> I wish there was some regulation that would force TVs to have a "dumb" mode.

Some manufacturers have "business" lines, for things like kiosks and in-store displays, e.g.:

* https://www.samsung.com/us/business/commercial-tvs/all-comme...

* https://www.samsung.com/ca/business/smart-signage/

Do not use a display made for commercial kiosk use as a tv.

They have terrible response times, brightness levels meant to be seen under sunlight, not for the fine differences of movies.

> Depending on the circumstances you may need more than that.

Contrary to urban legends (and fictional entertainment), in times of disaster humans generally pull together:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Paradise_Built_in_Hell

> We had no water, power, or telecommunications for several days, no way to reach the outside world until the nearby cell towers came back online unless you had Starlink.

Amateur ("ham") radio can be handy. If you don't want to go to the effort to get a radio, a receive-only AM/FM crank/solar radio can be handy to get news.

You rotate it every ~6 months:

* https://www.cdc.gov/water-emergency/about/how-to-create-and-...

The old stuff can be used to water house plants or your garden. If you have advanced warning of an event (e.g., hurricane), you can also fill up a large reserve 'just in time':

* https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/waterbob-bathtub-liner-rev...

> 30 days of spare food feels like such an enormous amount of space and material.

Freeze dried stuff can be sit on a cool, dark shelf for a decade or two; a popular company:

* https://mountainhouse.com/

Also need to have a source of water and a way to boil it.

September is (US) National Preparedness Month:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Preparedness_Month

General guidelines to have a decent pantry, someway to cook things, some spare water, a way to heat your home if you're in a place that has winter, a source of emergency lighting:

* https://www.ready.gov

* https://getprepared.ca

Zombie apocalypses are a fun meme, but a broken city water main or an ice storm can be quite disruptive.

> Zombie apocalypses are a fun meme ...

A) Not really that much fun (as evidenced by how shitty life gets for pretty much everyone in "The Walking Dead"). ;)

B) In my mind "The Zombie Apocalypse" has always just been an amusing way to generically refer to whatever future real "apocalypse" might happen to occur (eg; broken water main, ice storm, etc).

"The Walking Dead" is completely fun. It is fiction, and like most fiction not everybody enjoys it, nothing wrong with that (I haven't seen it myself but I suspect I wouldn't enjoy it). However your lack of enjoyment doesn't change that it is fun for other people and that is why they watch it.

Kind reminder that zombies are not real and you should understand that you are critiquing an entertainment product.

"Facebook says Apple iOS privacy change will result in $10 billion revenue hit this year" (2022):

* https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/02/facebook-says-apple-ios-priv...

See also perhaps "It’s not Meta - its APPLE who have screwed us small advertisers":

* https://www.reddit.com/r/FacebookAds/comments/1o85w2q/

I would be even more shocked if instead of adapting, they’ve continued to lose $10b a year

Wow that number is line an order of magnitude or more than I expected it would be

Won't someone please think of the poor advertisers? /s

> off-topic: I've made a habit of removing all those `si` or `igshid` or `unique_share_id` […]

Also `pp`.

> How would that even work? Park tanks on Wall Street and point them at stockbrokers?

People are not quite sure, but Krugamn (for one) is willing to fight:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK20wZ0ofwY

The auditors report:

* https://www.telstra.com.au/content/dam/tcom/dynamic-media-pr...