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New Yorker here. Visiting here is cool because you can go back where you came from and live in a normal neighborhood, living here, not so much. There is a lot of political and real estate corruption which has caused renting prices to skyrocket. It is a bad financial decision to actually try to live here because you’ll never own a home (minimum house costs $1.5M). Most everyone who isn’t rich or living with family, is on some form of welfare or assistance just to meet rent, whether it’s NYCHA, Section 8 or piling up 5 roommates in a 3 bedroom apartment just to have a normal rent cost. And even then, you’ll likely only be in your spot 3 maybe 5 years because the rent goes up every year until you eventually get priced out and have to leave. Healthcare workers are leaving. Professors are leaving. Everyone even the homegrown New Yorkers are leaving for other states like Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, etc.

Lots of store fronts are just abandoned because businesses have packed up and left too. There’s homeless everywhere. Drug addicts and mentally ill aimlessly roam the streets. It’s BAD. The problems here are endless all due to political corruption among the local government. The city misspends and washes tax money and has drained the city dry. The subway is literally crumbling apart still running on 1960s and older machinery. The rich have sucked this city dry along with the life and culture it once had. Rich white people and Jews are buying up all the real estate and pushing Black and Brown people out by tearing down their homes, rebuilding and then jacking up the rents very high in historic, iconic areas like Harlem, Brooklyn and now the Bronx, so the Black and Brown people can’t move back in.

Jobs you can forget it. Job fair lines are wrapped down several blocks of unemployed people looking for work and food pantries have a crowd all the time. I’ve seen a lot of people dumpster-diving as well. I could keep going on with the sad states of affairs here.

Everything is just in a horrible state right now for New Yorkers. I voted today and cast my vote for Mamdani, because I really hope he can turn this around. We are tired.

Unrealistic. Not everyone is technically savvy enough to download firmware updates from a website just to put on a USB stick. It’s intimidating to users and takes too many steps thus making it an inconvenience to the customer. Users much rather just call up a number and have a tech fix it remotely.

Additionally, it takes time for firmware updates that contains fixes to get uploaded to a website, so it would really piss users off to have an inop device in the meantime. Much easier and faster to call up a tech and have them fix it remotely.

Also, USB sticks would require the user to get to a computer, which they may not have, and the manufacturer would have to install a USB port on the device itself. I see your point from a security standpoint, but I can’t see a manufacturer spending more on a slower, user-error prone, and in many ways outdated, tech just for the sake of security and privacy

Firmware updates. It runs on software that requires routine maintenance if you want it to do all the fancy stuff and needs updates, to keep up with security protocols and fix bugs remotely. That requires internet access.

“a number of top Trump administration officials may resign in an effort to avoid being “slapped with subpoenas” from a Democrat-controlled Congress”

Scared of getting subpoenad? How about DON’T COMMIT THE CRIME! That’s why we have these things called LAWS. Don’t commit the crime if you can’t do the time!

The worst of it won’t even be them getting arrested, but will be the years if not decades, if ever, trying to clean up the infrastructural, economic, reputation and political damage they’ve done to this country in their wake. Ugh.

This has been known for years ever since somebody stumbled upon pics of their home being sent back to the manufacturer. So anyone who doesn’t know by now just hasn’t been keeping up with the news.

An instance years ago of iRobot smart vacs that took pics of a woman on her toilet, among other pics and they ended up on forums and social media. Unfortunately, all smart devices communicate with their manufacturers on the cloud, which employees can get access to, so until all companies are forced to end-to-end encrypt all their data, we take a huge risk in trusting these employees to keep it safe. You’re always taking a chance.
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?

You don’t know me so stop pretending like you do

Too bad nothing will happen just like all the other lawsuits and “illegal” activities he’s done

I can’t believe someone sat in the White House press room and thought this was a good idea

Bad idea. Sadly, Americans still care about optics. Americans want someone with a sense of authority and no-nonsense attitude which she doesn’t have. She won’t get voted for even by Democrat voters

But I don’t think seat warmers came with cars with these controls?

MAGAts are just so damn gullible. They fell for the same thing with Bannon’s Trump Wall donations and then he vanished with the money. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice …

About to make the same mistake as before. AOC is a good pick but let’s get real, I know my people. Americans aren’t going to vote for her. Everyone’s looking for an Obama-like candidate and she isn’t it. Michelle Obama has a better chance at winning than AOC

Some people need to know when to fold em and just sit the conversation out

I still have the DVDs and CDs I burnt back in the day. I will never give up my music

They about to make the same mistake. Again. We do not want AOC. She is not a strong candidate for many reasons.

I live in one of the most poorest neighborhoods in the United States, in the projects and on SNAP and other government assistance, and I used to be homeless living on the street and shelters, so I don’t need any lecture about not understanding how “poverty works”. There are different levels of poverty. Just because we live in poverty, is no excuse to still be careless with the little money we have. Be careless and pay the consequences. Be in dire straits, and pay the consequences. They’re called survival tips and being street smart and I’ve gotten them regularly from homeless people, drug addicts, prostitutes and other people who live in poverty that I’ve met in my life. We can’t do nothing about what the cronies in the government do, so sitting around crying about what they’re doing is pointless. We have to watch our own backs and be smart with what we have.

P.S. It is possible to pull oneself up out of poverty by the bootstraps because I know people who have and I also know people who were up, fall down into poverty. One can even dig themselves so deep into bad choices, that it’s impossible to dig oneself out of it. Hell, there’s a celebrity who lives in my building who’s living in the projects just like me. It’s a two-way street affected by life choices, education, financial literacy, health quality, environment, and other factors too broad to cover here. Being in poverty doesn’t relegate one to always staying in poverty.

And this is why you can’t rely on anyone to feed you. Also why you shouldn’t max out your SNAP balance. Always keep a 1-2 month buffer saved up when the government decides to wear diapers rather than acting like grown ups with people on their watch like this

What’s posted to the internet, STAYS on the internet. Forever. Stay safe friens

Americans are learning the hard way that elections have consequences, and I’m loving it. Sadly, most still won’t learn. I said it before and I’ll continue to say it that Trump, Elon and their lackies are anarchists. They are destroying the government because they hate government (because it gets in their way) and they’re not going to put any of it back. He’ll be gone and we’ll have some broken, ghetto, incompetent government that can’t put the pieces back together and it’s what we’ll be stuck with for generations to come while other countries progress.

You’re right. I’m sorry uncouth trashy rednecks