Mercedes also includes a number of items as a subscription in some countries. Some stuff is app related. Others are things like getting full use of your rear-steering wheels and unlocking extra horsepower.

So the blue states don’t have a National Guard to respond?

You have to wonder which shipping mogul has Trumps ear on this.

“I’m already insanely rich! But I’d be even more insanely rich if it wasn’t for that stupid canal charging me to use it!”

Just looked and sure enough it was installed on Jan. 22.

Nothing screams “spyware” like installing an app without notice and providing no context for what it does whatsoever.

Btw this has been installed by “More than 1 Billion” devices, so if you have an Android devices the odds are pretty flipping good you have this.

Generally that power is financial. The government can’t directly tell private institutions like NYU what to do.

But they can, and do, take away or withhold government funds for grants and research.

Buuuut … all that is held up right now. And if Trump has his way, that’s all gone regardless.

So I’m guessing this is a classic case of making decisions by the university based on old thinking.

I’m not sure what is more disconcerting. That the people in charge truly are a bunch of fucking idiots.

Or that those idiots have outplayed and outsmarted the Democrats at damn near every turn for 20+ years.