I had this crazy idea for how this sort of thing could be maybe prevented in the futurepic.twitter.com/zASfRmnaQj
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Yeah, believe it or not, I'm not a trusted Apple developer. A badge of honor :P
I'm not familiar with this version of the trolley problem.
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