Business as usual, I see. There but by the grace of the gods go we all.

100% of the phones I purchase include the SIM slot. No joke.

I want even aware iPhone users lost this ability with the iPhone 14 and beyond, until your remark. I’m so sorry. :(

“These assholes included an antenna and SIM slot again!?! HTC did that last season. So unoriginal.”

My own mother (pensioner) sent me the video asking “is this real?” But could only follow the first minutes of it.

I lol’d at that part and had to explain the brilliance of it. Then she lol’d, too.

It’s nice to share in the shadows humor, as a family, while we feel our liberties erode.

There is now enough adjacent cctv coverage to follow your approach and exit from the scene of the crime. The rush is that another Flock camera is used to identify, and then make an example out of you or me.

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Even after the Dot Bomb era in 2000-2002 and beyond.

Programmer buddy of mine was telling me their theory that AI is the last hurrah of Big Tech and Venture Capital, shifting a patient that has been in place since most of us were children.

Even after the Dot Bomb area is the 2000’s, FinTech taking it in the chin in the 2008 global financial crisis, three meaningful Crypto rises and falls, and now AI, there’s always been some new for train to institute and sell to the retail investor and the general public.

The beleaguered finances of middle classes pretty much everywhere, hand in hand with the deleted brain trusts from AI making us really dumb and unconfident (or falsely confident), convinced with the lack of new productivity borne from these last few market cycles (AI and Crypto not actually doing much for the majority of humans commensurate with the hype) results in a possible chance for actual market accountability and seeing only genuine market growth.

I think that megacrash and the world waking up to the marketing machine is considerably less likely, but agree with them (given their best experience in FinTech) that it might meaningfully end our collective beliefs that Silicon Valley can steer everyone towards brighter shores.