I haven’t played many, more of PC gamer. But, of the Atari 2600, Radio Shack TV Scoreboard, Atari 5200, Sega Genesis, GameCube, and Wii, I’ll pick the Sega Genesis. Yes, I was around for the launch of all of these, including the original Pong, which was the first video game I played. I’m fucking old.

Because all of their customers were clamoring for such a “feature”?

Of course, it will have the option of being “turned off”.

I mean, we’ve all long suspected our phones are listening to us anyway, why not make it into a “feature”.

How about a phone for people who aren’t addicted to them, but want the basics without being spied on?

Things I want in a phone:

• GPS with maps and directions.
• A browser for the rare occasions I want to look something up when I’m away from home. The last time I used it was to find which aisle something was on at Lowe’s.
• Texting.
• Phone calls.
• Notes.
• A decent camera.
• No bigger than an iPhone 12 mini, which is what I have now, and it’s plenty big enough.

I don’t do anything else. Mostly my phone sits on my desk, ignored unless it makes a noise at me. I take it with me sometimes when I leave the house, but sometimes I don’t bother--not addicted.

But, “Everything in moderation.”, and “The dose makes the poison.”

Go ahead and counter with this ancient “wisdom”, then continue to drink. It’s your body, you don’t need to justify how you abuse it to anyone.

Why not map all of Earth? It would fit.

It’s important to have these studies, even though the result is predictable. People who want to move toward restricting AI in schools need something more than anecdotes to point to as justification.

What law would I potentially break if I tipped one over?

I’ve never seen one IRL where I live, they wouldn’t make much sense in suburbia, but I suppose I might come across one someday, if they keep multiplying.

40C is just June through August where I live.

I have a window AC, but most summers I don’t bother installing it. I did order a ceiling fan for my bedroom, though. Should be here tomorrow.

You’ve heard, “but it’s a dry heat”? Yeah, that makes a huge difference. It’s currently 9% humidity and dropping here.

As an old person who started on MS-DOS, I’ve always said “directory”, and “program”. I had trouble switching to “folder” and then more recently “app”. I’m happy to have switched to Linux a couple of years ago so I can just say directory again. The word app, short for application, came from Apple, with the iPhone. No doubt they also liked that is the first three letters of Apple, too. It was specifically for the little programs that ran on iPhone, not meant to replace “program” across the board. But, here we are. Also, “web app” was used to refer to those websites or pages that worked like apps on iPhones, before apps became commonplace. Now, everything from Notes to Photoshop is an “app”.

No one should tip anyone. Tipping supports wage theft. If no one tipped, business models that depend on tipping would find no one to hire, so they’d be forced out of business, or need to start paying something closer to a living wage. Yes, this would happen on the backs of those currently working such jobs, but if nothing ever changes, then nothing ever changes.

For the past several months, in my neighborhood, there is a periodic very low frequency thumping sound. Imagine a chopper motorcycle idling, but lower frequency and very distant. It comes, lasts about 20 minutes, and then stops. I’ve only heard from one other person in the neighborhood who has noticed it.

Closing the windows does nothing because it’s such a low frequency. Also, because it’s a low frequency, it sounds the same whether inside or outside, and it’s impossible to figure out which direction it’s coming from. I usually miss it during the day, but at night, if I hear it I can’t get to sleep until it stops.

If they implement this for Gmail, it will be the reason I finally leave Gmail. That will be a PIA, though.

Fuck you, Bezos.

Just because I haven’t said it yet, today.

No, I didn’t read the article, because it’s bullshit. Of course, it is.

If it were a good post it’d have a positive vote count.

I don’t always agree with the hivemind’s judgment.

Money wins again.

It’s not a big enough issue for the pols to come down on the side of the people. They know they won’t be voted out on this one decision, so they came down on the side of the money.

You’ll need to add onto your tile, to distinguish it from the rip-off version, so people know.

And, doing what you’re doing here, getting the word out.

You’ll be fine.

Joffrey Baratheon-looking cunt.

The voters need to understand they aren’t doing this to “protect children”. They’re afraid to vote against it because they’ll look like they don’t want to protect children. We need to let them know we see through the ruse, and we won’t punish them at the polls for voting against this shit, but we will for passing it.

Nothing new, and yet we still do need to talk about it.

I’d say, “parents need to…”

But, parents are at least as addicted as their kids.