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        I am seriously considering discontinuing my use of Amazon Echo devices

        Only just considering it? That’s some serious Stockholm Syndrome energy.

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        That dude 100% deserved it. Not for anything he said but for being a tech career guy and wiring his house up so hard he couldn’t open it without Alexa. He wouldn’t have been able to open it without wifi either.

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          If you’re going all in on smart home shit, you should ALWAYS buy the products that work when the internet goes out, or when the local IoT network shits out.

          Example, fuck Hue lights. Gets Caseta switches that are wired in and can be used like real switches. Don’t get a smart lock that requires a phone or a wireless pays. Get one that also has a keypad that is hardwired directly into the lock and has a normal key hole. Carry the key just incase.

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            Yeah I try to get Zigbee or Zwave devices as much as possible. None of my smarthome stuff relies on Alexa or Google to work.

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          The title there is awful. He wasn’t physically locked out of the house, he was locked out of the ‘smart home’ devices.

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          That’s not what happened. His Amazon devices were locked out, but he has HomeAssistant setup with various other IoT devices that worked fine still.

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        Recordings from the home’s smart doorbell appeared to show the delivery driver, whom Mr Jackson said was the same race as him, misheard an automated response from the device asking: “excuse me, can I help you?”

        Seriously, that’s what it was? They’ll ban him for that?

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          Yeah. People lying about racism towards them (or as they called it “mishearing”) can ruin other people’s lives. Getting deprived of Amazon services for one week could be considered being lucky if we think about what happens to some people after such false accusations.

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      In Musks case it would probably be deemed not offensive enough.

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    This article is factual yet also rage-bait. Suspending accounts is something he’s doing now. Contacting employers of people working at car companies and investment firms is something he did five years ago. The article does not say he is contacting the employer of accounts he is suspending now; they leave you to infer that by placing both facts in the same headline but separate paragraphs.

    No love for Musk, avoid Twitter, etc.

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    So much for free speech absolutism. I don’t have to watch sports, as Musk fans going through the mental gymnastics to justify this is entertaining enough.

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    Such an whiny, insecure, little boy. Imagine you’re getting a call from him because one of your employees trashed Tesla on Twitter. I would wonder where the camera is, because this shit couldn’t be real.

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    Ho, more dirty dealings.

    Apparently he was unpopular with some other billionaires, who tried to escape from him in a submarine.

    He was putting the squeeze on them.

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    Really want to know what the employer said.

    I can see “f off elon” resulting in elon suspending their twitter account. But any other answer past. “What the hell are you telling us for”. Is unforgivable.

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    The dude is a scumbag that’ll go after your family, friends, employment, etc for doing nothing wrong. It’s in everyone’s best interest that Twitter go bankrupt and Elon be ruined

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    So much for free speech. The worst part is there will still be a brigades of mindless idiots and scumbags who will defend him.

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    Yet one more reason not to buy one of his fairly decent cars. I have 6 months left on my lease and want to try the electric world in retirement.

    Please don’t call my employer, master musk

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      “Fairly decent” is a bit of a stretch. Panels come up, features sold to you that won’t work and will endanger your life. “Fairly” standard for luxury rides amiright?

      “Decent”. Hmph.

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        Yes, I sat in a new model Y in the showroom and there was a gap in the dash. That was the best they had to show. The “decent” part is range and charging network. They work and get you where you need to go but Musk is a fragile rich prick that will never have enough money or power to satisfy his lust for such things.

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          I just can’t fathom buying a luxury car and coping with “well it works and gets me where I need to go”. If I’m spending that kinda change on a car, and also paying for its services in ongoing fashion apart from the car payment itself … it better do more than just “get me there”.

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      We’ve had an IONIQ5 for a year and love it, no bugs or quality problems, smooth ride, highway autopilot works well, charges fast, and supports CarPlay / Android Auto, not to mention that it’s way more interesting looking than any Tesla.