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Oh, they solved one crime. That is definitely worth turning the entire country into a 24/7 panopticon forever, with no meaningful oversight, so that cops can stalk whoever they like without consequence.

Source please. This does not sound credible. How does scanning license plates stop people from breaking into parked cars?

The performer in the Eurovision video is "Look Mum No Computer", aka Sam James Bartle, who runs the museum that was the source for the flip-dot panels. There was a brief call-out near the start of mitxela's video.

Sorry, best anyone can do in 2026 is spyware on wheels.

Is it perhaps time to ackowledge that cabinets where everyone is buddies can't actually do their jobs, yet they get given obscene amounts of power?

Amazon has turned the search ranking into a contest for who can give Jeff Bezos the most money. How is that an improvement on anything?

Megawatt-hours (MWh) are one billion times larger than milliwatt-hours (mWh).

This argument makes no sense, because the CPU and disk resources required to serve up a modern ad (and the megabytes of JavaScript that come with it) are 100-1000x more expensive than just serving up the content.

Agent Smith was right when he was explaining The Matrix. Human civilization peaked in the 90's.

I always liked the archaic form, "You are hereby requested and required to [insert naval orders here]." It's asking very politely, for now, but also making it clear that declining will result in jail or worse.

I don't know if it's apocryphal, but it shows up in the Hornblower novels and at least one episode of Star Trek.

Buy a separate tablet and a roll of duct tape. If you're careful, you can completely cover whatever obsolete nonsense is built into the car.

All these different names and version numbers are too confusing. Just name every single model "Copilot". /s