In any sane place, with sane laws, they would just have to approve everything until they fix their own shit.

Does this break all the various security features that are the reason to use Signal in the first place?

When was the last time you heard about a large government computer outage? (I don’t count the VA because that’s broken on purpose.)

Well, you see, the mistake you are making is believing a single thing the stupid AWS status board says. It is always fucking lying, sometimes in new and creative ways.

Ah, I hadn’t thought of it being kareoke style.

What’s wrong with the endless supply of websites? What does an app give you?

You don’t even see just how unhinged you sound, do you? I was spending time with my friends. It’s the weekend. Honestly, how does a person become like this?

Are you really rejecting reality? Just go on YouTube and you can find plenty of non-porn videos of people defeating the shitty attention system. I just chose porn as an example to show just how absurd your trust in Daddy Nazi’s lies is.

Do you think Tesla invented that concept? Also clearly the systems don’t work. There are literally pornographic films of people fucking in the back seat while nobody is driving.

I agree that it is incredibly harmful that we don’t have any scientific institutions that we can trust now that the Nazi ruined them. There is no replacement.

The same NHTSA that had its employees removed from these probes by the person being investigated?

Do you live in an alternate reality where Tesla employees didn’t get caught sharing camera footage from inside peoples garages and stuff just because they thought it was funny?

That has already happened…like a handful of times at least.

I can’t think of a less trustworthy source. Rolling a pile of dice with words on them is likely to tell the truth more often.

Nah, the app running functionality just wasn’t ready in time, so like the true marketing bro he was, he only wanted to project success and sold the thing he had working (web sites on a phone) as the best invention ever thought of ever. A year and a half later when the app making tools were finally ready, suddenly those were the greatest innovation ever thought of ever. All of a sudden in a span of less than 2 years from their introduction web apps were stupid and clunky and boomer.

While that is technically true, do any of the “everything” apps have meaningful functionality without an account/ID?

No, you really, truly can’t “rugged individualism” your way out of a societal problem. Remember that wedding you went to a few months ago? Someone uploaded this photos and now your social graph has been recorded. When your friend’s kid had a birthday party a few weeks ago? You were uploaded and graphed again. When you were out at that restaurant and you were in the background of someone’s date selfie? Graphed again.

The only solution to this problem is real data protection law, like the GDPR in the EU.

The boomers are not on their way out. We have the exact same politicians in power that we had 30 fucking years ago.

This sounds about as useful as the California law that tells ICE they aren’t allowed to cover their face, or the California law that tells anyone selling anything ever that they have to tell you it will give you cancer. Performative laws are what we’re best at here in California.

This doesn’t satisfy the “crumple zone that is not my face” requirement.

I literally don’t believe you. Wi-Fi? Zigbee? Z-Wave? Not a single reset or re-pair because you changed some password or bridge or the power went out and one of them needed a little encouragement?