Eh, gotta be honest though. Democrats (at the Federal level) love money. Pelosi’s latest Visa stock gambit, vaccines, etc. They use the Republicans to stay profitable. Repubs contrive a fear, Dems monetize it. Capitalists at their core. Not looking out for the People. Just wall street. Because they genuinely believe the machine is what keeps us all living our lives, and to love the machine, and why not make some scratch while you’re at it?

I found out on one bank site that if you filled up all the phone number slots with bogus phone numbers, Zelle couldn’t be activated. Basically try to logjam your bank so Zelle can’t be enabled, so that way it’s more difficult for haxx0rs to do it.

Stupid. Wish it could be 100% blocked on bank accounts if you don’t want to use it as it is a huge security hole.

Nah, more of a challenge. California normally leads the way with things that are good. Competition towards good things is good.

The S22 US version used snapdragon 8 gen 1 (in the US) and the chip was prone to performance issues. It worked, but it was rough, ran hot, and ate power for lunch. I’m not sure if that was a year that the international variants had an Exynos, but their performance is generally worse.

So seeing a simpler phone with basic android seem to do fine versus a flagship with super bloated Android on a first gen apps processor makes a lot of sense, really.

Up to $210 if uninsured.

Nice to see California catching up to Colorado.

I’m not pro-China, but will probably sound that way here. We are all nation-states composed of arbitrary rules. We all think we are the best. We all think the others are less. We all do shitty things to our people. We also need each other to survive. It’s a clusterfuck that needs a fix. Xenophobia is never the answer.

One cannot really use a universal fact shared between the two nations as a plot point.

Oh, yeah, the US Federal Government would neeevvverrr put backdoors into things. Not ever. Not BlackBerry, or iPhone, or messaging apps, or anything…

…oh, wait.

You think Thunderbird is insulated? Their latest big drunk UI lift seems to have somehow made it even less intuitive.

You have a preferred mobile app to access the service you’d recommend?

Recently tried MS Office apps for the first time in 8 or so years. Somehow they made them less intuitive than even ribbon days. They use a dark pattern save dialog that makes it easy to accidentally save to OneDrive, and if you have OneDrive disabled or uninstalled, there’s an always present icon in the title bar of the main edit window that says “autosave off” even though autosave is on.

Went right back to LibreOffice after one document and one spreadsheet.

Duh, it’s so simple. The lab released infected animals to the wet market. All bases covered.

I’ll take my research grant now.

(This is all said non-serious to be clear.)

Is that the latest bear name Russia is using? They’re not very clever in their naming of their shit orgs and furry obsessed with bears.

I asked ChatGPT if it knew of that, and even with it’s heavy microsoft influence it was confused.

Have you met Google?

Those are both mental health issues, as well as the latter being failure of the medical system to limit access. (As well as the unrelated easy access to firearms issue.)

Mental healthcare in the US is terrible by itself, and is under the healthcare umbrella.

…you know what they say about guys with big lift…

Funny thing is, the people I know with large vehicles around here always bemoan how difficult it is to park, yet don’t want to solve the obvious problem because twice a year they want to haul a fridge to the dump or pick up something from the home improvement store rather than have it delivered or rent a truck for an hour.

…and the text messages, and the canvassers, and the snail mails, and the billboards (if you live where they are allowed), and and and.

Wish it would all just go away, I’ll vote how I want despite all the waste of media.

Politicians should get some sanctioned debates and interviews on CSPAN and that’s it.

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