processes have little to do with US politics these days, but are you suggesting you can promote democratic values with anything outside living them (not that US politician do that, but in principle).

And it shouldn’t matter where I’m from. The disaster that is the US empires fall is of global interest.

Democracy needs to be saved through democratic processes, not a lawless assassination attempt, otherwise it would be disingenious to want to protect it and its values.

He is already, but he learned not to speak his mind on that.

Bush dodged better.

Yeah, it’s the use case. Qualcomm had smartphones in the 80s, General Magic had the smartphone in the 90s, but it took more than another decade to actually combine phone and browser into the right form factor and fast enough mobile connection and a world wide web to make it work.

For AR there were moments too. Niantic with global positioning, 5G with fast mobile internet, but that was not enough.

Input method isn’t clear yet (Apple may have solved it with gaze-pinch), form factor not consumer market ready. Actual use case that is worth the price point? Nah

Damn… belligerent is an understatment at this point. They’re outright thugs, encouraged by the protection by the US.

They only logged the IP. That’s metadata. IIRC Apple refused backdooring its phone encryption. That’s a lot more invasive.

Really? I’m not convinced the Chinese government acts in the interests of its people at all. That’s probably the biggest reason I can’t call it Socialism. Just because government influence is stronger than in the West, the economic system isn’t completely different.

But isn’t the means of production still mostly controlled by capital owners? Sure, some industries are influenced by the government, but that is also the case in the West. The plan is certainly more detailed for China, but to me Socialism always meant labor is controlling the means of production. How’s that the case when an elitist single-party government influences the capital owners?

Enlighten me then. Means of production doesn’t seem to be controled by the party alone. Most of China’s economy still follows capitalist principles. Rich Chinese and owners of businesses are still private citizens. Sure, some influenced by the government, some industries very heavily regulated, but China still follows capitalist principles in most cases.

I always thought Socialism means that means of production is controlled by labor directly, not capital owners or an elists single-party government.

As the life-sustaining places become more scarce, they become more expensive. Your best play for survival is to play the game, amass wealth and afford the trip to Elysium. That’s why even the people understanding the problem are part of it.

Let’s not call China socialist when a single party dictates larger economic trends in an otherwise competitive global market. It’s just not “free” as in free market capitalism.

Otherwise I completely agree with the weaknesses of the western capitalist systems.

Lol, as all ratings there’s biases and simplifications…

Even the biolab one could be both natural and man made: the virus was found and isolated by biologists studying local bat populations. They then failed to contain it properly (remember how surprised everyone was when they realized how contagious it was over the air?) and it started spreading.

This is our natural AC overheating slowly…

Well, France needs the rest of Europe to align or it doesn’t matter much what France is doing on its own. They have the best nuclear arsenal in Europe, but that alone doesn’t enable them to act independently.

There’s a few things Europe isn’t good at:

• Weapons and weapon systems are developed independently. That results in incompatible weapons and very expensive production costs because they aren’t produced at scale and multiple versions of the same are developed by the different countries/manufacturers.
• The only military international logistics and organization that European countries currently know is NATO. Outside the NATO framework organization is completely chaotic.
• Similar to the first two points: The European countries don’t have their military interests aligned and can’t agree on deployment, funding and procurement of weapons. Bureaucracy stands in the way of scaling up production.

On the other hand: Europe is rich and technologically advanced. We’ve seen in the first two years since the Russian invasion that technological superiority can outpace the sheer mass of human capital that Russia can throw at the front.

Dude, the other day I was reading some rag because there was nothing else to do in the train… One article was just Trump’s agenda without any commentary. How is that news if you don’t put it in perspective and with the context that Trump barely reached any of his goals in the first term. Unbelievable.