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Incorrect, they don't have natural de-orbit. They have to be controlled. They haven't solved natural de-orbit, and every de-orbit puts more aluminum oxide in the upper atmosphere that will decimate the ozone layer in 15-30 years.

Xcel literally does nothing right. What a garbage company anymore.

The Motorola phone brand has been owned by Lenovo for some years now, not the Motorola that brought the Nexus 6 and Moto X. The behavior is of no surprise. It isn't a brand borne of pride anymore, it is just a thing that makes money, maybe.

I like you, but I don't like your words because they make sense. I do wonder sometimes if it is actually late stage, or just 1929 stock market crash repeating with some variations. Or all the market crashes of the late 1800s. A lot of similarities, going up to 1929 people were doing BNPL on RCA radios. Today it's groceries and cell phones.

I will say one thing though, late stage capitalism sounds dark and scary because "the way of life" is going away, which always means we poors suffer and die. The other angle, is maybe something better will finally fight its way to the surface. Not what those billionaire idiots want though. Hopefully it will be as damaging to them now as it was back in the 20th century when they were somewhat put in their place for a century. Capitalism only ever worked if the evil was regularly regulated, as greed is inherent in the design.

Next Stargate reboot ep, SG-1 visits a planet where they have the centennial saving of freedom by vanquishing the evil rich, as told over a few centuries, and only SG-1 can save them this time.

That's the weirdest thing about it. "Green" can be, and is profitable. Why pass up the opportunity to be the front-runners in what could be the new age of wealth?

Discord, the cancer that replaced IRC. Which was an earlier form of cancer, but at least more disposable.

That paying extra to get faster service thing is a complete scam too, at least with DoorDash. But they probably didn't bother researching anything about how these junk services work either.

Muskrat is clearly an alien sent to Earth to ensure our doom.

Bear in mind that as they age, you have increasingly unstable lithium bombs on your wall.

Nest smoke alarms were inspired and truly the best I have ever used. So pissed Google destroyed them.

If you do a Takeout request of Nest data, you will find a hundreds of megs JSON file with every change you made to your thermostat, every time you walked by it, any data it could harvest. A breadcrumb trail of your entire home life. I switched back to old fashioned offline battery thermostats.

However Fitbit accounts had different privacy policies and terms of service, IIRC. Bringing them under the Google umbrella likely allows Google easier data harvesting/combining from a legal perspective. They did similar with Nest years back before they completely butchered it.

IIRC, Apple's "open" browser implementation was so fundamentally broken and difficult that it made the actual implementation of a third-party browser exceedingly difficult. Kinda like how their call-blocking API is nothing more than a database loader with no feedback, so call blocking apps can't share data back to improve through crowd-sourcing. The products all have to learn from Android phones on the same product to be able to share with iPhones.