"Diet and exercise"? I think that is the wrong audience. From this story it would appear drugs are the answer. Why exercise restraint and self control to eat more healthy when can just pop some pills and continue your lifestyle with no changes?

Personally I think the reasons diet and exercise fail is people make to bigger changes in hopes of quick results and then give up and fall back to old habits. Far more effective if make small changes, get used to them, then make more small changes. Wash rinse repeat until you have meaningful results. Added bonus, it is usually cheaper than the drugs.

While your post is tongue in cheek all modern cars do worry me about parts lock in when they are out of warranty. In theory BEVs should be pretty simple but in reality they are currently just as bad as modern ICEV. Aptera look to be the most open of the bunch but until they are in production that doesn't mean much.

If you ignore the complications of global safety regulations and just looked at what it would take to make a practical BEV it could be done with common interchange parts using open source designs. It is unlikely to ever happen at scale due to commercial and political realities but is happening to extent with popular models that are too old to be of interest to the companies that made them. The Nissan Leaf comes to mind. Enough reverse engineering has been done that you can replace the battery with a non-Nissan option. I think the Tesla Model 3 has sold in big enough numbers that in a few years when they pass warranty and start having failures, after market suppliers and hobbyist will start looking at how they can be kept running with more open solutions.

Probably the biggest barriers are not technical but human nature. We seem to be increasing raising generations who don't want to think or do any for themselves and are quite happy to be slaves to big corporations. As such they will not even try and consider if there is a better way to do things than what their corporate overlords have decreed.

If daylights saving was permanent then in winter I would have to get up while it was still night and work in the dark longer until sunrise. The biggest hassle for me is with a 6 hour change in the hours light a single change of a single hour is still not enough, but addressing that would be unreasonable for those with less dramatic changes.

Honestly for the USA you could look at daylights saving being a state based choice with southern states dropping it and northern states keeping it. Still be thankful you are not in China with a single timezone for such a large country, now that was horrible sun wise, winter driving home in the dark and summer the sun rising around 5am.

My point is there is no single fix that works for everyone, hence my taking issue with claim "100% want it to stop changing". That is simply your personal view, you are not 100% of the people, so stop trying to tell me, and others like me, that we don't hold the view we hold. Be honest and instead say "I want it to stop changing".

I would call bullshit on "something that ~100% of the American public agree with (ending time changes)". The closer to Mexico they are the more likely people will agree with you, but those closer to Canada are ones that actually benefit from daylights saving and would disagree with you. Basically I call bullshit because you are effectively claim "~100% of the American public" live in the southern states.

Just in case you don't understand the core issue, if you are close to the equator daylights saving is pointless and a hassle, but the closer to the poles you are the more extreme the number of daylight hours changes from summer to winter, 6 hours where I live. For people like me daylight savings makes the most of those hours by bringing the light hours closer in sync with when I need them.

The use of remote desktop access software increases.

I think you have a quality vs quantity issue at play. The problems is there is only a small quantity of quality new media outlets, such as the BBC, but in this era of social media the reach of the BBC is the same at that guy in the office with weird theories that you avoid talking to for sanity reasons.

And there lays the core problem with the current AI. Not that it has limitations, but the bulk of users simply trust it. "Checking the results" would require effort and thinking, exactly the things AI claims to save you having to do.

Bogus number aside on an individual basis that may actually be somewhat true, but reputable news outlets have other humans checking stuff and if they are doing their job right the foul ups are fairly rare.

The big problem with the current AI is there are no guard rails or checks as there is is no magic fix to their limitations. With the money to be made from AI slop there no fix in sight.

Yea, if there was one thing I could change I would to stop my mum watching Fox News. While she can tell the difference between reality and television she gets worked up by issues like immigrants coming across the boarder. I point out to her we are living on an island nation, there is no issue with immigrants here. That problem is for the people of the USA to work out and she should not worry about it.

We used to only follow USA politics to the extent it affected us, such as foreign policy. Now with trump we have to watch a lot more because so much of his shit affects the world, such as brain dead tariffs and threats to invade countries that have stuff he wants, including former allies. You could say the USA no longer has any firm allies as we know that if shit turns bad for us the USA is unlikely to offer any help anymore.

Sorry got a bit off topic there...

Yes, here in New Zealand we have MMP. Here any party that can get over 5% of the votes gets a voice in parliament. It is all done in a single round of voting done in the weekend and takes a voter between 5 mins and 30 minutes. MMP can lead to delays forming governments when a collation government needs to be formed. Notably having no government formed for a few weeks has no effect on day to day like.

The real advantage of MMP and it's like over the USA's FPTP systems the possibility of collations encourages compromise instead the us vs them mentality that is destroying the USA now.

If trump wants to get involved in your business then what is there to think about? Look at the track record of things he has put his name on then run, run away as fast and as far as you can. Hopefully one of your competitors with let him stick his pudgy little fingers in their business and you will have one less competitors to worry about.

Am I the only one that worries about the idea of "Imagine you have an AI agent that says: 'Hey, you could save $2,000-a-year by moving your money,'"? Trusting an AI with moving money brings a whole new level to "Hold my beer" and "What could possibly go wrong?".

The banks may want to be deliberately late to the add AI to everything game as the day my bank offers an AI with power to touch my money is the day I start looking for a new bank.

"and is being turned on by default". Of course it is, it's from Microsoft, so why ask the user first?

Less a lame feature and more a dangerous feature. Initially those bookings reservations and flights are going to be biased towards those pay OpenAI to be promoted and later, once they think you trust the feature, your bookings be directed to whomever pays OpenAI the most to get it.

For those not from Australia and New Zealand and not familiar with the front falling off see https://www.youtube.com/watch?...