Yes. I would imagine gathering data to sell to Epstein’s customers to guide their kidnappers could pay rather nicely, whether or not Meta staff realize the data they collect and sell could be used that way.

And I suppose AI adds heaps of deniability, which could be helpful whenever Meta’s best customers end up in court…for whatever reason.

Thank goodness. Meta can’t collapse on itself quickly enough. Hopefully some of those engineers will be distracted from crafting spyware, for awhile.

There’s lots of great answers in this thread, but I’m still ready to start shooting at robots, anyway.

Sure. It works out though, because I was just thinking about buying that one sometime when my game backlog gets lower, if it goes on sale.

That’s cool. I’ll wait for the 12-pack “in case you missed it the first time” of these games, later.

Wow. I wish your story was more surprising.

It boggles my mind that people trust Coinbase with their money.

ooc how normal is it to allow a child / younger sibling to win a game?

It’s normal.

I figure that folks who play a competitive game with friends with any regularity either know they have to agree to some kind of appropriate handicap for the more advanced player(s) - or just don’t realize that their regular match mates are doing it for them in some way less formal way.

Lucking into a perfectly matched opponent, who stays perfectly matched, happens, but is vanishingly rare.

An appropriate handicap is by far the best way to attract new players to a game. Modern games have built-in rules that explicitly acknowledge new-player mechanics, but older games tend to just have informal traditions for it.

Since I love to play games with folks, I often apply all of my skill to strategically coming in second place, with as close of a margin as possible.

People who notice me doing it don’t tend to mind, but do usually try to punish me for it by destroying that narrow margin I’m trying to achieve. In the end, we still end up fully competing with all of each of our skills applied, which is great fun.

Can’t even power-nap properly.

Yes. Pair programming should be encouraged when appropriate, not mandated.

Naps are a part of the critical path! Lol.

That would explain a lot.

Yes. Lol.

The scenery slid toward Epstein class corporatism.

Still sad they couldn’t really break away from the success of this franchise.

Tacoma Fire Dept is pretty great, but I’m still glad we’re getting another Super Troopers.

I like to use this when handed a form that asks “Sex?”. Lol.

It means their quest to seek the Holy Grail is likely doomed. And besides, we’ve already got one.

YES.

I bite my thumb, but not at thee. Yet! I do bite my thumb!

Yes! But I wouldn’t stop at two. I would get maybe five, and then feel guilty for months about not getting around to assembling them.

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First, don’t destroy your opsec if you feel unsafe. Open source can move forward with contributions from people who can safely contribute.

I would, however, consider sharing enough of the solution somewhere that others can find it. It can wait to join the official answer list until someone else verifies and contributes it - someone who faces less risks for doing so.

Also, as others have mentioned, the real long term answer is to reject banking apps. They’re simply do invasive, and the web portals aren’t going away until there aren’t any more PC users.

Dang. Stone cold. Wow.

Also, lol!

Ooh. I’ll have to try that. Thanks!