bad_good_guy

I would more compare it to Disney now owning Star Wars, and retconning/ruining a lot of established canon

Good, Tony Blair / New Labour were amazing for the country.

Why should a company be assumed to be eventually sold? What the heck is that kind of perspective. The vast majority of small/medium companies are not sold - instead they provide regular income to their owners.

This sounds to me like typical toxic silicon valley startup mindset.

Just like with (most) cryptocurrency, it disgusts me how much energy is wasted on such frivolous pursuits like the majority of Generative AI usage.

The world should be fully awake to the incoming (on-going?) climate disaster, but instead we have vast amounts of additional energy demand being created mostly only in pursuit of making rich people richer.

I'd have to agree with this.

A lot of anecdotes about people switching to keto and feeling better, but not giving the context of what kind of food they were eating beforehand.

As I'm sure many of us know, a lot of software engineers (to be fair, this applies to most people as well) have very bad diets; buying fast food lunch every day, eating free snacks, etc.

ironic that 'security' magazine requires breaching your privacy and tracking you for them to allow you to use the site

A stark warning for the effects of neoliberalism on a human mind.

California has a population density of 249.1 people per sq mile compared to 103.2 people per sq mile in Texas. Seems an obviously more important factor here.

> His body fat hovers between 5% and 6%

Either the journalist hasn't a clue, or they were given false information by the person the story is about

Body fat at 5-6% for an extended period of time is decidedly _not_ healthy.

imagine comparing someones mental wellbeing to a programming language

Fatter. Why use euphemisms to avoid using the term "fat" when it's literally the case. It shouldn't be considered a loaded term, Americans need to admit they're fat instead of constantly moving the goalposts

what do you do when you leave your home?

This is unbelievably inaccurate.

*chronically underpaid people

So, you are happy to have Apple provide no user choice, because you fear a future where there is no user choice?