I've seen a lot of people carrying all that in their phone case, where they can conveniently lose every single scrap of personal information at once.

Fuck yeah, good for Mike. That sort of thing still works sometimes, but you have to be really, really good at what you do. But getting a good portfolio in the right hands at the right time is really all it takes.

I'm sad that he feels he needs to do it. In a just world he would have run a single presidential term in 2016-2020 and then disappeared into the sunset to enjoy his final years.

But here we are. We need people like him more than ever and there's no one he can pass his torch to. So he grits his teeth and offers us even more of his dwindling life force such that we have even a single light in our darkness. I don't have a single doubt in my mind that Bernie would stay in office until the very moment of his death if he felt it was necessary for the greater good. I'm just saddened that he feels it necessary, and that I agree with him.

Older flash bulbs weren't really made for long uptime. If you were using your flashlight for under a minute looking for something it was fine but any longer than that and it would start getting really hot. Once manufacturers caught on that everyone was using apps for it (and potentially damaging their phone in the process due to heat) we got better bulbs and baked in controls for it.

Red Dead Redemption 2 has been on this list since the release of the steam deck because the 3 people still trying to play that game on the deck haven't finished loading the world yet

Crazy people are already committing random acts of terrorism, remember when some Trumper took out an electrical substation about a year ago and left a couple dozen thousand people without heat or power in the dead of winter? All that to shut down a drag show (supposedly).

Yuzu wasn't completely free; that's sort of what got them into hot water in the first place and the reason why Nintendo hasn't also sued SNES9X into the dirt. Yuzu had a patreon with certain releases gated behind it. That's what got them in trouble.

Therefore Trump sounds like the actual idiot that he is, and Biden is performing as expected of a president.

Not sure what your point is here beyond just playing yourself and shutting down your own argument.

I would argue that Texas has already done enough to be stripped of control permanently.

He's already well past what would be considered contempt of court for literally any other living human being. They're giving him as much rope as is possible for two reasons, one being so that absolutely no one can argue a mistrial, and the second being that he continues to attempt to hang himself with every length of rope let out to him. May as well let him continue.

Counterpoint, all it takes is one person to die in the car because the car disabled itself on them while trying to get to a hospital, and suddenly hungry lawyers are swooping in all over your entire company.

I imagine the manufacturer will have some excuse about "if it was an emergency they should have called an ambulance" and I also imagine that won't stand up to a stiff breeze in court.

That's great until two years from now when all parts for that model year will stop being manufactured. If you're lucky, newer models of the same car share a part number. If you're not, the first time you need a new belt tensioner or torque strut you're buying a new car. I drive an 05 Civic and I can usually still find parts for it only because it's one of the most popular models to exist in America. My partner drives a similar year Suzuki and it's now actually impossible to repair over half of that car because of parts unavailability. Old cars are great until they need to be fixed.

I'm not really arguing in favor of buying a "new" car especially because you wouldn't catch me dead in anything more recent than a 2015. But there are some considerations to be taken into account when you're buying a car old enough to have its own drivers license. More considerations, when it's old enough to have its own license that would have already expired.