Were you making the assumption that the US had a good reputation before that ?

Half of the world hated it outright and the other half was mostly just playing along because of its economic or military power and propensity to behave like a bully.

The only difference is that since Trump is too stupid to do it quietly.

I promise to never fly spacex.

https://github.com/Pofilo/grammalecte

You can reactivate the map integration in your Google account settings. Something called "Linked Google services", check "maps".

It should be obvious that we don't know exactly why a plane crashed barely a day ago.

Investigating takes time and since the pilots are dead they'll have to reconstruct the situation from the wreakage, flight data recorders and whatever other information they can piece together.

Expect a few weeks before getting a rough theory and a year or two for a final report after it's done bouncing between all the various authorities who will want to be involved and the manufacturers.

Russia’s aviation watchdog said was an emergency that may have been caused by a bird strike.

That or the plane just fell of a window by accident.

Not exactly fair to put the bar so much higher than most human operated US drone strike.

If the AI only hits a wedding every ten strike that would still be a massive improvement.

And if you wondered what was the response of Macron's government it was to pass an "executive order" (decret) increasing the range of situation where a farmer can implement a "crunch" mode and suppress the otherwise mandatory weekly rest day.

This was specifically tailored for wine producer to make some of their slaver's practices legal.

he piloting equivalent to the Tesla “FSD”.

Seems perfect for suicide bombing drone. They are meant to crash after all.

In a way but you should see the amount of crap he got away with.

This is basically akin to getting the unabomber for using fake stamps. 🤣

Yes, except the antivax movement predate the internet by a hundred year.

But social media does work as an accelerator. Unfortunately it seems to be very good at accelerating stupidity.

You're totally correct and I forgot about that. My S8 could actually do more than the latest flagship if we consider the headphone jack and removable storage. So yeah.. progress...

https://historyofvaccines.org/vaccines-101/misconceptions-about-vaccines/history-anti-vaccination-movements

The above link will give you the overview of the historical background on antivax movement since vaccine invention.

It basically boils down to two arguments, which feed each other.

• Risk => Vaccine are/can be/will be/may be/ought to be dangerous to someone somewhere, somehow. I don't understand and I'm scared.

• FrEeDoM => I do not contract and I am free to decide what treatment I get, I am not a sheep and I participate in no herd and the only immunity I accept is from overbearing big government.

In spite of my sarcasm, I do think the second argument has merit, a government should of course be extremely careful with mandatory medical treatment of any kind and bear the burden of proving regularly that the benefits continues to far outweigh any and all alternative.

That reminds me, I have a 10am appointment for my flu shot. Almost forgot.

There isn't much progress in phones.

There was a period between 07 and 2016 (maybe) where each new generations of phone was a big leap in quality and capabilities, so I admit being in tech, so well paid and actually professionally concerned by the evolution I was on a 1 to 2 year cycle for a while. That reminded me of the evolution of computers in the 80s/90s...

Now, I recently I broke my galaxy S8 from 2017 and went to check new phones and of course looked at the current flagships and ... meh... Yeah they are better I mean it's 6 generations later but they are not that much better. My old phone could already do 90% of what they do and 100% of what I need and it's just not worth it, especially since I'm pretty sure my income hasn't followed the same curve as flagship phones prices.

So yes, nowadays even a 7 year old phone is more than enough for the vast majority of the population except for people who need a status symbol or some weird use at the margin I can't think of. (An no, your photo sucks donkey balls and no one cares about them and you don't need 12 sensors and an AI coprocessor for your tiktok stories that only 3 peoples watch)

You can but I'm going to be "that guy" and point out that it's not really an ergonomic keyboard.

Lachlan is a masculine name of Irish origin, meaning “from the land of lakes” or “from the fjord land.” It is an Anglicized version of the Gaelic and Scottish Lachlann, which means “warrior from the land of the lochs” with loch meaning “lake” or “fjord” and lann translating to “land.”

Google is your friend.

With the end of the NFT and other coins bullshit and the emergence of AI chip the graphic card manufacturer might have to go back to selling graphic card to people who actually want them for displaying stuff.

Yeah, just trying to sells some crap to nostalgic genXer.

It was electoral calculus nothing else.

I believe he is honestly more scared of leftist than far right. Macron is at the core a liberal (economic not American), a utilitarian and a staunch believer in the great man theories and thus that the people are sheeps who can't know what's good for them. Only great leaders and captains of industry can.

He truly believes leftist economic policies are the greatest evil, civilization destroying kind and getting in bed with nazi is the least worst options even if that means sacrificing a few "Jews" to save the universe. (Warning, 1st degree people that's a metaphore, I am not saying Macron is antisemite)