20 years ago when Scott Adams was still a moderately sane human.

and also fill the screen with pop up ads while you are at it

Like this!

As a Canadian, I would be fine with an EU based system that works globally.

I really hope some non-US controlled credit card issuers and processors start to exist soon.

The entire US financial system seems like such a risk to participate in these days.

The big question is what happens when they are no longer supply constrained.

I can’t see that happening unless the AI bubble pops and their insatiable demand for more hardware ends.

My decade old TV is starting to show its age with a couple of dead pixel columns.

I’m a bit stressed about trying to find a new one that has none of this kind of enshittification.

I just want something with a couple of HDMI inputs and an antenna connector.

I absolutely do not want any ad servers or mandatory account bullshit injecting itself where it isn’t wanted.

They’re setting up to verify identities online I presume?

To track online activities.

To ensure nobody is doing anything the government (or its corporate funders) don’t like.

Look at the Project2025 manifesto and see how much they want people’s activities to be controlled.

until the parent company CEO gets replaced.

One would hope pulling such a boneheaded move ought to make that happen rather quickly.

Of course, if this CEO has been there for more than a year or 2, he would probably get a golden parachute for more than the value of his fuckup…

Even sadder that people keep falling for it.

Or they don’t.

Welcome to the current presidency.

I am Pentium of Borg.

You will be approximated.

I don’t care if it’s an ancient reference.

I’ve really lost my faith in the US.

What little I had left was destroyed in November of 2024.

I was hoping they had learned from their previous mistake, but instead they doubled down.

Spy glasses are much less obvious than using a phone camera.

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The US government could use some of that these days.

Years of privacy violations going deeper and deeper under pretend of “progress” and “pRoTeCt the cHiLdReN”.

https://imgur.com/QqabC7T

would these help lead to more arrest if assaults were captured on the cameras

It might also help find lost puppies, but that’s not a good enough reason to give up any additional amounts of privacy to the megacorporations or to a police state.

I’ve suggested paint before, and several people replied that there things have coatings on the lens that resist paint and other chemical attacks.

It’s almost like flock anticipated that people would be pissed off at them…

Also

Another, lower tech option that gets the job done.

this fella is way too into god for me.

Same, but the unfortunate reality is that’s what you need to be if you have a hope of getting elected in the southern US.