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They sell the TV hardware at a loss or barely break even. The real profit is selling your usage data.


The States decide who they send to Congress to represent them. The Federal government has no right to interfere in how the States makes this determination.

> Do you mean that foreign nationals voting in American elections

In minuscule insignificant amounts. See The Heritage Foundation's own findings.


> The Federal government has no right to interfere in how the States makes this determination.

The federal government is not forcing states to use the SAVE database. They are simply not interfering with states that want to use it to "make this determination".


What did he mean, then? How will this action to prevent foreign nationals from voting in American elections secure the win for Republicans?


Implying that this administration and its sycophantic accomplices act in good faith is itself a bad faith argument.


That wasn't my implication/argument


Why would anyone connect their TV to the Internet? It’s been known for years that it spies, although maybe not to this extent. Or are these TVs auto connecting open WiFi or the neighbor’s Xfinity WiFi?


So they can use Netflix or HBO apps and whanot.

The vast majority of consumers are not going to spend another $100-300 on a media player device like an Apple TV, Roku, or nVidia shield. They will use the built in app functionality.

And even those who don't - a very surprising to me number people use the "free channels" most TVs ship with. It's like the streaming version of broadcast OTA I guess for a certain consumer segment.


It's convenient and people 1. don't think it spies and 2. wouldn't care if it did.


> Or are these TVs auto connecting open WiFi or the neighbor’s Xfinity WiFi?

Yup. How does that make you feel? Because for me, it was the moment when the border to not only blatantly, but also actively evil was passed.


Do you have any evidence of this? The video expose that kicked off this firestorm said that if you don't actively connect to the internet, then the system is largely inert.


American cars then were basically disposable cars - you drive them until about 80,000 miles at which point they are practically falling apart, effective a beater. Bob Lutz was the king of marketing low quality cars as "fun to drive".


Wasn't Lutz responsible for the Dodge Viper, The Ford Explorer, BMW 3 Series, and the Chevy Volt? He seems like he has a lot of wins as well. American cars are a reflection of their culture: Singular pursuit of happiness and freedom yada yada (along those lines).

We got Mustang, Camaro(Lutz had a hand in that), Jeep etc. They all don't compete with Toyota for quality partially because the culture drives the companies and that eventually drives car design and manufacturing. Tourists often rent these cars when visiting the US because they are one representation of the country's soul.


Yes it's super misleading. All the marketing and title is calling it "electric" where in reality it's a hybrid electric-gas airplane with a 125 mile electric range. Aviation uses nautical miles yet they advertise 125 statute miles so the number seems bigger (125 statute miles = 108.62 nautical miles).

It would be like Toyota marketing the Prius as an electric vehicle, then buried in their presentation sneaking in the gas propulsion. Same with Chrysler Pacifica (32 mile electric range).


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