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TikTok shop also sells glock switches (to make them automatic pistols), galaxy gas/nitrous tanks and god knows what else.

20 years might be pushing it, but he’d be gone 34ish years by that point. He wasn’t much of a philanthropist. Is there any Steve Jobs Parks? Plazas? His early death didn’t lend him much time to create a legacy. He’ll be known in business and tech scenes, sure, but the pop culture knowledge of him will be negligible. Does the general public know about the CEO of IBM 35+ years ago? The current crop of CEOs are like WWE wrestlers in their persona compared to Jobs. Being present for the smartphone revolution was something, but does anyone remember the CEO of the company that introduced the laptop? Jobs wasn’t a Carnegie or Rockefeller.

And that’s why he’s 75 and happy and Jobs is dead and no one will know his name in 20 years.

He probably owns his property already, so that’s a huge chunk, but the point still stands.

What’s the average socioeconomic status of your friend group? Most people have tablets now because they can “get them free” from the phone company.

Waymo 😩

Games pretty old and it has a show about it too, but yeah. Big ass spoiler lol

I don’t even think most people own a PC at this point, just tablets and phones.

I’m glad I played cyberpunk 2077 bc this is playing out exactly like a cyberpunk dystopia

Firms like Blackwater usually start as private VIP security. Gotta build that rep.

99% of the general public will not pirate anything because they lack the ability to do so. Of the 1% left, 99% of them use public trackers with variable results regarding quality and shady website shenanigans. The most common form of piracy going forward will probably be like those hacked fire sticks that would stream pirated content, because it’s easy and low barrier, like the hacked cable box cards/chips from the 90s.

Holy title gore

generally speaking, recording in public is legal, and this is generally a good thing. but the laws haven’t kept up with the tech, especially covert wearables that will 100% be used mostly for creepy shit.

whatever reason they claim it is, it isn’t. just like with crypto, AI, NFTs, the metaverse, whatever.

the real reason is they are unfuckable losers who want to record women. and maybe some normal weird people who like archiving literally everything. the second group can be reasoned with and don’t mind restrictions like visible recording lights, etc. the first group will fight tooth and nail about their “right” to be a creep on the metro.

“hey guys maybe these military intelligence dudes aren’t telling the truth.” big brains Microsoft, big brains.

I’m not a gaming stats expert but if they don’t track the mobile and f2p game spend with the general gaming spend, then that’s kind of a bogus stat to draw the article’s conclusion from. Most “mobile gaming” people I know spend more money on those games than I do on Steam with an incredibly long backlog of games I’ll never play.

It’s actually less boring now that they use a pitch clock to speed things up. Some people hate it, but I don’t usually want to be stuck at a baseball game for 5 hours because the pitchers are having a bro-off. My team also sucks lol.

They’re spending their time scrolling. The GenZ equivalent of television. GenZ is also getting older. The median age is over college graduate age. They’re simply working more or doing other things besides video games. Not everyone is a Paradox gamer. I’m sure the GenZ Paradox gamers, PC gamers, and FPS/sports enthusiasts are all still buying the same games. But the people growing out of it might buy 1-2 per year and play ~10 hrs per month. The “youngest GenZ” is about 13 years old now.

Conservatives are always triggered by porn references

I know it’s not the same, but my ecobee is fine and i think it avoids most mass surveillance stuff. They nuked the API but beetstat.io is cheap and nice.