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And what if I still find that it is terrible implementation by people who should not be allowed to make anything that could be used as a deadly weapon?

CarPlay might be good, never tried it, but Android Auto isn't all that impressive, whether there is touch screen or not. I did not find it any more impressive with a touchscreen, though.

But I think the bigger problem is that even if touchscreen were a better way of integrating with a phone, it's still a completely wrong way of interacting with anything in a moving vehicle. At least with Audi's classic MMI I could control almost everything without looking at buttons or screen (well, can't quite input addresses that way, but you shouldn't do it while driving anyway). Even apart from all the privacy-sucking implications of at least Android Auto, running infotainment through the phone with touchscreen interface sounds like a terrible idea.

In general it may not mean much. People do plead guilty even when they aren't, for many reasons, and even more so with minorities. In this specific case though we're talking Oberlin students, not some poor kids from the ghetto, already making this less likely, and even worse, while I would not necessarily expect rioting progressive students to make any sort of logical and factual argument, I would expect better from the administration. But interestingly, they also never presented anything based on logic, let alone facts, and never even made the claim that the assailants were coerced to plead guilty, witnesses bribed, investigations botched. They just took the narrative that fits with their ideological view and ran away with it, facts be damned.

Yeah, this clearly was the case here!! Although even Oberlin does not seem to be making that claim.

Seriously? Giving user an option is a bad thing now?

Granted, on mine it is not motorized, but still, when I was driving at night on I-80 through Nevada, where as long as you do not manage to go off road navigation system just tells you "keep going straight for the next 600 miles" I liked turning the screen off altogether.

Even with a classic one, you get basic navigation instructions, infotainment data etc. on the center console.

That at the very least presumes that you remember to do that in advance. And that this functionality is actually available to do. Last time I tried, e.g. Google Maps would not download offline maps in some countries.

Tesla fanboys can be quite annoying, true, but I don't think actively killing them is a "right thing".

That's all nice and well, as long as you are in cell tower range. I drove mine cross-country through places where you get 0 cell coverage. Having a navigation system that actually works is pretty nice.

All Audi's I've seen, except for e-Tron have physical controls and don't require the screen. And being able to hide it seems like a perfectly fine option for the times when you don't need it. When you actually can adjust AC, radio, etc. with real knobs, and aren't using the map, why do you need it? Might as well be abler to hide it.

Would the bakery owners be the "literal nazis" in this case?

Given that students in question plead guilty, it seems quite plausible that "willful disregard for the truth" is exactly what happened here.

I don't let mine anywhere near a TV or computer. Of course that might be a bit more difficult once tghey get old enough to actually reach the keyboard...

But then I try to not let my mom on YouTube either. Or myself, for that matter.

On cable there are ways to lock out channels, setting ratings on the TV and all that. If dad doesn't hide his Playboy well enough, it's obviously on him to fix it.

On the internet it is much more difficult, of course, and we can't realistically expect some shady offshore site from implementing age checks, let alone recommendation algorithms. But Google is a public, respected company from a first world country that claims to be promoting social good (which, of course, is marketing BS, and even if it weren't I would not want their idea of social good, but still). You'd think that they would invest some effort into not showing inappropriate content to kids at least. But no, they throw up their hands and go on ideological witch hunts instead.

When cars start driving on sidewalks or being parked on the same, you might have a case. Until then, scooters are nothing but a toy for obnoxioous hipsters with no concern for anyone or anything other then them being too lazy to move their nicely oiled beards two blocks using their feet, like all normal and decent people do.

Or maybe because some people have access to the information and means to get somewhere else, and some are just proles and can be made to march under radioactive rain without being told anything.

Oh, evacuation of Party leaders' children started right away. General population, not so much.

> userbase here is something like the top .01% of (intelligence / literacy / analytical skills).

If this were true, I would have lost whatever little faith in humanity I had left. But I very much doubt it, being good at some "hackery" thing is completely orthogonal to being intelligent/smart in any normal meaning of the word.

> And one of the Nazi party's specific goals when invading Poland was to exterminate the Jews and Roma (Gypsy) populations of Europe.

Are you sure about that? Wasn't "the final solution" proposed significantly later?

Ah, OK. I expected that if I add a new address when already having the preference set for sending notices to the main one, they would go to the main one.

Antifa isn't? That's highly debatable.

Just signed up, and it send breach notifications to individual emails, not the main one...

Still, great job!

It is certainly much better. And much nicer to visit than back then.

Once they get to doing communism, both the economy and the population will shrink automatically.

Where were those teams when whatever the predecessor to G+ was called was launched and started sharing with your abusive ex's, people you had orders of protection taken etc. etc.?

I am sure they do review things quite carefully to avoid something too obviously illegal. But anything more than that? Color me skeptical.

> I wonder when Google decided “doing evil” was okay

The moment they incorporated, at the latest. Really. When people go to such lengths to tell you "we're not evil, honest!" -- you should know where it's going.

The same could be said about 95% of SV hackers. At least Bugatti employees do honest work for living and do not make the world a worse place.

So, if I were to declare myself an Even supremacist and plan to turn all Whites (and the others, when we get to them) into fertilizer that would be fine?

And in any case I just am not sure if pushing undesirables (especially if it is undesirables only of a certain political bent, but not the others) into some dark corner is a good strategy. Both sides end up in even stronger filter bubbles, and banned people get good recruiting tools and feed theior persec ution complexes -- because the "lamestream media" and "libturds" actually are out to get them.

That seems to be a prime example of "too little, too late", and looks like a rather han-fisted attempt to appear fair.

It's possible that they are correct, but seeing what Russian media claims about Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict I would not bet on it.