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Well, everything is a ~~dildo~~ conductor if you are ~~brave~~ high voltage enough.

Under high voltage the current still follows the path of least resistance even when it looks like it does not. What people don't think about is that resistance is not a constant and under strong enough electric field dielectric materials (isolators if you will) can loose their propeties. Strong enough field can rip electrons from elements causing ionisation. Other things such as temperature, mechanical stress, radiation also affect different materials.

So what high voltage changes is making it harder to resist, but charge will still follow least resistance and aim to go for the nearest lest resistance material if such is available.

PS: I have studied all of this in a different language so I may have mixed up some of the terminology in English

In Bulgarian "длан" [dɫan] (which in IPA is spelled close enough to "dłoń"] refers specifically to the palm while "ръка" [rɤˈka] can refer to the the hand, whole arm and some people may use it for palm even, although that last one is not correct.

I am pretty good at shutting my brain off or switching it to another channel. As long as they keep yapping and don't ask questions I can spend the rest of the conversation with either my thoughts being the equivalent of tv white noise, or going the opposite direction and have the most focused thinking session of my life.

We have, thankfully, not yet fallen to the US's level of tyranny

I wish I could do that and save so many electrical engineering student the confusion

As EU citizen is there any way I can fight this? I doubt contacting my country's representatives in the EU will help, considering the current political situation they can benefit more from this happening. Law enforcement is already known for abusing surveillance against political opponents, they are going to enjoy this.

Using usage data to improve user experience and similarly worded sentences are in pretty much every apps "Terms of Service". They record what music I have listened to and compile playlist for me, so what? In similar manner navigation apps like Waze collect data about your driving habits to offer better routes.

It becomes an issue when:

1. They collect data irrelevant to the user experience or not connected in any way to the services the company provides.
2. They record activity for people who don't even have an account through third parties (looking at you Meta)
3. They scan every local network I connect to and collect detailed information (again... Meta)
4. They sell the data about what I listened and/or any other collected data to third parties
5. They use the data to train LLMs without my knowledge and approval, or opt me in by default and bury the option to opt out of this deep in the settings.

I haven't used Spotify for a long time, but I use YouTube. YouTube ticks most boxes of that list. I bet Waze do too, and Spotify maybe. That are for me the problematic areas we need to be discussing. Collecting data is not entirely bad. It is a good thing when that data is handled only in the user's interest, it's bad when it's being abused, which unfortunately is the norm rather than exception nowadays.

I think they kind of do the active Internet part now. I don't watch television and haven't touched a TV for a long time, but recently I had to help a neighbour set his new smart TV up. It was one of the big brands, I don't remember if it was LG, Samsung or something else. The TV couldn't go through initial set up without me installing some app on his phone. If there was an option to skip I couldn't see where it was, I only assume that if it was possible it was intentionally made un-intuitive or hard to discover. And of course, if you want the TV to connect to the app you must connect it to Internet. Again, it may have been a failure on my part, but I wouldn't be supprised if they intentionally forced the user to do it this way.

Samsung had something similar on their cheaper phones (the A series) where during the initial set up it asks you to login or create a Samsung account and you have to jump through a couple of hoops to skip it, as well as some other part where I don't remember what the phone asked you to do, but the "Yes" option was blue, while the button to skip was intentionally colored the same or very similar shade of gray as an inactive button. So if the TV was Samsung I don't doubt for a second that they will do some shady practice like that.

This reminds me of those stories of old England where there were warehouses filled with coffins and you could rent a coffin to sleep in if you were homeless. Or even better, if you are too poor for the coffin there were those houses where you can rent your place on a rope tied between two wooden beams, so you can hang ober the rope and have a good night's sleep until in the morning the owner wakes you up by cutting the rope.

Most of the time you can kick a computer in anger without consequences and that's enough for me. Can't do it with my colleagues without at minimum having to talk with HR. And sometimes it even solves the issue (maybe helps with humans too, but can't legally try it)

When I tried it Kimi K2 was surprisingly consistent and not even as bad as the others. Occasionally the numbers or hands (I couldn't really tell which) were possitioned a bit off, for example the seconds hand will appear to be horizontal but the 9 or 3 will be slightly below or slightly above the hand. But whoever can center a div may throw the first stone, and it's not going to be me for sure