His AI is already loosing money, and this looks to be massively expensive. Might a tired soul hope that this will put a serious dent in his hoardings?

Spot on.

The violence is the point.

Nah, don’t let competence take over, lives aren’t lost. Is funnier to watch them repeatedly try, cock it up, receive scorn.

My impression is that there were much bigger protests during his fist term. ICE has shown the public that protesters are being killed. My guess is that that’s the point.

Of course they care, because the violence is by design and exactly what they want. Dissidents can clearly see that people are being killed for being a problem for the regime.

Google seems to be working on Pixel phones listening in on conversations, and more. Going forward one has to assume any conversation to a Pixel owner is not private. https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/google-pixel/leaked-google-pixel-audio-memory-poised-to-remember-what-youve-heard

Not sure I’d want any company to collect data like this about me. I’m very sure that Meta is a company that I really don’t want to know these things about me.

Murica thinks everything is about Murica

I’ll be Dam, that’s clever

Must be some variant of Stockholm syndrome

Thanks to Meta for clearly showing me what not to buy 😃

I mean, it’s not like there’s cases of police committing abuse and misuse, are there…?