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as a resident currently under the abbot/paxton regime, I have to ask, what's their angle?
I still stand firm behind my desire to find the tree that fell on abbot, and turn it into toothpicks for only doing a half assed job.
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2025
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This reads a lot like Them Chinese are spying on us through the TV!
Also, just drop the tree on him again
It's not the tree's fault that evil needs a double-tap
Yeah, that's why they didn't include Vizio, and their TV's are entirely unusable unless you sign up and give them permission to spy on you in every way possible.
The good ole well it's okay when Uncle Sam does it.
Honestly not surprised
Before we wall the tree, do we know he’s not just making up the tree fall to cover up something ridiculously embarrassing?
That tree falling on him set him up for life. He was an out of work law student or graduate or some shit when it happened.
It's estimated he received very low double digit millions; a lump sum and then monthly payments with cost of living adjustments.
Then, he helped to usher in tort law reform that eventually capped the very damages he was allowed to recoup. His won millions are now capped at 250k. 250k can get eaten up with just one bad hospital stay - I had two surgical procedures last year after I hit my health insurance deductible, and both stays and procedures ran something like 170k-ish.
God, I wish someone would push him down some stairs
He snapped his spine trying to suck his own dick
I still stand firm behind my desire to find the tree that fell on abbot, and turn it into toothpicks for only doing a half assed job.
Good thing it's only the evil Chinese and other foreign companies that are doing this, and that no western brand would ever do this. It is also relieving to know that they are only monitoring what I display on the screen and that none of them contain microphones that would also be recording everything you say or do within proximity, because that would be terrible. 
if you can find them get "not smart" or "minimally smart" commercial monitors. they are more durable but lacking of "features".
the higher end have redundant fans for cooling to preserve the leds. also you can swap the mainboard!
warning i don't know if anything has changed recently. there used to be a kind of deal with b2b to give the commercial operator more control.
you really just want a computer or commercial monitor as a tv and customize yourself
(fuck you can tell i've read too many trump tweets lately because my parenthesis use is getting ridiculous)
TCL make good value for money TVs, from what I know?