Episode 564: Privacy vs. Convenience

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss cars, vacuums, and humidifiers spying on you and your home, along with the continued use of discontinued Windows and schools combined with "back in my day..."

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Show Notes:

• The leak is from the dehumidifier, so we have a new dehumidifier with built-in spy capabilities via network connection
• Mice are a-holes
• Indirectly using Windows
• Biden is sick
• Majority speaker says Congress needs insider trading because they're poor
• iRobot collecting data via Roomba
• Robot vacuums remotely hacked to chase pets, swear at owners
• Discussing privacy and car data collection
• Privacy4Cars - see what data your car may be collecting on you 
• School board candidate interviews/article 
• Brooklyn Bridge vs. Boat

Episode 563: The Conclave Concluded

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss floppies in airports, Trump's still bad, the conclave has concluded and Last of Us is a good show. Also, Farscape is a good show, but Norma hates it because she doesn't appreciate good shows.

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Show Notes:

• Leaving Frontier for Hughes Net satellite Internet then back to Frontier for the fiber
• Newark ATC outages causing flight problems...
• India and Pakistan are unhappy with each other. Still.
• Where floppies are still used for data transfers
• "Can't make paint that looks like gold!" - an orange moron
• Trump definitely-not-wannabe-dictator looking forward to new personal "Airforce One" flying golden bathroom from Qatar
• Highlights of Bill Gates interview on CBS
• Pope conclave information in charts
• Employee training video: Cardinals watch Conclave movie for insight on what they're supposed to do
  
• Active underwater eruption observed for the first time
• Definitely don't look up mechanophilia 
• And most definitely don't read about Edward Smith
• Newark mayor arrested, MAGA rejoices, but mostly fabricates what they celebrate 
• More details on arrest - Legal Eagle
• Last of Us (show) discussion
• Ben Browder's actual daughter played John Crichton's daughter on Farscape 
• Class action lawsuit against Apple for Siri spying

Episode 562: Conservatives: "Let's Deport Cancer Kids"

Bart and Norma discuss pay for sportsball players vs. actual people doing work for society as a whole, Thunderbolts is released, remember Mike Lindell? He's still apparently an idiot, this time in legal circles. Well, again in legal circles. Republicans refuse to agree that it's bad to deport American children with cancer. Trump wants to be Pope. We now all live in an Onion article.

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Show Notes:

• Baseball pay
• Thunderbolts discussion
•  MyPillow founder and Trump buddy hired a lawyer that filed 30+ errors in court filing due to using ChatGPT to do the work for them. This is what could go wrong...
• Lo'la on Farscape
•  PA: Do I Need a Real ID?
• Trump memecoin dinner raising millions using blatant corruption to self-enrich  
• Republicans think it's fine to deport kids being treated for cancer
•  Trump wants to be Pope
• May the 4th stuffs
• Met Gala time 
• Trump wants to redefine Veteran's Day as Victory Day. I wonder why.