LilB0kChoy

Ok. I prefer to approach a situation with reason and logic. It seems like you'd rather respond to anger and ignorance with anger and ignorance of your own. I hope that works out the way you expect.

If you currently work for ICE and you haven’t quit, you’ve demonstrated you’re okay with going along with illegal and immoral actions. That makes you a bad person.

Single mother, works in a minor administrative clerical capacity for an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, has two school age children and without this job she's on the street and can't take care of these kids. She desperately needs this job but is really upset about the news lately, contacting her representatives, protesting when she can and stands ready to offer shelter in her home to anyone in need of a safe space. Yet in this hypothetical, under your rules, not only do you claim that this person has demonstrated they're okay with going along with illegal and immoral actions but that they're also a bad person. No allowance for circumstance or the fact that this is an unprecedented situation.

Due process is required for legal judgements, not moral ones, FYI.

I am aware. I used the example to draw a parallel. I would have thought engaging in the same behavior that your upset about might make you stop and think; guess not.

There are no good people in ICE.

Boy, I sure do hate ICE right now so this is hard to do but you’re saying if someone works for ICE they are, by that fact alone, a bad person?

That’s an awful lot like forgoing due process and determining someone’s “guilt” because you said so.

I’m pretty disgusted at those who don’t have the integrity to do what’s right, to take a stand to the unlawful and immoral orders they’re being given. I wouldn’t blame anyone who used any amount of force e to defend themselves from ICE at this point since they have no reason to believe that their rights or due process will be respected and it may be their life on the line.

Respectfully, though, I think you’re wrong to paint with such a broad brush. Life can be easier to deal with in such stark black and white terms but it’s never that simple.

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There are few exceptions to this rule. The one I always think of is the tape drive. 75 years on and still going strong with advancements in storage amount and encryption etc. but otherwise, largely still the same technology.

And? I get where you’re coming from but a security flaw doesn’t mean it can’t be plugged in, powered on, connected to and used. It just means it’s not safe.

I don’t think there’s an argument that the technology has a useful life of 50 years. Usually when talking about the “life” of building products it’s about failure point, the time at which you can expect the product might fail and require replacement.

Technically speaking it’s probably accurate. The equipment itself is probably capable of working for 50 years.

I’m with you. I’m not a big Amazon fan but I’ve had a Kindle since the before times and I only read pirated books. I’m able to email them to my Kindle which is handy and the Kindle meets my very simple needs.

I looked at replacing it because I’d prefer to have all my devices using one standard charger (USB C) and my Kindle still uses micro USB. In the end I bought an adapter instead.

Even through 2024, I was interested in buying a Model 3

Why? My understanding is that there are better EVs for the same or less money available.

Back when Teslas boasted longer range and greater features than the limited other EVs on the market and were by far the more sporty option it kind of made sense.

Now it just seems like everything else is equal and when given the choice between a Ford and a Reichswagen it shouldn’t be hard to not pick the Reichswagen.

Edit: I’m aware of the irony using Ford in my example as the alternative.

Just block and move on. The doomerism is just another form of trolling but you can block the user and it’s like their doomed attitude got sent to El Salvador.

Not about the size, it's about the capabilities of the search.

A drug dog is not going to trigger money because of trace amounts of narcotics.

Besides, I'm just amazed that the comment section wasn't full of people saying they'd put it in their secure stash.

A stash in or around your residence is not very secure by the very nature of proximal association. If you’re going to get this serious about it then a proper secure stash would be accessible but not readily associated with you and not somewhere you go often.