Mine has guest and IOT networks, super nice because I can set up all the IOT stuff then hide the SSID

It takes me a fraction of the time to sweep/vacuum/mop the floor compared to my robot, but the difference is the robot takes a fraction of my time since I can start it and let it run with the odd bit of maintenance and sometimes rescuing it when it gets trapped or sucked up something it shouldn’t.

It’s not a panacea, I still have to ensure that the area is fully clean except for the sweeping and mopping portion. However, as long as I keep up on that part, I can let the robot run overnight and have clean floors in the morning.

Well of course, but my point was the data collection and tracking and all that other stuff was already happening in full volume prior to the regulation. The nagging to re-enable is a dark pattern of course, but prior to that the only recourse we had was to disable all cookies at the browser level.

To that point, as much as cookies have been associated with tracking and ads and such, they have/had a very important purpose in providing services on a website. It’s how the “remember me” button works for instance, or to store your preferences without making an account, among other things.

However, because a browser can’t really easily determine what a cookie is used for since it’s basically just an ID and a (usually) encrypted data blob, the only guaranteed way for it to block tracking cookies is to block all cookies. The EU regulation IMO is a “good” regulation, with the inevitable malicious compliance of corporations.

Lindsey Graham went to check on him

You got it a little backwards. Websites were already collecting that data and adding those cookies, the EU regulation forced them to tell you about it and let you opt-out.

“best friends who slept in the same bed probably because it was cheaper to have only one bed”

That’s been the case for about as long as corporations have existed.

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that’s literally exactly what I’m saying.

NATO without the US would most likely be still strong enough to face Russia. This is assuming the US just sits out and doesn’t become an antagonist in some fashion.

There’s a difference in credibility between trying to make excuses for attacking versus sharing intelligence for defence though.

If the story was that Iran was preparing to attack Poland to support Russia and that’s why the US started their illegal clusterfuck, then yeah that would be completely different.

Also, restore my original hire date to keep seniority/extra vacation/pension/etc.

There are large areas of the US where simply taking a bus is impossible without also having to drive a long distance to the nearest station. There’s also the fact that it’s a pretty sizable country, so someone in SoCal or thereabouts is looking at a multi-day trip if they’re not flying, which then adds the cost of hotels, cabs to/from the hotel if the stop has no transit nearby, etc.

This rewards the owner and punishes the worker.

Any work I do on my house I do to code (and I do look it up when starting a new project). The previous owner… not so much - I found newspaper wrapped around electrical junction boxes, because wires never get hot enough to light old, super dry newspaper on fire…

Trucks in general, the ridiculous shit people have said to me because they see me getting in/out of my truck, and their face when I tell them off is something else.

Given the amount of hate a certain purple-coloured-username person gets around here, this statement is quite accurate.

This is their strategy, they want people to use it, get hooked, replace parts of their day-to-day life with it, make it to difficult to “just go back”, then hit them with the actual bill.

They won’t go bankrupt unless their backers walk, and their backers are still quite confident in this strategy… because it’s working.

Your AC turns itself off and on repeatedly through it’s normal running cycle to prevent frost building up - your fridge and freezer does this as well.

yeah, I just anticipate when traffic will start moving and let off the brake enough that it starts but doesn’t roll a couple seconds before I think I’ll need to go

Note how the government isn’t going after gun ownership as vehemently as they are digital privacy. They know that it doesn’t matter how many guns the people have, if they can’t communicate anonymously (or at all), then any sort of uprising will be small and easily quashed.