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Either I’m having a stroke or GPT-3 needs some serious work when the topic is human nutrition.

Ah, I love this game. It's the same one that the super-rich use to convince people barely scraping by -- or anyone who hasn't read Barbara Ehrenreich -- that you should zoom out far enough so that your situation is compared to literal kids with literal flies on their eyeballs. Your life ain't that bad, why you complainin'?

The fact is, this country could fund universal childcare, universal healthcare and universal education from K-16 and not 'wreck the economy.' All it would take is doing what every other industrialized first-world country has done... and done better, with less resources.

And don't worry, the people who you think are actually living in abject poverty aren't reading on HN on a Monday afternoon, so my discredit of their situation will go largely ignored.

At best, you can hope to make surveilling you more expensive or more inconvenient. But if Snowden taught us anything, it's that whatever you needed to do to get yourself tangled up in the 5/14 eyes trip-wire, you've already done, long ago, and continue to do.

VPNs don't mean shit. You're leaking data everywhere you go. Browser fingerprinting, WiFi/BT signals, cell tower signals, GPS. If you own a smart phone and a credit card you're already fucked.

Let's not confuse things for people by making them think if they plop a 5 Euro VPN between them and their yahoo! email account that this does anything at all to deter state level actors.

VPNs are good for a few things:

(1) Evading state-sponsored censorship (which uses technology minted in good old Silicon Valley) -- where the state doesn't really care unless you're really bothering them

(2) Marginally disrupting the pan-opticon that is surveillance capitalism by mixing the signals a bit, where your ISP can't sell you out to data brokers. But even then... DNS leaks, etc still happen and still fuck with the plan.

(3) Maybe not getting scooped up as badly in the state dragnet, and maybe not being accused of something you actually didn't have anything to do with.

But brother, if you think you're gonna be the next Ross Ulbrich with your Mullvad VPN, then you better be memorizing your recipe for toilet wine because you're gonna land in a fed pen.

>For whatever reason positive news tends not to play well on HN, even if it’s factual.

People on HN are very good and detecting when someone is trying to blow sunshine up their ass.

Take, for example, the second part of this tweet:

>Very poor households (< $25K) shrunk from 24.7% to 18.1% (number rose slightly)

That is an abject failure of an economy if I even saw one. 18.1% of households in the most embarrassingly rich country in the history of the planet are living in abject poverty? Even with what you can do with poverty wages nowadays, that fucking sucks.

This rate should be <1%.

And it's all downhill from here. With the collapse of globalization, everything will become cheaper, slower, worse quality, and harder to get.

If your threat model includes nation state intervention, a 5 Euro VPN isn't going to help you. In fact, no VPN is going to help you. The best you can get is probably Tor + Tails, but even then you better be looking over your shoulder.

100%. Trump should have banned TikTok, and Biden should do it now. Do not wait. Sanction ByteDance.

While we're at it -- kill Grindr too. It was sold off for similar reasons, but it should have been killed long ago.

It already has, in China. China has tons of simple BEVs. Time will tell whether that’s what Americans will want, though.

> That's not a compelling reason to buy or continue to own a Tesla.

Well sure. It’s just the state of the world. I’d expect a Tesla owner to be someone who can handle repairs having to be re-done. They are luxury cars, after all.

For reference, I’ve owned several Teslas and none of them have been at the level of fit and finish appropriate for their price. All of them have needed some finicky part or another fixed under warranty.

The cars, though… they’re just so much fun to drive that all of that doesn’t really matter to me.

I don’t agree that is a huge problem going forward for everyone. I think it’s something that will work itself out given the incentives that Tesla has to get their act together. And it’s not really a problem for the vast majority of owners, who have other options for transport while their car is repaired.

Teslas are not Corollas. Teslas are not “EVs for the Everyman” no matter what Elon says.

I’m not interested in picking up a wrench and working on my own car. I don’t mind that Tesla is sending out newbies to work on cars because I’ll just keep taking it back until I’m satisfied. But, you also couldn’t pay me to go to a traditional dealership.

You gotta start somewhere. We’ll have to get used to it. Lots of people are going to be new at their job, given turnovers lately.

I’m confused. Did they announce they’re not going to do it?

Does Apple offer “offline” versions of their updates in DMG form?

It is, and it’s an about face from when the racists were pro-abortion because black mothers were accessing them.