Zuck looks like an humanoid lizard wearing an ill-fitting human suit. Seriously, you can't look at the guy without getting creepy uncanny valley vibes.

And Musk? Well, he kind of looks like what you'd get if you ordered Mike Myers from Temu.

There's a reason why well-loved celebrities can be tycoons, but tycoons can't necessarily be well-loved celebrities, and it probably does come down to looks.

Now that actually sounds handy, sometimes I can never find a spare AA.

Because it's the mouse your man could smell like!

To dispense scents inside or outside of the car? It's not something I'd ever spend money on, but I'd certainly find it hilarious to "fart" on a tailgater.

This sounds less like a product for the young gay guy crowd (which are likely to be "what's a computer?" gen Zers at this point) and more for the Reddit neckbeard demographic, to ineffectively cover up the smell of unwashed laundry, stale pizza, Doritos, old Mountain Dew cans and B.O.

I doubt they're really saving much money over this. It's just an ideological win for team red in their war against the so-called "EV mandate" windmill.

From TFA, it looks like the chargers are ChargePoint L2 chargers. At least according to ChatGPT, the property owner is responsible for the costs of upkeep and maintenance of the EVSE equipment (unless a service contract has been purchased through ChargePoint). From what I've personally experienced at the local Whole Foods with busted ChargePoint chargers, yes, they do break and yes, sometimes the business owner doesn't spend the money to get have them repaired.

I suppose they could've just let the network slowly fall apart, but leave it to the government to just scrap and wash their hands of something they have no intention of continuing to maintain.

What these people abusing the moderation system don't realize is that they've just caused the rest of us to adjust our thresholds to show everything anyway. I don't want posts hidden because I might not agree with the political lean of the poster; I'd rather hit reply and throw in my $0.02.

Wasn't there just an article the other day about how all this scented crap results in indoor air quality that's as bad as the exhaust from a car (ICE, obviously)?

I don't need no stinkin' mouses.

Actually, the fact that gold is rather heavy presents its own difficulties in stealing it. It was rather hilariously demonstrated in an old Disney flick, where an alien boy with telekinetic abilities is forced under mind control (yeah, they checked all the cheesy sci-fi trope boxes with this one) to participate in a gold bar heist, and the thief (played by Bette Davis) failed to account for the weight of the gold. Oops.

They could, if ordered to by law. That's not the same as saying I think they should, nor is pointing out that that it's a possible outcome an endorsement of a government that isn't protecting the privacy of its citizens. Damn, reading comprehension on this site has taken a nosedive post-Covid.

It's a matter of perspective. I just posted the key to some random Bitcoin wallet in another discussion. You wouldn't say there's a backdoor to Bitcoin's encryption because people can sometimes be careless with the keys, would you?

Yes, in policy and that's what people here just keep overlooking. You can't win what is an argument over policy by disingenuously stating that what they want is not technically possible (the example most frequently given is that the algorithm itself would have to be compromised). Yes, it absolutely is possible to grant the government access to encrypted data without having to compromise the algorithm, you're just not going to like what it entails.

This is entirely the deeper meaning behind the XKCD comic strip, that technically-minded folks don't stop and realize that someone with legal authority (or a $5 wrench) can just come along and say "hand over the encryption key or face $BAD_THING" and you're just insulting their intelligence by claiming it can't be done, because at some point the owner of the data has to provide their password as cleartext.

It's a bit of a farcical concept in cryptocurrency. There's two keys to a wallet, which are analogous to public and private keys (because that's essentially what they are). They look like this:

Wallet address:
1JxjwrbA8VdRnX2yRcp5HXGiKX2QcKBE2
Spend key:
Kxvb4FcVEZPj7xvyrP5N5BxRLE6NfohWjuAjtnCz2aC9pJgP8djC

Technically, you can keep the spend key safe however you like. Print it out and stick it in a physical safe, and now you've got an offline wallet. Problem is, if you actually want to transfer any coins from that wallet, you'll still have to enter it into a computer at some point and it could potentially be compromised.

There are also hardware companies selling overpriced "wallets" which are glorified flash drives to store the same sort of information I've just posted above. That's companies attempting to cash in on the crypto gold rush, basically. Your coins are actually located on the blockchain and all any wallet device is ever going to store is just the keys.

I think naming it after the memecoin was actually Musk's idea. Ooooh, I see what you did there.

Oh they'll still come after you if you rip off enough people good enough in the crypto realm. See: SBF. It's just that it's unlikely the people who were ripped off will ever be made whole again, because the money is gone. With banks, account holders are insured against the CEO turning out to be a fraudster.