Nothing.
There is a 30 year old law that prohibits releasing audio from aircraft black boxes. They accidentally "released" the audio by publishing a spectrograph, which is effectively a violation of the law.
So now they're going through all their stuff making sure they aren't accidentally releasing data they are legally prohibited from releasing.
No conspiracy needed.
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> Remember this part? "Privacy?
I do. In fact I even quoted it in my message, which you clearly didn't read.
"They can already track you, so we might as well make it easier for them" is not the persuasive argument you think it is. Just so you know, historically, you can lick that boot until you can see your own reflection in it and it's still gonna stomp on you. Literally any resistance is better than the rolling over you are clearly so eager to do.
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That's strange. When I hear "Trump Mobile" I think of something completely different.
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My first thought was, "So three CEOs got $10B each and everyone else gets a $5 gift card and some pizza."
Of course, the bonuses are in the form of stocks that only a third of which can be sold right away, so they're not actually paying the workers a bonus just the promise of a bonus with the caveat that the bonus value is tied to the ephemeral value of the company months or years from now and not on the actual labor that was already performed or value already created.
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I don't know if you noticed, but you're just as likely to BE kidnapped through the use of these systems than be saved from a kidnapping. It never ceases to amaze me how quickly people give power to fascists under the guise of law enforcement. There can't possibly be a better tool for a fascist regime to quash dissent than the ability to identify and track individuals nationwide. Hope you never turn out for a protest, or even be in the wrong place at the wrong time to but Uncle Sam reason to think it's worth getting rid of you.
> Without the tech, cops will be driving around all day hoping to spot him walking his dog.
And with the tech they'll at best arrest the wrong person, with the very real risk that they'll murder them or a bystander in the process because, y'know, American cops are prone to shooting first and asking questions later.
https://www.businessinsider.co...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cou...
https://coloradosun.com/2025/1...
https://www.dailyjournal.com/a...
https://www.americanpartisan.o...
And that's before we consider that cops may (and absolutely will) intentionally abuse the system to stalk people.
https://www.theguardian.com/co...
> Privacy? We all handed that over on a silver plate wearing butler gloves when we signed the service contract for your internet and your cell phone
Yes, but you can still leave your cell phone at home. Really hard to leave your FACE at home (And if you think the cameras can or will only ever read license plates you're delusional). So if you recognize the problem, why are you so gung ho about making it orders of magnitude worse?
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Yes but the altar is a barbecue and you can substitute lamb for pig or cow or chicken or anything else as is your preference.
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> I'll choose Christianity if I'm forced to pick a religion.
Why not Satanism? Church of Satan if you're a selfish asshole, The Satanic Temple if not. Neither are theistic or even supernatural, and both allow you to eat what you want AND masturbate yourself raw if that's what you're into.
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> If I want to broker my house through MRED exclusively, and also advertise on Zillow, how is that a problem?
"If I want to sell my shit on Amazon, and also want it to show up on eBay seareches, how is that a problem?"
It's a problem because Zillow doesn't want to give their business to their competitor. YOU, the seller, do not factor into it. Get fucked. This is why I said you're conflating "private." It's not about you. Nobody gives a shit about you, capitalist at the door should've told you. *shrug*
> Neither Amazon nor eBay list products sold by the other site, at all.
Correct. You get it but somehow you don't get it.
> A better analogy would be a Google Products listing that points to Amazon products.
Incorrect. For that to make sense, Google would also need to be directly involved in selling products in the same way Amazon does. Google has practically no products that are sold to the general public on the open market, much less shit like furniture and toiletries. Google's main business model is being a tool to find things, and they sell their user's eyeballs (and browsing data) to other businesses. Google's and Amazon's business model are synergistic. Zillow's and MRED/Compass' business models are competitive.
Maybe you don't understand what Zillow is or does? Do you think it's just Google for houses? It's not; it's closer to eBay for houses. Might help you to understand Zillow's business model before wondering why it's not in their interest to include MRED/Compass' *private listings* in their results.
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> If I want to sell my house, why shouldn't I be able to sell it and advertise it how I want to?
You can. Nobody is saying you can't. That's not the problem.
> Why *shouldn't* I be able to access Zillow's advertising service and sell my house privately?
I think you're conflating the word "private" here. This isn't about you listing your home as a "privately" as a private individual, it' about MRED maintaining "private" (e.g. exclusive) access to that listing. MRED and Compass are monopolizing the rights to broker your property's sale but still want Zillow to do the advertising for them.
> Selling and advertising are two different things, there is no ethical reason to tie them together.
Correct, but Amazon should not expect eBay to show Amazon store page results when you search for things on eBay. Amazon maintains a walled garden of sellers and you must go through Amazon as an intermediary to buy and sell anything there. You want to list your stuff for sale on Amazon but still want eBay users to see it... why should eBay accommodate that bullshit?
MRED wants access to Zillow's users while simultaneously cutting independent brokers out of the business, and Zillow justifiably has a problem with that.
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> How can it be abused? I don't get it.
Really? You can't imagine a single way that a corporation or the government could abuse the ability to identify, track, and instantly locate any person at any time for any reason? Nothing at all, huh?
> yet I never heard of one case of a street camera being used to hurt someone let alone end lives
https://www.businessinsider.co...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cou...
https://coloradosun.com/2025/1...
https://www.dailyjournal.com/a...
https://www.americanpartisan.o...
Those examples took basically no effort to find; now imagine if they want to target someone ON PURPOSE, like a civil rights leader, or to harass/round up people who participated in a protest.
Or just be a creep and stalk their ex or random women;
https://www.theguardian.com/co...
Oh, also the system is hilariously insecure, so it's not just cops, corps, and spooks who can use it.
https://stateofsurveillance.or...
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OpenLibre already had grammar checking. It was free, didn't require a lot of hard drive space (a few MB at most?), and ran locally and almost instantly without needing a high price graphics card.
In fact we've had that ability for over a decade now.
> Let's make LibreOffice and the free desktop AI-native!
Fuck you, Keith.
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Okay so, thanks for tacitly admitting half your argument was bullshit by pretending it didn't exist when directly challenged. I'll take what I can get,
Most of Norway sees an annual high in the 10C/50F range. The highest seasonal temps in late summer is in the low 20C/70F range. Most of the country is at or below freezing most of the year.
Yes, they are driving them in the cold. You are doing a lie.
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Continental Norway is comparable to driving the entire coast of the continental US. Or from Orlando to Oklahoma City if you prefer.
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"EREVs" also have a "full on engine" that needs just as much maintenance. They're also very inefficient because the conversion chain of fuel > mechanical > electrical > battery > electrical > mechanical is much worse than fuel > mechanical.
There are reasons to have that kind of system but efficiency ain't one of them, and if you aren't aiming for efficiency in a personal vehicle what the fuck are you even doing.
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You install software X, but without asking you software X silently installs additional software Y that is not necessary for software X to function, and if you try to remove software Y it gets re-installed without asking or alerting you.
We'd call that a trojan malware in any other context.
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Real programs don't eat cache.
