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Honestly, this is probably just to push icloud backup. Why sell one time capsule, when you can sell a service that never stops being charged for?

Floppies were terrible, but time capsules aren't that.

IRL a $Trillion dollar company can certainly have resources make the minuscule updates to keep support.


> a $Trillion dollar company can certainly have resources

You would think, but look at this whole Liquid Glass thing - they can't get something simple like contrast right. On the other hand, they arguably put out the best consumer chips in the industry.

Seems dysfunctional, like every other large corp.


Time Machine does not support backing up to iCloud though. Maybe it's coming.

Makes sense to warn people now and then sell a solution to the problem they made

And just like that, the sixth mass extinction is confirmed

Alarmism isn't going to help.

The US isn't the world.

The rich will survive (for a long time, anyway).


What does a mass extinction event have to do with rich vs poor? This all life, all species, the entire biosphere. Part of the problem is people can't seem to stop thinking in human social terms and not large scale system changing.... Mass extinctions like this don't leave species like humans unscathed .. the very chemical composition of the sea and atmosphere will be changed within 500-1000 years beyond what humans can adapt to except living in underground bunkers.

Thinking humans will be fine during a MASS extinction event....shows me that people don't know much about previous events.


Correct, this is a problem for all living things.

Wow, that's a throwback.

I don't think anyone expected anything else. Newspeak has been used for quite some time now.

Previously and recently, we've had to fight tooth and nail to make any progress on this and then others like Ajit Pai just flagrantly fake support for destruction of net neutrality.

Pathetic

Is anyone mapping out the sites? Sounds like areas around them should be designated sacrifice zones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrifice_zone

Extensively, and the result is quite the opposite. This is land owned by the State Land Board and their mandate is essentially to utilize it for tax revenue.

If you are meaning the Reservoir, the superfund site, and/or the nearby landfill. We've pushed the related agencies (including the EPA) to enact protections surrounding the sites - the most we've gotten is stopping the wells being drilled directly-under them (but they can/will still go right up against).


Don't worry, I'm sure they are working to deliver war drones via ICBM

The amount the 1% fly completely undoes anything the rest of us can do to save the world

Eventually they'll mature.

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