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  • Here is what I want for all cars.

    All data and telemetry is by default optional. I do not want my car being a beacon to every cellphone tower in existence. I do not want every wheel turn and engine cycle recorded. Nor do I want how I adjusted the mirrors or the seating adjusted, nor my face, my eyes, my fingerprints, my heart beat. Nothing.

    If they say ‘but how can you get updates to software!’ Three ways.

    1: give me the link via email and I can download them to a USB stick and install them way that if I want a fully air-gapped car (which I do).

    2: have a mechanic install it during routine oil checks and other mechanical maintenance.

    3:if I decide to turn on the telemetrics on my car just once for that task and turn it off afterward.

    In short, I want the privacy of a pre-2009 car with the safety sensors of the a modern car and the rearward camera and other stuff. That can be done easily. We can have privacy and safety.

    If some people want to leave their telemetry on all the time for whatever reason that is their business, not mine.






  • Even a poor person with no dental insurance can get cheaper and better dental care than any Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh ever could. Not to mention even the cheapest wonderbread that is seen as the symbol of bland and boring is actually really, really revolutionary compared to any bread that came before it.

    We’re living in a world of healthcare denial by lunatics like RFK Jr. But once upon a time some geniuses at a boring bread company decided ‘let us fortify our basic bread with minerals and nutrients that aren’t normally there. This is being eaten by everyone anyway, so let us eliminate rickets and other vitamin/mineral deficiency diseases with something that costs next to nothing’.

    And it fucking worked! I should mention that people like RFK Jr. were always around. In the first 30 years of the 20th century in the American South there were diseases that cropped up due to a lack of vitamins or mineral (my memory on the whole thing is fuzzy) that didn’t happen before. This was because new machines to refine grinding corn threw out the stuff that contained the needed stuff to prevent those diseases. It took a long time for people to just say ‘that shit was good actually, let’s not throw it out!’