Mostly a shrug. Live and let live.

But that someone will have their own priorities that will most likely not always coindice with yours.

I browse Reddit only for one sub, a country-specific one that is reasonably niche. Right when the API migration happened, there seemed to be a very visible migration of Facebook/Instagram people migrating over to Reddit. Posts asking where to find Instagram/Facebook functionality came in daily, and the overall quality of both comments and posts degraded a lot, suddenly posts had a ton of comments with one word and a ton of emojis.

It was outsourced to the guy who ran Nazi concentration camps to build ballistic missiles to bomb London with.

So if I understand correctly, the reason it’s outdated is not because we don’t need those pesky banking regulations any more, but that it has been found that banks will just take out their own loans to cover the reserves they need from the central bank, so they can just lend as much as they want, no seatbelts. And the central bank will never run out of loans to give, since they have insane reserves, in their own currency it is technically unlimited.

So money is not really the thing we think it is. If banks overextend themselves and fuck up, the only thing we’ll see instead of failing banks is runaway inflation in the consumer and asset (housing) markets. Wonder where I’ve seen that.

That’s my point, I always have a reasonable suspicion of anything I get from the Internet, but I don’t trust any site just because some underpaid functionary or corporate employee in its respective country said it’s good.

So what are trustworthy TLDs?

On one side, what the fuck, that’s not how it’s supposed to work. On the other side, at least precedent doesn’t mean much in the EU.

Well technically GDPR applies, but who knows if any cars are actually compliant.

The ability for a car to call emergency services in the event of a crash, and thus the mobile / data connection required to do that, has been mandatory since 2018 in all new cars sold in the EU.

So there is no cost incentive not to have the internet connection in there, as it is a basic safety feature now, like seatbelts.

Yes, most cars have had their own data connection for a while now. If I know correctly, it’s a requirement for Europe since you have to put that button to call emergency services in the car, so it has to have a GSM module, so effectively it has to have mobile data.

To be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised

On the one hand, I can imagine the family gatherings.

“Why did you block Uncle Pete?”

“He has been viewing my page every 2AM, there is no way he isn’t beating his meat to all the beach pictures I post of my kids!”

On the other hand, Facebook likes engagement, even the weirdo meat-beating kind. It makes them money.

I mean, it follows that eventually evolution would produce fauna that would take apart a nuclear submarine in seconds.

It’s so cool to think we are living in an era of modern superfish, which would absolutely destroy any other fish that ever lived, since fish were upgraded over millions of years to where they are.

Imagine the creepiness level when as a woman you get a ton of page view notifications every day at 2AM. Some of them from coworkers. Some from family members.

Some things are best left unknown.

Have you seen how much a razor costs nowadays?

Not in Europe, that’s a US thing.

So you’re saying it’s not good enough for a sentient personality, but it might be good enough for an average politician?

It really broke the ice, didn’t it?