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  • A tiny black sticker over the cameras handles the video concern. Mics are another matter.

  • I know about their heated seats, motion activated lids that lift when you walk in, and built in temperature and mechanically adjustable bidets. I'm just too big for something like that. The toilets are sometimes in their own tiny narrow closets in apartments. Feels like I'm trying to take a shit in a coffin. If it fits your size then congrats, it's a wonderful experience.

  • The UK government won't stop until every man, woman, and child has a camera pointed at them from bathrooms to bedrooms, 24/7.

  • Cronch

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  • Ahh denkushi (伝串) was one of the foulest surprises I had when out drinking around Shinjuku one fine evening. I thought they were little deep fried pieces of chicken but ended up biting into a semi chewy grease sponge of chicken skin. I bought three skewers of the stuff and had to gag them down with a pitcher of Sapporo. At least they were cheap like 50 yen each.

  • Any computer science courses? I'd love to take an intro to Linux or intro to network hacking class.

  • "Because I have the relevant work skills you need to pay me for. If not at least I'm willing to work growing into the role."

    It doesn't matter though. The interview is likely a formality to prove they tried hiring from outside before the job is given to an internal applicant, H1B visa holder willing to work for peanuts, or a boss's relative.

  • Same reason some folks like The Road or several of Edgar Allen Poe's works. The despair is a drawing point.

  • They have so much tech that there's barely enough room for the hole in the seat to poop through. They're nice but I wouldn't get one if I have to sit in an odd way to make to make sure nothing spills out.

  • The same can be said to their Democrat counterparts across the pond.

  • There's a good cyberpunk story in that premise.

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  • Ended up chipping my tooth on a tiny seed in my curry.

  • The gun lobby cares about who buys the most guns from them. Currently it's the US government so they're not gonna bitch about it.

  • They're not failing at anything. A significant amount of them are just quietly complicit.

  • After all the "wake up calls" one would assume the metaphorical person's deaf or just plain dead already.

  • Ear infections hurt though.

  • I'm #13 but the laptop's in between monitors. Does that count as mental illness?

  • May this be the straw the breaks the camel's back for Tesla. I want to see its stock fall so badly.

  • That's after it's all over.

    I personally prefer the Waffle House Index because unlike Ted their workers are heroes willing to stay and serve through some nasty disasters.

  • They've been conditioned to not care or even desire it. Smartphones had Siri and Google Assistant as a selling point, which led to ever more intrusive tech that was marketed as a convenience. Facebook took it a step further and had you label people in pictures uploaded to them and you sign away your privacy in their terms and conditions. Advanced marketing techniques were irresistible to social media companies and so consumer profiles of everyone they could get became a thing.

    Jokes about seeing ads that smartphones can overhear made the intrusive spying all the more accepted as just a part of life. Android marks your calendar and reminds you of appointments made using your Gmail account when you never asked it to. Ring doorbell cameras quietly sell their video feeds to the highest bidder, often to law enforcement as a convenient means to circumvent the 4th amendment. And now the latest trend is to have your car do everything your phone already does but take it a step further by monitoring your driving habits so insurance companies can justify raising your premiums.

    The average person isn't tech savvy enough to understand they're being sold as a product even after paying for their own surveillance gear. They just want modern conveniences without thinking the price they pay beyond the original sale.