Telling someone how to do a thing isn’t aiding and abetting.

If I tell you that you can kill someone by shoving them off the Brooklyn Bridge, I’m not potentially taking part in a homicide.

Knowing where to commit a crime is not illegal.

I grew up in a town with a huge standing weekly flea market everyone knew about where everyone knew you were buying stolen stuff, fake IDs, bootlegs, etc. The way I finally convinced my family that TPB wasn’t illegal was by asking them if it was a crime to tell someone where the flea market was.

While there’s truth there, the SR-71 still holds the records for highest sustained speed and altitude of any publicly-known air-breathing aircraft 60 years after they were adopted.

But an unclear coat on it.

Checkmate.

The mileage tax on average will make average petrol cars pay double what EVs will be paying in road taxes ( and it’s not even happening until 2028).

Nice thing for me is I already have 2 phones. I get a phone stipend for work so I can keep my sensitive personal stuff and my sensitive work stuff on separate devices. I work in the public sector, so it’s especially important because of Open Records stuff.

But it also means that if I’m going on vacation out of country, I can just take the work phone that’s already sanitized.

I never see shorts or AI videos, but I get that others aren’t so lucky.

My Dad’s is all AI slop, shorts, and right-wing talking heads.

I’ve actual stopped sobbing to channels I want to follow, because I’ve noticed my feed doesn’t really show many of my my subscriptions, but the channels I watch regularly without subbing always have 100% of their new videos at the to0 of my feed.

It’s not even necessarily the end of support and updates for old products. If I have a Black and Decker drill from 1920, it’s not reasonable to expect them to still service it.

But what is unreasonable is allowing Black and Decker to break my drill. And that’s what Amazon is doing when they restrict access to content that was previously viewable on the older models.

The next generation is the problem. With the component pricing being stupid up they’re having to put off releasing the new consoles. They’re raising the prices on existing hardware just to match the component crunch, so they’re not getting the mid-late generation bump of people buying the hardware once it’s come down in price, and the people willing to buy new hardware an a high price already bought this generation’s comsole.

Xbox bled money buying studios for gamepass, then failed to get casual people subscribed to gamepass, but the hardware people who bought new $70 games a couple times a month started spending way less money on Xbox due to Gamepass because of all the day 1 releases. And the Series S held back everything by being wildly underpowered.

Meanwhile Sony burned billions betting on live service failures back to back to back (Microsoft did this too, but to a lesser degree).

And now their “new console generation” parachute/reset is fucked due to hardware costs. They know they can’t make an even halfway decent “next-gen” console under $1000, so now they’ve burned mountains of money and don’t really have a plan going forward. And now they’re amputating limbs to create the illusion of cost-cutting.

If the fridge operation depends on a simple thermostat and compressor, then it’s more reliable and can be repaired with lamp wire and a soldering iron if it does break. Samsung would rather have a system depending on a control board they build for $3 and sell you for $600 when it breaks.