The man bought a vacuum cleaner that required an internet connection, and that didn't make him suspicious?

Not so clever I reckon...

Not to mention the whole driver fiasco complete with lawfare.

And now you come, hat in hand, asking for money?

Fuck you, you fucking fuck; fuck fuck.

The pigs using ubiquitous street camera surveillance to accuse the woman, or the woman using ubiquitous in-vehicle camera surveillance to prove her innocence.

No part of this story makes me warm or fuzzy.

and the ubiquitous surveillance of large swathes of the internet as well. Woohoo!

Note to self: stick to Debian and don't touch Ubuntu or Mint for a few versions until the kinks have been worked out.

wait, which restaurants require an ID scan??

Shut down all sensors that have nothing to do with navigation, that Google uses to put people under surveillance, stop the data collection and stop sending data to the mothership all the damn time. I guarantee you power usage will go down significantly.

How do I know that? because my Fairphone 4 running CalyxOS gets a few more hours of battery life than the same Fairphone 4 running vanilla Android, and my Fairphone 5 running Ubuntu Touch also does better battery-wise than the same phone running Google's surveillance platform.

Poetic justice.

the first hit is free.

My statement doesn't address the gravity of the two things I mentioned. Just like the statement "Foot fetishism and pedophilia are both paraphiliae" is factually true and says nothing about which one is worse.

All I said was, if there's a new technology, the first people to use it for their particular interest are always people peddling smut and magical thinking.

No man is an island. It's basically impossible to do anything that affects nobody else. If you kill yourself, you might have kids than then needed to be provided for by the state. If you harm yourself, even if nobody is obligated to help you, you can do emotional/mental damage to others who observe your suffering. If you decline protection of infectious desiese, you out others at risk. And so on and so on. Libertarians hate this one weird fact ...

You can be certain two things always corrupt any new technology: porn and religion.

https://youtu.be/U0YkPnwoYyE

"Almost nothing in the real world is a 2-player game"

That's quite untrue if you ignore rounding-error players in a substantial number of markets.

He has no earned income because, like all billionaires, he's arranged to have no income in order to dodge taxes.

I'm mad at the loopholes, but I'm also mad at the fuckers who exploit the loopholes, because just because being a selfish asshole is legal doesn't make it okay to be a selfish asshole.