It’s always possible, but not often practical, especially when you don’t have permission to drill holes in those concrete walls.

I suppose you could do surface runs, but those are ugly and more vulnerable to physical damage.

Is there a name for the next step beyond perverse incentives?

Because that’s where we are now.

Dunno. My Corolla doesn’t have any features locked out that I am aware of. It certainly hasn’t tried to upsell me any “upgrades”.

If my daughter wants more Lego, I’ll just buy it second hand

That’s where most of the sets my kids had came from.

It’s a durable product that is easy to clean. Buying used is very low risk.

The wizard lego is very disappointing, and goes completely against their other inclusive language.

To be fair, they started making those sets long before anyone knew the author was a TERF.

You may think it’s crazy talk, but the concept has already been patented.

The way they want it to operate is not monitoring them, presumably.

Or pushing ads on the device idle screen, or inserted into other things you are trying to watch. (pre-rolls on HDMI sources…)

Now we just need a way to do that

I have some ideas.

that isn’t vigilante violence.

Oh. Nevermind…

Growing up on a farm we killed, plucked and processed a few hundred chickens each year. Kept us and several families in town fed with good quality meat over the winter.

It’s not a bad thing to be that close to your own food production.

I find that the the same authoritarian, isolationist, and anti-intellectual mind-viruses that permeate through society in the United States (especially in rural communities) have a beachhead here in Western Europe

America’s worst export.

Nobody else appointed the US as “world police”.

It’s a role that they gleefully took on so they could go around telling others what to do.

The “libs” get angry.

Rolling your eyes and muttering “what a fucking idiot” isn’t the same as getting angry.

Who said that?

The strawman.

the CRA website? I’ve been able to access it on Firefox (through Linux) without being hassled.

Same here.

Maybe they’ve got some privacy plug-ins that are preventing the CRA website from functioning properly?

In the past, I have had to add my bank and some government websites to my whitelist

The problem is, you don’t always know thwy will do this until after you pay your money for them.

They already have - having Nukes.

That only defends against a sane leadership with a military chain of command that isn’t compromised.

See: Regulations around building structures on private property.

Even those are based on people doing it wrong in the past and endangering themselves and others.

Maybe not, but it is a default app, and the vast majority of people can’t be bothered to install something better.

Google scans YouTube videos for information about what products appear in them

Yes, but not specifically looking for products. They’re scanning to try to learn everything about the video with the goal of better matching suggestions to the interests (as determined by watch history) of viewers.

The intention is (as always) to increase viewer session time because the more time viewers spend on the platform, the more ads they see and ultimately the more money YouTube makes.

Of course, that scanning and view history can also be used to target ads with the goal of increasing ad click-thru and conversion (ultimately also driving the profit goal)

No one is telling you to power wash or scrub

No, but some people get some carried away ideas when they hear “clean that machine”.