In this specific case I absolutely agree with you, but if going outside the thread on GPs point, I am way more lenient towards (non commercially backed) OSS projects. I'm usually using the product because no one other than the volunteers are doing it, and if I want something fixed, I might have to put in some work to dig and pinpoint the issue to help a fix along, put in a PR myself, or accept it being broken for a while until someone makes the (unpaid) time. And that's ok, or at least a reality for a lot of OSS.

You can fix it by handling the erroneous output from your dependency, or switching out your dependency, or submit a fix to the dependency, or asking them to fix it.

If this was true there would not be millions/billions constantly spent on pushing for tax cuts and lobbying and hollowing out IRS enforcement.

I think you're saying that people would only lobby for tax cuts if their tax bill has one set of reasons, and not if their tax bill has another set of reasons. Right?

I understood it as "If 'Really rich people don't have a lot of money' is true, then how come there is so much money being spent on lobbying?" which sounds like a fair point. Where does that money come from if all this wealth is illiquid?

AIUI, the amounts spent on lobbying are large of you compare them to what ordinary people spend on rent, but piddly if you compare them to what a government collects from even minor taxes.

Meaning they have a lot of taxable assets, under current tax code. Otherwise they wouldn't care. There are estimates that every dollar spent on the IRS yields 6 dollars in collected taxes [1][2], without passing any changes. The only reason to lobby against the IRS is to avoid paying the taxes you already owe.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/want-to-shrink-defic...

[2] https://tracreports.org/tracirs/newfindings/v18/

> I'm all in agreement with your emotional sentiment, but please understand "Americans" do /not/ like the same things you do not like. Our country just takes away our ability to do anything about it.

I appreciate that this might be true for a large portion of US-americans, but the country isn't doing anything, the people continually voted into power takes that ability away, which can be adjusted bi-annually.

In my region Premium is actually $0.60 cheaper per month, with the additional 3TB storage, and that's before yearly billing. Confusing indeed.

I don't think the issue is whether the history in the comparison is correct, but rather whether or not it is an apt comparison at all.

How would you identify an arrest by law enforcement to know whether or not you are obstructing it?

Presumably your goal is to extract some practical value from this and not just higher benchmark numbers. If you can get the functionality you need from last-gen, there's no point in paying for next-gen. YMMV.

Indeed that was the premise that we would be a step behind when running on edge. That's already the case.

Two scenarios here: 1) They don't react with anything, meaning the billions of tons we produce keep increasing. Forever. 2) They do react, break down, get into the soil, water, blood, people, and have studied detrimental effects, and many more yet unstudied.

Who determines if that code operates in the intended way?