Quote

"I don't give a shit how complex or expensive it is to develop these technologies. I'm not disputing that it's complex and expensive but I, as the buyer, don't give a shit about that. I'm buying the thing with the features that are installed and I want to use them because they are there. ... Was a time where you went to a store, you bought a product, now it's yours. You don't have to worry about the features being there, that's what you bought the thing for. ... That's not how the world works anymore. You get kicked in the nuts and then you are told 'you can contact us to purchase the feature'. To which the answer is: go fuck yourself. ... You're no longer a customer, you're a corporate user and you essentially have zero rights anymore. It's complex and expensive: gather the elders in your community and ask them to provide their thoughts on how best to remove your head from your asshole. Nobody gives a fuck about your sob story." - Anonymous

RIP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Hae-won

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Van_Chieu

Things

1013 Dead Now - and maybe it's airborne?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/11/coronavirus-expert-warns-infection-could-reach-60-of-worlds-population

https://nextshark.com/chen-qiushi-journalist-missing-coronavirus/

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/06/asia/li-wenliang-coronavirus-whistleblower-doctor-dies-intl/index.html

Seriously Deep Beats

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxexwz/something-in-deep-space-is-sending-signals-to-earth-in-steady-16-day-cycles

Stacks

Tesla & "owning" stuff

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-remotely-removes-autopilot-features-from-customer-1841472617?rev=1580941196331

https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/30/sonos-smart-device-die/

http://www.startribune.com/for-tech-weary-midwest-farmers-40-year-old-tractors-now-a-hot-commodity/566737082/

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/302389-the-us-military-needs-right-to-repair-legislation-to-fix-its-own-broken-equipment

And the lesson is ... NEVER UPDATE ANYTHING.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-fined-france-over-iphone-slowing-software-093837914.html

Games (specifically excluding Chess)

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/feb/05/catalans-chairman-super-league-meeting-israel-folau

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa

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