>Birds chase coyotes

Does the bird ever even acknowledges the coyote?

It does beep at it.

> These are relatively recent and may have come into force after development began,

If it were the case, Apple would just say it (with receipts).

> I suppose if you think these rules are reasonable, you’d be happy to not have this functionality.

As a European Apple user I am absolutely OK with not having these functionalities, which I am 100% sure would not even work as advertised given the company track record.

>This has never been true, not since Steve Jobs returned.

This is true now more than ever, since their hardware is now much better than the competition and the software pretty abysmal.

>The heart of Apple is software and hardware integration.

The heart of Apple is integrating their excellent hardware with their subpar software in order to force users to adopt it.

You know propaganda has worked flawlessly when you see the US doing US things and the comments are “just like Russia / North Korea / China!”

"What are we? A bunch of ASIANS??"

All the latest Lamborghini cars look like they gave access to CAD software to a 13 old in love with aliens and spaceships. But I agree the Temerario looks slightly better than the 296 GTB.

The lanyard is.. plastic. They could have said it uses the most exquisite handwoven linen (this thing is never seeing seawater anyway) and they chose polyester.

> this thing is never seeing seawater anyway

I can definitely see these used as lighting devices on luxury boats.

I don't understand the point of the rant. What disaster is having "bad music" out there? Is it stealing storage from "good music"? I understand this kind of rant for an iPhone, where a shitty decision brought along the chain of approval will impact million of people that are more or less stuck in the ecosystem. But music of all things? How do you even get in contact with "bad music"?

You are interpreting it the wrong way around. It's not a disaster for general population. It's a disaster for the artist and others involved.

Money/time/effort is spent on the wrong thing. It's a disaster for them. Not for you.

Nah. It's about a "disaster" that could have been averted up until the point that "someone played it", well past anything to do with the artists.

What other countries do you want nothing to do with?

North Korea, Eritrea, a few others but Russia is the only one in the list getting paid for search indexes.

This is so funny, as though wanting to boycott specific entities is some kind of absurd notion, and as though saying "Sure, what ELSE don't you like?" is some kind of proof that it's an absurdity

It kind of is though. Someone else will say "why are you sourcing results from an Israeli company?" and another will say "why are you sourcing results from a Chinese company?" and another one yet will say "why are you sourcing results from the US?".

Why are the ethics of working with Yandex or Baidu any better or worse than the ethics of working with Google or Microsoft? Except that they're not western.

The logical answer is that a person like this wants a very strong firewall, so ethically impure bits don't cross into their LAN.

> Why are the ethics of working with Yandex or Baidu any better or worse than the ethics of working with Google or Microsoft?

A completely reasonable question that you should be able to answer if you're giving your money out to them.

Maybe not that ridiculous, since one can guess that the underlying thoughts are more about geostrategic concerns than favorite color of the day.

The United States (I guess that's also the premise here, I'm not USA citizen myself) has notable rivalries with several countries, including China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela. These nations are often considered adversaries due to various geopolitical tensions and conflicts.

I guess that Kahi is doing nothing illegal, so if people have that kind of question, it feels legitimate to reply with a demand of what is the extend this patriotism stance is going beyond the judicial requirements.

> and Venezuela.

Isn't that one past tense now, after the US grabbed their leader?

Sure, rapture the leader with only a hundred civil left dead and this is it, everybody in the country now is hearth supporter of those who launched that raid.

The new Venezuela leadership seem to be ok with the US though?

Maybe just the ones at full or hybrid war with Europe?

Can you recall 3 lines of dialogue from the latest movie you watched?

Podcasts aren't entirely learning, a lot of podcasts are pure entertainment, such as comedy podcasts.

Sure you can "learn" something from a Sports Podcast or a Comedy Podcast, but you could also say you are "learning" from a podcast which just reads out random numbers. You could "learn" at 33 minutes, 11 seconds, the number 6 is read out, then 8, then 1 but I wouldn't call that learning, or at least its pointless learning.

>AIs don't have personalities unless you give them personalities.

Do humans have personalities if you don't give them personalities? If you raise two identical kids with exactly the same stimuli, how should they have different personalities?