Amazon will be more than happy to let you build customized voice assistants while they slurp up all that data in the background

That is one of the dumbest of dumb things I've heard said Catholicism in my life. There are some denominations that take every single word of the Bible entirely literally. Catholicism is not one of them. Genesis, for example, is considered allegorical.

But debt collectors don't care at all if they get the correct person or not. My parents kept getting calls for someone who had a similar name to my brother that didn't even live in the same state as us. They kept at it weekly for 2-3 years. Yes people should pay their debts, but debt collector services are scummy.

You've already been doing it since Clinton was in office. This whole "but the libs started it so we gotta own em' harder" victim schtick is getting old.

Some of us did that for a short time, then a small segment of the population said "SCREW THIS, I'm going to the bar/church/wedding/game with no mask and the virus keeps getting spread faster and faster.

I think you've gotten it backwards. There's going to be a lot of hyped-up right-wingers living in a Fox News bubble that think their boy Trump can't possibly lose unless there's massive fraud (Which Trump has been crowing about for months in preparation.)

It's true that Starlink's latency isn't competitive with fiber, but Starlink's target audience has no access to fiber or in many cases even copper internet at all.

Um no, that's not how it works. COVID is extra nasty because you are contagious even before you start demonstrating symptoms or if you never have symptoms. So kids will be doing what they've always been doing, spreading infectious diseases like wildfire, except this year it's going be worse than some 2-day stomach bug that everyone in town gets.

This is another example of "abuse of power" that was one of the articles of impeachment against him.

He's using the power of the presidency (the bully pulpit) to push this drivel not for the common good, but because he wants people to believe things are getting better so he can get reelected.

I can play Minecraft on my Mint laptop just fine...

We all know that Trump is not in favor of immigration (legal or other wise) Let's not pretend that the Coronavirus has anything to do with it.

The law enforcement agencies can pay for the storage. Don't worry, they're usually loaded with cash. Not all bodycam footage is retained for very long. Routine traffic stop with no problems? Probably deleted after 30 days. Tazer deployed? Ok, now it becomes evidentiary, it's probably going to be around for a few years. Bodycams or dashcams often are selectively turned on or are tied to an event (Lights are on, cams come on automatically.)

Part of it is an agency's culture. Cameras help make any kind of interaction more transparent. Everyone should have a bodycam, and it should be policy that they are worn and used. There are a lot of agencies that don't like that, even when having video footage would definitely help their case.

If someone breaks into your house at 3 am to kill you, the police will show up in time to photograph some dead bodies, put some crime scene tape up, and call the medical examiner.

There may or may not be a police pursuit at 3:30, but either way, cops are catching/shooting someone later, not in the act.

This is also a country that remembers the Gestapo and the Stasi. Germany is trying to be careful to not repeat the same mistakes as in the past and therefore keep intelligence agencies on shorter leashes than we might otherwise expect.

Ironically, tolerance for casualties in endeavors like this is plummeting at the same time that tolerance for casualties for "normal" people seems to be growing.