No one should touch anything Oracle with a 5000ft pole, to be honest. Sorry you had to find out that way, OP.

Well the idea of Miranda rights is that people famously may not know their rights when they are arrested and thus need to be informed about them before being interrogated.

Honestly I can’t even say that’s an exaggeration, they really are that big these days.

Unironically, people with Ring cameras.

Gosh, and those poor megacorps that bought up units by the thousands. Won’t someone think of the c-suite bonuses? If things keep up as they are, they might even have to sell those units back at reasonable prices. How sad…

No one, they’ll just have the government bail them out. They’ll call their collapse a national security risk, threaten to sell their share of US Tiktok back to Bytedance, claim that they won’t be able to protect the sensitive medical data of millions of Americans, etc. Whatever it takes to convince Trump that they’re too big to fail.

And this is basically how former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe was assassinated

China isn’t in NATO

English was screwed by the advent of the printing press.

From the beginning of the renaissance up to the 1700’s, English underwent a vowel shift which saw a lot of words change pronunciation. When the printing press arrived in England in the late 1400’s, there was a push to set standard spelling. But because the printing press arrived while the vowel shift was still ongoing, the new pronunciation of some words was revised with updated spelling (consistent with other words at the time) but other words would receive new pronunciations after their spelling was already set in stone.

If a language undergoes a vowel shift after its spelling is standardized, the phonetic rules remain mostly intact because they will trend towards changing consistently. If a language completes a vowel shift before its spelling is standardized, then the new spelling will just reflect its current phonetics. English was unlucky enough to be locked in time during its blunder years.

But the Venn diagram of “People critical of the government” and “People who can afford a lawsuit” is almost two completely separated circles.

Just don’t count on the current Bitwarden client being compatible with Vaultwarden forever. Bitwarden’s new CEO is pushing to make more profit wherever possible, and recently rescinded the statement from the company’s website that the client would be free forever.

They’ll never be able to walk back the open source nature of the product, but they can choose to make their client incompatible with Vaultwarden and push for the centrally hosted option as the only option.

Not sure if anyone’s forked the Bitwarden client yet, but that’s how I’d start using Vaultwarden if the option exists.

Or, you know, skip the headache and just start using Keepass.

Agreed. “Failed to disclose” isn’t condemned as harshly as “Blatantly lied”, even if it should be. So obfuscating a project’s AI usage may be seen as less risky than being upfront about it.

A responsibly transparent project should advertise itself as AI-free if it truly is.

If this article from Variety is to be believed, Game of Thrones experienced viewer growth each season.

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/euphoria-season-2-finale-ratings-1235192015/

It did start strong, almost 10 million viewers is great, but the final season apparently had close to 5x as many.

I’d probably credit that to Game of Thrones becoming a cultural sensation. People became interested the more they heard other people talk about it. It bled into “normie” spaces instead of staying niche.

it makes no sense to me that anyone would buy into SpaceX.

Index funds, mainly. The thing about index funds, though, is that they incorporate investments with little to no consideration of the product a given company makes. They just play a meta-game in the market itself with its own rules and conditions, and become attractive investments for portfolios looking for steady, “safe” growth.

You only get ID’d for alcohol if you look like a kid. I haven’t been carded in years. And when you do get carded, they look at your license, check the date, and hand it right back. No copies are saved to a database that could get leaked who-knows-where.

If a social media site is concerned that a user may be underage, I’m fine with them asking for some sort of verification. But a blanket request on everyone to ID themselves by default is just not the way.

I am in favor of keeping kids off of social media, but I think the method of ID verification as default is entirely wrong.

Parents should ultimately be responsible for the activity of their child. If you can’t trust your child to use the internet/social media responsibly, they simply should not be given access to smart devices.

If a kid gets onto social media and does stupid things there, go after the parents for neglect. The same would happen if I wasn’t supervising my 8-year-old and they sneak off to vandalize someone else’s property.

At most, maybe conversations could happen with ISPs to standardize an optional whitelist system for home consumers with children to block access to key social media domains for unapproved devices, but that’s as far as I’d go. Empower parents with better supervisory tools to be more involved, no need to violate the rights of everyone else.

A lot of mosques aren’t that glittery. There are different styles to building mosques

This. I feel like OP encountered one example of a very ornate mosque and is generalizing the rest of them based on that. I know the ones near me are a lot more plain.

By example, compare the architecture of small community christian churches to grand cathedrals in Europe. You’ll find similar extravagance, yet it would be weird to ask why all churches are so ornate just based on those examples.

Fair enough! There are definitely a lot of more impactful things I’d like to see them add as well, but wool stairs seemed like one of those no-brainer, low effort additions that I know a lot of folks have been requesting for a while.

Seconded though that it would have been nice to also just place carpet on existing stairs. Still think there is a good case for that when you want the sides of stairs to be exposed and match the material qualities of other blocks around them.

Just out of curiosity, why no on the wool stairs? A tent is probably not the way I’d use them, but it will be nice to finally have a way to make carpeted stairs. Feels like one of those things that they’ve had no reason not to add ages ago.

With wool stairs/slabs coming, would be nice if they could also finally include terracotta, concrete, and glass stairs/slabs.