It leads to the house. Which does not have a garage.

You could've had a legitimate point if you'd just continued with the actual reason this game is going to suck: the online portion is a fucking freemium game that isn't even free to initially download. I'm sure the folks who don't mind blowing their rent money on Shark Cards are going to love it, though.

There's an Oxford comma in there, so it's the car crashing thing that's happened four times, not package theft. Yes, thanks to the camera the responsible parties were held accountable.

1. I had a 3rd party Amazon driver hit my car while turning around. They drove off, but it was caught on camera. Amazon covered the damages.
2. The neighbor's teenage kid backed into my vehicle. Again, another driver who thought they could just play it off like nothing happened, but the camera caught them. There wasn't actually much damage so I didn't press the issue from a monetary perspective, but the kid hadn't told his parents he'd gotten into an accident, so I cleared that little oversight up with them.
3. A lawn service (not one I'd hired, either) backed their utility trailer into my driveway, hitting one of my vehicles. I got the motion alert when it happened and went outside. I put in a claim against their insurance.
4. Most recently, another neighbor's teenage kid backed into the same vehicle as the first kid, this time doing a bit more damage. Got the notification on the camera and the footage made it extremely simple to put in a claim against their insurance.

So, you'd be okay if people were damaging your property and didn't want to make it right? Must be nice to have that kind of wealth.

Invoking Grok through X is now a paid feature.

I always get a chuckle when a Republican candidate says things like:

"I will fight the woke agenda and lower gas prices!"

Yep, if there's one thing that needs fighting, it's those pesky lower gas prices.

Yep, this was entirely why I figured you can't stop seeing the word "vibe" nowadays, even though it sounds like something that was dug up from The Beach Boys era.

X did this. Then Grok started contradicting the "facts" as Musk preferred them, so it rather famously went through a few stages of tweaking that resulted in a few, shall we say, unfortunate incidents. These days, Grok is locked behind the blue checkmark paywall.

I'd imagine a startup trying to do AI fact checking at scale is going to quickly discover that it costs a pretty penny to keep the token monster fed.

If your packages were walking off, or people repeatedly were crashing into your parked cars in your driveway (that has happened to me no less than 4 times), you'd probably want to put up a camera, too. Hell, at this point I'd be half okay with installing a God damned Flock camera pointed at my driveway.

I'd love to live in a society where we didn't need to put up cameras everywhere to hold people accountable for their bad behaviors, but all those examples you gave actually serve to further reinforce that we're clearly not living in such a society.

All those Flock cameras aren't being put up for nothing.

I wasn't referring to protests. I meant when strangers feel the need to express their unsolicited opinion about, well, whatever happens to be going through their mind at the time. Like my partner and I will be talking about some mundane thing out at the theme parks and a random person will jump in with their own take as if they'd forgotten they're not in the YouTube comments section.

If someone wants to stand on the street corner and scream their head off at the Flock camera, though? Hey, more power to them. Don't mind that in the least.

Wabbit.

There was a Nazi march through Altamonte Springs, FL 3 years ago. I was actually driving near that area when it happened and saw it for myself. It's a safe assumption at least some of them are on X. So yeah, literal Nazis. Care to take a guess how many times I've seen Communists take to the streets for a demonstration?

I know far-leftists exist. Reddit has at least several communism subs. They mostly keep to their echo chamber and rarely bother anyone. I'm not saying their ideology is preferable, just that they tend to be a lot less obnoxious about their bad ideas.

Zuck's got my real name so I don't interact with the internet peanut gallery on there. It's entirely for seeing what my friends and family are up to (interspersed between all the algorithmic crap FB tries to shove down your throat these days), and every once in awhile I'll share some Florida Man shit that I'd witnessed because, well, Florida. I don't get political on there anymore because at least in my circle, we're all just kind of sick of hearing it and nobody is changing anyone else's mind.

Nah, the only microblogging site I have an account on actually still is X. I don't go on it much anymore ever since Musk put his AI slop generator behind a paywall. For a brief time though, it was fucking glorious wasting Musk's money to create slop.

The "large majority" is definitely getting smaller due to social media behaviors bleeding through into real life. I've definitely experienced an uptick in people giving their unsolicited $0.02 while out in public.

Real life needs a disable comments option.