European countries detain and deport immigrants who are illegally present all the time. The level of it can be discussed, but what's happening in the US is that they've detained hundreds of citizens and deported immigrants who are present legally because they said something the people in charge didn't like. I'll skip that part, thanks.
These are not people obstructing or harboring fugitives. They're people who ICE believed "looked foreign" (aka weren't white) and ignored them when they said they were US citizens. They spent days locked up simply because their skin is too brown and they speak with an accent.
It's absolutely disgusting. Educate yourself about what's actually happening out there.
BMW is nearly there with subscription for heated seats and spider man ads in driver's faces..
Everything is just getting worse these days: TVs becoming junk ad boxes, consoles removing physical ownership, cars becoming subscription services, phones are now glorified walled gardens, operating systems are filled with ads and telemetry, and don't even get me started on software.
At work we have a phone used for a specific app. Rarely someone uses it for things that would build a targetable audience.
I play a long YouTube video (AI slop) on it and the low profit ads are both frequent and very long.
I just left it playing and didn't bother pressing skip. I'm 99% sure now the timer for the next add starts when the previous ad block starts. It runs ads for 2-10 minutes then plays only 20-30 seconds of video!
I Google for expensive products and services on my own phone. I play the same video and get one ad every 5-20 minutes. Sometimes it's just one short ad.
The moral of the story. If you are a good boy and buy all the subscriptions your time is more valuable and we won't have to bother you non stop.
