“It is not the severity of punishment that deters crime, but the certainty of punishment.”

I’ve been getting a lot of mileage from this.

TikTok isn’t doing anything that any other major social media company isn’t also doing. The only difference being that TikTok is owned by a Chinese company, and not a US one.

Just banning one app does little to resolve the overall privacy and information nightmare that social media is.

I imagine this is only for consumer-grade printers. HP’s business-class devices are usually purchased under a contract.

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In my experience, people who make a big deal out of their philanthropy are typically doing it to compensate for some other moral deficiency.

What really started to bother me was when he started to make a game out of his giveaways, like “Last person to stop touching the Lamborghini gets to keep it!” and things like that. It just feels wrong, and I can’t quite explain why.

I hope I’m wrong, and so far there is no evidence he’s a secret dickhead, but something about him seems off.

In the US, they’re mandatory in all new vehicles.

I’d wager this is part of the reason for the ubiquitousness of touchscreens.