Easier to sell pictures of it.

and who knows, maybe they go on to require all future devices to be locked down too.

Yep. This might very well be the pretext for banning any hardware that can run non-corporate software.

Doesn’t hurt as much when it gets hit by something.

Is it the full release-quality production?

You know, looking into these, I did learn things.

Yes, I already knew about them, but I didn’t know all of it. For one thing, I didn’t realize where Ruby Ridge actually was. I used to live about an hour’s drive away from there, and I’ve actually been within 10 miles of there without knowing it!

The town is begging for young people to move in, okay … and what are they offering in return? Why would any young person want to live there?

🎼 One of these things 🎶 Is not like the other 🎶

Well, yeah. It’s perfectly acceptable to believe in two of those things and not the third.

That just means you’re not a liberal.

(And really, since capitalism constantly corrodes democracy and personal rights, being a liberal is kind of a self-contradictory nonsense stance. Shame that so many people still are liberals.)

It’s fucking Linux.

If you really wanted to, you could make a fork of your favorite distro and remove the age-gating shit yourself.

this horseshit is only happening because adults have let computers - more specifically, iPads and phones - become their children’s babysitters.

This horseshit is only happening because Meta is lobbying hard for it and throwing tons of money at it, because they want ‘protecting children’ to be the OS’s responsibility, not the website’s.

Gets even more absurd when you start to dig at the definition of an ‘operating system’.

Besides computers and phones, lots of small electronic devices have a rudimentary OS built into them, including (among many other things) a lot of appliances these days. Forget needing to verify your age in order to use your computer, say hello to needing to verify your age in order to use a refrigerator … or a gas pump.

If you believe in democracy, personal rights, and capitalism … congrats, you’re a liberal.

(Though, given how much modern ‘conseravtives’ hate democracy and personal rights, a lot of them aren’t really liberal anymore. They’re fascist.)

and pass safety inspection

Ah, I see. Where I’m from, there are no inspections.

And he’s egotistical enough to think that his life’s work = America.

Conservativism refuses to criticize America

Convservatism criticizes America all the fucking time. Anytime anybody in America gets a little too “woke” for them.

Amended sentiment: Wait for Dems to retake Congress in the midterms and then fuck off and die.

And strikingly corrupt as well.

1: Angle grinder the previous latch until it opens.

2: Screw on a simple gate latch from the hardware store ($5)

3: If you want to be really fancy, add a decent padlock to that latch ($10)

Done.

Can you give me the exact locations of all lost civilizations?

Yes.

Goodbye.

Bullets

Repeatability is key in science.