I never connect my TVs to WiFi, and I loathe the day they start slipping cell antennas into these things.

I'll never install Windows on another machine.

All content is political. Some gets removed.

Nothing gets “removed” unless a user specifically asks us to delete an earlier post.

Some things get downweighted in accordance with the guidelines and community expectations but everything can still be found.

Those in the United States who choose to contribute to a collaborative encyclopedia likely don't mirror the population as a whole; it's reasonable to assume they're more formally educated and more technically oriented, traits that tend, on average, to correlate with liberal or left-leaning political views.

With heavy use of SVG <symbol>, one would hope!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Reference/E...

This is essentially the adversarial generator/discriminator set-up that GANs use.

Notably the litigation-induced bankruptcy of Gawker Media (of which Jalopnik was a part) in 2016 is the reason why Jalopnik wound up owned by these private equity groups. Most of these publications are shells of their former selves, but I suppose it could be argued that a lot of written media has gone that way—Gawker-associated and otherwise.

We used it for a two week trip to Singapore and Japan last year, and yeah, I agree the app performance for packed trips is pretty rough.

Anecdotally, but it seems like a lot of these sites that once hosted these department or big box stores don't wind up getting redeveloped. At best, they might be home to a Spirit Halloween for a couple months out of a year. Having to compete with online retailers is certainly a challenge, but it doesn't seem like what private equity does to these legacy companies benefits anyone but their investors' desire for short-term profits.

Sure, but if Versailles is 30-45 minutes outside of central Paris by train, and Bletchley Park is about an hour or so outside of London, I'd venture that the extra ~hour round trip of travel time isn't that meaningful to most tourists.