Will not 'wear'.

I lived before Amazon. I can live without Amazon.

"Safe and Effective" died in 2020. It's worth no more than, "Think of the Children!"

If any company conditions access to their product/service on possession and use of a 'smartphone', they can issue me one and pay for the "line".

You could make minor revisions to your title and it would apply just as well to the MAGA crowd and its overall expectations from November vs. the reality of today.

MAGA=MIGA

Under the current US 'legal' system, anyone using 'biometric' anything is throwing away their 4th and 5th-amendment rights.

Even "physical" is another FDR-'33 Executive Order away from confiscation.

I've always considered FDR-'33 the biggest stain on the "Greatest Generation" who sat still for it and meekly complied.

Forget it; under the US 'justice system' biometrics have already been divorced from due-process rights, and no one but a fool uses them.

... and there's not a single airline CEO with the balls to tell him "not on my planes".

I'd sooner live under a freeway overpass than join that club; and if they get in, I just might anyway.

The old stand-by, "tHiNk Of ThE cHiLdReN!!" trotted out as people start 'noticing'...

This: Offline mass storage has never been cheaper. Get some.

"...and then he forgot the act of forgetting."

-- some old book

I guess shape-shifting is becoming more common as the US doesn't even hide (((who's))) running their government.

I knew it was "Chinese metallurgy" before I clicked.

We need a new slur for our Southern 'neighbors': Apocalypto-stanis.

That "Stablecoin" name ought to be an international felony in its own right. It's a mouse-click away from .gov confiscation.

... and which ISP/domains does that absolutely depend upon? How many .gov or even ". il" addresses are buried in the TOS fine-print?

Not exactly seppuku, but miles better than US officials.

I refuse to engage twitter on my "smartphone" at all.

This realization will feed the "accelerationist, tear it down" view, as in, 'try running your digital Panopticon Blockchain on USB sticks schlepped between bicycle-powered laptops!'.

Enough with the euphemisms; they murdered patients on direction of the government.

They still can't leak a data element or payment-methods you never put into it.

"Effective" at doing what?

Yep: The globohomo consumer 'lifestyle' beamed into every "designated shitting street" in the Global South.

I wonder how those African countries who've already become Chinese work-camps will react.

Today I learned the new (to me) term "shapewear".

Weren't the old-school spacesuits from Playtex or some other "foundation garment" company?