ThePowerOfGeek

With every day that passes we lean harder into Idiocracy.

What an inefficient way to run a government. They should really fix such egregious government waste.

I can’t speak for the pro series. I had as Pixel 1 that was very good.

But then for cost and headphone jack reasons I switched to the a series when my Pixel 1 died. Both I and friends and family have had various Pixel ‘a’ series phones, and we’ve all seen the quality get progressively worse. Batteries, gyros, cameras, screens, you name it. I wouldn’t recommend that specific line of phones.

I don’t think it even needs to get that complicated.

Until they issue a patch you can just open the Amazon app from the home screen. It only does the affiliate nonsense when you launch it from the app list.

Also, you can disable the Smart Feed app. That apparently fixes it too.

From reading the article, the conclusion right now is that this isn’t a conscious act by Motorola.

My guess is they used an open source library in their Smart Feed app that has been poisoned with an affiliate link injection. Either that or someone working at Motorola slipped the code in and their quality control process missed it.

Neither one of those is a good look for Motorola. But it probably isn’t as bad as the headline makes it sounds.

On a side note, I ditched the increasingly shoddy Pixel a series for a mid-level Motorola phone a couple of years ago and haven’t looked back.

Good on Mexico.

Based on where things are currently heading, that’s looking unlikely (which is probably why you used the word ‘might’). If it’s a three-way battle between Bercerra, Steyer, and Hilton for two slots in the final race, there will be a Democrat option. So support will galvanize behind that candidate between June and November.

Trump’s endorsement of Hilton was a huge misstep. Is he have kept quiet there’s a good chance Hilton and that LA Sheriff - both Republicans - would have finished in the top two spots, because of the Democrat vote being so fragmented. But he couldn’t keep his mouth shut, so all the conservatives dutifully fell into line behind Trump’s preferred candidate, and in doing so scuppered the other guy’s campaign and opened the door to a Democrat.

So Russia bombing the shit out of residential buildings, schools, hospitals, in Ukraine for years, and murdering countless Ukrainians is fine.

But when Ukraine does it back it’s vengeful tantrum time from Putin.

The fucking hypocrisy.

For a political movement that vilifies ‘cancel culture’ and mocks anyone who gets offended as ‘snowflakes’ they sure have done a lot of cancelling people who say things that hurt their fee-fees.

Every accusation is an admission.

Fine, just as long as they contain all of it in an “AI Slop” section.

Many of us aren’t surprised at all. This outcome was obvious to us from a mile away.

This is what happens when you let the oil industry and their lobbyists have unfettered control of the narrative and legislation .You get a huge number of politicians falling into their pockets, and progress is stymied at every turn.

It’s actually kind of surprising America has made the limited progress on EVs that we have. But it’s nowhere near enough. And now we are paying the piper.

Or they’re twisting themselves in mental knots, while living deep in denial.

Yup. Very soon the magical flying pigs that fart rainbows will swoop down and deliver them to the true believers! Any day now!

Dollar store reddit, now with extra AI crap? Oooooh… Sounds fucking terrible!

She has that boomer mentality, so I know what you mean. But she was born in 1943, so she’s technically not a boomer. She’s in the silent generation. That makes it even worse!

Eighty-fucking-two years old and writing nasty letters to little kids who bring up very reasonable requests! The old ghoul should be sitting in front of a TV watching soap operas and playing mahjong or whatever, not shuffling around in Congress ‘representing’ people.

While very different in some ways, some parallels between the AI-driven layoffs and the offshore outsourcing layoffs of the mid-2000s are striking.

Ultimately both scenarios were/are driven by corporate greed. And it looks like the AI one is backfiring for many of the same reasons as the offshore one.

They are replacing experienced staff who have strong critical thinking abilities and hands-on knowledge, and the replacements lack the institutional knowledge and the ability to look at the big picture, and they substitute speed for methodological discernment.

Time is cyclical.

In other news: water is wet!

Obama is living rent-free in that addled brain.