lone_faerie

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I mean that's still what they want, absolute control. It's just that as soon as Chevron started working against them, they got rid of it.

Forklift certified to bust your kneecaps

You don't even have to build housing. The US has more vacant homes than it does homeless people.

Sounds like a fair trade to me. Cool leaves are awesome and bomb pops are delicious.

Gotta love how corporations can just put dangerous deathmobiles on the street and just pull a "oopsie daisy" when people start complaining

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You're expecting them to put thought and effort into this

There's also nothing stopping them from taking a bribe for something they've already done if they do something else. "Hey, I'll pay you for the books you banned if you make hrt illegal"

And those consequences? Receiving legal bribe money

Those services feel so shady to me. You're just paying to deanonymize your data for them. Not to mention I think some of them are straight up owned by the data brokers you're supposedly having your data deleted from.

"We've investigated ourselves and found wrongdoing, so now we're making the wrongdoing legal"

If you step in dog poop, do you just wipe it off or do you wash your foot?

I knew not to use Opera GX as soon as they started sponsoring youtubers. I swear, youtube sponsorships are like anti-ads. 9 times out of 10 they're doing something sketchy.

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I wish less people used Twitter. Like my city exclusively communicates through Twitter

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So AI can't exist without stealing people's content and it can't exist without using too much energy. Why does it exist then?

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I'm telling my kids this is ChatGPT

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Building a 3d printer is really its own hobby. You don't build a 3d printer because you want to print stuff, you build one because you want something to tinker with

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Amazon has essentially become a drop shipping front for AliExpress. You're getting the exact same terrible, knockoff products, just marked up and stored in an Amazon warehouse so you get it in two days instead of two weeks. They're both shitty, but at least with AliExpress you aren't paying extra for the middleman to make a profit.

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Home Assistant actually has its own voice control now. You can even set it up to trigger on the wake word "Alexa"

Bojack Horseman

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It's when you have more than 99 tabs open

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The majority of people would likely be are feudal peasants, working under a warmonger family that owns the sustaining land by force. No upward mobility except through bloodshed.

FTFY

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As someone who somewhat recently moved to California, it was shocking to see how conservative anywhere outside of urban areas is. Like California is seen as this haven of progressiveness, but that's only because we have two of the biggest cities in the country.

Feminism is leftism and leftism is feminism. It's always been that way because it's all about the same issue, equality. Women's rights, civil rights, trans rights, they're all fighting for the same thing. One of my favorite quotes comes from Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights and women's rights activist, "Nobody's free until everybody's free"

He does though. You can't build fancy sets and put on huge productions without having money. Like yeah, Jimmy might not have millions of dollars in his personal bank account, but his business sure does.

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Why shouldn't they? The city government represents the citizens of that city, who are calling for a ceasefire. They're saying "we hear you and agree there should be a ceasefire"

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Project 2025 goes a lot farther than just climate change. It's the plan to set Trump up as a dictator. It's like the modern day Mein Kampf

The same reason Netflix was initially so popular, convenience. Almost every song you could think of is instantly available at your fingertips, all in one convenient location

KYC is "Know Your Customer" aka identity verification. Usually it would be something like a selfie of you holding your ID, proving you are the person on the card. If you think getting your identity stolen from one picture is bad, wait until you learn about social security numbers. It's a 9 digit number based on publicly available information about you that is incredibly easy to figure out, and are used as like the defacto way of verifying your identity in the US, when that was never its intended purpose.

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There's a very very fine line between "just insane and crazy" and "actually dangerous"

So does the person who made your coffee this morning not deserve a place to live? What about the person who delivered your dinner? The person who delivers your mail? The one who picks up your trash? The people who built your house? The person who stocks your groceries?

wHaT dO yOu Do FoR a LiViNg?

What does that have to do with your right to a roof over your head?

Except when they deem it unsuitable for advertisers, they still run ads on the video, they just don't pay the creator so Google gets 100% of the ad money

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I think they work, but will quickly be defeated. Facial recognition is nothing more than advanced pattern recognition. This clothing works by confusing the pattern the AI is trained to recognize. That may work with current models, but all it takes is to train the AI on what this adversarial clothing looks like so it can differentiate it from actual faces.

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Peeps

They're able to do that on all the videos everyone else uploads. They turn a blind eye to ads because all they care about is the money.

The offered a deal to release the hostages if there's a ceasefire and Israel rejected it. Israel doesn't care about the hostages, they care about ethnic cleansing

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A bit niche, but I love Shinigami Eye. It highlights trans-friendly sites and profiles in green and transphobic ones in red.

overwork yourself

comfortable life

Make it make sense

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There was literally a Senate hearing today about KOSA, the bill allowing the US government the legal grounds to control sources of information on the internet. So no, they aren't totally different things.

And I was specifically referring to this part that OP said:

I heard that the Chinese Communist Party was collecting some worrying amount of information on their user base

The only difference between the Chinese government and the US government collecting information is that the US goes through a middleman who aggregates it from multiple sources.

Meta/Twitter/YouTube have everything to do with this because they're doing the exact same thing. Do I need to mention the numerous times Facebook has been sued for illegal data collection? Cambridge Analytica ring a bell?

Home Assistant. I wouldn't use it just for calendars, but I already had it set up for home automation and calendars are a built in feature.

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