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.

It’s crazy that we have to tell people that a punch to the eye can cause serious damage, but here we are.

Yeah. I obviously can’t be positive that they didn’t mess up, but I got an email about the price increase so it was more of a “for the record” rather than a “you’re a liar” comment. I don’t work for Bitwarden so I can’t say they didn’t miss a bunch of customers or something like that when they notified people.

Yeah. If you’re using the services that might required a paid subscription, it’s not out of the realm of possibilities for there to be a price increase eventually.

I’m not discounting that there’s the potential for a pivot to less transparency and auditability going forward, I just wanted to point out that this wasn’t done with no warning.

I don’t trust the company that bought them. Private equity is almost always a bad time for consumers/users.

This is the email I received at the begining of the year when there were multiple articles about the price increase.

I think it’s important to note that you may have missed or deleted the email, or it potentially could have gone to your junk folder, but they did send out emails letting people know.

Nah. Nintendo have literally removed people from their Ambassador program over things like suicide ideation and talking about getting help for it. Proton absolutely can and probably should vet their ambassador program.

Even Proton themselves admit that this was a misstep.

Good point, and a good thing to add to things to consider. Thank you.

I was more thinking along the lines of the different classes of warrantable repairs and different classes of recalls.

You could absolutely have a recall pertinent to your vehicle that turns out to be voluntary and the automaker refuses to honor it if that system has been deactivated, tampered with, or modified.

I wanted to make it particularly clear that some safety features are non-negotiable if you buy a new car from a dealer because the manufacturer is required by law to include them. But some people do believe that more safety features are required by law than actually are and even in the event that some of them are telemetry isn’t, and may be disabled in some instance depending on the vehicle.

I personally am willing to fix my older car until it dies and I can’t anymore over buying a brand new one but I’ve also never bought a brand new car in my life. I understand that my approach is possibly prohibitively expensive for quite a lot of people.

Anyway, I hope you find what you’re looking for.

If you live in the USA:

Despite all of the arising automobile safety technologies, there are just a few that are required by regulations. These mandated safety functions consist of Seatbelts, Airbags, LATCH child safety seat system, Tire-Pressure Display, Electronic Stability Control, and Backup Cameras. All-new vehicles will certainly have that tech and in addition, the NHTSA recommends the following Motorist Assistance Technologies:

FWD Crash Warning

Automatic Emergency Situation Braking

Lane Departure Warning

Whether you can ask the dealer to turn them off is dependent entirely on whether the manufacturer will allow them to do that. Generally the manufacturer is the one who allows the dealer access to scan tool tech that would be able to do this and what access they have varies by manufacturer.

There are things you can potentially do yourself including pulling fuses or relays (where applicable), disconnecting antennas (depending on your level of skill to get access), and asking an aftermarket shop to physically disable certain systems.

The main problem with this is, 1. It could void your warranty which may mean you aren’t eligible for some warrantable repairs including but not limited to recalls. 2. You could potentially do some damage to systems yourself by accident that you would be on the hook for. 3. You will likely lose other features you paid for. This is of course dependent on how the manufacturer integrated the systems you want to remove or disable.

It may be a better idea to see what options you have to avoid paying for those optional features and make your decision based on what manufacturers allow you to remove them when you order the vehicle. This may be better for you than trying to drive a dealer vehicle off the lot. It will take more time though.

I think if I were you and I had to have a newer car I would try to buy a used car that doesn’t have these features you don’t want.

I had this problem because the app does a sanity check between your phone clock and your “location”. I changed the clock to match my VPN locale and then worked backward from there.

If you can set the VPN to a place in the same time zone but far outside your actual locale that may work.

I don’t know for certain that this will help but it’s worth a shot.

Step 3: Stop using android unless it’s Graphene or something like it that’s de-googled. Because a lot of Google’s tracking is done through the play store.

So, here’s the crux of the problem.

The internet as it is now and as it has existed for the vast majority of its life is an ad supported system.

The ad money is drying up because of several things:

AI is taking away click throughs to websites meaning they don’t get ad click throughs or impressions. They run ads to keep the lights on and they are being starved of the engagement that ads pay for.

People have less spending power than they have ever had. Ads don’t mean anything if people can’t afford products.

There is a pivot to trying to get rich people to buy goods and services but even though they have most of the wealth they don’t need most goods and services. This means the best way to get them to spend money is to have them invest to grow that money.

Ad companies require people to buy the goods and services that they are advertising in order to continue to pay for ads and ad aggregation.

A large subset of the populace really does hate ads and also wants things for free. They do not want to be told that nothing is free and ads are how a lot of the internet makes money.

The alternative to ad supported internet is data supported internet but people really really hate data brokers and data brokers mainly sell or offer up the use of data to three groups. Other data brokers/ad aggregators, the government/military industrial complex, and criminals.

So naturally companies that used to sustain themselves on ad aggregation now do so by pursuing government contracts. Because the line must go up.

I was thinking more along the lines of either obscuring system clock or changing it entirely as far as the apps or web browser can see. Say, making it so that it matches the time zone of your VPN.