Not to mention the companion app itself is scraping telemetry data:

• What phone you use

• What network it’s connected to

• What times you use your phone

• Approximate location

• A list of other apps you have installed

And that’s all before we get into the nitty gritty of how the user actually engages with the app content, or other device permissions the app might request. Maybe “Location” for recommending preheat times based on distance, maybe “Camera” to check doneness, maybe “Nearby devices” to pair with first-party accessories, or maybe “Photos and video” for some shoehorned social media component.

They can ask for any permission for ostensibly innocuous/justified reasons, but once those permissions are granted, they have full access to that data to do whatever else they want with it. They’ll know who you are, where you are, when you’re there, what you’re doing there, and who else you’re with.

I once made a computer factory that was essentially a large floating octahedron. It had a condensed feed of materials coming in from one point in the bottom and a few drone ports to bring in other completed parts around the middle. I didn’t plan for it, but just started building stages wider as I went taller until I noticed subsequent stages required less space, after which I started going in reverse.

My latest challenge mode in that game is to try and develop infrastructure while destroying as little of the natural environment as possible.

This has led to building a number of offshore plants, but the difficulty is having to still run materials to them before unlocking drones to do it for me.

Whenever I have to build in the interior, I’ve tried to focus on building tall instead of wide so that it doesn’t take up much land space. But that does cause the horizon to become cluttered with a few industrial spires.

I can’t help but have to destroy some of the environment to get early biofuel power going, but I focus on finding as many crash sites as I can early on to skip to coal as quickly as possible.

I think they meant to write incontinent

So what you mean to tell me is that every 3D printer in New York is going to come with an index of firearm components?

Find someone who’s had a colostomy

“Mighty kinda ya” would not be out of place where I live, no. A dated expression as a whole, maybe, but spoken with a casual flow, that’s how it comes out.

I suppose one could also write it as “kind o’ ya” but “kind o’” is what is being truncated into “kinda”

kinda is just another way to say “kind of”

“How kind (nice) of you” and “My kind (sort) of people” are both appropriate uses of “kinda”. I hear it used more for the latter than the former, to be honest.

Also, it’s casual language anyways, so why even try to bring grammar into it, much less while being so confidently wrong?

Parents apparently cannot oversee the harm they are causing.

Then that’s still the parents’ fault, IMO. If you can’t teach your child to use the internet safely and responsibly, or adequately monitor the services they use, then you don’t give them internet-enabled devices.

Imagine if instead of the internet, we were talking about going out after dark. A few kids go out and do stupid things at night, but instead of blaming the parents who let them out unsupervised, we set a national curfew for everyone unless you obtain a nighttime permit from the government. Does that sound reasonable?

Agreed.

It sounds like a better solution than sending photos of ID documents anywhere and everywhere, but at the same time it’s not really different, it’s just centralized. It removes other vectors of privacy breaches, but it doesn’t remove the possibility of a breach entirely.

Just stop requiring age verification to protect an open and anonymous internet. If governments are worried about what kids are doing online, start charging their parents with neglect, because they’re supposed to be the responsible party for their kids’ behavior.