It’s… Progress?

One we have more direct control over as Americans which we can influence by policy. The other we can’t. “All it does is X instead of Y” is a naive oversimplification.

They’re not really the same thing, but it all depends on what’s most important to each person.

Severe mental illness

Now people also need to stop buying those Chinese streaming boxes filled with IPTV piracy channels. They do the same thing and most likely worse things. Samsung can only control the apps installed on their TVs.

At the end of 2025, analysts examined several models of the popular SuperBox device available from major retail stores and online marketplaces. The findings were deeply concerning: immediately upon powering up, the devices began pinging the servers of the Chinese messaging app Tencent QQ, as well as the Grass proxy service — effectively renting out the owner’s internet bandwidth to third parties.

Idk if we’d be so angry if the system stopped an angry student from committing an actual shooting. Sounds like the system would have correctly notified authorities and alerted to an actual threat of one occured.

A teacher should know the sensitivity of such a statement, joke or not. Some things you don’t joke about.

At the end of the day, tools like these are helpful when used in their intended way, but are rife with potential for misuse.

It sure is, Bub.

He’s just a lil fella

Imagine leasing a laptop for only X number of charging cycles allowed.

Good colors on that cob

I now have closure, thank you very much

Sounds like a type of corn bukkake, you’ve been sorted into the slut gang

Not with a cob like his

It’s to minimize surface area, making water dilution in cocktails a slower process. An ice sphere would be ideal for this but it’s better than ice from your freezer in that specific task.

Sounds like a way for a “glitch” to occur

Shout-out to Spectre TVs

Big fan of oral too, ngl

Wax imbedded paper cups aren’t that great either

I feel like something like yubikey that requires physical touch to the device would also fulfill this?

I don’t trust that these photos and videos won’t be used against us in some way later like advertising or tracking.