hume_lemmy

It's not that the wind is blowin'...

It's what the wind is blowin'.

The problem is, you don't get a say in the matter. If the marketing company sells on your data, you don't get to say no.

If Ford wants telemetry on your car (and they do) and they sell it to your insurance company who raises your rates because you don't drive in a manner approved by corporate, you don't get to say no.

If you search for wigs and antinausea meds, and Google sells that to health insurance who guesses you've got cancer and are a financial liability, you don't get to say no, and you don't get to argue that you were planning for a party.

If you're a fifteen year old kid and your browser starts showing gay dating ads to your extremely homophobic parents, you'd better hope they don't put it together because you don't get to stop any of it.

You can control how your data is gathered, but you have ZERO say in how it's distributed and interpreted.

Rogan is what happens when the barbarian doesn't have a miniature giant space hamster to whisper common sense into his ear.

Unfortunately, we know how this is going to go: "If you won't let us ban books from the library, we'll just ban the library."

The story in the article about the guy who tried to get into the cockpit is amazing... he's lucky he didn't get himself killed by the other passengers. Since that little incident twenty years ago even Granny will chew on your face if it looks like you're pulling that shit.

Woman In Total Control of Herself. There's a song and everything!

"We just love our customers so much, it makes us crazy sometimes..."

The author wrote it based on actual things that have really happened (and, clearly, are continuing to happen)

I thought accepting a pardon was an implicit guilty plea and have up your fifth amendment protections. Couldn't they lean on him based on that?

Put another way: I'm not going to believe in a new product more than the vendor does, because that's stupid. And we've had it demonstrated time and time again that the vendors don't believe in their products.

Some aren't just ignorant of the Bible... they're actively rejecting its teachings.

How many are saying they won't vote for Biden, though?

Oh man, I can't imagine the cost to get the smell out of the seats.

I've only ever seen goog.le looks used in spam and phishing emails, so I'm not particularly sad about this

Of course, there's roughly eighty million other folks who think they've each done a short link provider better, somehow, so this won't make much of a difference beyond not relying on the bots at Google to deal with abuse problems.

You don't even need demand eternal support. Just say that if manufacturers want their product to expire like milk, then they can damn well print an expiry date on the package, too.

How would ""Will cease functioning on " affect consumer purchasing decisions?

Yeah, at a certain scale you're not paying for the technology.. you're paying for a scapegoat.

I think their point is that when everyone's income is $0/hr price becomes pretty much irrelevant (unless also $0)

A fine example of Betteridge's law.