If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one’s own self-deception and ignorance.

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  • You are unlikely to find a new non-smart TV… the TV manufacturers get kickbacks from the streaming services for bundling their apps.

    If you did find one, it would be more expensive than the dumb TV because you don’t have a bunch of streaming services subsidizing the price of the TV for you.

    A computer monitor may work for you, or just buy a smart TV and never connect it to a network. You should be able to set it to automatically start up on the last-used input so you never see the built-in UI.



  • The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan is an amazingly informative and entertainingly written examination of how and why the US got to where it is without even really trying. This and his later books also discuss the rise and now beginning decline of globalization in a destabilizing world.

    The guy (and his research team) has a pretty good track record of predicting geopolitical trends and even specific events that are coming 5 or 10 years down the road. I don’t necessarily agree with or accept all of his ideas and analysis, but he definitely makes you think.

    Wall Street Journal review: https://archive.ph/dFe6u



  • I’m sorry, but you don’t know nearly as much as you think you do. This isn’t like Reddit. What you are asking for is not technologically simple, it would be trivial to circumvent, and perhaps most importantly, it’s philosophically incompatible with the very concept of public speech.

    If you are incapable of or unwilling to accept that, there’s no point in continuing to attempt to explain this to you. It’s all been addressed, repeatedly.