More from the marketing school of "if we treat out customers like crap, maybe they'll go away".

Gotta make the streets safe for their own violent assholes. The right never seems to have a problem with violent crime, as long as the correct people are in their correct places.

Dude, the next model is gonna be so scary that they won't even let THEMSELVES use it.

Maybe they used middle-out compression. Richard Hendricks is gonna sue somebody.

The "donate an organ today" item that WASN'T on some poor Chinese IT sod's To Do list will soon have a check mark beside it...

I wonder if you did a slowly accelerating transfer if it would just be shrugged off as a natural escalation of something. What, wouldn't know, but folks tend to get really stupid when something starts at a trickle and builds slowly over time.

The Big Lie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie) worked in the 3rd Reich (and many other places and continues to work) not because the Nazis were a lot better at using it. The Big Lie works because, generally, people are dumb and without insight. Present the average person with anything where disagreeing might incur a cost, and they will readily agree, regardless of what they agree to and regardless of how evil that makes their action.

You know, most ACs seem to be far dumber than the typical LLM. Which is quite an accomplishment.

Actually, no. That just seems to be the primary motivation to create companies in the US. It is not the only reason and, for people that are not total greedy scum, it may not even be a goal besides financial viability. Profits a entirely optional and there strong evidence that running a company with a primary motivation of generating profits is detrimental for its survival. And society, incidentally. You have fallen for some thinly veiled religious fundamentalist propaganda.

As usual, you are without insight. Your usual mode.

I'm looking forward to using this. The subject wasn't even on my radar - to my eternal shame - but now that it is I'm happy about the opportunit to lock down my laptop.

It's not hard to allow only traffic related to an outgoing connection. Are you asking because you don't know how to do it? Not that I'm supporting the GP's assertion here, that's not what I want from my ISP, but it's not even slightly difficult to do what they said you should do without interfering with establishing and maintaining outgoing sessions.

I watched Jayz video on this subject and apparently "manufacturers" (sellers) of foreign-made routers will be able to request an exception... from the Department of War and the DHS. So this is really just a solicitation for more bribes/the opportunity to pick the winners and losers like Republicans always say the government shouldn't.

Combined with entries for whichever of the various firewall tools you may be using for the "one click to block" part. People like their visual tools. I'd prefer the command line myself, but I won't complain too much about somebody coming to Linux and creating their own utility right off the bat. Seems very in the right frame of mind at least.

As a Canadian, I always do my best to vote for the least of evils. However, here in Canada we're often stuck with "strategic voting".

In this system, we often have to choose between voting for folks who stand for what we want but who have zero chance of holding even the balance of power, and voting for the lesser of the other evils. In a vote where who's going to win is effectively preordained, I vote according to my conscience. In a vote where the lesser of evils could win, I hold my nose and vote for them.

And every time I'm faced with that choice, I so wish my country had pushed harder for electoral reform and implemented some kind of proportional representation. Alas, we have our own brand of Republicanism at play here; since Trump came to power we've taken to calling it "Maple MAGA".