I literally never saw Musk as a real life Tony Stark. He always was more or less 'some tech executive' to me, but my perception of him change to 'toxic shithead' the moment he lashed out at people criticising his submarine idea.
Net neutrality isn't going to do a thing about this kind of stuff. In a best case scenario, you'll end up with overall data usage limitations - no more 'unlimited mobile data'.
ISPs meter data usage because it's pretty much the only way they can impose some form of limitation on a finite capacity to provide such data to you and other customers - other than data rate limits (read: slower speeds). They can't guarantee data rates in almost any setup, because ultimately, while 'data usage' is a bit of an artificial construct and 'data' is not in any way finite, the pipes that deliver the data certainly are of finite capacity. Mobile data capacity - and in fact, any wireless medium - is a shared medium, the more people try to use it simultaneously, the less pleasant it's going to be for each individual user. Ask Starlink users in many US areas how overselling limited capacity impacts the individual user.
Mobile data usage also has different usage patterns than if you're hotspotting your PC. You're not going to download massive games or other bandwidth hogs to your mobile. You probably won't be running a torrent client either. So they can give you unlimited mobile data because you're simply not going to put as much of a strain on the infrastructure with pure on-device usage than you will with hotspotting.
This isn't a defense of what AT&T is doing. But net neutrality isn't going to force them to suddenly be all ethical. It's not going to make them provision infrastructure that doesn't fall over at the first signs of higher-than-usual load. And it certainly can't change the physical realities of wireless data communication. In an ideal world ISPs wouldn't be so greedy and/or beholden to greedy shareholders to be cutting corners, and instead provide sufficient infrastructure that can handle high demand.
And to those who are talking about their workarounds: you may not like it but you've signed a contract. That contract stipulates acceptable use, and if you're found to be breaching the contract terms, the other party is within their rights to terminate the contract. Again, in an ideal world these contract terms would be more balanced towards the needs of the customer, but in the meantime your best recourse against unfavourable contract terms is to take your business elsewhere. And if you can't do that, everything else is at your own risk.
Be careful to merely associate self-aggrandising with Trumpism - there is a lot more to it. I'd argue that in his first term, he largely checked his boundaries and tried to see what he could get away with. But he wants to be a dictator, an autocrat, and now that he has the majority of SCOTUS on his side, and more and more of the red states slipping into outright Republican autocracy, he has a lot more wind in his back. A second Trump term will be disastrous, and that's not because of his self-aggrandising.
Oh, Hanson is absolutely self-obsessed. So much so that she had herself put in her party' constitution as party leader for life with the right to determine her successor.
I wouldn't class Katter or Lambie as Trumpian, but specifically Katter is very self-obsessed. In general though he is, despite his deeply irritating shtick*, fairly harmless and benign.
Palmer may not have had straight-up electoral success - but he has successfully manipulated public opinion and influenced election outcomes by injecting himself along with huge amounts of money into the campaign cycle and blasting his positions out there. We can largely thank him for the Coalition winning the 2019 election which they themselves absolutely expected to lose. The thing about Palmer is figuring out what his goals are, and aside from making money, those goals thus far have been focused around either preventing a Labor government, or preventing parts of Labor's agenda. However, if those goals ever change towards getting more political power, then Palmer will be able to spend a lot of money to achieve his goals.
One could argue that key reasons for Australian electoral outcomes being fairly benign are the preferential voting system (as opposed to first past the post in the US) and compulsory elections - high voter turnout is generally recognised to prevent swings towards the extreme. In the US, 60% voter turnout is considered high, whereas here the turnout is generally north of 90%.
*By shtick, I mean his general 'oh, don't mind me, I'm just a funny old dodderer' demeanour, from which he can pivot in half a second flat to become really toxic and aggressive
I'd say this is a mess of Trump's own making. Nobody forced him to perform the actions that got him into this legal trouble. If you can't afford the penalty, don't do the crime.
It has now been reported that the question and details about Rudd were fed to Farage by none other than the current CEO of Sky News Australia, on request of the former CEO of Sky News Australia who now runs GB News, the network that employs Farage.
I'd be highly surprised if Farage would have even thought to bring this up otherwise.
I used to like small phones. I thought the form factor of my erstwhile iPhone 5 was perfect.
But then I got older, and my eyesight got worse. Reading small fonts on small screens is becoming increasingly difficult, but I'm not yet at the point where I have to wear glasses or contacts all the time. I also don't like just increasing font sizes, as I lose screen realestate. So I'm kinda starting to see why some people like phones with bigger screens.
The space race didn't end with the moon landings. The USSR launched the first manned space station program - which became crucial in the development of the ISS - and performed the first landings of probes on Mars and Venus. The space race effectively only ended when the Cold War ended, and I think historians could spend days arguing who actually 'won' it.
Thanks to capitalism, almost every aspect of society is being viewed through the lens of economics. Profit and loss, surplus and deficit. We're privatising everything that promises to make a profit for someone, no matter the drawbacks - healthcare, education, water supply. Everything else is being neglected even destroyed. Politics is utterly beholden to economic concerns (read: the will of wealthy donors). Which is one of the reasons why we don't have a carbon tax. The free market doesn't work in a system where growth and profit trump everything. We're literally running government like a business.
We literally have a pandemic going on in which millions of people have died completely preventable deaths in only a few years, but we didn't try to prevent those deaths for economic concerns. We literally had capitalists tell us that it's better to let those people die so we can save the economy. That's just one example of how completely and utterly capitalism has fucked up our society.
'Mass murder' is not a 'good idea' in any context.