Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

the second scenario appears to be the mainstream view among democrats

Why the fuck would “the mainstream view among democrats” be even the slightest bit persuasive? Cite proof or GTFO.

My current most-used bike is a cargo e-bike I got because I wanted to be able to haul my kids to school.

But my long-time “daily-driver” bike is a circa-1991 rigid mountain bike that I got from a charity bike co-op for free (because I was a poor college student at the time), and it’s served me well for more than a decade.

“Violat[ing] DRM policies” isn’t “misuse.” DRM itself is misuse of the machine owner’s property.

Anyway, you might have already foreclosed the possibility by talking about it on this Lemmy account if it can be traced back to you, but my suggestion would’ve been to release it as open source anonymously.

[man] “or maybe they just come here to die”

[woman] “that’s awesome”

Oh shit I never realized Peggy from KoTH was Kathy Najimy!

It’s more insidious than that: by adding it to all even when they don’t use AI, they give cover to people who are vibe-coding. “Nah man, I totally wrote it myself. VS Code just puts that message on everything.”

All leveraged buyouts ought to be illegal, not just this one.

When are judges finally going to start putting ICE officials in jail for contempt?

I knew about the game but not the thought experiment that inspired it.

Does at least once per flight really count as “infrequent?”

I replace my 911 rotors and pads once every 6 years?

Tell me you’re wasting your 911 without telling me you’re wasting your 911.

The only single-point-of-failure is the brake pedal.

And even then, only on cars with those stupid electronic parking brakes instead of a proper mechanical emergency brake.

Some of the most common large animals in the world are only so because they’re livestock. Otherwise, they might’ve been extinct by now (compare cows and aurochs, for example). Between that and funding wildlife conservation through hunting and fishing license revenue, having, let’s say, “fraught” motivations like that is not unusual at all.

If you want a nice new electric vehicle, (any vehicle really) in the US today you’re going to have to buy a spy mobile. No way around it.

Nobody has to drive a “nice new vehicle.” If your job is advocating for privacy, you should set a good example by driving an old car. (Or moonlight as an urbanist and ditch the car entirely, for that matter.)

To an aphid, an adult ladybug is probably even an more intimidating predator.

Indefinitely.

They need to be on Mastodon specifically.

However, my concern with kids is that they will desperately want to use the platforms that their friends are on and they will hold it against the parents (and alternative platforms) if they are forced to make do without the big tech ones.

This is literally my greatest worry as a parent.

That doesn’t make UBI a bad idea. It makes allowing the ownership class to continue to exist a bad idea.