Mine has usage, at the very least.

some kind of literacy crash course…

I love how today actual literacy isn’t even a thing. No one talks about teaching readimg and writing (in the EU, at least). It’s all about financial literacy, digital literacy, social media literacy, hell, even (and bear with me here) AI literacy. Yes, really. There’s probably 800 of these fake literacies floating around.

Whoever thought of this is an idiot. The word literacy means one thing: the ability to read and write (and perhaps understand what you read/wrote). Nothing more, nothing less.

It isn’t just stupid, it’s also malicious. Kids all over the globe are suffering from poor literacy, and instead of fixing the problem you quite literally shift the goalposts.

Why be able to read and consult a dictionary when I can just consult AI or social media to explain it to my borderline-illiterate brain?

The fuck is RT FOOT PN and why the hell is it not RT FT PN

According to the United States Code, which has a special section for commemorative coins

Great! Just put him on a regular-issue coin. Problem solved!

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What even is a “pre-crime” and since when does it exist?

“A phone’s schematics are publically available, like those of a gun”

I can assure you, I’ve written no such thing in my original reply.

Unlawful combatant isn’t something they made up, it’s a legit part of the Geneva conventions on warfare.

However, as always, the USians are abusing the term and redefining it - kind of like what Israel is doing to antisemitism.

Unlawful combatants are people waging war not clearly identified on their uniforms as being of that-and-that army. This was meant to catch saboteurs, spies, infiltrators, etc., but is abused to target civians (usually a big no-no).

Unlawful combatants aren’t given almost any protection by the aforementioned conventions, meaning they can be tortured or summarily executed.

“Ownership” totally does mean it’s yours and you can do whatever you want with it.

That means you can do it, not that you should, nor that what you do won’t have consequences.

It just means your phone won’t stop you from downloading an unapproved app just like a gun won’t stop you from loading an unapproved bullet.

It means your gun has a safety mechanism you can unlock to shoot, as does your phone to download “unverified” apps.

It means you can sell either freely to someone else without it becoming bricked or the new owner losing any rights (lookin’ at you, Tesla cars).

It means defaulting on the loan will require the physical reposession of your phone or gun, and that neither will magically lock you out of using it using telemetry.

It means anyone with the right knowledge and tools can fix your phone and it’ll work, just like your gun.

It means your phone works for you, and not for someone else - just like your gun.

Your phone is a tool. Just like your gun. It can be used for good - and for bad.

What you do with it is up to you, and not up to it or its manufacturer.

It means you can shoot people with your gun, just as you can extort and blackmail people with your phone. Nothing, other than your own morality, the morals of society and therule of law are preventing you from doing bad things. Certainly not the will of the manufacturer.

Any forensic inquiry into a phone on a crime scene would be like that of a gun.

Any taking of your phone from your home or person would require a warrant - like with a gun.

Any inquiry into your phone’s contents and qualities should require outside tools - like a similar inquiry into your gun.

Your phone won’t have a special police-only history of what you’ve used it for - like your gun.

Your phone won’t report what you’ve been doing with it to 3rd parties without your consent - like won’t your gun.

And so on.

Number one is pee, number two is poo, and number three is barf.

What are four and five, then?