I don’t get the point of this. Is the point to send people to some place so inhospitable that it scares future refugees from attempting to apply for asylum?

No, it was written by smart people with zero empathy and a plethora of conflicts of interest. Don’t make these ghouls out to be inept, they are smart, and just awful people.

You had me until the emergency services comment

• Fire department, available
• Police, available, you may end up murdered if you are the wrong skin tone
• Ambulance, available, but you’ll be billed for that ride. So what’d taxes pay for there?
• Mental health services, see Police
• Emergency room, available, see Ambulance and multiply by 50-100x

Rover

Dummy’s Guide on How to Be a US Senator

Yes, but she was terminally ill, so it was her taking it on her own terms. Unlike Epstein, whose suicide was committed for him.

Fro recurring ones, the surgery is followed up with an acid treatment that kills part of the nail bed, so the nail stops growing so wide. I have had it done on both big toes, on both sides. Haven’t had any issues in over 15 years.

I wonder if this is Trump’s mission accomplished moment…

I’m so happy with Voyager being a really good replacement for Apollo. If you use it, donate to the dev. Building apps this good, solo, is hard.

It can and likely is both.

Samsung’s board of directors. Of which half are probably using iPhones.

Don’t worry, that’s all written by defense contractors anyways, so they’ll sell it to the US, and to others the US allows, all closed source. The source won’t even be open to the US government, either, as that’d harm the bottom line of the contractor (support & maintenance contracts for that closed-source software).

My response to that would be something like

You first, leech

“Town” is generally used to mean “something smaller than a city”. I live in a town, and the population is about 30K. It’s technically a township, but people don’t really use that term widely. I know that doesn’t really clear things up, but your real answer is “it’s complicated”.

Oh OK, so this nightmare existing is only for wifi use. I imagine that would also be slower, especially if these cameras support USB-C.

So instead of just mounting the camera as storage, they require a proprietary app using a surveillance-packed web browser? Yeah, I’d be returning that pile of awful.

I’d still want the browser to at least be able to do it as a default, not at the whim of specific sites.

I build call centers.

When we design the call flows, those are the first tings we disable. You can tell a company at least slightly cares about their customer base if they actually do allow you to escalate to a human without a ton of effort. Most don’t, and want to shove “AI” in front of everything, so they can hire even less people in low-cost markets. Offshoring wasn’t cheap enough for these leeches companies, now they want AI to replace those folks making starvation wages to get yelled at all day.

And sometimes, these solutions work well. Most of the time, they work just well enough to not have people quitting their service in frustration.

25% tariff is still cheaper than re-shoring. Well, Apple never made them here anyways, but you get the point. To make them here, they’d have to jack that price up by way, way more than 25%.

The Daily Show had a guy that wrote a book on how Apple has been one of the biggest reasons for China’s economic growth in the past 15 or so years, with them investing like $50 billion a year and driving literally millions of jobs in just their supply chain. Trump isn’t changing that. Apple would pull out of selling in the US before they’d reverse course at this point.

Look how quickly they were ready to make and ship devices from India, when the China tariffs firs hit. They are smarter than the Trump admin, and planned for this.

They can, but this wouldn’t be a website thing, it’d be the whole browser. Not a bad thin, IMO, Recall is cancer that no one but Microsoft board members & investors are asking for.

I predict privacy-preserving browsers like Librewolf, Waterfox, etc. potentially deploying the same “DRM for a good cause” approach Signal is using.