Money is backed by violence. As in if you donâ(TM)t give the government its money, even from the value of your bartering, it will use violence on you. That alone gives it value.

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That is crazy overkill. There are services that just provide one off phone numbers. For example cloaked.com.

I did this recently when buying a car. Each dealer got their own email address and phone for me. When I bought my car all those points of contact ceased to exist.

Piss, they are going to have every employee drink water at home and deliver frosty piss at work.

But Iâ(TM)ve been told for years you can build better, more powerful laptops cheaper, so that canâ(TM)t be true.

First rule of capitalism, if people are paying it then it was acceptable.

I think their end game is to buy VPN vendors and get some income as everyone suddenly browses porn hub from some african nation.

What is the future of human creativity if AI writes the stories, makes the movies, writes the songs, creates the podcasts.

Is the future of creativity crafting a single sentence correctly for AI to build what you want?

This is why I think all US citizens and any travelers to the US must be embedded with a in-body real time tracking device and body camera.

The problem is that it is ending our culture. Everything is by default AI now. It's so hard to find actual human written blog posts or social media posts. Now audio and video are taking the plunge.

What part of human creativity is being used? AI has no emotions, so it's useless in building culture.

- it received "digital confirmation of data destruction"
- it had been informed that no Instructure customers would be extorted as a result of the incident
- the agreement covers all affected customers, with no need for individuals to engage with the hackers

I'm 100% sure criminals would never lie. It's bad for business. I'm also 100% sure they didn't create any additional means for future compromise.

Different areas I guess. Around here almost everyone I know owns a 4x4 SUV or Truck that is the 'winter beater'. You don't want the salt and potholes ruining your nice car and often the fact it's a car at all means you are going to be high sided on the streets that almost never get plowed before you need to go anywhere. Hell it's already May and I still can't take the motor cycle out because the roads are just hole after hole.

You can call it a winter beater or the 'work vehicle' that you use for towing, trips to the gardening supply, dealing with winter, and general hauling. I see it with my friends who live on way less than 100k a year and with my friends who live on way more. It's not a status or wealth thing. I'd say it's much less likely to be seen with wealth. Thats why I get to laugh at the guy trying to drive a maserati in our winters wondering why he's stuck on the road.

Come to the glorious midwest where you get brutal cold winters and brutal hot summers, but no spring or fall.

When you mentioned a weekly fill up it got me thinking. How do you store an EV for the season?

Around here you have your summer car and your winter beater. Sure you drive the winter beater all year round to pickup landscaping materials and such, but your summer car never hits those pot holes and salt.

My reading suggests long term storage of an EV is not ideal.

I wish usps would charge $30 a letter to my home. Every day I have to walk to the mailbox, collect trash, throw it away. Maybe once a year i receive real mail.