I’d put it in the lawful category. 4 space indentation and other strict formatting requirements chaffs me to no end, just like a hard-ass teacher requiring name and student number in some specific and strict format at the top of a page.

Time Machine is just backup software isn’t it? It’s not doing an involuntary index of all your activity and content you interact with, right?

I’m old and first played paintball before masks were a thing… we just wore goggles. This was mid-80s. I got shot at very close range right in the jaw. Took a perfectly round, paintball-sized piece of skin off, my jaw immediately swelled and with the red paint splattered all over my face, I looked like a crime scene. 😄

Masks were a great addition to the game.

The need for privacy in crypto is significant and a hinderance to wide adoption. With most crypto if you send me money once I then know your wallet address and I can then look up every transaction you’ve ever made with that wallet and every future transaction you make later. Clearly that’s a problem.

The fact that criminals are more motivated by privacy concerns doesn’t reduce the need and expectation of privacy for the rest of us.

And the bigger the chunk, the more they owe.

Thank you. I couldn’t remember the names and was rushing my comment before a meeting. I knew someone wouldn’t let that go without a correction.

Calling GPS part of imperialism is a stretch. It was put in the air at no cost to another country and can be used without cost by anybody, but nobody has to use it. Other countries can launch their own satellites if they want, but they don’t because that’s expensive and GPS is free. The US isn’t making money off of it or exploiting another country with it.

Yes, the US can jam it regionally when in conflict but of course why wouldn’t we? No reason to help the enemy.

Nope… you’re spreading bullshit. People got rid of a Putin puppet. Hope we do the same.

Except Ukraine was on their border and not part of NATO and other countries on their border are. NATO Then Russia invaded and took the Crimean peninsula unprovoked. Not a surprise that Ukraine wants NATO membership, and now Finland joined NATO because of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, doubling the NATO/Russia border.

You might know this already but if not, people who have TSA Precheck don’t need to remove their laptops or take off their shoes. Sometimes TSA guys will remind people of this in the precheck scanner line. It’s not always super clear which scanner line is the precheck line vs regular though and perhaps you were hearing the precheck instruction instead.

Additionally Ukraine is an asset they want to exploit. Turning it into a nuclear landscape makes it unusable.