Yeah I didn’t realize this was the “pro death threat” community. I’ll see myself out before someone claims I’m defending a POS animal torturer.

Sure, but I hope we can all agree that directly threatening this guy with death is not an acceptable response.

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I’m of the opinion that we need to start calling NSO Group a terrorist organization.

Watching the video showed me just how half-baked this product is. So many basic features are not supported yet. It’s honestly laughable. The tech industry keeps pushing the envelope on how soon they can “sell” you any type of hardware with unfinished software.

Parts pairing is prohibited only on devices sold in 2025 and later. And there are carve-outs for certain kinds of electronics and devices, including video game consoles, medical devices, HVAC systems, motor vehicles, and—as with other states—“electric toothbrushes.”

What’s a good-faith argument for exempting these devices? Or was it simply successful lobbying in protecting corporate interests.

Companies told the FDA that it could take up to 18 months to completely exhaust the market supply of these products following their final date of sale. However, most of the affected manufacturers phased out the products faster than they initially predicted, the agency noted.

Or, instead of poisoning people for the next 18 months, we throw it all out now? No? Because companies are more concerned about profits than the health of people?

Heck, I don’t even care if the FDA used my tax dollars to compensate companies for throwing out their remaining stock; just stop poisoning people.

As an optical media enthusiast, I’ve done a fair amount of research into how, why, and when discs fail. Because the discs use two or more polycarbonate layers pressed together, moisture can sometimes work its way between the layers and speed up degradation, especially if a disc has been overly flexed at the center. Heat and UV can also speed up degradation.

Another problem is that plastic is petroleum-based and it breaks down over time. A lot of people think that the reflective layer (the metal layer) is actually the data layer but it almost never is. The data layer itself is polycarbonate, sandwiched between the reflective layers and more polycarbonate layers.

The newer discs like blu-ray movies are made with better plastics that should last at least 100 years. Depending on the dye layer of writable and rewritable blu-rays, they should last either at least 25 years or 100 years.

I’m all for making the roads safer, but these companies should never have the right to test their products in a way that gets people killed, period. That didn’t happen in this article, but it has happened, and that’s not okay.

People have been hit and killed by autonomous vehicles on public streets due to bad practices and bad software. Those cases aren’t hiccups, those are deaths that shouldn’t have happened and shouldn’t have been able to happen. If a company can’t develop its product and make it safe without killing people first, then it shouldn’t get to make the product.

You getting downvoted for refusing to vote for Biden for a very valid reason is proof of how broken our two-party system is. This is why every state needs to pass ranked-choice voting. Maine did it and proved it could be done, and now they get to vote for who they actually /want/ without having their vote “spoiled”.

Everyone in the US should be working to get ranked-choice voting in their state.

Dennis Kucinich