Saving money on food to buy a guillotine is personal finance.

Let’s pretend for a second that the TSA is not a circus meant to appease people that are not paying too much attention being performed by an organisation that’s effectively an employer of last resort.

The TSA will not even stop people from taking what they would need to make a Molotov cocktail with what they can buy in the airport shop. Their stated goal is not to reduce the risk of incidents to 0 is reducing it to reasonable level with the least disruption to the air travelers as possible - otherwise they would be trying to get people to fly naked and without luggage.

You are seriously misunderstanding TSA’s purpose.

And the issue with wireless communications in airplanes was never that it was a huge risk by itself, it was always that there’s a small chance that it could increase noise enough that some important communication might potentially be missed or misinterpreted. And there are lots of things that factor in the risk, like power, bands, and the amount of people not following the rules - it’s very different to have one person forgetting to shut off the cellular signal on the phone or to have 200 phones on full blast mode trying to reach the nearest antenna.

All airplanes I’ve been in the last decade explicitly allow Bluetooth - and it’s very easy for the staff to see the dozens of people wearing wireless head/earphones. For WiFi it’s usually tied to the existence of on-board Internet.

You half answered your question. Different band and very different levels of signal strength.

And there are airplanes that allow wifi, just not all of them yet.

And the ones arriving are coming at a premium. And it’s not only because of the value of the tariffs. There are plenty of people complaining that American companies are being required to pay imports up front because no one wants to take the risk of rejected deliveries due to surprise tariffs. This often means that American companies will need to get loans to pay for their orders, and those costs will be passed to the customers.

I also saw posts of people saying that hospitals aren’t buying some medical equipment anymore because the sales price is locked by contracts with insurance companies and buying it from China would put them at a loss, so it’s more profitable to refuse service to patients - hurray for private healthcare ! /s

Theoretically several european countries have mandatory vaccines, which can, theoretically, lead to parents getting fined (for example, in Germany parents can get fined 2500 euros if per child if they are not vaccinated for measles).

The real scandal here is that in most of the EU parents are allowed to endanger their kids and all the other children around them.

You can’t sell things to their owner.

That’s still no reason for us to give them money. We can’t negotiate with the BRICS as BRICS because every cent we give to Russia is a cent that Russia will use to to buy things to fire at us.

They can’t win a war, but the way their regime is set they need to fight a war. And while they can’t win they can ruin many lives in losing.

The plotting war against each other was also prevalent in the allies. There were people in the Soviet Union that wanted to keep marching west to spread communism and there were people in the UK and US that wanted to pick up what was left of the Wehrmacht and march east to eradicate the Soviet Union.

The cold war was a compromise solution.

Wikipedia has always been subject to EU laws regarding personal dignity rights, like the right to be forgotten for example. The GDPR is not even relevant for 99% of those cases, and they predate GDPR and even then web by decades. There have been court cases about it, and Wikipedia complies with court decisions. It’s not an Achilles Heel it is the normal balancing act between the public’s right to be informed and the individual’s rights to a private life.

So what you want to conserve is the pre-1968 wealth distribution created by discrimination against non-white people? At last a conservative that’s almost honest about what they want to conserve.

2 and 5 are also fine at best. Good cutlery needs to have proper “thick” handles, these all look cheap and unergonomic.

You can keep personal data without consent for security and fraud detection. What Wikipedia does is perfectly compatible with GDPR.

Edit: case in point, Wikipedia is already subject to the GDPR, it’s a very high profile website, and it hasn’t been sued for violating it.

It’s a bit different criticising a party for courting thinly disguised bribes from oligarchs and plutocrats, and wanting to remove all funding a party.

Before we even get close to have this discussion, we would need to have an AI capable of experiencing things and developing an individual identity. And this goes completely opposite of the goals of corporations that develop AIs because they want something that can be mass deployed, centralised, and as predictable as possible - i.e. not individual agents capable of experience.

If we ever have a truly sentient AI it’s not going to be designed by Google, OpenAI, or Deepmind.

You mean how they are helping middle east tyrants supercharge corruption in sports?

If you think what Trump says about Greenland is bad, you should hear what Russia keeps saying about the baltics and Poland.

Russia is not being particularly secretive in their plans for a war with the EU.

It depends on what kind of weird shit you’re into.

Well, for that their only solution is to use their Central America regime change guidebook closer to home, and hope everyone forgets the US’s propensity to elect imperialist assholes.