Have you seen their VR TOS?

“We own everything your gaze falls upon while you’re thinking about using these btw” -Meta

“Give me 25ft, says the unjust man. You take a step back, he takes a step forward. Give me 25ft, says the unjust man.”

• adapted slightly

Exactly. Can’t pull blood from a stone.

Luigi had ‘em signing off on thousands of medical procedures they never would have otherwise because they were literally scared for their lives.

I guarantee you any one of the companies involved would’ve immediately traded that guy’s life for 200mil, and technically had been for years.

A dozen or so more incidents like this and maybe they’ll start to ken why things like unions and protestors were ultimately the workers being polite.

Then as a stickler you should probably clarify that 20yrs isn’t the lifespan of a panel but the simply the end of most warranty periods.

The panel itself is (typically) fine, just less efficient after so long.

Gonna tell my kids this app is Apollo and pour one out for those that didn’t make it.

Hear me out… anti-WiFi trees.

They grow towards any RF signals and their leaves are specially shaped to attenuate anything over 900MHz. They use the extra energy to increase their density to better resist harvesting and increase their height.

Doesn’t seem like the statement they’re making to me.

The energy that was used in the original teleportation. I didn’t think it was that deep, it used more energy to reconstitute more matter.

But that’s not how it goes. That’s just the summary, and most anyone would balk at it being put like that. Just like most of Nazi Germany would’ve balked at gassing 6mil Jews if that’s what Hitler would’ve ran his campaign on.

First they say, “Ok boys, today we’re on crowd control. It’s going to be a little crazy out there today because of the officer involved shooting but we’re just going to try and keep it professional and hope for the best.”

Of course that’s coded to hell and passive voice for “the people are agitated and we gotta show force” but there’s a reason they don’t say it like that. It’s too direct. It might cause the more liberal minded to ask uncomfortable questions where everyone else can hear, and start to doubt the mission too.

Then they’re out there. Shoulder to shoulder. Dressed the same, on the same team, with all the (justifiable) anger of a mob directed right at them. Tribalism kicks in and it’s off to the escalation races. By the time they get to the tear gas stage they’re practically congratulating each other that they haven’t shot anyone else today.

lol Bernie was talking about 50% and their counter is apparently 5%. What’s say we meet in the middle with… oh, 55%? (math by ChatGPT)

... and exactly 2 weeks later modders will have figured out how to get their hands on the yummy free unlimited data inside it.

Not until you buy your calls with your 401k to save the rest of us.

No? It says “our members deserve better because the two front runner candidates chose these same few stances on these key areas”.

If you read “these two are literally the same and you shouldn’t vote” then that’s pretty much on you.

IMO we are what we incentivize and right now we’re incentivizing a low-trust society which “requires” a nanny state to remediate thanks to the anxiety ##% of the populace feels thanks to the constant fear mongering used to induce FOMO. Nowadays you can’t convince anyone you’re a normal, capable human being without proof. What that proof is differs from person to person of course.

2 reasons imo.

1. Chrome inertia. Everyone who’s locked into it from the days it was legitimately faster.
2. Every time it gets mentioned, its supporters like to “no true Scotsman” the original project and suggest their preferred fork instead.

Going to be hard since the hardware sitting between all those wires cost money to run and… that’s pretty much what ISPs get paid do. They’re assholes who shouldn't have a say in what goes through those connections but their job isn’t redundant, someone has to do it to maintain those connections.

lol, as if anyone pays for QA anymore.

Anyone with sense saw this coming when they did the same thing in Australia and the UK but I otherwise agree with your point. I think this is a very calculated move.

When the deadline gets here in a month, 80% of the group that would’ve migrated out of disgust won’t be affected because they just use Discord for group voice chats anyway, and the competition isn’t ready. The rest have been trained to put their personal info out there to anyone who asks for it. And, when (not if) they eventually roll out “IDs for Everyone”, the outrage won’t be nearly as detrimental to their bottom line because it’s already happened before.

Meshtastic? LoRa?

Or do you mean something like VPN tunneling?

They’re consolidating their marketshare and decreasing cost through every method available to increase revenue. All the avenues of piracy have just become the lowest hanging fruit now that these companies aren’t growing anymore.