Yeah this seems like a weird use case for Mastodon to me too. Also, the entire point of Mastodon is that no one entity can control it all. Switching to BlueSky is basically just falling straight back into the trap where someone can buy it out and repurpose it as a disinformation machine again. I'm not saying ActivityPub is perfect, mind you. Just that it sucks less (for me) than the alternative.

Being able to launch it locally if you can't save open or locally seems extremely pointless.

This reminds me of the old how to shoot yourself in the foot joke for unix, except in this case...

rm -rf * woke

Toyota at least has an opt-out website. (Or at least in the US they do). You lose the ability to do stuff like remote start from your phone though. And emergency roadside service, blah blah blah. I turned off all the mapping saved route stuff immediately that let you see your previous trip average miles/KW and then turned off everything once they wanted me to pay a monthly fee for remote start and such.

Remember to rig the vote, folks! /s

(And remember, whenever they rage about anything insane like Harris rigging the vote, it's always projection.)

Click-bait titling at its best. Apparently their attempt at controversy boils down to this:

In a short snippet aired Thursday afternoon, however, Harris was shown answering questions about her changing stance on certain policy issues, including immigration and fracking. Harris said that her values haven’t shifted over the years, but sometimes her policy beliefs have shifted as she’s gotten more perspective on issues.

I hope like hell the sets of questions were randomized, because if they weren't, they were tweaked by the surveyors beforehand to try and force a particular result.

Like the AI question was paired with some incredibly crappy options like "A browser that runs 2x slower than your current browser". Obviously they want you to click that option as least wanted and leave the AI development alone (if that wasn't a randomized grouping).

Similarly, it looked like they were trying to decide which feature to sacrifice in support of AI dev in later questions, because all 3 would be things I enjoy much more than AI, but I have to rate one as least wanted.

EDIT: OK, thanks for all the responses everyone! Looks like my pairing of AI and 2x slower was just a bad random selection inducing extreme paranoia on my part. Very happy to hear that.

This is the fun of close-door testimony... we don't have Fauci's actual testimony, just some guy playing Faux News telephone about it and trying to pump more energy into the "why were we ever worried about COVID?" side.

Don't legislate this! We've got it alllll under control!

This. This is why I am in the “I still buy CDs” camp. DL the album and if I’m still listening to it a couple days later I buy the CD, assuming the artist still even releases on CD…

I generally give up after 100 pages or so if it hasn't caught my interest by then.

Life is too short to slog through a book just because other people liked it.

All this did for me was escalate the memes on here enough to finally make me block c/memes and various imitations…