Oh I love this. Would mod you up, but it's already at +5 so I'll reply instead.

(Paraphrased, yes, but I'm stealing it.)

So why is it here?

How the fuck do you think those TikTok videos are made?

Personally I don't see the allure of supersonic passenger flight. Let's not forget the the Concorde program was eventually scrapped instead of new supersonic jets being developed was not because it was cost prohibitive to fly (and at $10k+ per ticket, it sure was), it was because there just wasn't enough interest in shortening an 8 hour flight to a 4 hour flight, and it's basically impossible to fly supersonic (and civilian) over the continental US, so it will likely never help with New YorkLos Angeles travel.

Between the jet lag and the fact that it still eats up an entire workday, nobody in the end really cared for the faster trip. Now, it was a horribly uncomfortable plane to be a passenger on, and credit to Boom if they solve that as it might make some difference, but I just don't see that being the "killer app", as it were.

The "killer app" would be turning a LondonNew York flight into a commuter flight - as in, fly there in the morning, and back in the evening, so a meeting on the other side of the pond takes only one day instead of two. Shortening the flight to 3 or 4 hours doesn't accomplish that.

Now, if we could get to mach 3 or 4, now THAT would be something. Now it's a 2 or 3 hour flight.

Now, all that said, it has been twenty years since we had supersonic transatlantic flight, so perhaps someone can come along and do it better. But I'm not holding my breath. I don't see this service as ever being economically feasible.

Not the entire watch history as in a log.

More like, "Hey, Striek is watching Game Of Thrones and Squid Games! You should watch with him!"

It was part of their social push. I assume they intended to prompt users first, so they could opt out. But it was set to opt-in by default, unless the user specified otherwise. The problem is that this didn't work for every device combination that Plex is used on. Certainly not mine. The prompt just never showed up for me.

I don't really care if it was an honest mistake. What it says about their approach to privacy speaks volumes.

Never again, I don't give anyone a second chance when it comes to this. Fool me once, right?

I dropped Plex like a hot potato when they emailed my watch history to every user on the system (I share it with a few family and friends). I did not sign up for that, I do not want it. It was a flagrantly obscene privacy violation, and there was no confirmation or opt-in/out prompt when the rolled out that "feature".

I use Emby now, and I'm quite happy with it. It has a few "Upgrade to premium!" notifications, but nothing overly annoying.

Yes, it is illegal. Very. Canadian pilot (so can't quote the relevant FAA regs) here but our laws are pretty similar. Flying drones in active firefighting zones can easily land you in jail, for this exact reason.

Parent wasn't suggesting that it's coffee particularly, although it's worded as such. More that the set of people who drink coffee in the morning and the set of people who engage in some kind of morning physical activity (be it early gym visits, dog walking, early work hours, whatever) tend to overlap, and that this may be confounding the study.

Can confirm. I bought a Subaru Outback, and now they're everywhere.

That is all.

This is a Name Soup. Nothing but dropping a bunch of names as if they're in some kind of schoolyard bully fight. Nothing but he-said she-said bullshit.

Seriously, is this what America has come to?

This, from a citizen of a country that recently took reproductive decisions away from women, and placed them in the hands of bureaucrats. How rich.

Don't kid yourself, your health decisions are already made by bureaucrats.

Parent poster didn't say anything about whether social media is good or bad. Rather, they pointed out that "Social Media" as a term is not easy to define.

And you can't ban "social media" until you can first define what, exactly, social media is.

This is literally ragebaiting. And it works.

It can literally mean that. Words' meanings change over time. This is literally an example.