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> on Twitter

Don't go changing the goalposts now. You previously said:

> an international group that doesn't trust US based corporations with their personal data

So no Twitter for you.

> an international group that doesn't trust US based corporations with their personal data

I don't think it is actually possible to exist in the western (and sometimes nonwestern) world without US based corporations having your personal data.

For starters, this fictive "international group" would have to essentially have no internet footprint. Its members would also have to never engage with international groups who themselves have US based corporations as third parties. It's just not realistically doable. Bitcoin has nothing to do with it.

...Can all be streaming via a plugged in device. Your television should be a monitor, nothing more.

> the ads are annoying but it's fine

This doesn't parse. It's like saying 'this apple is rotten but it's fine'.

If the apple is rotten, then it is not fine.

If the television has annoying ads, then it is not fine.

> They are not a FAANG and don't have anywhere near their level of security expertise.

What a weird thing to say. Are you suggesting that it's fine that FAANG companies also spy on you mercilessly, because their security is ostensibly better?

> coarse sandy paint

Sounds like that coarse sand would also leech into the water.

> Calm down.

What about my comment made you think telling me to 'calm down' was warranted?

"They" is a gender neutral pronoun, used out of respect when you don't know the gender pronoun someone goes by, and don't wish to be presumptive.

> and caused disruption to other passengers.

That is precisely what United did.

> but he's the one who started the escalation.

No.

Telling a paying passenger who is not behaving belligerently in any way that they must vacate their seat so that an airline staff member can fly in that seat is what starts the escalation.

> If a hotel denies your booking for whatever reason, would you just stay in the lobby anyway?

The equivalent analogy would be: you paid for and were situated in your hotel room, when you receive notice from the hotel that they have overbooked their hotel and that hotel staff from another hotel need to stay in your room and you must evacuate your room immediately. When you refuse to do so, they have security slam your head into the bedframe, resulting in you breaking your teeth, and then leave you outside on the curb.

> He was not "beaten" or "physically attacked".

> Dao was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries including a broken nose, loss of two front teeth, sinus injuries and "a significant concussion"

What phrasing would you prefer be used instead to describe the sustaining of said injuries?

I didn't mean to equate the two (violence and rudeness), I was just making the connection that the one leads to escalation of the other. I suspect it's not as if a passenger just runs up to an airline staff member and punches them, a propos of nothing, out of thin air. What I can see as a much more likely scenario is that the staffer acts in a manner the customer doesn't like, the customer curses at them for it, the staffer yells at them, etc. And this can be minimized by offering way more customer service training than it seems like most airlines have. I fly very frequently, weekly usually. And I see and experience absurdly unnecessary rudeness all the time. Another, relatively minor, example from a few weeks ago: when a plane landed, a woman stood up while the seatbelt light was still on. The male flight attendant snarled at her "SIT BACK DOWN, RIGHT DAMN NOW!". Screaming and cursing at customers is not acceptable, and again it doesn't justify escalation, but it certainly creates the breeding ground for it.

> Why would they lock him up after that? What's with the extremes and what does that have to do with any of this?

The point is that you don't see beating and dragging a man as 'extreme', so I am postulating other extremes like indefinite incarceration or execution which it would then likewise stand to reason are warranted because what if this man, a known troublemaker now, ever tries to get on a plane again? Incarceration and execution would preempt that problem.

I think one of the sore points is that airport workers routinely mistreat customers. True, usually not to the point of physical violence, but plenty of mistreatment regardless. A trite example I just experienced last week: my flight was cancelled, so I stood in a line along with everyone to get rebooked. By the time I got to the counter at the gate, the agent said I had to go to the main ticketing desk in departures to rebook. I asked why the dozens of people in front of me got to rebook right here at the counter. The agent then just acted like I was not there and turned around and started casually chatting to the other staff there. That kind of rudeness happens all the time, and it is precisely what leads to escalations.

The point is that treating staff with disrespect is certainly not justified, but neither is it out of the blue, more often than not it is reciprocal behavior. Flyers are treated like rubbish by airline staff.

Why stop at just savagely beating the man then? Stands to reason he should be locked up indefinitely in an ASO holding cell so that he can't cause any more trouble at a later time, yeah? That'll cost a lot of money though, why not just a bullet in his head?

> What else would you expect them to do?

How about...to not physically attack a paying customer who had done nothing wrong (and had medical patients to see, to boot) so that a bunch of airline staff could fly for free?

I said 'staff', not 'airline staff'; in this case, it was 'airport staff', and the hypocrisy still stands: why are airlines fixating on passengers, not other staff?

What do you mean? It's a bit rich to hear airlines talk about putting unruly passengers on lists, while the behavior of unruly staff is supported.

What about putting unruly airport staff on a similar list?

I trust everyone remembers a few years ago, when David Dao was dragged off a United flight for refusing to vacate a seat he had paid for [1].

> Dao, a pulmonologist and folk musician, refused to surrender his seat when requested because he needed to see patients the following day. Chicago Department of Aviation Security officers (ASO) were called to remove him from the plane; in the process, they struck Dao's face against an armrest, then pulled him, apparently unconscious, by his arms along the aircraft aisle past rows of onlooking passengers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Express_Flight_3411_inc...

Is there a way to map this data to a map which shows US states/cities so it is a bit easier to tell what's what?

The reason I rarely bother reading the fine print anymore, anywhere, is that way more often than not (and certainly way, way, way more often than containing any sort of prize or easter egg) the fine print is extremely poorly written, full of contradictions and vague statements that are frustrating and exhausting if trying to understand them logically. So it's just not worth the headache.

> Fast fashion is a root cause of a huge amount of fabric waste, plastic waste, and cost shifting of waste streams to developing nations.

How does all of that waste compare to all of the waste involved in making your comment? Not just the infra required to host it and distribute it, but the devices required for you to make it. Kind of turning a blind eye to the amount of "cost shifting of waste streams to developing nations" that electronic devices create.

Can you provide a documented example of this actually happening--of a game warden coming into someone's house and looking in their fridge without a warrant and without the owner's consent?

$15,000 for a glorified camping trip sounds absurdly expensive, sure.

So does paying $1000 for a phone, and yet how many people in this thread critiquing the camping experience have one of those?

> This sounds like backpacking... which you can do for way less than $30k.

I mean...you can do a lot of things for less than they are sold for. This should not be a revelation. People, however, pay extra money for convenience and hand-holding. This should also not be a revelation. You need look no further than bloated SLAs.

> Macbooks are so slim and lightweight, while an Inspiron or Thinkpad is so bulky and thick.

What are you talking about? Plenty of laptops are more lightweight than Macbooks such as Vaio, Acer, Asus, etc. And a 12" Macbook is only about half a pound heavier than a 13" Thinkpad.

https://www.ultrabookreview.com/4219-the-lightest-ultrabooks...

> “The big advantage is that we offer a solution to these Uber drivers,” Sam Bouchal told the publication in September [translated to English via Google Translate], saying that the Uber drivers could be offered permanent contracts, and adding: “We’re getting them out of illegality.”

If TechCrunch is now just resorting to providing Google Translate versions of quotes from other news stories...something anyone interested in the topic can do themselves...then maybe it's time to just shutdown?

This article is poorly written and inconsistent.

It first says:

> About a hundred feet downhill, the search party found “very distinct” footprints of eight or nine people, walking (not running) toward the tree line. Almost all the prints were of stockinged feet, some even bare.

But then a few paragraphs down, says:

> Something had happened that induced the skiers to cut their way out of the tent and flee into the night, into a howling blizzard, in twenty-below-zero temperatures, in bare feet or socks.

So first the article takes care to point out that the group was not running, only to then say that they were? Which is it? I expect the New Yorker to have better quality control than this.

I'm going to assume they used 'flee' in a more figurative sense, not literal, but such 'colorful' prose is sloppy in an article such as this.

> Honestly I don't see any purely technical solution to this.

The technical solution is pretty simple: do not use Wi-Fi. I use wired connections for all of the devices in my household. The only non-technical aspect of the solution was an interior design-based one about unobtrusive cable wiring around the house.