I hooked mine up to wifi once to download an update to fix a bug. Then immediately removed the network settings.

The performance on most of these TV apps is terrible anyway. And Samsung has been caught listening to mics before. Baffles me that people would leave these connected.

What about just not connecting it to the network? Then put a video device on it like Roku or Apple tv or whatever.

Not much of a downgrade from the Biden admin acknowledging the climate crisis, and then not doing a thing about it. Still refusing to abandon fracking, setting fossil fuel extraction records, and trying to ban Chinese solar panel & EV imports.

Let’s aim for the next Dem to do more than just acknowledge it.

I’m not trying to convince anyone. If the climate science hasn’t convinced you yet, nothing will, and I want to repel you to tell you to get out of the fucking way.

Language policing is a common tactic by bad faith actors, especially when their argument is falling apart.

Fuck local industry. China is churning out record numbers of solar panels, eating most of the costs themselves, and we’re going to try to ban the imports and pretend we have the time to build up local manufacturing?!

The building is on fire, and you people are too busy worrying about the language of people urgently pleading to bring in the water from outside, and concerned about how it’ll affect the profits of the local water source.

Absolutely psychotic.

The planet is literally becoming uninhabitable, and you’re concerned about being cordial towards people arguing against radical action.

Eat me.

As in the way you’re accusing me of “making shit up,” just because you’re not aware of decades of lobbying and astroturfing efforts by the fossil fuel industry against nuclear?

I’m not trying to change their mind. I’m trying to expose them.

You’re either an astroturfer or useful idiot spreading oil lobby talking points.

Either you believe the climate science or you don’t. If you do, you know that we don’t have time for industry protectionism.

It’s Sinophobia masquerading as news.

There’s really not much you can do. There’s just too many cameras in the public spaces. If any government official wants to see who’s visited an abortion clinic, they can just have the local traffic camera company tell them.

We need to ban the government getting around the 4th amendment by partnering with private companies.

Been waiting for intellectual property reforms for so long, at this point I’d be willing to abandon IP laws entirely. It’s holding the species back.

Dems have the same issue in suburban & rural Georgia. They obsessively court Republican voters, and refuse to represent any of the priorities that would bring out their own base and working class voters.

The party election apparatus exists to pay lucrative salaries to overpriced consultants. Ask any local candidates who’ve run as a Dem. All the party or associated orgs ever really “offer” is a list of expensive consultants they want you to use. If you don’t have the funds to pay for the consultants, you may as well not exist to them. And those same consultants will push you towards policies that bring in the most donations, to pay for more consultants, etc.

They’ll continue to cater to a sliver of Republican voters at the expense of their base, simply because their base wants policies that don’t bring in donations.

Too bad private email access is essentially dead. Any service not requiring another email or phone number to sign up gets quickly shut down. A casualty in the war on whistleblowers.