Good luck with that. I want the opposite of immortality and a long life.

Yeah, I can see a use for smart glasses. Specifically in assisting the hard of hearing, those with partial blindness, maybe even people with other disabilities as well. But the upload of data and cameras recording people without their knowledge and consent is a problem. Not just a problem, but the problem.

But also our laws have a habit of not catching up to the reality of how people use tech to violate the rights of others and that really needs to be addressed. Not against consumers but against tech firms and manufacturers.

They have a point though. Technically from what I’ve read just living near an airport would give ICE the authority to search your phone and anything else you might be carrying if it’s within a certain mile radius. Even if you aren’t using the port of entry (airport for instance). Regardless of whether or not they have any other form of probable cause.

I don’t understand how others don’t understand that. Because it’s a hell of a conclusion to come to.

Again, I was not talking about police. Not even talking about like… The National Guard.

I am suddenly reminded of The Longest Yard movie where they gave the guards a bunch of estrogen.

That’s not really how it works in the military. They don’t just let you shoot things indiscriminately like they do in the police force.

I assumed by fourth year of the car you meant model year not that the car was 4 years old.

First and foremost, Ford had their first real attempt at an EV back in 2011/2012 with the Ford Focus Electric.

Secondly, you seem to have read my original comment as “don’t buy the first two years” when that’s not what I said. Your 4th model yearc car very much falls into the window of my original comment.

Third, your comment made it sound like there weren’t forums full of Mach E owners dragging their balls over Ford’s name to force them to do recalls on the thing.

All I did was point out why I wouldn’t recommend you buy a brand new vehicle line from the car manufacturer with the most recalls of any of its peers.

You decided to take that as a slight instead of the tongue in cheek ribbing it was and now we are here.

I do know more about that vehicle line than you do but that’s neither here nor there. You can stay mad if you’d like, but I’m out.

Nah. The non-GT models were also affected.

And in this case it doesn’t matter if you bought a fourth year Mach E when you’re buying from an automotive company with the most recalls in the industry year over year for like the last 5-6 years running.

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2023/RCMN-23V687-5094.pdf

The Mach E has had so many recalls. Axle half shafts causing a clicking while turning, differential pinion shafts that shear off or fracture, a whole litany of infotainment issues, botched updates. I seem to recall something about windshield wiper motors, and a problem with some of the glass by the D pillar.

I can’t refute this.

Don’t buy the first few years of a newly released car. Rules to live by. The Mach-E had all kinds of power train failures including fusing the high voltage battery junction box contacts open and or closed which disables the vehicle.

Unless you live in Florida TM.

It’s white meat chicken. I wouldn’t call it dry, but I was in the Navy for 12 years. I have something worse to compare it to. Plus quality of the food isn’t really down just to how it’s prepared, but how it’s processed, transported, and stored and they do pretty good at that. Compare their chicken to other fast food (looking at you McDonald’s) and it’s pretty decent. If a home cooked meal isn’t better prepared than fast food it’s probably not being cooked right.

Also, to be very clear I have eaten there once (out of necessity while sleeping in an airport with nothing else open), and my experience was that it was a clean facility with pretty good customer facing service. What I know about pay scales and employee stuff comes from people I know who have worked there.

Fuck homeless people, I guess.

Let me go back and find the screenshots. This could take awhile. Bare with me.

Edit: This may be a crapshoot (I screenshot everything like a mad man).

Here’s a post with links to archived records of what happened.

https://lemmy.world/post/24301835

https://lemmy.world/post/24344212

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/

So far as I can remember this wasn’t about comments that supported Trump. It was about Republicans being “the party to hold big tech accountable” and also make progress on public issues.

People in the reddit comments came with both popcorn and receipts and then he edited those original comments and got called out for that. Then there was a whole official statement that was problematically political while claiming the company is politically neutral and the fact that as the CEO he used the proton official account for his original tweet which kicked the whole thing off.

Altogether it was badly handled.

It’s a good company now. But that company makes money from its products (and the CEO makes money this way). So they can fund their politics and further it off the backs of consumers.

It’s not about the products themselves. It’s about voting with your wallet. It’s sort of the same as Chick Fil A. People don’t hate the food. It’s very good quality. They pay their workers very well and the business is fine. But people don’t want to fund the political/ideaological leanings and lobbying of the person who owns it.

It’s also sort of the same as Harry Potter and JKR. Most people aren’t worried about the books. Instead they care about giving JKR money to further her ability to lobby against and help others destroy the rights of LGBTQ people (Trans people specifically).

At the end of the day it was never about their services for some of us and all about the political leanings of the CEO who outed himself and then changed what he said to “fix” the record when presented with proof contrary to his belief. Trying to rewrite history to repair your public image because you said the quiet part out loud isn’t okay.

Instead of making corps police their own networks and verify caller origin, we’re doing this.

Yep. It’s you who thinks I didn’t get the joke because text lacks tone. But since you want to be a dick, blocked.

Are you lost?

They’re gonna be double blind alright.