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Leave standards to experts.

That’s what everybody did at first. It gave us a different connector for each device. After a few decades, there are still competing standards. Either the experts are incompetent, or the business environment they’re in doesn’t incentivize single standards.

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Looking at sites like insecam.org, the amount of devices still sett to admin/admin is frighteningly high

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He will round up, intern, and deport undocumented immigrants

A few months later, farmers are surprised there are no cheap workers anymore to help in the fields. Farmers get in (more) financial problems, prices start to rise in the supermarket as supply shrinks. Trump blames Democrats for his actions. Rural voters get more angry.

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Que sera, sera.

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X now identifies as apartheid media instead of social media. The name change is important to make this distinction.

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Looks like so many sci-fi stories. Take exact same social organization as we currently have, replace car with spaceship, dollars with credits, towns with planets and done.

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America is an experiment in extreme individualism. Others learn of the results and make something different. Or more likely now have some collective memory to avoid that particular pothole and end up stumbling into some other arrangement cobbled together by conflicting groups.

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If selling all the data is early stages, I want to know what late stage monetization looks like. Pay a fee to get unbanned? Fines if the post gets down voted?

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USA: we don’t have a left. Democrats are at best center.

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The car now phantom brakes for anything remotely suspicious, like a shadow from a tunnel or light fixture, causing numerous pileups behind it

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