Put a bit of rubbing alcohol/hand sanitizer on their snoot and they will back right off.

Sounds like another reason to standardize easily replaceable batteries.

If you can’t trust a battery in a device, you should be able to replace it with a trusted one.

Incredible title

Excellent take. It is a clear indicator of an individualist mindset.

Reject modernity. Become moose

The moment my computer refuses to obey my commands sent from the physical layer, is the moment it will cease to exist on this physical plane

Jesus, a fucking LRAD? Those things are NASTY

This feels like its establishing a precedent for widespread adoption/implementation of AI into consumer devices. Manufactured consent.

“We compute one pixel… we hallucinate, if you will, the other 32.”

Between this and things like Sora, we are doomed to drown in illusions of our own creation.

Fucking racists need to stay away from the cool fonts, they’re ruining them

All I know is that I’ve never connected my TV to the internet and never gotten ads on it

Not saying more sinister things aren’t possible, but for my TV to connect to some kind of mesh net, it would probably need a firmware update, which its not going to get, because again, its not connected to the internet.

Iirc that’s specifically for amazon devices, this was regarding Samsung TVs

This is why having a virtual number is good - my google voice number catches the overwhelming majority of the spam

Don’t connect it to the internet

Voting sites really don’t cost that much money. They probably spent more money putting up this measure than it would cost to just run the damn thing.

When I work elections, the county pays me roughly 180 bucks for the whole day 6am - 8pm (I dont do it for the money, obviously). The smallest one i worked had around 3-5 people, so less than 1k in labor overall.

All of the devices and materials aside from the ballots get re-used for each election, unless there are equipment changes. The voting locations themselves are often donated spaces, like churches and schools. There are also election technicians, but they’re serving multiple precincts and dropping one location won’t make much of a difference. Everyone else involved is usually already a salaried government worker.

All this to say, closing a precinct to “save money” is a pathetic excuse. Everyone has the right to vote. It should be the first thing we make sure we budget for.

This is a good sentiment. Just because your specific in-group believes something doesn’t mean its common knowledge. It is still deserving of attention.

How can I acquire one of these deployable friends

Title reminds me of a quote from Casper/Zeus from TRON: Legacy

wish this was me

In my defense, my pattern recognition works a lot better with depth perception and movement