The weight of this statement affects me directly.

They should use that super intelligence to get themselves outa debt - ya know pull a Thanos.

I wonder if there are any public sources for any of this data at a federal level? And do any of them still hold the older now versions?

Just give me a sec to crawl into a hole will ya?!

But yeah, re-election without re-evaluation of the systems that failed to protect the public from abuse will just result in a replay anyway.

cough citizens united cough

I think Citizens United isn't even the problem any more. We now have near-trillionaires who don't require a corporation to buy elections. They can do it personally.

I'd wager a Junior engineer has the same capability to become versed in AI technology software delivery workflows is just as capable of learning and maybe more capable of thinking with the mindset of all the new LLM tooling than someone who, though capable, may not be amenable to learning yet another set of tools.

why does it feel like they are creating something so its more difficult to use a competitor?

so this doesn't function as a security camera too?

too true...and doesn't that miss out on one of apple's power plays? Their hardware ecosystem (their software ecosystem was touched on a little).

Change that ugly base - wall mounts are nice but dangling cords are not.

the ad did a good job of displaying all the features of the new device, of course it left out the parts I would have liked as a parent who's already dealt with these types of devices. I mean apple had the benefit of 20/20 vision and could have looked into blocking little kids from just going to it to watch YouTube. It could have also solved the issue that dad's around the world would have united against: locking who gets to set the thermostat.

that said, also what's with the kids being disrespectful, untruthful, dismissive, and patronizing (in that order) to their parents...I bet these kids were a joy to be around as toddlers and will continue to be so as "formed" adults

The snarkiness is just typical American ad style, like 80% of ads are like this, even simple three sentence exchanges. It's actually quite fascinating, because it stands out from any other culture's advertising I know.

I think it was started by the American sitcom culture, the sharp witted, but also confrontational, borderline aggressive comebacks. I am not an expert but I feel like Cheers might have pioneered it?