‘Building more lanes will reduce traffic’ is a classic.

Donald Quixote

There was the cybertruck technical some wealthy Russian was posting about. Last I heard Tesla remotely disabled it.

The only way this makes sense to me is that Musk has to play nice with the last two, while the rest are happy to play ball with him as long as stocks keep inflating, regardless of how much of a rage baby he acts. If they are not playing ball, he can just throw a fit on X until he gets his way. No chance of that working so well with the last two. So he has to show fealty. Musk has much more leverage to get what he wants from the west. Outside of the west he actually has to make deals.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Blow_Up_a_Pipeline_(film)

The 1% at the top have chosen to maintain the current system for generations. They also have chosen to strangle any attempts to change the system whenever possible via immense violence.

jeezus this thing just started beeping like crazy

The fact that there is not a choice to just end the 1% makes this very

I heard once that old smoke detectors have some radioactive isotopes in them. Not sure how true or dangerous but sounds bad.

This. I have a nice 4k 120hz ‘smart TV’ that is not connected to anything. I use it only as a display for PC with external speakers. I’m pretty sure you can even do firmware updates without connecting anything but USB drive. Even if you have to connect to get updates, you can just disconnect it afterwards.

Hamas raided southern Israel on Oct. 7 last year, killing about 1,200 people, kidnapping about 250 more and spurring a war with Israel. The ensuing fighting left more than 42,000 Palestinians dead, according to health officials in the Hamas-run territory, who don’t distinguish between combatants and civilians.

The closing paragraph really gives the game away, but can’t expect any better from The Economist:

In the process, the West has been abandoning its commitment to a bottom-up, market-based approach to setting technical standards.

So in the process of being spooked by China, the world’s largest manufacturer of electronics, having some influence on standards, the West refers to letting the biggest pile of capital set standards for profit as a ‘bottom-up approach’.

“We are being forced to undermine a system that has been very effective and that we have profited from for a long time,” laments Mr Rühlig. In more ways than one, China is making the West play by its rules.

China now being more capable at playing the same game they been playing for decades is framed as a terrible injustice. They are crying that they used to be able to set standards that relied on privately owned intellectual property that generated easy profits for years or even decades.

I hope the Chinese told them they could just stop enabling a genocide. That is the correct answer to this situation.

The zionist prez that said being the strategic leader of this escalation is really something.

Every on-call employee should now get additional hazard pay until all devices have been throughly screened for explosives.

I was wondering how quickly into the article there would be fascist dog-whistling about invading Kursk. 2nd paragraph.

“I felt myself a part of history, because it was the first time since the Second World War Russia’s been invaded,” Sergei, the flaxen-haired trooper, told POLITICO
“I had the most powerful feeling,” he said.