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Call the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and see if they can represent you, too.

LOL, no. Violating government regulations to harm the environment and society is fine, but violating corporate monopoly privilege to wrest back control of your property makes you scum to be shot on sight.

(Disclaimer: my cynicism should not be mistaken for informed legal analysis.)

When I lived in small town USA where there is nothing to do but meth and everyone knows everyone else’s business the dream of packing your shit in a backpack and getting into the car and driving 4 hours away feels like freedom. You can go to a city or town and get away from it all.

That's mainly because they quit running passenger service on those train tracks running through town 50 years ago.

Yep. Even the actual race bikes being used in the Tour de France right now are only $10k or so. The only sports car that little cash will get you is a used Miata.

The notion of "fuel efficiency" kinda stops making sense for a sailboat.

“having the gf” implies the “wlw.”

Only if you already knew (or assumed) that the person who posted it was female. I, for one, didn't pay attention to the username or avatar pic, so for me, it was a helpful clarification.

"Lesbian" is a statement of identity, while "WLW" is merely a description of behavior.

As I understand it, terms like "WLW" are preferred by sex researchers in order to keep the focus of the research on the behavior and try to prevent it from being used to categorize people too much.

1. We need to do something!
2. 'This' is 'something'
3. Therefore, we must do 'this'

I realize you attempted to justify it by hand-waving away a better alternative, but still, that logic is bullshit.

I didn't say the attack was "targeted" only on GOS; you made that up yourself. But it is an attack, as opposed to something with a valid excuse.

Also: it's only paranoia if they aren't actually out to get you.

Neither am I, but remember that that's only a workaround, not a solution. The only actual solution to this shit is political.

Eventually the supply of used cars that don't do this shit is going to run out.

Stop confusing workarounds for a solution. The only actual solution is political: banning these anti-consumer practices entirely.

They updated the app to use the "Play Integrity[sic] API," which actively blocks GOS.

"Does not meet" implies there is something reasonable GOS could do to "fix" it, which untrue and misleading. The malice on Google's and Volkswagen's part is an important part of the story.