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  • Couple steals back their own car after tracking an AirTag in it

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    9secondkox2 said:
    JonG said:
    jesusfreak said:
    Perfectly safe in jolly ol England.  No one is allowed to have firearms there.

    Oh yeah, car thieves are so well known for obeying the law.
    One reason why banning guns never works. It ensures only the criminals have them. 
    Australia and Germany disagree with you (US has 33 times the gun death rate of Australia, and 77 times the rate in Germany, both of which severely restrict gun ownership. Singapore effectively bans guns and has essentially a 0% gun death rate. Data standardized per 100,000 population.

    You can't seriously believe "it never works". That's positively trollish. I'm also a gun owner.
    ronnhmlongcomuthuk_vanalingamtiredskills

  • Trump 'Liberation Day' tariffs blocked by U.S. trade court

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    Another issue is that the president does not have the authority to levy and collect taxes, which is what his tariff scheme does. 

    Per the US Constitution, Art 1 §8 Cl 1:

    "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States".

    It's quite amusing that Stephen Miller calls this decision a "judicial coup", given the pervasive usurpation of judicial and legislative authority by the White House and its clown cabinet. It's J6 2025 to be certain.
    danoxwilliamlondonsphericThatguy2watto_cobra

  • Texas passes App Store age verification law, despite Tim Cook's concerns

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    I'm glad my kids are grown and faring very well in the world. We raised them from an early age with guidance, expectations and rules, and they were quite aware that they didn't want to disappoint us. We did not prohibit their access to things, and although they made a few mistakes sometimes, they knew we expected them to make smart decisions. And often they would ask us first if we would be OK with something.  Maybe we just had really smart kids.

    I expect the government to stay the f**k out of our parenting. I'm afraid we would be scofflaw parents in this case and wouldn't restrict access to much of anything. Our kids could go to the library and look at any book or magazine they wanted to, just like I did when I was young. Somehow the world didn't crash.

    Look at your own lives: I daresay the vast majority of us have matured reasonably well without the government restrictions on the minutiae of our behavior.  
    muthuk_vanalingam9secondkox2damn_its_hotAlex1N

  • Apple working on adding AI-powered search to Safari

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    DAalseth said:
    https://gizmodo.com/apples-stock-price-falls-after-exec-says-it-is-considering-injecting-safari-with-ai-2000599351

    The markets seem unimpressed. 
    Not that it’s any skin off my nose. This was the last straw for me. After dealing with Safari crashes and freezes, and having to restart my system every few days because it just decided to not open any pages (on my phone, iPad, and Mac as well as others I support) and now them looking at putting AI **** in it, I’m done. Safari is a POS and I just moved to a DuckDuckGo. Apple seems to be mostly interested in the hype and not producing a quality browser by fixing the numerous issues that have been around for ages.
    I acknowledge in advance that I may be a simpleton with simple needs, but I haven't restarted my iMac in two years. Safari has never crashed or frozen for me, no matter what OS version. I don't have specialty apps, just the mainstream ones. I know they shouldn't affect the browser in any event, but who knows. I don't know anyone else who has your problem, but maybe I need a wider group of acquaintances.
    williamlondonAlex1Ndanoxbonobobwatto_cobra

  • Arms race: Apple's waiting for robotics for US iPhone assembly, says Commerce Secretary

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    welshdog said:
    From what I understand, total assembly of something as compact and delicate as an iPhone is not yet possible with robotic tools. Someday we'll get there, but it will require not only better robots, but a whole new level of design and engineering of the phone itself to make it compatible with the robots.

    Re-shoring massive amounts of manufacturing to the US is a current fantasy. The biggest shortcoming is supply chains. We have the absolute best CONSUMER supply chain, but our industrial chain is antiquated and inadequate. Plus, a lot of world manufacturing happens in places where the feedstocks and raw materials are close by. While that can be true for the US in some segments, it's not true for many. Then there's cost of labor problem - I don't see a solution for that. Along with that there is the worker training problem - our skilled manufacturing workforce is a tiny fraction of what it once was. We have near full employment right now so where are these workers coming from? Cook is right about the supply of tool and die makers, the engineers and other skilled workers. China has millions, we have thousands and they are pretty much all employed. And as many have pointed out, factory work is not some dream job for most people. Even if the job is as a robot wrangler, repair tech, automation manager etc. these can be dead-end unsatifying jobs. Whatever - no one who needs to hear all this is listening. I'm old and I guess it's time to enjoy
    "The Important Sound Of Things Falling Apart."
    I think you've nailed it in just about every avenue, and expressed it much better than I have in the past.

    I'm also old and have witnessed the shortage of skilled technical workers first hand for decades. It doesn't seem to be in our educational DNA anymore, and I'm not sure it will change anytime soon, although I wish it would. 
    welshdogwatto_cobra