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I once got in trouble at work for saying publicly that the GOP is *clearly* a greater threat to American freedom and prosperity than the Democrats. Now with the GOP going QAnon, too, it's obvious I was correct, and attempts to pretend otherwise are naive.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/05/qanon-goes-mainstream/
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So many people saying they're switching from Firefox. Won't this only make the problem worse?
If you're switching to Brave or qutebrowser or UnGoogled Chromium or something, you're only strengthening Google's monopoly. If you're switching to a Webkit-based browser like Epiphany, you're shifting the monopoly towards Safari, whose parent company doesn't consider the Web a priority.
That Mozilla has bad management doesn't change the fact that Firefox is the most viable option for the open web.
I've never liked the term "whataboutism." It sounds like the kind of thing a journalist came up with to make it seem like they were presenting a clever new idea. Meanwhile, the concept of 'tu quoque' has been around for a very long time.
Am I now that guy who wants to correct people by quoting Latin at them? Send help...
@WilliamsStrangeFest @jamesrichardson It's decriminalized where I am but it's anybody's guess if/when it'll be legal. Medical was only approved in the last few years. Delta 8 was relaxing but there wasn't much of a high for me unfortunately. I might have to check out the others, thanks for the tip.
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#DRM isn't just an annoyance -- it's a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at http://defectivebydesign.org, and follow our campaign account at @endDRM
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Hey, so this is super cool.
Google has been collecting call and messaging data about who you talk to or send text messages to for years. There's no opt-out, no notifcation in their TOS they're doing this, and you can't see the results of that collection in Google Takeout.
https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/privacyofdialerandsmsapps.pdf
@frankie fwiw Snap keeps everything for a minimum of 30 days, not just for account deletion.
It's pretty deceptive I think. From the user's perspective chats and stories go poof after a day, but Snapchat hangs on to the data for a while. You know, in case of law enforcement requests and totally not data mining.
@urusan I see the two as having a lot in common, even if Gen Z can't detect a dialup failure by sound lol.
Multiple once in a lifetime financial meltdowns, 2 twenty year wars, seems like California has been on fire since the 90s and it's only getting worse...
From my perspective the difference is that millennials are jaded. We were there when optimism died, now we're pushing 40 and still paying for college. Gen Z still has some fight in them.
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NFTs are Broken By Design https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/88bcd032-73de-47b9-be2f-3d3707424129
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I wrote and self-published a #book .
Please check it out, and get it for now, here: https://github.com/manuelcaeiro/mybook-vol.1
@al1r4d I still prefer CDs too. It's nice to actually own the thing I've purchased. Ripping them to FLAC and streaming from my own hardware the quality is way better too.
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Fox News when gas prices were low under Obama.
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rupol now and then
Political cartoon from 1968
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I think I've decided that I hate owning a house. I wish I'd know this 5 years ago when we were scraping money together for a down payment, but it really is just one giant pain in the ass.
On an unrelated note, anyone interested in buying a house in an overpriced neighborhood where the basements are prone to flooding?
@al1r4d I tried it recently too. I can see why people who don't like Mastodon would like it, but I don't think I'll be switching anytime soon.
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