California refuses to desalinate, which would solve all the problems.
I thought they were smart, instead they're political. They'd rather kill off the southwest. Assholes.
Desalinated water is $1000+ per acre-foot, while water from existing water infrastructure is heavily subsidized and sold for a few dollars per acre-foot to farmers. There are many reasonable arguments as to why we should not be building new infrastructure that produces water at 100x the cost it is currently sold at. Nearly all water projects in the west in the last hundred years are “political”, not economic.
OP sounds like someone not from 'the west'. Water has always been political in the western US and will always be. Like, there is this little Rep.-Dem. divide out here, but when push comes to shove, the real divide is water rights. Hell Chinatown was all about water. California's water wars [0] go back a long ways, and those struggles are emblematic of all western US states to some degree.
When you say selling the information , do you mean actually selling the information or selling ad slots to target specific people/groups based on data.
Within reason. Data is valuable. You make far more money gathering data, keeping it private but selling the ability to advertise against that data , than outright selling it. Think of it as “Data-As-A-Service”. Your data loses value if you’re just outright selling it.
It is not as easy or silent as you are implying. If you enable Location History you get a monthly email reminding you that it is enabled, with a link at the top of the email to go turn it off if you want.
False. Prove it to yourself. Visit https://timeline.google.com/ to verify that it is off, or to turn it off. Now go to https://www.google.com/maps/ , click menu → Your places → Labeled to see your home and work, or to add one.
This was definitely the case as of ~1 year ago, in the Google Maps Android map. It appears to no longer be the case on the web or Android interface now. I'm glad Google has stopped doing it, but at this point my trust in cloud services has been spent and I won't be adding my home address or enabling location history (until I travel enough to make it helpful for direction-finding).
Another creepy incident that's happened with me is, with Location History off, the Maps app would prompt me to leave a review for a restaurant I visited and left. So Google (either the app locally, or the servers) is stalking you even with Location History disabled.
To use home and work when you search or use directions, you must turn on Web & App Activity. If you can't find home and work in Maps, learn how to turn on Web & App Activity.
Oddly enough, I do have "Web & App Activity" disabled (everything disabled except YouTube history to sync watch progress across devices), yet I'm still able to register a home address and ask the Maps Android app to route to it.
...I wish you could delete YouTube history on a 1-week basis, yet Google only allows you to delete it after 3 months at minimum. More tying.
