The economic boycott drove me nuts but I tried to be normal about it and not rain on anyone's parade. I saw two people I know locally go on a posting spree of all the local businesses they shopped at like it was small business Saturday. Felt like it was defeating the point?
Surprisingly news of the blackout reached my mom and she even participated. Was shocked it had that kind of reach - I guess a good sign that people are pretty fed up even if they don't know how to channel that energy.
I got into some heated social media spats last week on Discord because I chuckled derisively at the idea of a general strike, knowledge of which is the sort of thing that separates normal folks from those who who should have just gone to art school.
The "economic boycott" was clearly designed by someone who doesn't know how anything works. Most likely outcome is to make life extra difficult for the minimum wage worker who has to restock twice as much stuff on Thursday afternoon as people prepare for Buy Nothing Friday.
On the Shrek thing: Shrek is one of the most popular and beloved media franchises among Zoomers, and beyond the redesigns, everything else about the teaser gave people the sense that Shrek 5 is gonna suck and taint the franchise’s legacy. I personally don’t care much about it, since I’m one of the few Zoomers who isn’t a huge Shrek fan, but that’s just how I interpret the situation.
I don’t nearly fully understand what the UK government is asking for re encryption, but I wonder how it differs from the apparently common and long-standing requirement in the US that the government be able to wiretap any phone, presumably with a warrant. This may be a long-standing requirement, but I only learned of it a few weeks ago.
Probably the answer is that Apple built in that functionality before ever they went to market back in 2008 or whatever, and this is a new demand. But then that makes me wonder how real/sincere Apple’s crowing and posturing over the last 10-ish years about how seriously it takes it users’ privacy. That is, whether their vaunted end-to-end encryption was ever a real thing.
The economic boycott drove me nuts but I tried to be normal about it and not rain on anyone's parade. I saw two people I know locally go on a posting spree of all the local businesses they shopped at like it was small business Saturday. Felt like it was defeating the point?
Surprisingly news of the blackout reached my mom and she even participated. Was shocked it had that kind of reach - I guess a good sign that people are pretty fed up even if they don't know how to channel that energy.
I got into some heated social media spats last week on Discord because I chuckled derisively at the idea of a general strike, knowledge of which is the sort of thing that separates normal folks from those who who should have just gone to art school.
The one thing they have going for them is the art, that bunny is cool as hell
The "economic boycott" was clearly designed by someone who doesn't know how anything works. Most likely outcome is to make life extra difficult for the minimum wage worker who has to restock twice as much stuff on Thursday afternoon as people prepare for Buy Nothing Friday.
> Twitch Plays Pokemon, the massive experiment that took place a decade ago
Nope. Time marches on but no way it's been THAT long...right?
Watching TPP unfold was magical.
On the Shrek thing: Shrek is one of the most popular and beloved media franchises among Zoomers, and beyond the redesigns, everything else about the teaser gave people the sense that Shrek 5 is gonna suck and taint the franchise’s legacy. I personally don’t care much about it, since I’m one of the few Zoomers who isn’t a huge Shrek fan, but that’s just how I interpret the situation.
Man, that is so weird to me. Sneering at Shrek’s cornball Anachronism 101 schtick was like a Millennial rite of passage.
I don’t nearly fully understand what the UK government is asking for re encryption, but I wonder how it differs from the apparently common and long-standing requirement in the US that the government be able to wiretap any phone, presumably with a warrant. This may be a long-standing requirement, but I only learned of it a few weeks ago.
Probably the answer is that Apple built in that functionality before ever they went to market back in 2008 or whatever, and this is a new demand. But then that makes me wonder how real/sincere Apple’s crowing and posturing over the last 10-ish years about how seriously it takes it users’ privacy. That is, whether their vaunted end-to-end encryption was ever a real thing.
Phone calls don't have end to end encryption and Apple never claimed they did. FaceTime calls do have it. iCloud isn't related to wiretapping.