kennend3

"Kill a tree just so that you can feel morally correct and the author gets a 2¢ royalty? "

As others have said, you seem shockingly unaware that trees are GROWN specifically for making paper.

NO ONE is cutting down premium "old growth" forests to make paper..

Nice "virtue signal" on your part, too bad you did not spend 5 mins to learn where paper comes from first.

Adding to this, region restrictions on video content.

There are TV shows which are made in Canada, and unavailable on amazon prime in Canada, yet are available on amazon prime in the US?

In Canada, amazon prime tries to push me to getting yet another subscription?

There are also shows Amazon prime owns and refuses to broadcast in Canada? You might be able to say that prime doesnt have redist rights on some shows, but their own "prime originals"?

After fragmenting the market like this, what did they expect people would do?

> I think the people complaining in this thread would complain about anything.

So much THIS!

If they were free, people would complain that you still have to pay property taxes/utilities.

Everyone LOVES to criticize but that same group rarely offers solutions, lest others criticize them.

Here (Ontario, Canada) housing is a major issue for the reason you list : Nobody is big enough to push back and make it happen.

Try and build anything here and you will be NIMBY to death. I ride my bike by an area where they are tying to build low-rise apartments and everywhere you look are signs protesting it.. where should they build?

Let us guess, you are also fabulously wealthy? For some odd reason fictional spies seem to be very wealth as well.

If you worked for CSIS it is unlikely you would be posting that you worked there, same for the CIA. Did you somehow just transfer to the CIA and as a "foreign national" all the confidential material marked "NOFORN" was suddenly available to you, a foreigner?

Declaring yourself a "spy" in public.. Any chance you have yet to reach the age of majority?

Sometimes you find a very underrated comment here, and this is one of those instances.

I NEVER subscribe to free trial offers simply because of the number of negative posts about how hard it is to cancel, and the pain involved.

It absolutely does hurt "good actors".

This is what i find most interesting about this whole debate.

Read the comments on the article itself, it is just full of "i dont want to do this".. so great, don't sideload apps (no one is forcing them to), but why are they so keen on preventing others from doing it as well?

Why not spend 20 seconds and GOOGLE it and find out for yourself.

what changed? The laws around prosecuting shoplifters:

"Previously, if you were charged with theft or retail theft, and the value of the item or items taken was over $300 you could be charged with a class 4 felony. A class 4 felony carries with it a penalty of between 1-3 years in prison. The new statute has raised the value of the item to $500."

Regen breaking.. similar to how manual transmission cars can transfer some stopping power from the brakes to the engine.. regen breaking changes the electric motor into a generator and this consumes power slowing the car down.

These actions cause the brakes to last a LOT longer. I've never driven an EV but the manual transmission cars i have had needed far fewer brake jobs.

> Wheel bearings on modern cars are incredibly long-lived. I don't think I've changed one in over 30 years on our family cars.

Depends on the car. I had a POS Chevy uplander and had to replace them 3 times. Angry because my Mazda was the same age, same milage and on its original set so i asked the GM mechanic why..

He told me the design. I'm going to guess the Uplander has the cheapest ones available?

But like you, I thought the same thing.. is "bearings" really a thing these days and apparently it is??

I'm never going to buy another "domestic" car again, and this whole "infotainment" mess we see here reinforces my decision.

"You answered your own question there. Apple doesn't used "commodity" SSD storage."

what a weaird thing to say...

So.. tell us.. where does apple get its SSD's if it is not "commodity"? Do they have their own SSD factory?

Then you write "Apple's SSDs are enterprise-grade"... So like "commodity" right? Meaning others can buy "enterprise grade" SSD's and upgrade their non-apple laptops wtih them if they wanted to?

My 2023 Elantra has both google/apple support and physical knobs on both the console and steering wheel.

I can do most things without interacting with the touch screen at all.

Physical knobs and these systems def. do exist.

your post looks like it has been downvoted, so i guess no one was familiar with "Socratic questioning" and your post comes across as "anti-nuclear" without doing any research.

as a leanring oppertunity, this is what Socratic questioning looks like:

What is an example of Socratic questioning?

What do you mean when you say X? Could you explain that point further? Can you provide an example? Is there a different point of view?

you simply asked negative-framed questions : Why did the regulators approve fission reactors knowing our country has enemies..