NYC's transport authority will no longer post service alerts on Twitter

Yeah, a weapon. Unless you like being mugged. I mean your call, I think it's stupid to at least not have mace. We're also not talking about a bunch of potentially rare circumstances involving the app causing issues, somebody's shit getting stolen (which, again, carry basic things and that won't happen). Talking about the potentials of something failing is idiotic though. Your car will break down on you someday, possibly due to neglect on your part, but it also might not be. If you said "well I'm decoupling myself from my dependency to my car in case it ever fails" you'd look like a dipshit then too.

So again, I'm not talking about hardware failures, software failures, or anything else. I'm saying, as I've always said, and repeatedly said, if you can't get into your complex because you let your phone die and don't have the common sense to go to a gas station or something, that's on you, not the phone.

When did everybody become allergic to the concept of basic preparedness and self responsibility? Nobody would advocate for the removal of key locks on any number of design flaws. Doors can be kicked in, most house locks can be picked in under a minute, almost any car new or old can be hotwired, and yet, somehow, you aren't bitching about that.

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