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Exactly, the 737 was the highest-selling commercial aircraft before the incident, and the MAX was promised to be a simple but efficient upgrade to that popular series that many alr…

What's new? We have been using that same excuse to block out Japanese and Chinese goods in various eras. Just feels weird the Canadians are copying our playbook

You can summarize it as "they want more control over the people" And AI seems to be another tool being twisted to do that

Well they are also discovering that many people would rather pay the 20-30% extra than deal with the hassle of a subpar platform. The cost to build/maintain a competent platform is…

Which speaks to his point, once upon a time Sega would hog their IPs for their console and arcade games. They changed their strat abt a decade ago.

You do realize once this is normalized, it wouldn't even come as a surprise to have them eventually mandating company devices to be on when at home and so on.

You know what's funny? Even if the numbers are hot garbage, they proved the point about how easy it is to publish fake science papers, since it got published. Kinda similar to thos…

It's also useful to point out that historical verbal tradition trained a very specific type of memory recall but that doesn't automatically make anyone wise. Just because you memor…

I feel like it's not only products that get left behind once Google gets bored. Many of Google's software eventually get worse too. YouTube for example has killed most of their soc…

Obviously it didn't work out for meta. That isn't even up for debate. Meta has admitted to pivoting to AI and cutting down their metaverse teams significantly. Besides, even if App…

Politics in Germany is heavily sentiment driven and shorter term populous focused. So you are effectively blaming the public. Besides these decisions were mostly driven by the comp…

That is how capitalism works in reality.

Same reason why we have ex-US generals working for foreigners like the Saudi govt and no one seems to care.

It makes sense in a cynical capitalistic way. Energy company builds green energy farms to milk govt credits/funding and getting good PR to cover their "dirtier" energy sources. Gov…

That is modern capitalism at its finest. Privatize the gains, socialize the losses.

Sure Netflix played a part but a larger portion of the growth was probably from popular twitch streamers/YouTubers who picked up the hobby and brought their young communities with …

Switching entire business models to exploit the market, after receiving goodwill contributions/collaborations under their nonprofit model already sets a bad precedent. So I don't t…

Depends on the country as well, some country airports with high item tax make it worth buying at the airport. Take the vice tax for example, most Islamic countries probably at alco…

"the last 30 years of anti nuclear opposition have lead to 1000s of deaths, 100000s of people less health and more cost then any theoretical nuclear accident." Where are you pullin…

Maybe they don't want record because the data also holds incriminating evidence of how they understaffed the maintenance crew and skipped upkeep to fill their pockets in the short …

From your own wording, even you don't quite believe that propaganda. Esp since both nukes and fire bombings did far more damage to civilians structures at that point. Even if you i…

Saved from total annihilation? They more than proved their point with the first nuke, the second nuke was more "fun" field testing. Esp since civilians were the main casualties and…

He is pointing out the voters perspective which is valid and rarely reflected on social media since it is innately selfish. At it's core this is a social issue that is swept under …

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The recommended solutions by google focused groups is...they don't have a solution for VoLTE since it was removed from the pixel devices in 2021. https://9to5google.com/2023/03/17/…