Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data

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I think this is an unfortunate consequence of the state of politics in the US (and in many other countries tbh).

Collectively we should really be getting angry with wealth inequality but those with wealth stir up any number of other issues (e.g. race, religion, gender, etc) in order to divert attention from them continuing to get richer at our collective expense.

Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity hits the nail on the head here.

He argued that in WW2, the people who were not able to question what they were doing were enabling a lot of the cruelty [0].

[0] https://bigthink.com/thinking/bonhoeffers-theory-stupidity-e...

I think that's always been a feature of contrarianism itself. It's so much more difficult to be contrarian and correct than simply contrarian that it applies most of the time, especially if someone uses that label explicitly.

"Contrarianism" can't be the only qualifying term unless you mean to lump in the majority of HN commenters.

Boomers get all the hate but GenX really is the absolute worst. They took the me-me-me of Boomers without the civic minded temperance of their G.I./Silent grandparents. Life goals of that generation include climbing mount everest, writing a novel, really anything that would make you sound "cool" at a cocktail party, but they never realized that nobody cares unless you've made the world a better place for others.

> Is there a term for this sort of brain dead contrarianism?

Reactionary[0]? Trump and the MAGA movement embody this desire to return to the "golden age" which is an idealized period in the 1950s where you had a factory job, a house, a family, and a simple life. Of course, "idealized" is the keyword there because it ignores the state of civil rights, medicine, workplace & car safety, etc. at that point in time.

Anyway, I think that's the term you're looking for. Contrarians are annoying, reactionaries are more akin to cult followers.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary

"Hello, Aliexpress seller? Can you paint them gold?"

Is about how I expect it all went.

From the CNET article:

> There is a headphone jack, but it's on the top of the phone.

They say that like it is a bad thing. I've always preferred the headset jack on the top because if I'm using the device while sitting and the jack is on the bottom it interferes with resting my phone holding hand the table if I'm at my desk or on my chest or leg if I'm the couch.

The main argument I've heard for jack on the bottom is that most people normally put their phone in their pocket with the top down, so if the jack is on top you have to flip it.

Google is telling me that jack on top was the norm in the early days of smartphones but gradually changed as the pocket argument won out.

Of course this wouldn't matter at all if more phones rotated the screens so that the display was upright even if the phone is upside down. Then everyone could have the headphone jack where they want.

Was the /s needed?

Even if they are required, who will hold them accountable? The FCC?

Hell, in some states you can find these details rather quickly since there's so much that is considered public record.

relevant username.

Not quite true, though, because that book charged money in exchange for privacy.

Gifting, or grifting?

My money is on unauthed mongodb or public s3 bucket

we started using the term obama for that just because we hate saying that other word