Yes. At least for sites easy to hack and there are a lot of those. But the lack of effective isolation is surprising enough to ask whether this was intentionally done. At the very least it is gross negligence.

Actual journalists didn't stop doing journalism by choice. They were fired and it's difficult for them to get by without an income.

There are some people left trying to do journalism. Mostly keeping their heads down and hoping that psychopath like Elon Musk don't rip them off while waiting for the public to come back to their senses...

I guess what I'm saying is I'm not blaming the journalists. The propagandists can go fuck themselves. Anyone working for Fox News knows what they are. I dabbled a little in journalism in high school and college and I respect actual journalists. It's a tough and miserable and largely thankless job.

Most of that money was spent bribing politicians because what they're doing is illegal. They also were paying the drivers a reasonable amount of money in order to tell the public that it was okay that all of the traditional protections for workers had been gutted.

So yes Uber did have a short-term amount of money they had to put out in order to do something profoundly illegal and antisocial and something that your great-grandparents died to prevent...

But they weren't losing money because of a lack of profitability or even how much they were paying the drivers. They could have of course competed honestly with the taxi cab system but they were massively underpricing taxi cabs.

So like I said yes paying the driver's okay will cause fares to go up slightly. This means that people who take Ubers for casual use like say I don't feel like driving to the grocery store or kids putzing around in them will no longer be able to afford them. That will more than be made up for by the people who have to take a taxi cab for a variety of reasons. For example every year I go see my eye doctor and I don't have a choice I have to take a cab because everyone I know works during the day so I don't have anyone to drive me in the middle of the week and when they dilate my eyes I'm basically blind. So yes they can double the price of my trip and I will pay it.

But here's the dirty Little secret they already doubled the price of that trip. Because they have a shitload of data and they know I have to pay it

You need to accept that you're wrong. That we can have a decent civilization that pays people a living wage and you won't have to give up your lifestyle for it. That we don't have to torture people just to make you happy.

On the other hand you might not want to accept that because you might be one of those deeply unhappy people who desperately need somebody else to be even more unhappy. I meet a lot of guys like that and they are always anti labor and right wing

People still need cabs. Also Uber is a highly profitable company.

On the other hand if the only way we can have a transportation system is borderline slave labor then you might have a point. But they're not going to curl up and die what's actually going to happen is that the need for cabs is still there the prices are going to shoot up and people are going to have to pay it. Yeah you might have fewer people using them for convenience but when you need to get to the airport you need to get to the airport.

If however our economic system is so dysfunctional that we have to have 15 to 20% in abject poverty for it to be functional then that's not sustainable and there's going to be Mass violence very soon.

And always remember, no matter how good a shot you are or how good a shot you think you are you're always going to run out of bullets before the world runs out of desperate people with nothing to lose.

The part that pisses me off is that the company responsible for the shoddy work flat-out admitted it was their shoddy work. Of course they didn't do this until they were at risk of being under oath but you know how that goes...

And the part that pisses me off is that anyone who pays any attention to Trump has to know or has to at least easily be able to find out that he is constantly lying to them in the most obvious ways imaginable implying he has the lowest opinion of them possible and they still love Trump.

So this may sound insane but you can actually use the internet for something besides getting angry. You can do a little bit of googling and pretty easily confirm what I said.

The point of my comment was I was not aware that Gloria Steinem was a CIA asset at all. Of course no I did not take a handful of Internet comments at face value. But I found it striking enough to be worth doing a little bit more reading.

That's how critical thinking works. You get a new piece of information and you decide if it's worth confirming and if it is then you confirm it.

Journalists used to. If you're a good journalist then somebody should be accusing you of harassment.

In the 2024 election we basically fired all the journalists. And by we I mean the billionaires who own our media. I watched dozens of journalists get dog walked for really basic elementary journalism. The slightest criticism of trump was enough to get you shit canned. It got so bad we created a new term for it, sane washing.

If you've ever wondered why the coverage between Trump's mental decline and biden's mental decline was so different there's your answer.

Back in the day it's what the civil Rights guys called good trouble.

Shows up the break them up... Or at least the pinkertons. Fun fact the Pinkerton detective agency still exists and they are still union busting.

Gloria Steinem died recently. I never paid her much mind I knew the right wing had a giant hissy fit about her all the time. But it turns out the left wing didn't like her either. She was a CIA plant. Like you can do some googling and discover that it's real.

Basically the labor movement and the feminist movement were cross-pollinating so the CIA recruited people from the feminist movement to break that up and they were quite successful. I found this out when I read a few comments sections after she died and people were complaining about that...

It is absolutely crazy that elements of our government have repeatedly been used directly against labor movement in an effort to lower pay and wages and we all just kind of either pretend it's didn't happen or shrug our shoulders and say what are you going to do that's the government? No. That's not the government. That's not how governments are supposed to function. You have to actually take part in politics to keep that shit under control. And you can't just do away with the government because if you try that somebody else will build the same power structures. It's called a power vacuum and you can't pretend it's not a thing. I mean you can but you'll still have the consequences...

It's like finding out that the Federal reserve raising interest rates is how they engineer a recession. And then reading all the euphemisms for that from economists...

I wonder if he accidentally ripped off one of the Trump boys and we just don't know it.

That's what happened with Andrew tate. I don't know the details but he was apparently running around with Barron Trump and caused some problems for the Trumps. So it's off to rot in prison for him.

Question: Which government agency or terrorist agitator do you work for? I ask because most people will never see even a dozen TVs in their lives, much less "dozens", and 99.99% of those people who do don't give a shit, and a portion who do give a shit don't buy smart TVs.

Who are you really?

Indeed, I'm just pointing out that 8.4GB is not a lot of data when talking about continuous transmission over time and not necessarily evidence of anything in particular.

You just in fact postulated a whole 3rd different scenario for what the data contains. Anything is possible.

What OS do you think most of these run?

You misinterpreted what your stats mean. In fact they make my point. The market for amazon/google/whatever HDMI sticks is evidence that consumers are looking for a smart experience. But they exist to support two other market features: a) TVs last a long time. b) media updates don't. Virtually the entire market for those sticks exists to support existing dumb TVs, or smart TVs that were abandoned (e.g. we went out and bought a Google Chromecast when our 10 year old smart TV stopped supporting Netflix, we then proceeded to sell that Chromecast when we bought a new TV because the new TV once again supported Netflix.

There's no evidence that the world is moving away from simplification / unification. The sales figures and market size of smart all-in-one devices and continued sales of new smart TVs is evidence of this. And the app experience while shitty is not at all related to this trend: in fact it once again supports my point that consumers are chasing smart integrated experiences and will go so far as to use shitty apps with horrendous UX to get it.

Go ask any of your friends with a new TV if you can borrow their Roku. I'll bet you a Marsbar they will say one of two things: 1) Sure, we're not using it, 2) Sorry we threw it away.

That's wrong. This guy was born with a silver plate. His entire family is rich, even without his crypto fraud.

Or maybe one person was paying attention and knows this was already tried and failed.