Depends on what the deployment is, if it is just airstrikes or even limited ground operations to break a few things and leave, no reason for it to be a forever war.

Note: I have made zero statements about that being something I would support.

The person I replied to should not label those people the enemy then. As I said, he is painting with much too wide of a brush.

Median household income in Colorado Springs is $83k/yr. Said 3 bedroom home for $265k is quite affordable on $83k/yr.

unless you have a fully remote job

And if this is the case, you are doing even better and have a shitload more options.

you have to choose more slum-y areas

Here is a random home I found after only a few seconds of looking. 3 bedroom home in Colorado Springs for $265k. Easily affordable at the stated $100k/yr income.

You can’t afford to buy a single family home on $100k/yr in my area.

you have to choose more slum-y areas

Lots of homes are easily affordable with that income. Buy elsewhere.

Those who live off property (aka others’ labour) are.

This is everyone with a 401(k) for retirement. Ie, what they will be loving off of. Not sure why you are labeling the vast majority of people the enemy…

Hell, since you are including ‘other’s labour’, then this would also include anyone living off Social Security, a pension, disability, etc. All of that money comes from other’s labour.

Your brush is way, way, way too broad. You have marked almost everyone the enemy at some point in their lives.

Lots of homes are easily affordable with that income. Buy elsewhere.

Man, I got excited for a moment they brought back the SE line, but at an even cheaper price.

I knew it couldn’t be true, not with Apple, but, it is what I first thought.

Protip for the room: Use a password manager with a unique password for every service. Then when one leaks, it only affects that singular service, not large swaths of your digital life.

Wireless charging wastes a ton of power. Roads also get beat to hell.

I really don’t see this being practical.

This is pretty much my response any time Google or Microsoft does anything negative at this point. My good will for those two was spent years ago. Swapped over to Protonmail, non-google phone, Linux. Done with their shit.

EA was easier to get away from. Just…not buying more EA games solved that one. :)

Signal? No.

I’m running Signal right now on Linux Mint.

Remember when the sales pitch of The Cloud was it would always be online?

You know, I can’t remember any toothpaste with that warning. So, win one for us I guess! ;p

A bunch of the stuff I buy has CA cancer warnings on it. When you start putting the warnings on common things, it makes the warnings meaningless…

Do any of the things I buy have a notable chance to cause caner? I have no fucking clue, because everything causes cancer in California.

Great news!

only ad I see is the occasional sentence on my lock screen, “You should try $whatever!”

Why put up with any ads? No other desktop OS does this…

updates don’t matter. Security doesn’t matter. You can just tell your computer to never update anything, and it’ll be the same for a decade. You can live in your little bubble.

You are free to do what you want, but do not give out advice like this to others. Security issues pop up constantly and not updating leaves you vulnerable to them.

For the room: If you want to stay on your unpatched machine, don’t plug it into the internet. Otherwise, use an OS that is currently receiving security updates.

Literally no one is throwing away a working machine just because some deadline passes.

You need to speak to every IT department worth a pinch of salt then; as no longer receiving security updates is a critical problem. That critical problem is solved by most IT departments by disposing of perfectly good computers, paying to have their SSDs shredded, and buying new computers.

So what emergency are you thinking of?

You aren’t on a road and the car is confused about how to move around. You are now stranded because you can’t drive the car. I have yet to see any self-driving car even attempt to be reasonable in off-road driving.

Your buddy’s cabin in the woods, grass parking at a venue, natural disaster and the road is gone, a country driveway, getting into your backyard with the shit your bought at home depot, etc, etc.

The moment self driving cars are safe enough we are going to ban human drivers entirely

Naw. Too many people like driving, too many emergency situations that require a human. The most that will reasonably happen is people will prefer self-driving and driving test requirements will increase somewhat.

We very rarely ban old things, we mostly just convince people to use new things.