That expression is that Trump is super pissed that the dying fucker is taking attention away from him.

Ah. Thanks for clarifying.

Yep. It’s how they can claim they were the reasonable ones. So they don’t have to move to Argentina if they’re on the losing side in the future.

Translation: she believes she wouldn’t win in a newly drawn district.

Term Limits, Inc v Thornton and Bates v Jones are both cases where the federal courts ruled on similar issues (California ballot propositions). I’m not a legal scholar, but if federal courts can determine jurisdiction in those cases, why wouldn’t they in this one?

Never mind the “who’s gonna stop them” issue.

The US Supreme Court will probably come up with an even dumber reason invalidate Prop 50. I imagine we’ll know pretty soon.

Agreed. It’s nice having a phone with the software you want on it.

Looking just at location… Apple is actually better at location tracking precision than Google, and you can’t turn it off (even powering off your phone doesn’t shut it off). Disabling location services doesn’t prevent the data collection by Apple, it only blocks apps from using it.

Apple is probably better at not sharing your data with others than Goolge, but that’s a position of faith, not fact. If you trust Apple and are diligent about blocking location access to 3rd party apps, it’s better. But you should expect that if you’re giving location access to a free app (like Google maps, a weather app, a ride share app, a streaming app, etc.), you can bet they are selling your location data.

Is Google Play Services sampling your location so that it can send it in to Google HQ as part of a secret location tracking operation that runs without user consent or knowledge

Yes they track your phone’s location and movement constantly, but it’s not a secret.

For an example of the evidence you seek… Google SensorVault location data was how they identified and convicted the January 6 terrorists. You might argue that complying with warrants isn’t misuse of the data, but I’d argue that both the data itself, and the level of precision and detail, shouldn’t be captured and logged in the first place. And I’m fairly sure that most google customers have no idea how pervasive and extensive the tracking is.

Grifter on grifter hate. lol

They’ll only ever do that if the political climate shifts in a way that makes being MAGA toxic. If he dies before that, they’ll gather in stadiums to celebrate his passing as a hero, like they did for Charlie Kirk.

You can’t get a decent non-smart TV, but you can just not connect a Smart TV to the internet.

Any TV you buy will have a range of “picture quality enhancement” settings. These all introduce some rendering latency. Game modes on TVs (for the most part) bypass the PQE functions. Rtings.com is a quality source for this kind of info. They do good work and publish their testing methodologies.

Source… worked a shitload of years in TV electronics, and was part of the industry from Smart TVs being godawful to just a few years ago.

The free breakfast program was an example of that community building. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Breakfast_for_Children

The big screen. It’s a normal phone folded up, and almost an iPad mini unfolded. And it works surprisingly well. When I first saw the ads, I thought it was a stupid design. But after using it, I’m a fan.

It’s also nice to have a device I can set up with the software I want, and have sensible controls that work. I don’t miss iOS at all.

Because they have held a very high standard for a very long time. It is one of the few “brands” of reviews that has remained trustworthy over the years. They only award a star to excellence; nothing in the guide is bad. Indeed there is lots of good food that’s never mentioned in the guide.

This actually seems like an attempt to curb all the ID collecting privacy nightmares that are happening lately with poorer implementations.

I’m not convinced it is. If it were, they could make it an opt-in feature for parents rather than a mandatory feature that forces people to lie. While less unreasonable, it still normalizes an un-necessary thing.

If society really wanted to protect children, we could actually start punishing the known, famous child rape perpetrators. But instead, the Catholic Church still gets enormous tax benefits, the Boy Scouts still exist, the Joe Paterno statue was put back in the stadium at the demand of the fans, Prince Adnrew isn’t in jail, and Donald Trump is President. And people will read this comment and be more triggered that I didn’t name some other prominent pedophile that still walks free. This sort of legislation in the name of protecting children is just a giant, society-wide virtue-signaling delusion.

I bought a pixel 9 fold to run GrapheneOS. I didn’t consider running stock android, and wouldn’t use a Samsung phone if you gave it to me.

Apple doesn’t really offer anything comparable in screen size or form factor, so it’s hard to compare in some ways. I like the fold quite a bit, but it has it’s quirks. The Qi/magnetic charger is trash, battery life is just ok, hardware doesn’t appear as durable as the iphone, and there aren’t great case options for the fold, and the cases that have a mag charger option have it in a place that makes magsafe accessories not fit in the right spot (they hang off the bottom a little).

Graphene has it’s own set of quirks that take a little getting used to. But overall I’m loving it. The only real sucky thing is that the keyboards are different enough that I can’t type for shit.

This plus a Lego mindstorm.

hopefully those 2nd supporters will start speaking up some time…

They’re cheering loudly for this. If “Take their guns first and worry about due process later” didn’t bother them, this sure won’t.

Yeah. And even “loss of functionality” makes it sound passive; as if it just happened by accident. They Intentionally broke a working product.