That’s the thing. You can’t just conditionally spy on people only when they’re doing evil acts. You’re either surveiling innocent people or you’re not.

My girlfriend was watching this show, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and a line in it that made me laugh out loud was almost exactly this. It was something like “I think God is more of a brilliant marketing ploy.”

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I bet he could do more with that attitude and a big sack of idiots’ money than with the attitude alone. There’s also a certain poetry in undermining their efforts with their own money.

One that looks pretty promising is the “5G blocker” market. There already are some that are basically a USB powered LED in a housing to make it look like a flash drive.

You can differentiate your “product” by giving it a Tacticool look and/or name. Slap a plastic housing on that with an urban camo print and call it “The 5G Afflictor” or something, and you can probably get some money from some morons.

If you use careful wording, you can keep it totally factual, too. It may not block 5G signals, but everyone that buys one does suffer no further ill effects from 5G, for example.

I saw this color laser HP printer at work some years ago where the toner cartridges were in this “Ferris Wheel” apparatus and were moved to the paper, rather than the paper moving past them.

I couldn’t believe it even worked for a week.

Fortunately, even the corrupted judges seem to have trouble assailing the First Amendment directly so far. What would really be nice, though, would be if these laws could be stopped on the drawing board rather than having to be challenged in court every time. If a high schooler could win the court case, it should not have to be one.

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I love how his main company is named after the suspicious crystal balls that are believed to be connected with agents of the physical manifestation of evil and discord, and specifically warned against using lest you be doomed.

I think he may know he’s the villain.

I’ve found it makes more sense when you think of it from the shareholder perspective.

Its not that they’re blind idiots, its that their motivations are not what they say they are. If they were trying to make the best and most ergonomically advanced product possible, as stated, then their moves often seem stupid and tone-deaf. But, if you consider that they are trying to increase margin as much as possible any action that makes the product or support cheaper by a greater margin than it loses customers, they’re moves are brilliant!

More and more users are disgruntled and dissatisfied, but barely any of them skip the lines when the next model comes out, so the shareholder’s plan is working excellently.

If we want a return to companies competing for our dollars, we need a return to markets that have competitors. If there are fewer companies in a sector than players on a bowling team, you can bet they are in collusion and acting as a unit in the ways that affect consumer agency, so there is no competition in the classic sense. They all agree to suck together so few will leave. They all win and we all lose.

Bam?

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Me neither. Both have a chance of getting it right, but not a great one.

That’s just a failure of imagination. This problem was solved before the Information Age and Ticketmaster/LiveNation unsolved it.

That requires a plan. Right now they’re operating on a concept of a plan.

He has them, but orders Big Macs instead for some reason.

Truly, you have led a blessed life.

I just meant that there’s so many excellent games, old and new, everywhere you look, that it is easy to just walk past ones that seemed like they have anything even remotely distasteful about them.

That other ant colony on the other side of the sidewalk looks pretty good!