The big fat ass elevate screen in the middle of the dashboard looks like cheap shit.
The outside looks like a late 1990s European high end car.
It's high tech made to look cheap using plastic and putting what's basically a computer monitor as centerpiece rather smoothly intergrating it with the rest, all wrapped in a frame which is an outdated idea of a luxury car.
(IMHO, or course)
YouTube Shorts make zero difference if one's pattern of usage of YouTube is to only watch YouTube videos linked from other sources rather than actually staying within YouTube and consuming one after the other the videos their algorithm puts in front of you.
Personally I've never really got into the whole thing of just staying in YouTube and watching those videos that YouTube suggests, maybe because YouTube tends to suggest stuff with alarmist titles ("You won't believe what we've just found out") and other such loudmouth bullshitter crap, and for me that stuff just screams "untrustworthy and superficial bullshit which won't teach me anything new with any depth" so for years it's been the case that when I end up in YouTube their algorithm quickly put me off from consuming what it suggests. At most when I do stay within the YouTube environment to watch multiple videos, I'm explicitly searching for specific stuff, generally more stuff from the same person of the last good video I watched.
Usually I get a lot better YouTube video "suggestions" from links in posts and comments here or even in Reddit (back when I frequented it) than from the YouTube algorithm.
American (maybe more broadly Western) Computer Consumer Products companies are indeed getting fucked.
The thing is, that doesn't mean that the Future is one were Consumers are forced to not have PCs and have all their computing needs served from Big Companies' Servers.
I think, going from evidenc of the former to expecting the latter is a jump too far to take since it's only looking at one side of the equation in one part of the World.
It's perfectly possible that it's the Chinese companies that end up gaining from this, similarly to how in the EV space the result of Western auto companies not offering what most consumers actually wanted (which wasn't a Tesla, since those are too expensive for most people) was that the Chinese created and expanded that industry are now handily outcompetting those Western companies in their home markets.
Chinese parts and Mini-PC (an area where there are still a lot of products well bellow $500) manufacturers are still happilly selling their products to buyers from all over the World on platforms like AliExpress and, as we've recently discovered, Chinese memory makers (actual makers using actual chip fabs, not memory module assemblers) are expanding their production and selling more and more product to consumer market module assemblers in China and Taiwan, filling in the void created by the big memory makers focusing on supplying the AI datacenter boom.
(PS: That said, the China side seems to be covered in the video)
Further, there are other natural reactions in other areas which go against a dystopian future of No More Personal in Personal Computing - for example, software makers, most notably game makers, when they're scoping their products to the computing power that the expect will be available in 5 years, aren't going to be targetting hardware significativelly more powerful than what is common now (because if they did otherwise their stuff wouldn't sell), which means that naturally (though with some delay) the demand for more computing power and storage in personal devices is adjusting to the reduced availability of new devices with more storage and computing power, so rather that demand rather than going to go up it's probably going to stagnate, meaning that the future is most likely one of people running old computers for longer and just repairing what breaks with parts from that generation (one where DDR4 memory is more popular than DDR5) that one where everybody (both consumers and software makers) meekly accepts that the only option is computation running on servers (something which, by the way, game makers have already tried with things like Stadia, which failed miserably).
In summary, yeah the consumer personal computing hardware industry in the West is hurting, but just that is nowhere enough to support this idea that in the Future, Worldwide there will be no more Personal Computers.
(PPS: My expectation of the likely future is probably closest in that video with that of the guy from Corsair).
They'll listen to the lobbyists peddling them with hookers and blow (and promises of future non-executive board memberships and and millionaire speech circuit fees).
That's all the expertise they care about.
It's not "pointless" if that's exactly the point of it.
Tourism has its own negative externalities (i.e. it's own kind of "polution") that negativelly affect the rest of the Economy if it gets too much and might even kill the very things which attract tourists. This is generally manifested as a rising cost of housing and general cost of living in touristic areas which pushes out the local residents and businesses.
Also tourism doesn't employ highly qualified people, but rather people with basic education.
So it's only good for economies up to a certain level of tourism and how much that is depends on how much that's a high value added Economy (roughly, how wealthy and developed a nation is) - much higher levels of Tourism are still a good thing in, say, a mid-development level Economy with basic universal education where before Tourism most people worked in the Primary sector, than they are in an Economy of high value added industries employing higly qualified people: a country can have an Economy where Tourism is a high percentage to pull itself up to about the level of the poorer European countries, but no matter how much you have of it Tourism will never turn a country into a high tech powerhouse, beyond a certain point quite the contrary (not least because high costs of living due to it kill starting companies, even high tech ones, because they make the costs of business go up at multiple levels).
A bit of Tourism can be a good thing, a lot of Tourism is only a good thing if the alternative was an economy of mostly Primary sector activities.
The comments of the OP can be read like it's the fault of izakaya for not adapting to Tourism, but in the actual article it seems more like Japan has broader problems which are causing a fall in purchasing powers which has hit the clientele of izakaya and the flaw of izakaya was not taking advantage of Tourism to make up for the fall in local clientele causes by those problems in Japan which are not the fault of izakaya (or tourists).
I come from Lisbon in Portugal, which has also become extremelly touristic in the last 2 decades, and there Tourism is actually killing the rest of the Economy (mainly indirectly, by pushing up house prices and the cost of living more broadly, which in turn make it too expensive to live or operate a business in Lisbon). Anyways, my point is that anybody who expects more than a handful of establish traditional mom & pop restauration businesses to be capable of adapting by marketting themselves and catering to tourists, has no fucking clue of the kind of people who own and operate those businesses. I mean, sure they'll serve tourists (in broken English or maybe French), but actually adjusting to look more appealing to Tourists (lets just say that good traditional food and fancy looks are uncorrelated, possibly even negativelly correlated, in the Portuguese restauration business), much less any form of marketing other than word of mouth, is beyond most of them.
The impression I get is that izakayas are also old fashioned, so I bet they're run by the very same kind of old fashioned people from humble origins who grew up back when Education was less universal, that run most restaurants in Portugal.
The OP's text is pretty close to how Tourism is killing all sorts of Mom & Pop businesses in Lisbon as its impact (mainly via the transformation of residential housing into AirBnBs) is pushing out the local businesses that cater for residents.
This means businesses like little grocery stores, taverns, hairdressers, even cobblers.
Now, if one takes the viewpoint that Tourists are more important than anybody else, then it's all the fault of the small mom & pop grocery stores, taverns, hairdresses and cobbler for not having proper strategies to market themselves to tourists or at least not pivoting their businesses to sell more knick-knacks to tourists.
An alternative view is that Tourism has negative externalities (its version of "polution") and has to be controlled so that it doesn't destroy the very ambience that attracts tourists (in my example that would be things like the Traditional Lisbon neighbourhoods).
If indeed Tourism in Japan is pushing out the locals who frequented Izakayas be it directly (because those people don't live there anymore) or indirectly (realestate prices going up because of Tourism, making everything more expensive including Izakayas), then this is a problem with Tourism rather than the Izakayas.
If that is not the case, then there is some other problem in Japan (maybe a falling real purchasing power or the slow change of habits as newer generation replace the older ones), in which case that's unrelated to Tourism. Maybe Tourists could make up for it, but what I can tell you from my experience in growing up in a place which over my lifetime was "discovered" and became very touristic (and then incompetent politicians thought it was a silver bullet to the country's problems and went full blown insane on it by which point all the negative externalities of Tourism really started to hurt, especially the realestate bubble), traditional business which morph to cater to tourists tend to become over time a bland parody of the local traditions rather than the real deal, plus a lot of supposedly "traditional" businesses popping-up to cater for tourists are a lot more like the versions you would find in an airport than the real traditional thing. Certainly the restauration business in Lisbon which cater to tourists are a lot more like the cookie cutter glitzy but bland continental food restaurants serving "universal food" you see in airports all over the World than the traditional restaurants in Portugal.
Having been chronically overworked for a while in my profession, the last thing I want is my life in the hands of somebody chronically overworked.
At least in my profession the mistakes I made because of being so tired did not kill anybody or handicapped somebody for life.
Sure, mate.
There is no such thing as the Royal Prerogative in Britain and the British Monarch definitely doesn't have the Soverign's Constitutional prerogative of Assent to Legislation.
Maybe you should learn more about the laws of your own fucking country since you clearly did not go to a proper school at the age of 11-13.
I'm starting to think the current posture of the German Authorities of unwavering support of Israel, to the point of officially declaring Jewish Voices For Peace an "extremist organization", is pure unadulterated anti-semitism in the very same traditional style as inspired Hitler.
You see, the often given reason/excuse of "making amends for the NAZI actions" is disproven by a number of behaviors of the German Authorities, most notably:
You see, I think it's all about supporting the project of an independent land far away from Germany to where all Jews are supposed to move to, not about making amends to the victims of the Holocaust, otherwise there would be no declaring a Jewish organization as "extremist" for criticizing a foreign nation or an entirely different posture towards other groups (including another ethnicity) who were explicitly targeted by the NAZIs for extermination and whose members were victims of the Holocaust in large numbers.
This is all about Jews leaving Germany: NAZI Plan A to "get rid of the Jews" failed, this is Plan B.
Certainly everything the German Authorities are doing seems consistent with supporting "the existence and expansion of a place which all Jews are incentivized to move to" by any and all means (even actively legally singling out and prosecuting as members of an extremist organization Jews who decry what is being done in their name to make that happen), whilst at least some things they do (as well as not do) show clear inconsistency with the claimed motive of "making amends for the Holocaust" and even some with the motive of supporting the Jewish People.
The guy is a proper hacker in the original meaning of the word of somebody who grabs something and changes it to make it do something else it was never meant to do.
And as any proper hacker knows (and his obviously in the interview he too feels), actually succeeding and ending up with this crazy actually working thing that you invented yourself and nobody else has is immensely pleasurable.
It's a cool hobbyist project but was spun into a "way to save on gas" in the news report.
Surely an electric scooter would be just as cheap to run (though probably not to make, even by converting an old scooter).
Ideally the thing should be broken into a "Camera captures images and makes it available in an open format" side and an "Application for Linux/Windows/Mac/iOS/Android/whatever reads said open format data and shows it to the use/records it in local hardware", so that if one's chosen provider for one of the sides enshittifies you can easily replace it, but I can understand the tendency to make and launch the whole thing fully integrated as one non-interoperable big bundle from a single provider given that in practice "do it and they'll come" projects that just provide data in an open format in the expectation that other people will make the software that uses it, almost always fail.
Well, back in the 50s and 60s when a lot of working class people came back from WWII with military training, the elites did relax their choke-hold on power and the system did work much more as a Democracy, which is why things like Social Security, the National Health Service and most Public Housing in Britain date back to that era, but most of it has been walked back since and the present day Labour Party is a perfect example of how the era of electable politicians who actually represent most people is over.
Even with the growth of the Greenparty (disclamer: I was a member of that Party for a while when I lived in Britain) who are a mix of Ecologist and Social-Democrat (after all, consumer society and unfettered capitalism are incompatible with Ecology), the entire voting system is set-up to stop them getting a parliamentary representation matching their fraction of the vote (by quite a lot, even - for most of its life the party generally got 5% of the votes which that system translated to only 0.3% of parliamentary seats), the entire Press is set up to push them back (by relentlessly slandering their leaderes, the very opposite of what they do to the leaders of the far-right such as Reform UK) and there's a long tradition of the police being caught having Ecologist movements and even elected Greenparty members under surveillance.
So yeah, the system will collapse due to its own weight (there's only so far that debt-fueled rent-seeking can go before it collapses if the Homeland doesn't have a lot of external territories - i.e. and Empire - to pillage to make up for producing less than it consumes) long before the power and money elites there ever concede the slightest drop of power or accept the tiniest slowing in the growth of their wealth - there is no prospect of the condition of post-War Britain with a strong united Working Class repeating.
One doesn't even need to be a Socialist to see how Britain, even by Capitalist criteria, is neither stable nor politically or socially capable of resolving its instability in a fair way that minimizes pain for the many, so the likely futures are either collapse or increasing Authoritarianism with the country eventually morphing into a Fascist Dictatorship and, given that the elites would lose a lot in the former and much less in the latter, plus have a long tradition of belief in their inherent superiority and of actually liking Fascism (there are pictures of back before Hitler invaded Poland, were the King was teaching his niece - Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth - to do a NAZI salute) plus last but not least the actual trend at many levels, from Press independence to Surveillance and political repression, the latter seems much more likely than the former.
Sure mate, it's the Schrodinger Prince Charles Influence where he both had no Influence and only wrote quite a lot of secret letters to Government as somebody with no more political influence than any other Briton and AT THE SAME TIME the British Press was constantly celebrating how policy kept getting changed in ways that favored what he cared about.
Pull another one.
If you can regularly get the government to listen to you USING TOTALLY SECRET LETTERS (so it cannot possibly be via one's influence in public opinion) and do things that benefit your interests or things you care about, then you de facto HAVE direct influence on policy.
Said influence not being formal makes it even worse - it means it's not transparent and not subject to public transparency rules, which is why the discovery of the "spider memos" was a scandal.
Now, maybe the King of The Netherlands was also doing that kind of backstage shaping of public policy, but I certainly never saw the effects of it reported in the press and nothing ever emerged of him doing it, and I can tell you from experience that at least when I lived there the Press in The Netherland was way less propagandistic and manipulative than the British Press, so I suspect Willem-Alexander never exercised back then as Prince nor exercises now as King that kind of backstage policy shaping, being limited to using his prestige to shame the government in the eyes of the Public (and then the voter chose or not to punish the governing party for it), same as any other prestigious public person (and, IMHO, he's infinitelly more deserving on any prestige he has - from earning it by his behaviour - than what any of the British Royals has obtained with their army of PR drones and fawning "opinion makers" and royal-titled editors, owners and board members in the British Press).
Either way you go about it, if an unelected Monarch can shape policy without going via the public opinion (i.e. doing it via backstage access to political leaders rather than convincing the public opinion that something is wrong and then voters chose by themselves whether or not to change their vote because of it), that's anti-Democratic, and all that being via informal channels makes it even worse so, since that's not open or transparent,
They would just "forget" about arresting him or purposefully started some kind of long procedural judicial consultation ("something, something, Diplomatic Immunity"), for long enough that Carney had time to properly lick Netanyahu's arse and the latter left Canada.
Following that there would be some theatrical political performances on the theme "we could never imagine this could happen" including some deeply emotional "lessons were learned" at the end for that oh so very special "we're really genuinelly sorry and this will never happens again (until it does)" juice.
It's right there in the name: New sea-land
Even the door handles in the Tesla are a 1990s idea of what high tech looks like.
It's like those cars were designed by an aged geek with no sophistication in taste rather than by a designer.
(And I am myself an aged geek, but, shit, I like to think I actually got a little bit more subtle and demanding with age in my appreciation of the beauty in things).