When the subject comes up I have often said that cell phones are what we avoided in the PC space when the IBM BIOS was reverse engineered.

It has been a disappointment to me that so many smart otherwise tech literate people have seemed to not be able to see the tech industry, and others, putting the digital noose around out necks with smart phones.

We are not too far away from entire brick and mortar businesses being off limits to someone whose only smart phone is not an iPhone and does not pass Googles Play Services Safetynet checks for an app and the only method to pay they have being cash or a physical credit card. That is wild, and something that should worry nearly everyone that has a vested interest in being able to live their lives without being under the thumbs of private corporate interests if they so choose.

And that is before even getting into the even more concerning parts of modern phones which take all of the above and make it scary by replacing private corporate interests with governments.

Nothing good ever comes from getting in a position where you have to interact with, or obey, another party and they get to set all of the terms.

Good. But I would like to see it go further and have a provision that allows the doctor to pass that blame on to the place they work if using that AI is being forced on them.

Louis taking the financial hit for all of us. One of the few people that are “famous” I would buy a coffee if I were to see him on the street.

I am surprised it is actually a clone of something people have heard of. I was expecting something on the level of what you can get for $50 at Walmart.

This is just the movie Big Daddy but with a cat instead of an orphan.

Such a thing would need to be somewhere other than the OTA broadcast networks because those are subject to the FCC and Brendan Carr and would never see an end to the attempts to silence them.

Good on him for having a backbone. Hopefully he lands in something that ends up taking the majority of the viewership. Maybe a new show called “65 minutes” where the last 5 minutes of every show it dedicated to torching the latest conservative hypocrisy.

The great master of the deal at work. Is this 5d chess yet?

That is crazy talk. There would not be nearly enough shareholder value in such a system.

Was wondering who was going to rise up and challenge the Catholic church for the title of champions of the molesters in the next Holy Wrestle Mania PPV.

Well yeah, to them the Pope is a minor political figure whose opinion matters very little.

Former Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday that President Donald Trump’s second administration has “departed” from traditional conservative principles.

Not like the first administration was any better Mike. But nice job trying to give yourself political cover for your blame in what has happened to this country over the last ~10 years. You might have done the right thing in the end, but you had a good 3.5 years before that to stiffen that back bone up and you didn’t until you saw the literal gallows sitting outside the senate offices.

Takes a special kind of asshole to swat a little old lady for trying to host a wholesome gaming stream for a good cause.

They aren’t buying the ads to convince you to buy it anytime soon. They are buying the ads to plant the seed of the link to their brand with whatever the thing is. That way in the future when you have long forgot about the ad and you are looking for bone broth you might buy theirs because it looks familiar even if you don’t know why. This is a time tested process that absolutely works.

If you think you are immune to it then you are fooling yourself and are half way to being the perfect little consumer that they want.

There is a whole horror short story in those 2 faces if you are a creature that is smaller than them.

“yawn, that little creature is so boring an unimpressive…I should go break its leg and bite it to see if that makes it do anything interesting.”

People in general seem to have a hard time grasping the notion of just how much power we all have collectively. It is why so much time and marketing goes into promoting the idea of “the individual” being the most important thing in my opinion. The more people only consider themselves the less power they have to get what they want and need.

That I could get behind. Probably do more good from that position as a whole as well.

Part of me hates to see her try. As long as she is straddling the line between serious presidential candidate and popular US House member my head cannon reasons there is still some sanity in some small part of our political institutions.

Watching her actually seriously try to get the top job and watching the DNC ruin her for it would be so depressing.

The problem here is not her message, it is how the headlines present it.

She is not saying that having a billion dollars is wrong per se in a vacuum. she is saying how you go about getting a billion dollars in the real world is what makes it wrong.

That destination is far too subtle for the average voter. She is talking about the rules of chess while ~50% of the country barely knows how to play checkers.

The better thing to focus on for people is probably the methods by which billionaires go about making their money more so than the specific amounts of money they end up with because of it.

Finally, some good news. Now I can stop having to interact with my companies shitty outsourced service desk when I need a Bitlocker key.