There's a certain weird honor in lighting the cigarette of the guy you just robbed. It's kinda respectable.

It's also the world banking system for several billion people, and not a few hundred thousand gamblers.

This one does not spark joy.

something something death by virtual snu snu

Much of The Babylon Bee's content, while stated to be satirical, often misses the point of satire.

The issue is that a good number of products are only available through Amazon, and a metric ton of services that people depend on are owned by Google.

Just saying "don't use Amazon or Google" is almost tantamount to saying "don't eat food" or "don't drink water".

Should that be the case? No. But right now, it is.

...nah I'm good

Perhaps the man's turned a new leaf in his old age. He ain't perfect, sure, but I'd be lying if I said he wasn't far better than I (or most others) had expected.

...this would make E2EE effectively meaningless, because no amount of encryption will protect against getting scanned at the entrance and exit.

Yes.

I feel like the GOP has pretty much abandoned the "small government" pretense altogether.