Is this general emergency prep (like there are hurricanes or tornadoes in your area) or more than that?

So the power bank is what I am thinking of buying, which is between 100-800 dollars. The gas mask is more of an emergency item that I wish I had just in case, but doubt I would need.

I’m so sorry you are in that situation.

I’ve had terrible experiences with mental health professionals and would never see any mental health professional again, under any voluntary circumstances, and hate them all.

I also think issues caused by financial insecurity are more likely to be wrongly pathologized by mental health professionals who then want to treat societal dysfunction, financial insecurity, and trauma as something requiring huge amounts of big pharma druggings. Yes, not all clinicians immediately want to drug their financially insecure patients, but I’m not playing that Russian roulette game and going to see some professional, who could literally have me committed if they think I seem off and won’t take their drugs, and just hope they don’t tend to push drugs. And no, searching for a trauma therapist is not a guarantee. I don’t want to be on big pharma drugs, I don’t need a government monitor who reports to the state and locks me up if they have concerns, fuck that.

If you are an upper-middle class housewife with money for lawyers and a strong support network and you have no unusual opinions and you want attention and big pharma drugs, then mental health experts are the perfect place to get more attention. Poor people should avoid mental health professionals at all costs. Big pharma drugs are often metabolically poisonous, lead to brain volume loss compared to people not taking them or taking a placebo, and no one at all has studied the long-term epigenetic effects of these drugs and whether epigenetic impacts are heritable in future generations in negative ways. The mental health industry is a psuedoscientific discipline that only recently stopped treating female hysteria with clitoral stimulation and cutting out the brains of patients and has replaced that with diagnostic criteria based on classical Greek myths and techniques to destroy brain cells with electricity (ECT). The mental health industry is in large part used to monitor and classify people who seem disagreeable or problematic, as well as others, and hell the fuck no, I am not going to some asshole to drug me and do who knows what.

It was a joke given the current situation. You’re clearly 100% right.

Are you sure about this?

Does anyone have a guess as to what this is about?

-AI Slopocalypse?

-Hacking from Russians/Irans/etc?

-Shakedown for 50 Billion dollars and just completely fake to get more money for an agency?

-UFOs?

-A test to see how the public will respond (to guage reactions for future things that may happen, like war)?

I really don’t know what’s most likely, and, unfortunately, since the US Government is legally allowed to lie to people and has lied to people many times (https://www.bolde.com/14-times-governments-lied-and-people-only-found-out-decades-later/), I just can’t really trust the official reasons to be true.

Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (who is a bad person because she doesn’t support trans people) has said in a widely viewed post that they are clearly lying.

Oh no! No logging into Microslop!

I hope the killbot drones running on Azure weren’t impacted…

Thankfully they are probably vibe-coding a solution as we speak!

What? Really? That allowed other states to extradite those in the state specifically for GAC?

This is unfortunate and is a really bad PR move. It feels too big tech.

Even if Andy Yen were actually right about everything, and it’s his company, it’s just more bad PR.

I think Andy Yen is probably a logic and math genius who needs to hire an emotional intelligence coach or a PR advisor or something. High IQ does not always mean high emotional intelligence and it’s better to accept when you don’t have both.

Alternatively, perhaps some evil government has forced Yen to install a universal back door, there’s an order saying he can’t disclose this, and so he’s acting strange to try to warn users the only way he can. If I’m right about this, I hope he makes the background of proton.me bright green. He can always deny reading this if he does that.

I think you underestimate how much the right wing media has demonized her. I like her, you like her, but a lot of people think she’s a dumb waitress.

Give her the podium to debate a Republican on national TV. No one will think that anymore. It’s easily dealt with, even an advantage. They don’t know her yet, so Republicans think many USA Americans hate her. But she is great, middle America just doesn’t know yet.

I have had that happen before with Proton and wondered to myself: How are they assessing this? Whether they were right or not, it required a lot of analysis that in theory wasn’t supposed to happen. I’m not saying anti-fraud systems are inherently bad, but how can you have an anti-fraud detection system in a privacy email service without reading emails or using javascript to try to measure a user’s machine information?

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I have little idea who this is mostly, but I know he came sort of out of nowhere and has been pushed relentlessly in the media, and that make me suspicious. Why him? Why now? Does he have more corporate-friendly moderate-conservative Democratic views that people with money prefer as the alternative? I genuinely don’t know. I really wonder if conservative money interests are scared of AOC and so they are pushing a more moderate Democrat. I don’t know his policies at all though, so maybe I am wrong?

Fighting against a billionaire’s tax, hating on trans people, and sleeping with your best friend’s wife? Count me out! If he’s the candidate, I wouldn’t vote for him.

I agree with you. Things don’t always have nuance and sometimes correlation does equal causation. There was lots of stuff going on, but that was the main thing.

I feel like she could win anyway. She’s just a natural star politician. It’s a mix of things: the model looks, the clear explanation of policy, the fact that she is relatable in a way so many are not. I think she’d easily win. I think she’d even do okay with the racists… she’s just that likable. Why not have 2028 be her year? If not 2028, when? There’s always a reason among corporate elite conservative Democrats to avoid someone too helpful to the poor and middle class, isn’t there?

A pile of dirt? I don’t get it. How could someone not like AOC? I am not being sarcastic and mean this literally. She’s extremely likable.

Her honesty and directness are so refreshing. I wish I could be more like her, just a totally good pure person. It also seems like she genuinely tries hard, like her success is not without extreme effort.

They make it essentially impossible to check using wireshark because conversations and other ad tech data leave the TV encrypted so it’s harder to sue the company. So it’s not like you could attach another pi and run wireshark on it before it goes to OpenWrt.

I am guessing the hard drive is not removable, because if they did that people would poke around into their ad tech, which could be doing illegal/questionable things, and they probably don’t want that.

I don’t know if there’s a technical way to figure this out. You would likely have to have electrical engineering or electrical circuitry experience and sauter the drive off the board, and if Samsung is smart, they will make it so the drive no longer works if it’s not interfacing with some proprietary motherboard chip. Samsung is pretty smart, there’s a lot of money in ad tech and smart TVs, so I don’t think there’s an easy way to do this.

Really, the only way to find out would be to sue them, saying the TV is defective, and also possibly add a claim for a tort like intentional invasion of privacy (which they would try to get dropped) and then subpoena their engineers for depositions and also try to get a court order that forces Samsung to provide a method to enable reading the internal hard drive (and I’m not sure if a judge would do that). But they would probably ignore such a court order unless there was a contempt order or try to settle to avoid decrypting or showing what the files are. It’s also hard to make a claim of intentional invasion of privacy (if that tort or something similar is available in your jurisdiction) when there’s mere suspicion that such a thing is going on. If there are other Samsung models that have been shown to invade privacy, you could probably say that shows Samsung is engaging in invasion of privacy and is why the message is showing up and let Samsung try to justify why that doesn’t make sense in a dismissal motion.

There’s probably a binding arbitration clause you agreed to, but you’d have to sue them and then when they argue the claim should be dismissed for binding arbitration, you would say you paid prior to a binding arbitration agreement and you never personally agreed to such an agreement (ie, you didn’t see it and were just clicking forward, someone you hired on craigslist to set up the device clicked through it, etc.) if that’s true or, if it’s not true, admit that you paid for the tv and subsequently signed the agreement because otherwise the TV wasn’t usable and argue it’s unenforceable. Depending on the case law and where you are, that argument may or may not work. I don’t know the law in this area (post-sale binding arbitration contracts) and if there are any ways around it ever.

I don’t know if a lawyer would take this on a contingency. On the one hand, it’s sort of iffy: they are providing a number for repair and so filing a defective product lawsuit is sort of questionable. On the other hand, why should a consumer have to spend time rebooting a smart TV because it’s ad tech is collecting so much data? Isn’t that inherently defective? You could file it yourself pro se if you had the time. Filing fees are really expensive, like 500 dollars or something. If you’re indigent it’s free. If this were my TV, I’d probably just file a pro se federal lawsuit, but it’s easier for me to do something like that than most people.

A lawsuit and just demanding depositions of people would be easier if you can get past an motion to dismiss based on binding arbitration claims.