There is massive building of new energy sources... In China.

It's very upsetting to some people. They were sure that transitioning to renewables would bankrupt the economy and the lights would go out.

Restaurants have been known to live stream their cameras. Anyone holding a phone could be recording audio and/or video, and live streaming it. Any bag could have a camera hidden in it. Any shirt button could be a camera.

It's way too late to get paranoid about cameras watching you.

IR LEDs aren't all that effective. Newer cameras are better at dealing with them and often have a visible light night vision mode for when IR doesn't work. To cover your whole body you would need a lot of LEDs, a lot of heat, a lot of energy to run them for a useful amount of time.

There are some people who need these kinds of things for medical reasons. Face blindness is a real thing.

There are already tools that do things like record audio and produce a real-time transcription. They usually don't store the recording, as facial recognition glasses probably wouldn't.

I get that people want privacy, and don't like being filmed either, but there should be a balance of rights for technology can significantly improve someone's life while only being a little bit annoying to you.

I wonder if the pandemic had anything to do with it. Apparently it had quite an impact on some children's social skills.

Range Rovers are crap. Unreliable, easy to steal, and now the embodiment of the wankpanzer.

It's not that they don't think a teenager would break the law, it's that it's a convenient lie that everyone participates in so that they can have beer vending machines.

It's the same with gambling. Gambling in Japan is mostly illegal, but also extremely popular. Instead of winning money, you win prizes, which due to the way the law is worded is not technically gambling. The prizes are standardized, and next door to the pachinko parlour there is another, totally unrelated shop that exchanges them for a fixed cash payout, and then sells them back to the place you were gambling^W winning prizes at.

Same with whale meat. It's all caught for "scientific purposes". They have to regularly check that it's still delicious, as part of their ecological efforts to monitor the marine environment.

Everybody understands what is actually happening, they just don't want to get into a discussion about it.

It's just a case of cultural misunderstanding. It is exactly as you say, a PSA, some health advice. It's not a law, it's not a rule, it's not a requirement. It's how advice is dispensed by local government in Japan.

Level 3 means that you need a driver ready to take over on short notice, but unlike level 2 they don't need to be constantly monitoring the situation. They can do something else, as long as they can stop doing it and come back to driving in a reasonable time, say 10 seconds, when the car deems it necessary.

For example the car could handle itself in low speed traffic queues, but once it gets back to the open road it can require the driver to take over.

I'm not sure that there is great demand for that. Fully self driving vehicles, yes, but partially?

To be fair, the fact that most British cars were crap didn't help either. Poor reliability, mostly unpleasant to drive, prone to rust.

It would be better to recycle the plastic, to sequester it, or to convert it to something that doesn't release those gases but can be used by us in some way.

At least in landfill it means most of the greenhouse gasses are trapped. Turning it into fuel means they will end up in the atmosphere. Also the associated general pollution.

Is there actually the possibility of blocking the site?

I think a lot of ISPs block it anyway, as well as many sites that allegedly serve up pirate content. With the new age verification rules, a VPN is pretty much mandatory in the UK now.

It's a consumer law issue. If a product is enshittified after you bought it, there should be a right to return it, or at least a substantial partial refund for the lost functionality. If they go subscription then the refund should be the expected cost of the sub over the reasonable lifetime of the product.

It's an interesting race between SpaceX's method of rapid prototyping and failing, and the Chinese who are taking a more traditional approach. At this point it's probably close to 50/50 who will get to the moon first. Both are using the same mission profile - two launches, rendezvous in orbit of the moon. CNSA already has the rockets they need and their lander seems to be on track for a possible unmanned demonstration landing in the next few years.