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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
Ah yes, laws, notoriously non-existent before the introduction of camera surveillance.
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> Can someone explain to me why you wouldn't want a camera accessible to police monitoring the comings and goings of your residence? You can't be serious. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026&#x2F
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> Are they to blame for the US Army's acquiescence… I mean, their favored candidate is said army's Commander in Chief. Per the Trump administration's own intentionally released docs! https://www.yahoo.com/n
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Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump's preferences(washingtonpost.com)
7 points by ceejayoz 2mo ago|5 comments
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
It's a 21 mile wide strait with heavy radar coverage and probably folks with plain old binoculars right now. You might miss a submarine or two.
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
https://status.claude.com/
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
There's no reason to be this mean to us olds.
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> If checking the bag is free, everyone would do it, leaving the overhead space empty. Checking the bag used to be free, and this was not the case.
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List of predictions for autonomous Tesla vehicles by Elon Musk(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by ceejayoz 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> Localized grid outages might be more common, but you don't have to lift a finger or pay anything extra to get them repaired. The utility just does it. Sounds like a good backup option for resilience!
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> they put up barely any struggle against solar adoption They put up plenty. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22146... https://www.theguardian.com/environment&#x2
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
Isn't "subsidized by the electricity company" partially fulfilling "at a societal level"?
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> We already have the "power pipes", from the power plants. And when they break, many people lose power. Ukraine's seen some of the benefits of hyper-local generation over centralized production.
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
I tend to doubt it's more complicated than it looks. It's a way to make more money off people for worse service, with the externalities going on people who can't do anything about it.
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> My point is that that is the service you are getting from regional/express airlines these days. But it's unnecessarily implemented in a costly, inefficient, annoying way that makes the entire experience worse to no one&#x27
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
And annoyingly, the real, meaningful things they do do aren't sexy. Reinforced cockpit doors are basically invisible, but they've also basically made hijackings impossible, especially when coupled with the fact that passengers w
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> Movie theaters do charge to reserve seats now… "Other people are also enshittifying" is not the argument you think it to be. (It's not the case in my area, incidentally.) You asserted it couldn't be done . I quote:
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> Not according to any flight I have been on. Are we just learning about future tense? > In my experience, basic economy is still just as clean and safe of a seat as the others... They are meaningfully less safe. https://p
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
Ryanair threatened to make people pay for toilet usage. Airlines are looking at standing seats ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_seat ), which would absolutely impact evacuation safety (mainly a concern of bandw
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
Yes, I know, that's what I described. So why not a fee for carry-on - the actual limited resource on such a plane - and a free small checked bag to be efficiently and cheaply shepherded from the entrance all the way to the destinatio
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> I don’t care for airport lounges, why should I pay for them? Same for bigger seats, or checked bags, or alcoholic drinks, etc. But they can, and will, always stretch this further than it should go. It's like a restaurant that char
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
Business class is starting the enshittification ramp. https://travelupdate.com/business-class-seat-selection-fee/ Wanna sit with your partner? Both of you, pay up! Lounge access? Oh, that's extra now.
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> I have no other explanation but that they do it on purpose. It's much simpler; the incoming plane takes pretty much any available gate, because they are all almost always full. Getting the two flights to Vienna in the same spot mi
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
My last four flights have each made me gate-check my carry-on at the jetway. They could've saved a lot of time and labor by just letting me check it like I would have before they started charging $30-50 each way for it.
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
Again, all this asserts "it takes a while", which I'm not contesting at all.
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> Did the US lose control of the most populous part of its “empire” in the last 20 years? I might count alienating NATO and China's growing independence as uncomfortably close to that, yes. > Has the US just come off of required
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> Because I don’t assume lack of agency in the rest of the world? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/us/politics/how-marco-rub... "The secretary of state effectively controls Venezuela’s fin
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> But if it’s specifically the Iran war fiasco compared to the Suez incident I’d suggest those aren’t particularly the same. Yes, one's a superpower failing to project power over a critical waterway to much international embarassmen
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> Because the US does not control other countries fiscal policy… I can't even begin to imagine how someone says this with a straight face.
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> unless you just assume all international finance is a US issue Why wouldn't you? 2008's collapse of the US housing market caused a global recession. It's the single largest economy on the planet.

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