After a few minutes, I was pulled aside and whisked through customs. As I was nearing the exit, a staff member said "welcome home".

It hadn't hit me until later that I was likely skipped ahead due to having a military surplus duffel bag.

No particular point here aside from how silly the whole thing is.

Prior to using Go professionally, I scoffed at the language and wrote it off as an extreme form of Blub paradox. Having worked in languages with generics, as well as languages with advanced type systems (Haskell, Rust, Scala), it seemed like a huge step back.

Initially, I did have a problem with the lack of generics, because I leaned on the feature regularly when writing software. Four years of professional use later and I can say that I am very much glad for the lack of generics. It is almost always straightforward and easy to read and understand Go code that someone else has written. The same cannot be said for the other languages I've mentioned.

For the problem domain we are using it in (devops), it has been a godsend. The company makes use of many different languages from various paradigms, yet anyone can pick up Go quickly if they want/need to contribute to or deeply understand our tooling.

That being said, like any meat or meat-substitute, I wouldn't consider it a "health food".

I'd argue enough restrooms are provided when the number is population appropriate and within a one block distance.

I also didn't say that restrooms aren't provided, but it seemed like it wasn't obvious to everyone why inconvenience or lack of dignity leads to non-use.

However, using Google Maps, I found 4. I'm not sure how many bathrooms you'd normally allocate per person, but I imagine the number of homeless and those out and about would necessitate more than that. How many bathrooms per person are in the typical office building? Should the number of these loos not similarly match the homeless population?

Also, how is a timer in a bathroom at all dignified? If I need 15 minutes to relieve myself, will the Portland Loo kick me out?

You _should_ absolutely be allowed to buy a non-street legal vehicle to operate on private land. You _should_ be able to buy a recording device that has no privacy features. You should _not_ be able to sell a recording device that by default is streaming all audio all the time for common consumers without a big label saying "everything this device is within hearing distance of is now public data and you agree you are in violation of the law, where applicable, for using it".

We are no longer in the days where consumers can be expected to know what their devices are even capable of, let alone what rights are being trampled.

Tell me, which of these do Alexa and the like perform?

Would it be more difficult? Yes! This is the reality for any company where rights and laws actually matter. If you can't abide, you can't release. Very simple.

Are Alexa and others designed to reasonably ensure only consenting users are being recorded?