Well, duh. Did anyone really believed he took the classified documents to Mar-a-Lago to work? He isn’t even reading his security briefings.

Those documents where for his business and to sell them to foreign agents. Remember the time a lot of US agents died while undercover? That fit the timeline perfectly.

I don’t drink. I only very seldom do drugs. I still feel like shit, thank you very much.

The thing is, it’s a wiretap - but not from the government. It’s a wiretap that ignores if you plan a terrorist attack, but transcribes everything that has to do with shopping.

Kind of insane if you think about it.

I’m just saying someone who likes dicks might also like them on girls. Or at least more than girls with vaginas.

Perhaps. Probably. I’m just theorizing.

Do repressed homosexuals like dick girls more than cis girls? To do more then guessing we would need s scientific study. But such a study would probably fail because it’s hard to get repressed homosexuals sign up for a study.

Soooo… Any investigations from police, FBI, or any other 3 letter agency? No? Only journalists?

Human developers should not develop with the production DB, why the hell would you give an AI the rights to touch the prod DB?

I’m sorry, I didn’t want to label trans women as anything other than women.

I just try to make sense of the Republican mindset. Please believe me when I say that I don’t share it.

Amateur! Aim at his crotch.

That lines up with my theory that a lot of Republicans are repressed homosexuals. Trans porn is probably the most ‘homosexual adjacent’ porn they are brave enough to watch.

Should have been orange.

Oh we definitively need better Democrats.

Just voting for another center-right Democrat as next president is like stopping right before a cliff and then walking on the edge instead of turning back.

The problem is, these unsatisfied voters only make up about 10% of Trumps base. The rest still worship the pedo in chief.

We can’t just hope for the next election to be different.

I think it’s the calm before the storm - if Trump successfully manipulates the midterms the US might be doomed.

If he botches that and becomes a ‘lame duck’ president, there might still be hope.

I think part of the problem is that the brain is never content with what it has. It becomes the new normal instead of luxuries.

Think about the a rich man, sleeping with beautiful women all the time - either escorts or gold diggers.

It becomes the new normal. He wants more. In what direction this want will go probably differs from person to person. There will be excess, perversion, cruelty, until that is the new normal. Getting more and more depraved. Limited only by that persons conscience and what he can get away with.

And for a sociopath and billionaire? There are are no limits, no crime he can’t commit, no foul act he won’t try. Torture. Children. Murder. Cannibalism. These people have been above the law for too long.

I would say probably more likely to be a personal AI assistant, that handles all PC/cell phone interactions for you. Like Star Trek: “Computer, do my taxes!”

Of course that relies heavily on AI becoming more reliable then it is now.

No one wants an AI summery of their e-mails if it’s full of hallucinations, or their tax returns to get them into prison.

A lot of those things are possible, if a bit inconvenient. BUT I am old enough to have lived through the time before GPS and smartphones and navigating without it - especially in an unknown city - is simply terrible.

If you have never experienced having to park your car and walk around, looking for a street name, just to find out where the hell you are… Count yourself lucky.

Listen to an old timer: I never want to go back to that.

Anyone who says otherwise simply doesn’t drive around a lot or only in well known areas.

Most blatantly with his rambling about ‘Americans have to flush 3 times, 5 times’. I thought what the hell is wrong with the water pressure where he lives?

Then I read that he likely flushed evidence down the toilet. Of course. HE has a problem with destroying evidence in his toilet, so ‘Americans’ have problems with their toilet. I’m not even sure if he has the ability to differentiate between his problems and anybody elses.

I normally have GPS and Bluetooth disabled, so my position would have to be guessed based on cell towers. We were not even on the same WLAN (because the WLAN was down in the vacation home, much to our dissatisfaction).

While I can’t rule out somebody in our group stealthily googling the tablets, phones while playing is generally frowned upon.

So yeah, being on the same cell tower as someone I know who might have searched for it might be the only other explanation.

The adventure itself didn’t have anything to do with the tablets, that was just our group doing strange stuff, like always.

Just think about the scale of the surveillance: every smartphone user is being monitored 24/7 in hope to find something to sell them.

If you hate AI because it wastes so much energy, think about the cost for the this: Energy, water, battery life, bandwidth, … And in contrast to AI the ‘users’ don’t get anything in return.

Okay, so here is my story:

I was on holiday with my friends and we were playing a TTRPG. In the RPG our group needed charol tablets. I have never in my life googled or needed something like that.

After the session, I opened up Amazon to buy something I forget to pack and voilà: Amazon suggested me to buy charol tablets.

My smartphone must have listened in and given that data to Amazon.

No Alexa or similar products were in the vacation home.