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  • It’s triangulation.

    The plans Mamdani campaigned on are going to cost billions, and will require state and federal support to have any chance of success. He said as much himself and I imagine that’s why he agreed to the meeting.

    Hochul supported him verbally and now Trump has too (words are free).

    From Trump’s perspective, if he had done a presser where he immediately shits on Mamdani to his face, and vows to oppose him with the entire Federal apparatus, then that adds fuel for more people to potentially support Mamdani-like figures if for no other reason than opposition to Trump. It also gives Mamdani an easy target to blame if his policies ultimately fail in NYC.

    In contrast, Trump comes out and says “NYC is great, it’s gonna be great under his leadership, he can do it” etc. then later when things don’t go so well in New York (which Trump is betting on) then it’s easier for Trump to say Mamdani owns the failures.

    Its the same thing as building up a debate opponent prior to the event and then it becomes easier to suggest they underperformed expectations.







  • On the technological side of things, you’re pretty much fucked no matter what. Virtually all car companies now have proprietary app integrations, partnerships with Google and Apple, and other anti-privacy features.

    Some practical things you can do-

    Opt out of as much data collection and sharing as you can. Read the manual and menu dive to disable optional features you don’t need.

    If you finance or lease from the dealer, there are likely additional data disclosures and third party sharing that you can opt out of. Read all the paperwork when you sign your purchase or lease documents. In my case I had to literally fill out and mail something in (they don’t want it to be easy to opt-out because they make money from sharing the data with third parties).