I suppose if one were to ignore 250 years of constitutional law, your opinion might make some sense.

That's the whole point of the bill of rights. It makes those hard decisions so an individual doesn't need to. This is a clear violation of the constitution. It will take time to work through the courts though.

Usage of Flock cameras is almost certainly a violation of the 4th amendment.

But the violation of the constitution is just the beginning of the problems with Flock. The abuse of the data by cops and the lax security by Flock should be concerning to all citizens.

...the AI bubble just keeps getting bigger.

I would hope they don't have their bank account information on their website. That said, if they give it out to everybody who pays them via wire transfer, that sensitive information is now widely available. That's another problem with the ACH system.

If I was going to transfer over half a million dollars, the sensible thing to do would be to first transfer and verify a small sum to make sure the account numbers are correct.

Aside from typo-squatting, even under the best of circumstances, wire/ACH transfers seem extremely error prone. They rely on somebody transcribing a long series of numbers and lack any kind of robust authentication. There should be a more reliable way to transfer these large sums, but with the current system one should always verify by first transferring a small sum.

My guess is DJT is just making them wait until the check clears.

And it's sullied irrevocably. For the sake of argument, let's say the GOP loses control of the house and the presidency in the next couple of years. What difference would that make? If you're Canada, would you trust the US ever again? The US will always be just a couple of years away from potentially electing another Trump-like president.

That's one way to read the situation. Another is: he's laying the groundwork to justify taking action to intimidate and suppress voters.

Half of the population likes the message he feeds them that all their problems in life are the fault of somebody else, preferably somebody who doesn’t look like them. An analysis of whether he is capable of governing a nation never entered into their voting decisions.

You seriously think the will of the voters will be obeyed in future presidential elections? The GOP is working furiously to prevent that. If you have any doubt, see this week's presidential address.

You can't work a stick shift and text on your phone at the same time, so naturally stick shifts are falling out of favor.

...until customer support is entirely staffed by AI agents and the only response you'll get when you contact them about the billion dollar billing error is: "your service will now be terminated because your bill is overdue."

He comes to work in the White House every day and sees all these grifters using their office to make themselves rich, especially the guy he's showing the teleprompter to, and he asks himself "Why not me too?".

Not really. Nobody will need to dispose of anything because of this. Either they'll reformat to APFS (which they probably already did if they care about encryption) or simply not upgrade to MacOS 28 when that comes out a couple of years from now. HFS will have been deprecated for a decade by then.