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There are various issues, but one is urban design. If you get there, how do you get around? … Most major US cities are built for cars. So then airplanes make sense for long distances, but cars are better for medium range, for most people, for most destinations, on average.

Some of us pay ourselves to install an ad blocker and then we keep our money and we don’t get any ads.

It really depends on your situation and on the work you're doing. If you have a project that you honestly care about that you think is really good then you usually want to see it get done. So you might make the decision to overwork yourself even if you objectively shouldn't. And bosses love to set that up, so they'll give you a bunch of annoying crap that you don't think is valuable. But they make you do it and then you end up having to work later in the evening to get done the stuff that you actually care about. Of course, that's something that we all need to be very careful about, but in the short run it's hard to stop. And another situation that's even worse is that you might lose your job. Sometimes telling the boss no means that you will be unemployed and if you need to make that money to pay the bills then you might be f*****.

I can’t say I knew, but it doesn’t surprise me. The AI folk, among others, want to spy on us as much as possible, but they also know that if they opnly target the kids, they’ll get destroyed by lawmakers and courts and public opinion, so they need to pretend that they’re only fucking over adults.

If you’re trying to ask whether LibreOffice is dead then I think the answer is no. Because right now, even with minimal updates for small bug fixes or security or what not it does what a lot of people need it to do. What I look for from that office suite today is very similar to what I wanted from it a decade ago and probably a decade from now it will also be filling a very similar role. So of course it’s good to modernize and continue to make improvements, but at the same time a lot of the things that humans want to do on our computers for work and hobbies are largely the same as what they were in decades past. So if we have something that’s stable then we win.

What you say is true but it’s off topic because that’s not the current situation. What we’re actually seeing right now is that parents literally do not want to take their devices away from their kids and they don’t want to supervise their kids. It really is that simple. This is not a situation where most parents are trying to do the right thing and they can’t do enough and they need an extra hand. This is definitely a situation where many parents aren’t even putting in a good effort. You know like what if they didn’t give their kid a cell phone. What if they took the cell phone away at 9:00 p.m. Most parents would never dream of doing either of those things.

Right, but the politicians didn’t sell the law at 30% efficiency. They sold it at something like 95% efficiency. So they lied and they haven’t solved anything. Maybe they could have used all of that money to run campaigns to help convince parents to properly supervise their children. Maybe that would have done more than this 30% figure.

Or maybe it’s never going to work because you can’t enforce it properly because the parents don’t want it to be enforced. And the damage you’re talking about is not backed up by as good science as you think it would be if you were going to pass a law such as this. But many people are of the mindset that oh my God. Oh my God we have to do something and this is something and therefore it’s better than nothing, and they’re wrong. If you don’t have a good plan, that doesn’t make your bad plan reasonable.

This question is what you ask when you want to get your employees fighting against each other and not against the boss who is stealing all of their money. The first step would be to fix wage theft and then the second step might be to get rid of the ultra rich, or maybe those could be done in the reverse order. At some point long after those things are accomplished we could talk about how people get jealous when they see someone else who apparently gets privileges that they wish they had. And sometimes there are small changes that can be made that will alleviate those situations.

It sure sounds like you’re doing something wrong then because almost all of us who use that software don’t have that issue.

OK, maybe better than nothing. Until they start selling more of your data lol.

That depends on the search engine, of course.

Of course we didn’t win. the more hoops you have to jump through, the fewer people who will install their own apps and then you lose all of the community support. And Google didn’t promise not to change their plans in the future. So you know that they’ll promise this now. Maybe they’ll backtrack a little if they have to and they will try to ratchet things up six months later anyway. Real solutions involve either breaking up monopolies or breaking up monopolies, which is why some of the other cell phone vendors’ actions recently look positive. If there are two versions of Android that are popularly used, then the banks will have to support both of them and then everyone can run away from Google whenever they feel like it. But if there’s only one popular version and Android itself gets more and more locked down then that is Google seizing the entire market and they will cut out all of the other cell phone manufacturers as soon as they can. that will be just as bad as Apple.

That's the point, right? Google is trying to lock down Android even more, and third party vendors can see the increasing risk. If they fork now, they can maybe undercut the increasing monopoly efforts.

Right right, if by “everybody” you mean “definitely not everybody”.

I think your speculation is probably going to be fairly close to reality, but that makes their case very difficult to prove. If the FBI comes to my house and tells me that they’re investigating a crime and then I delete data, then probably I have broken the law. And I would have known it. So I would get convicted. But Border Patrol loves to go on fishing expeditions and search digital devices when there is no evidence that a crime has been committed. And if that’s the case, then I don’t have any obligation to preserve the data. And it doesn’t even matter what Border Patrol claims later because the legal standard is going to be what I believed at the time that they tried to go on their fishing expedition. I think we can safely conclude that there was no warrant because no one has reported there was a warrant and that is the kind of thing that they would have reported. And if they had one they would have seized the phone itself. So we can reasonably conclude that this is a situation where they told the guy, unlock your phone or we’re going to keep you locked up or we’re going to take your phone.

Actually, that is how it works. And if you don’t believe us, then take 10 minutes and do a brief web search and you will find the same information… In this situation the law matches common sense which says that most of the time you are allowed to erase things on your own phone and when it is a special case then you need to know it’s a special case for it to be a crime.

I love the “but I don’t use that so I shouldn’t pay for it” argument. Like come on, my dude, that’s what a society is about. If you don’t want to live in society, move to Siberia.

Is? It’s done already. But the bots got there years ago, so who really cares about now.

That means there’s more money to be made by other more obscure countries, right?

I disagree. That would encourage more VPN companies to open up abroad. Two hundred countries and many don’t care what others think.