I didn’t do anything different in my response to you than you did to me but OK

I don’t disagree with anything you said, except your classification of those actions as rational. I think framing the world and responding to it the way you described is completely irrational.

Rich people don’t give poor people stuff, even if it means they get more stuff too. They aren’t rational actors. They have what should be already, and will one day be, classified as a mental illness.

I’m a man and I’m not laughing.

You don’t have to say it, I was already leaving.

There are people here and other places on the internet who can make a difference in enterprise contracts as well. I am part of an AI pilot program to roll out ChatGPT at my company right now. You can be sure that I am actively pointing out that, among other things, OpenAI is being sued by several entities for stealing data when their primary promise to us is “we won’t use your data”. That feedback matters and some of us learn about that stuff from places like this.

I know, the article says specifically “sampled his DNA”. That is not biometrics unless this author has no idea what those words mean.

I understand the context but I like to imagine Bondi thought she was looking at that lady’s internet search history and not her search of the Epstein files. It’s funny to picture Bondi sitting there waiting for her to say something about pedophiles so she could respond “oh yeah, if you’re so concerned about pedophiles why were you Googling this:”

Then reading the first item in that list which seems to say

“New Brazilian just arrived. Sexy and cute. 13 yo”

I can’t say that’s surprising but I have only heard of smart TVs having been confirmed to do that

Sampled his DNA? WTF is that for? Nobody has a DNA lock on their phone.

Same.

Pam Bondi should die in a fire.

Maybe that will help?

Theoretically they wouldn’t have internet access if a previous occupant set them up unless one of your neighbors has an unsecured AP. Or maybe I’m misunderstanding you and you’re saying you set them up on your wireless network after you moved in. Still a good move to get rid of them but I wouldn’t be as concerned about them if the only AP they were set up to use was no longer present.

I suppose that’s true but it does seem like it would be more effective to spend the effort tying her failures directly to Trump rather than letting him offer her up as the sacrificial lamb. People seem to think he’s good at delegation and “business stuff” so hammer him with the mistakes his people make and force voters to remember how highly he once spoke of them.

What good is making her resign going to do? Don’t get me wrong, she should be gone, but Trump put her there and she’s doing what he wants her to do. Forcing Trump to swap one stooge for another doesn’t accomplish anything except resetting the “Trump’s AG did something bad” counter, which might actually be useful to him but doesn’t help us at all. Focus on the guy who put this obviously unqualified person in charge of the DOJ.

If you’re gonna game the system that hard just get divorced and keep living together. Remove the uncertainty.

How else are we going to know who is at the door? I mean, I guess we could open it but that’s boring

To be fair, at that point we already knew he was a rapist. The new information was the gay stuff. Of course that’s going to be the most interesting part to everyone

Knowing who they are is irrelevant until someone does something about it. Up to this point no one has.

I don’t mean to sound callous but if some relatively minor RCS issues, and there’s really no way they could be classified as major, stopped your friend from doing what he set out to do then he wasn’t all that invested in the idea.

I’m not saying there’s no problems with GrapheneOS or any other product helping consumers to change their habits but if you really care about issues like corporate overreach then a little inconvenience isn’t a deal breaker. In fact, it’s to be expected when switching away from mega corporations. They invest tons of money to make their user experience decent so that they can profit off of your data. If you want to get away from that you have to accept the fact that you’re moving away from a product supported by thousands of engineers with billions of dollars to spend towards a product developed by tens of engineers or less with very limited funding. Those developers do a damn good job IMO but a dip in ease-of-use has to be expected.

At the end of the day we all have to decide if we’re going to prioritize convenience or mindfulness. It sounds like your friend made his choice, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with the choice he made, I just think it’s important to put it in the proper perspective.

It does sound kind of like those randomly generated Xbox live usernames from back in the day

botulistic sausage

Epic new band name