I’ve seen this movie.

Unfortunately they are a dying breed.  I have been holding on to my 2005 Accord for years (my wife has gone through four cars since I got it).  And now about the only thing you can get are sports cars or compact cars.  

Because like any good pyramid scheme, everyone involved is trying to scam the “stupid” people below them. They are always just naïve enough to think they will be one of the special people to get a seat on the lifeboat when it all goes down.

Why is this a relief again?  You still sign over your data to the exact same company.  They still have the exact same EUA’s.  And there is little doubt that the Facebook accounts and Meta accounts will merge in a few years anyway.  So what is different?  Maybe you don’t get notifications every time your grandmother…

The craziest part of this is that nobody learned anything.  

I don’t disagree, but in this case the man accepted cash and direction from a foreign government to engage in hostile actions against the American government.  That is terrorism, and I think defending ourselves against attack by a foreign super power overrides the flimsy pretend shield of the press that he is hiding…

Can’t wait for my rose gold usb C port milled out of a single block of military grade aluminum with Homepod integration!

Maybe they started as press, but wikileaks very quickly became a “sponsored post”, so freedom of the press doesn’t really apply here.  When everything you do is bought and paid for, you can’t really cry about your journalistic integrity.

I’m going to feel really bad for all these CEO’s and marketing executives when all these trust fund tech bro’s get bored with the NFT/Metaverse bullshit and go back to wasting all their money on coke.

I guess the general point you are making is correct. But how is him losing his phone any different than just losing his keys?

To the moon!

I will say I am actually disappointed launching/landing on a planet is not player controlled and seamless. the Outer Wilds (NOT the outer worlds) was able to do this on last gen hardware without an SSD so I find it a little disappointing we are not going to see something similar on stronger hardware.

That’s the point.  Add layers of complication sold through promises of getting rich.  Then steal money from idiots.  The hoops are just for show, the end game doesn’t change.

Steal money from idiots.

And that will be one of the reasons that this is difficult to enact. Maybe they try it just on the honor system for a while, hoping people will pay a small amount extra and then they just move on. Maybe they start enforcing it through IP addresses. Do they offer a way for users to prove their usage is not against the…

I doubt that. I imagine they will be looking first to use that is regular and at great distances. For example someone that is logged in and streaming regularly from New York City and Miami. Clearly not a regular commute for work.

Can’t stop the grift train.

This only means we will eventually have restaurants with killing floors in the middle of the dining room so the rich asshats can be assured that their meat is real real.

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