Currently, no (other than the microphone). Android apps are sandboxed and the Signal app encrypts its data so it isn’t readable from the outside. There is however a real concern if using keyboards with predictive text, because the keyboard knows what you’re typing into Signal.

See also, this:

Unless OP believes that Cheney was the real brains behind the Biden presidency?

You may be right, but I hope you aren’t.

The dotcom crash was no joke. Most people here weren’t around for it (as adults at least) so they brush it off. I’m not saying this next crash won’t be bad, I’m saying it won’t have the knock-on liquidity effects of 2008.

I believe the reliance on index type funds has increased at a drastic rate.

Very good point, although this will disproportionately harm regular folks like us, and the people in charge don’t really care about that so it won’t be as disruptive as somebody important (like a bank or a hedge fund, neither of which rely on index funds) getting into financial trouble.

Yeah, this article should compare nVidia’s revenue to the US GDP (both measure of annual production). But we know why they aren’t, as it wouldn’t produce an alarming stat.

Not really, because Nvidia’s revenue is far less exorbitant than its market cap. I’m not sure why c/technology is suddenly a dumping ground for every random Medium blog, which is as trustworthy a news source as somebody’s Facebook feed.

The AI bubble will pop, but will likely be more like the doctom crash than the 2008 one. It isn’t as interconnected with the rest of the economy.

I remember wearing a snowsuit under my costume.

The guy collecting empties in the highway culvert is also generating revenue, but that doesn’t mean his enterprise is worth 5 billion dollars.

Edit: I meant “trillion” but I’m so unused to actually typing that number out because it’s so absurdly large

It’s only 3/5ths black and white

Exactly, and an indictment of the aggressive cluelessness of American voters too. I prefer intelligent people making informed decisions, regardless of their net worth.

We need a president that comes from 50k or less a year and actually understands the reality of tens of millions of working poor.

Are there many people making 50k a year who understand the higher-order details about running a country, though?

I’m not American but I see this as the only tenable way out of this mess. The percentage of brain rot is simply too high for the country to function as a unified federal state, and needs to go back to what you’ve described (which was basically the idea of the US at the outset, or also a bit like Brazil or the EU of today)

The person you are replying to seems to want to abolish prisons, not imprison ICE.

staff discovered one recruit had previously been involved in a domestic violence incident, and was once charged with strong-arm robbery and battery.

Strange - these seem like ideal qualifications for ICE…

Zoomers are in their 30s now? [insert Matt Damon ageing GIF]

No wonder the country is so fucked if you’re at the “we can’t judge, because who among us hasn’t had a Nazi tattoo at one point?” stage.

The Totenkopf has always been associated with the Nazis.

To be pedantic, it actually predates Nazis by quite a bit, it was in use during the Empire - but by modern-day standards it’s absolutely associated with nazis.

purity tests

How common are SS tattoos in the USA that this is considered a purity test? I knew things are bad down there, but JFC

You’re telling me this Marine never watched a WW2 documentary?