I knew about the game but not the thought experiment that inspired it.

Does at least once per flight really count as “infrequent?”

I replace my 911 rotors and pads once every 6 years?

Tell me you’re wasting your 911 without telling me you’re wasting your 911.

The only single-point-of-failure is the brake pedal.

And even then, only on cars with those stupid electronic parking brakes instead of a proper mechanical emergency brake.

If you want a nice new electric vehicle, (any vehicle really) in the US today you’re going to have to buy a spy mobile. No way around it.

Nobody has to drive a “nice new vehicle.” If your job is advocating for privacy, you should set a good example by driving an old car. (Or moonlight as an urbanist and ditch the car entirely, for that matter.)

Indefinitely.

They need to be on Mastodon specifically.

However, my concern with kids is that they will desperately want to use the platforms that their friends are on and they will hold it against the parents (and alternative platforms) if they are forced to make do without the big tech ones.

This is literally my greatest worry as a parent.

That doesn’t make UBI a bad idea. It makes allowing the ownership class to continue to exist a bad idea.

…you say about a comic in which the human character has a hoodie and a cellphone.

The sad thing is that Sony is multinational, and they weren’t prosecuted in Japan or anywhere else, either.

Their audience is the kind of person who still buys paper magazines, so…

Do you mean that time they installed a rootkit on people’s PCs when they went to play (what was supposed to be) a music CD, or the time they retroactively and remotely sabotaged Linux on people’s Playstations?

Just wondering which massive felony that should’ve landed the entire C-suite in prison you’re referring to, since there was more than one.

I’m wearing a WarGames shirt today.

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Index funds are also still vulnerable to risks that affect the economy as a whole, like – just off the top of my head, for no reason in particular – total collapse caused by mismanagement by fascists.

On a totally unrelated note, my portfolio has always been mostly index funds and still is, but I’ve decreased the percentage of US stock market in favor of international stocks in recent years.

I’m seconding the request for a writeup.

“Google loading” isn’t derisive enough. The example I came up with isn’t quite right, but I do want it to have that same feeling of being a grave insult. Maybe something like “simploading?” Or “dipshitloading?” “Brownloading” (think like “brownnosing”)? IDK, I’m just spitballing here.

Everything on my GrapheneOS is installed normally, by which I mean “however the fuck I want”.

Fuck allowing the act of exercising your rights as the owner to be demonized with bullshit loaded language!

“Sideloading” is anti-property-rights loaded language.

The correct term for installing something by means other than the Google-approved method is “installing normally.”

It is the act of capitulating to Google’s control, due to the incorrect belief that you need its permission to use your own property how you want, that needs a new term. So far all I’ve been able to come up with is “cuckloading,” though I’m not happy with how sexism-adjacent it is and am open to suggestions.