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The media seems to have no standard on using terms and switches them willy-nilly to net the better headline.

So is typing in your passphrase while out in public around cameras. Might as well just not use the phone.

Just familiarize yourself with your phone's lockdown mode so it's muscle memory.

I really wonder what a rebooted from scratch ethical police force would look like. A force with honor and integrity and all those words they print on the side of the cars. A respected, well-paid job.

You know, something like what they show on every TV program airing on CBS, but real.

Hey, it has a barometric pressure sensor, that's cool. OG Galaxy Watch had one, then the WearOS replacements got rid of it.

Galaxy isn't very good on updates either. Haven't seen one on the Watch 5 Pro in a year.

Hang in there. I'm hopeful that the numbers seem to be trending back down towards small cult status. But a lot has to change, rapidly, if we get through this next election time stop this slide into hell.

I always hoped we'd have a Star Trek type future minus World War 3, not Hunger Games being historically accurate.

Over the years I've found, in the grand scheme, unless the CEO murdered your family, who cares? I didn't buy Sony products for a couple of decades, right now I don't even remember why I stopped. I think it was around shit warranty handling. Meanwhile, I was removing viable options from my purchase pool.

More recently, I'm just trying to make my purchase decisions like I'm a business. Does the item at a given price fill the needs of the role? Does buying the year-old model at heavy discount fit the need? Avoid the top-tier release-day buzz, buy at a discount, use the tool as long as possible. These techniques collectively will stifle all the "economy" they're trying to make a profit from.

Vendors that are truly terrible will lose customers. One person's soapbox won't affect them, however, despite best efforts.

But they choose to not. One of those cake and eat it too scenarios.

A territory like them is eligible for Federal money from various programs, while not having to pay Federal income tax. If they became a state, they'd then have to pay income tax, lose benefit of the free program money, but be allowed to vote.

If you don't want to fully commit to the whole package and are milking the advantages of being a territory, should you really get a right to choose how the package that is being taxed and giving you free money is steered?

(Oversimplification, of course.)

If I were a member of a territory, I don't really know where my thoughts would land.

However, as one that is taxed, it seems that allowing the untaxed to choose our taxed destiny would be disingenuous.

I mean, Bezos doesn't run that either. Might as well just stop using every stock in his portfolio by that logic.

Get Amazon employees to unionize and take back the ship is the answer there. Amazon is annoyingly too big to be affected by even a large grassroots protest.

Sorry, that's not how it works with people stuck in a loop. It's a very American problem, if you aren't American. Not sure if it was the leaded gas, or what, but some people are just broken. The person you want to change needs to want to, and be able to change for your idealism to work. Otherwise you're just building a delusion around a fixed point to fit your viewpoint while that person remains unchanged.

It's terribly sad, really.

One can feel how one feels, however, the boomer generation's brains are locked in a time loop. They can't be changed. It's like visiting someone with alzheimers. It's quite sad and frustrating.

Oddly, the silent generation peeps are more adaptable.

It is always projection. There have been previous Republican voters fraud cases in the last election(s).

At least it's an easy alert for what problems to look for. If they're declaring "the other guys" are doing something, they're already doing it themselves.