Well, at least we can all rest assured that all the driver monitoring cameras/tech that's being build by default into new consumer cars and trucks will only ever be used for safety.
I always wonder what happened to the ensign that Ashley Judd played. Dr Crusher had a word with the Chief and ensign what's-her-name was suddenly transferred to a Star Fleet farm in the beta quadrant.
The only thing that will stop climate change is if we reduce the beef industry and eat billionaires instead. Every billionaire will chop 0.1° off the warming trend.
Its a cyclic calandar and the last major cycle ended. If there were still ancient Mayans maintaining the calendar they would have calculated another major cycle.
Creality never made a printer that was worth the materials they were made out out. They just sold so many that there were still lots of people on the better side of QA bell curve.
And chrome is repeating history with that browser share too. I have to use chrome at work and it used to be that I used Firefox at home because of tab containers and a couple other extensions. Now I use it because it's better.
Sometime over the pandemic it shifted. Now chrome is the thing bogging down and Firefox is snappy with a smaller memory footprint.
If this is IE all over again we've got a good 5+ years of slow attrition to look forward to.
In the 90's before I was doing it professionally, I used to go on massive 10 - 15 hour binge programming sessions only stopping when I realized I hadn't eaten in that entire time. It was some of the best fun I've ever had. But it happened rarely and organically, not 5 days a week on a predetermined schedule.
I'm sure this won't have any chilling effects amongst the researchers who keep us all safe.
Edit to add that Johnson & Johnson is/was also trying to use patent loopholes to make sure poor people die from tuberculosis; until the internet got mad.
Sometime I think the Mayan calendar people were right. The world ended in 2012, it's just a slower process than John Cusack movies would lead us to believe.
Well, at least we can all rest assured that all the driver monitoring cameras/tech that's being build by default into new consumer cars and trucks will only ever be used for safety.