Sounds quite familiar…

I wonder if we’ll be seeing Mr President Beast in a decade or two…

They’ll get around to it someday. When they’re running low on content to milk more money out of.

Not sure if sarcasm…

I’m not sure if I’d even give them ‘the benefit of the doubt’. But if what they’re saying here is true, then it sounds like it should be possible to use a Slate truck without compromising your privacy too much. It does remain to be seen if they’re actually telling the truth here.

Yeah … If they can get pricing to be where they’ve hinted it should be, then the Slate should not be a niche product.

If they can manage to make good on their promise to produce the cheapest EV on the market, and one with great utility and affordable customization options on top of that (maybe even 3rd party customization options), then that’s going to be a highly desirable vehicle for a lot of people. There’s a lot of people out there (I’m one of them) who understand that an EV is the most practical, most affordable way to get around, but are priced out of current EV options. Most EV options are very expensive, and even the cheaper ones still carry pretty hefty price tags when compared to a used Prius or something. An EV with truly economy car pricing is going to be huge, and I bet it will catch on fast, especially when it’s also a very practical car that can potentially handle hauling around a family or cargo.

The one big downside I see that might hamper mass adoption is the lack of a 4-door version. But if the original is a success, I bet they’ll be developing a (slightly more expensive) 4-door version soon after.

Wait, I just randomly had the perfect idea for your situation!

Line the inside of your plastic pots with aluminum foil!

Aluminum foil is relatively affordable and easy to get, and it will provide a long-lasting, food safe, and completely impermeable barrier between the plastic and the plant inside. If possible (given the size of your pots), you’d want to apply it all in one piece, but if the pots are too big for one continuous piece of aluminum foil to cover, you can join two or more sheets of aluminum foil by folding the edges together tightly.

My personal favorite is the CH751 key. It unlocks the side cargo compartments of pretty much every travel trailer and RV on the market. That one key gets you into 95% of RVs, at least the cargo compartment. And the cargo compartments are often connected to the interior by just being underneath bed mattresses or couch cushions or the like.

Or, if you want to get really spicy with it, I hear that most municipal police departments use the same few keys for all of their cars – especially the old Crown Vic ones. (And that the same key is also shared with almost all Crown Vic taxis.)

Imagine paying for TV that has tons of ads in it.

During a brief period when Youtube’s anti-adblocker tech was one step ahead of my adblockers, I had to watch 20 seconds of an ad before I could skip it. And that alone was filling me with a dangerous amount of rage. (The only thing it made me want to buy was lots of explosives.) I really don’t understand how people tolerate watching normie TV where a solid 1/3 of the airtime is dedicated to obnoxious ads.

And that’s one of several reasons Las Vegas is dying.

Seems like the smartphone app is entirely optional, though? You should be able to use the truck without it. And the “there’s no embedded modem” part means that the truck literally can’t spy on you without your phone helping.

There’s also the little bit about “only when connected locally to the car” – which suggests to me that the phone communicates with the car via wifi or a plugged-in cable. So, possibly, you could install and use the app, but just disable internet access for that app. Then you could get the benefits of using the app without any possibility of it spying on you. Or even install that app on a cheap old $50 phone that doesn’t have an internet connection at all, and just use that phone to interface with the truck.

Sure, it’s not perfection when it comes to a privacy promise … but it sounds like you could pretty easily use this truck in a way that makes it impossible for it to spy on you.

Kind of a missed opportunity that those medals were never seen again in the entire rest of the series.

Not a furry per se (yet maybe)

Your Pathowogen infection has already progressed to Stage 3. I’m afraid it’s terminal.

Sweaty anonymous orgies with random people in fur suits

This is approximately 0.1% of the furry fandom, though. The vast majority of furries do not do that.

Maybe astroturfing some political support?

But you don’t need to post anything to scrape AI training data.

When you join the ranks of internet/technology master, you get sorted into one of 5 houses:

1. Furry (Seems the most normal of the bunch … until you get to know them well enough for them to unmask and reveal their true self. Has some very niche fetishes you’ve never heard of.)

2. Weeb (Kind of like a furry in some ways (just with anime waifus instead of anthropomorphic animals), but likely less kind and accepting and more likely to be right-wing and some flavor of bigot. 60% probability of having a highly encrypted folder on their computer that would get them in big trouble if the FBI found it.)

3. Incel Creep (Your sterotypical neckbeard. Big into UFC and posting creepy things in the comment sections of xvideos (they’re already banned from PornHub for this). Doesn’t wash his ass because “that’s gay”.)

4. LinkedIn Lunatic (techbro billionaire worshipper, obsesed with conspicuous consumption, income, and career growth; likely also an incel if they’re not wealthy, will have a trophy tradwife if they are wealthy.)

5. Tin Foil (Has spent more time and energy on computer security than what’s actually being secured. Endless conspiracy theories about shadowy government agencies … some of which are probably true. Has a dead man’s switch set to incinerate his house and everything inside if he goes more than 5 days without disabling it. Owns a small plot of land way out in the desert in Nevada, purchased through a series of shell corporations, which he tells absolutely nobody about, not even his own family.)

Yeah, you can do that … or some good old fashioned corporate espionage.

Or, hell, just ask ChatGPT for its weights model. With how shitty these AI companies are at security and guardrails, that might just work.

utorrent is terrible. It works, sure, but why would you tolerate a torrent app that has fucking ads in it?

qbittorrent does all the same things, and is open source with no ads.

Damn… That would ruin my whole week.

Because, as always, they serve as the attack dogs of the rich.