Temu is owned by PDD aka Pinduoduo, a Chinese company with a long history of either accidentally or deliberately (“accidentally”) putting malware in their apps. Malware that tends to dial home to PLA servers for some odd reason.

E.g. something like https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/pinduoduo/

“we can make enough money without it”

Because the same people organized both, for broadly speaking the same reasons

Hey now Kirkland brand is respectable, usually premium brands repackaged. Such as how Costco vodka was secretly (“secretly”) Grey Goose

“was”?

I think “is currently” is the correct read.

Most US tracks are 4 laps to a mile, or about 400 meters.

A game will release a bunch of DLC that is bundled together or due to come out at the same time.

“Well sell you all of the DLC that came out 1 year after the game. Other releases are on you”

Doin it right now…

From my phone of course. Work gear logs everything, always

Really in that case you’re doing charity

People will buy this.

Nah you’re not going to post your way out of fascism. The whole point of Musk and Trump is they literally dgaf about what people say. Actions matter, and organizing on any social media that’s easily reachable by AI might as well just fax the FBI their plans.

Capitalism reduces everything to transactional relationships

Decades of very effective propaganda combined with intrinsic ideological biases.

Leaking fuel is generally a bad thing. It may not hit the differential but let’s say the exhaust or muffler is banged up and pointed downwards – still gonna have a nasty fire

NHTSA

Project 2025 has explicit targets for reforming NHTSA. It is unambiguously in their sights, just lower on the priority list.

The very real origin of the Fight Club joke about not doing a recall

Don’t forget the reason for lying flat: 9-9-6, aka your work schedule.

I thought this was a big deal because it’s Open Source – is it not possible to see what is causing these blocks and censorings?

Guns are the only alternative to the tech oligarchy.

You think they can’t buy, manipulate, or just crush decentralized social media? If anything they can do it easily, divide and conquer. FOSS ain’t gonna free you, esp. when the largest contributors to FOSS projects are big corps.

“Hitler banned smoking and has animal cruelty laws, so we’re going to overlook his human cruelty as long as the bills get paid” – IBM, probably