Especially since they’ve currently got a big, expensive war on their hands, that they’re all-hands-on-deck for.

As an example, medical care/inheritance rights are one.

Back before the days of gay marriage, there were no end of horror stories of LGBT people whose partners were dying from HIV, and were forbidden from seeing their dying partners, or for estranged family to swoop in and kick the “friend” out, preventing them from seeing their partner, often taking everything that belonged to the deceased in the process.

A relatively famous art piece has a similar story, where Boskovich’s boyfriend’s family swept in and took everything from their shared apartment after he died, effectively erasing their relationship in the process. All that was left was an electric fan.

And normalising it is a good thing all-round. You want privacy to be used for trivial, unimportant things, not for it to be seen as something that only most secret vital things need, and thus something most don’t.

People would be more likely to use it that way.

Incineration is a terrible idea indoors. At best, you’ve now got the smell of cooking and pyrolised human juices filling the place, and at worst, is the house being filled with carbon monoxide from the combustion.

What did you expect, it literally has Virgin in the name (!)

Paper would fall under that these days, wouldn’t it? You can’t just fit a word (8 bytes) onto a punch card like the old days, and you’d need billions of the things go even start matching up to modern storage.

Plus, like with Marilyn Monroe, their personality on stream is generally a persona of sorts. They’re going to be very different collecting food and paying for it on their own, compared to when they’re in front of an audience.

You’d be more inclined to think that someone who looked a bit like the streamer received the food.

Fair, though in my experience, Debian and Ubuntu weren’t that much better in that regard.

I just went with Arch, because some of the stuff I wanted to use was much newer on it.

I’ve had similar issues with Arch Linux for years. The front panel outright refuses to work on Linux, even after modifying a whole bunch of things.

Your average person is more likely to get frustrated that stuff is broken/doesn’t work, and switch back rather than having to alter module configuration files and things like that to fix it.

And the insurance can boot you off, or refuse to cover you if you’re too expensive.

So if you got cancer, and had to spend a million dollars to treat it, your insurance could just go “okay, your treatment is too expensive, we’re not covering that, you’ll have to pay for this yourself”.

It used to be worse. Many years ago, they could outright decide not to cover some medical conditions of yours, deeming them to be “pre-existing”. So if you had diabetes, sorry, that’s a pre-existing condition. We don’t cover those.

Nail in the coffin is that Americans spend more money on healthcare, per capita, than most other countries, without marked improvement in care/outcomes.

I can’t imagine self hosting an LLM-based search engine would be too viable. The hardware demands, even for a relatively small quantised model, are considerable. Doubly so if you don’t have a GPU to accelerate with.

He’s also useful. A lot of the kinds of people who might wish to be rid of him back in the day would much rather put him to use for their own ends.

He’s going have the biggest, the greatest, the best tariffs.

What if he does a Harold Holt and mysteriously vanishes, never to be seen again?

Or a Netflix for children/video editing app for primary schoolers in the early 2000s/late 1900s.

You do get sick, and I would be most surprised if they didnt allow people to look away and take breaks/get support as needed.

Most emergency line operators and similar kinds of inspectors get them, so it would be odd if they did not.

I wonder if that’s at least part of what is being gunned for. Since if they’re attacked while deporting someone, it can then be spun into more anti-immigrant sentiment, pushing for more stringent deportations, because they’re violent, and even attacked the authorities.

It’s basically the same motivation as people who have a gun and are itching for the apocalypse so they can loose the safeties.

Even saying that it’s righteous violence is ascribing positive motivations that may not exist. They’re just looking for someone to attack, and an alleged paedophile is a socially acceptable target to unleash that violence on.

Not only that, but it both reduces the chance of someone going to get help, because they don’t want to be hunted down, and reporting, because someone who knows of them might not want to see them be lynched, and won’t report them for that reason.

Surely that would very a lot depending on where they get their energy from? Even the most measly household solar panel can deliver 10W to a charger, in which case, the energy impact would be negligible.