As I was saying…. I’m done with you children - enjoy spewing your textual flatulence.

Well, that’s a well-reasoned and unassailable rebuttal if I’ve ever read one.

🙄

Curious what you think the biggest predictor would be, then?

“Hot minute,” my ass. We’ve done some good, but a fuck-ton more evil - albeit a lot of it in more subtle ways than of late.

Yeah, seems to be an extremely common occurrence here.

I believe you since you spoke of yourself in the third person.

Living up to both the name AND the instance’s rep - a twofer! I’m impressed.

Easy to put words in my mouth, huh? Shitty is shitty, regardless of who or where. Point out where I’ve EVER treated one side differently from the other in that regard.

Otherwise, maybe stop being shitty yourself with all the projectionist bullshit. You’re being no better than you claim I am.

You on a theme again, PJ?

et tu, Brute?

Meh, humans are pretty much the same no matter where they’re physically located. Some are decent enough — a small percentage are even quite good — but the large majority are varying degrees of shitty, with a small number (e.g. the “one percenters”) being irredeemably so.

Huh, you’re right. Guess I just assumed it no longer had them since I dismissed getting one because it was such a downgrade in terms of other hardware. I’d only just found out about the FLX1 about a month before they switched them out, and was pissed about the downgrade because I was saving up to get the original. They lost some sales over that.

Could you be a bit more specific - is what true?

Well, that sounds expensive.

This “opinion” presumably being based upon your personal experience with being an expensive waste on wheels…

There’s that meth turning on a brain’s overdrive.

Which are no longer for sale.

Where did the money for all that come from? Where will it come from in the future as the wealth transfer to the few continues apace?

Yeah, no - I’m not inclined to rest easy. Just because more complex methods are available for use doesn’t mean the old standbys are forgotten.

It’s far too easy to change the software that drives that. For example, in order to minimize blatant power drain the trigger mic could easily become a switch that activates the main mic only when human voices are detected (or even specific voices). With authoritarian governments on the rise — along with the more than willing corporations backing them — I don’t think a bit of paranoia regarding the possibility is unwarranted.

ETA: Also there’s nothing saying the hardware can’t be updated for newer capabilities without anyone on the outside knowing. It’d be pretty easy to get away with once everyone gets lulled into a false sense of security regarding how they work.

While a response of “yes” means you need to find more entertaining friends.