You obviously don’t know who Leroy Jenkins is, the laws of man do not apply.

I’m more surprised bing doesn’t have a fail over for whenever bing goes down.

x86 is dying, legacy processing. It’s all GPU’s and ARM processing now. Apple is leaning hard into it so they set themselves as a leader in AI in the future.

Prohibition of cigarettes won’t work, at best people will just go across an imaginary line to buy cigs, at worst it creates an unregulated black market. Just look at how alcohol prohibition went and the current war on drugs is going. If you want to have any sort of meaningful impact on cigarettes create more sin taxes on the product so people will decide on their own to just not buy them.

So NSA backdoors are mandatory but Chinese ones are bad.

Start reading Kevin Mitnick’s books, get the paper copies not digital, you’ll understand once you’re done reading them. Ghost in the Wire and The Art of Invisibility are my favorites but he wrote a few others about this specific topic.

I’m still 90% convinced it was either invented by the CIA or the NSA for “reasons”. The US military invented the dark web and they even claim to have invented it, so it’s not a far stretch that another US gov. agency invented Bitcoin.

You highly overestimate the amount of compassion the average person has. If you torture people to death in public people will sell tickets for the best seats. The Romans built a whole damn arena for this purpose.

If that’s real and in the US that’s age discrimination and you can sue, and easily win, even if they say it’s not your age, but the date of your birthday it still would fall under discrimination based on age.