Most cities are spending 9-10 figures on Police staff, and somehow are understaffed?

We simply aren't getting effective policing, and technology isn't the solution.

Reality is cops have become police report writers, traffic accident helpers, and domestic abuse arbiters, that is over half the job.

I agree with everything you say; my "police departments are understaffed" is too generic, and might be better stated as "too few resources are devoted to traditional beat policing." Which isn't to say that the other things are unnecessary or pointless, but it's a different set of skills.

Would love to see a show down of performance on iPhone vs Googles Tensor G5, which in my experience the G5 is 2 full generations behind performance wise.

I could totally see it, recently there has been a social club opened near me and it has 100+ people attending weekly. All younger, 20-30 year olds in their early career.

Separately, I have a local camera repair shop and my friend told me its 2 months backlog to get your film based camera worked on.

Ultimately if the deal we get online is infinite tracking, infinite scrolling and infinite enshittification, real life start to sound a whole lot better.

Going to the local movie rental shop with my kids is the highlight of my week. What a bizarre sentence to write in 2026 but it’s absolutely 1000% better than modern streaming (outside of my Plex setup).

I gladly pay the (modest/token) late fees to help keep them open at this point. If someone set up a local arcade man…I’d be in heaven ha

> I gladly pay the (modest/token) late fees to help keep them open at this point

Keeping movies longer and paying late fees may be hurting them more than helping them. It's entirely possible that the late fees are underpriced to avoid scaring away customers. New customers going away disappointed they movie they want wasn't returned on time hurts them more than your late fees help.

Not keeping them on purpose, I’m just not sweating the fee because I’m happy to pay them.

Additionally, the odds that my kids are holding on to exactly what somebody else wants in that timeframe is very small. It’s a small shop within a larger co-op situation with a modest following and pretty substantial stock. I know for instance we’ve never had an issue of wanting something that was rented.

Has it happened? Maybe. But the fees I’ve paid probably net positive against that rare instance. They aren’t open half the week so I can’t return them once Monday passes for several days anyway. Owner certainly hasn’t expressed concern and has even waived the fee before because clearly it’s of little consequence.

I'm glad that it's not a negative in this case!

If the owner is waiving fees sometimes, then obviously they don't think it's an issue.

Thank you so much for putting into words what I have been saying for years to leadership teams.

Everyone wanted to copy Meta/Google/Oracle and have internal teams, and to me internal teams have been accountability vacuums.

People want an internal team so they can go "well if we had better tooling!" when instead they should make best with what they have.

Then throw in the people using $10k in their token burning "gastown" and bragging on Twitter...

I haven't really hit real usage limits in the past 2 weeks, and part of me wonders if its a loud minority who all abused Claude Code, and now Anthropic has just permanently gimped their accounts.

Something like if you are in the top 5% of users, they are now giving you limits to bring you down to the average user.

I think this is clearly it, also a lot of people using Openclaw have realized that no one agrees with them that they deserve to use the sub pricing for their third-party service and have to use the API, so they post a bunch of vindictive stuff about Anthropic to "get back" at them. This exact same thing happened with Gemini, when they started lying about Google personal accounts getting banned to attempt to spite them.

Needs another zero, likely made 9 figures in revenue from this scheme.

One distinction between F-22 and F-35 is thermal management and thermal stealth.

Combat role, too. You're gonna throw F-35s into missions you'd never waste a F-22 on like close-in ground support.

This war is a shining example of how just a few small slips in a democracy can slide into collapse in just under 50 years. Everything felt fine up until 2008 and now America cannot fix itself anymore.

Citizens United

Shelby County v. Holder

First-past-the-post

Yup, they managed to get my Dad on this. When he uninstalled it, they give you a small warning "oh you might lose some data" - when it is 100% guaranteed if you were over their 5gb limit.

Absolutely insane, glad I had Backblaze to restore from, but it even remapped his Documents and other home folders to a new place, so using restore didn't immediately make the files appear.

Don’t count on Backblaze to back it up anymore either. They don’t backup Dropbox directories or other cloud sync products. It wasn’t broadly communicated just a line item in release notes.

I’ve now decided to move on from BB. They changed that without notice or workaround and my files (which I pay for long term versioning) are gone from their backups too.

If anything I would have expected my files to be retained, no new syncing of the directories. Not simply disappear (which could be because it appears deleted if the client is skipping them) - even then though my long term versions should take over.

Might as well kick off WW3 at this point and resolve everything in one shot.