> Anyone can stop using gmail at any time

True, and applies to many other things as well. Anyone claiming otherwise is shirking responsibility for their own actions. Every single sibling comment here suffers from this.

Arguments in the form of "other people do it, so I must also" are unpersuasive and pathetic.

Stealing from children is the MO of Epic Games

There are garbage bins in NYC. Here's one: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7238555,-73.9968645,3a,75y,5...

Yep a trash bin right next to: "trash bag dumped on the sidewalk"

It's funnier if you don't explain the joke.

A shameless betrayal of user intent.

This article calls it "a genius move".

Repulsive.

It's doom, so hell for everyone

A trillion dollar company is screwing me again. Any tips on how I can keep supporting them?

(2008)

Discussing the effectiveness of the technique requires believing that the system has a legitimate purpose and was made with genuine intent.

Is it good to automatically record, transcribe, analyze, and censor all private conversations? Is their goal even censorship, or is that a false 'child safety' justification for mass surveillance?

> a 452-megawatt (MW) solar farm in West Texas [...] will generate enough electricity to power over 190,000 homes annually

452 MW nameplate * optimistic 0.3 capacity factor = 135.6 MW

8760 hours annually * 135.6 MW = 1187856 MWh

1187856 MWh / 14.112 MWh per Texas home = 84173 homes powered

190000 / 84173 = 2.257 lying factor