Somewhere there's got to be an advertising exec that's trying to figure out how tall the average guy sticking his dick in a glory hole is, so they can slap an ad right at eye level. Then another ad right above the hole at eye level of the other person.

Add up high for McDonalds

Right above the hole for 5 gum

Laughtrack

Oh, yeah, I remember this episode.

Laughtrack

This is the time in Africa:

11:39am

Super easy solution: Human eats top half of horse. Horse eats bottom half of human. Mount human torso on horse bottoms. Glue together. Centaur with full belly activated. Go about with your centaur business with no more hunger.

Yes, except the machine melted his fingers in the process of making cinnamon rolls.

Yes, but same reason why you also don't see me in a lingerie store. It would be awkward for everyone, and they don't want me there just hanging out.

Which means that by inviting it into your home and giving it part of your child, you're keeping it from abducting your child later. The coin is just a bonus.

Hey, don't give them any ideas! Next thing I know, I'm going to need to subscribe to "Premium Flush+" just to make a turd go away.

TIL I am an advanced toilet engineer.

"Sorry, you can't use basic flush again for 90 seconds."

The fact that this isn't considered outright fraud is disturbing. This person OWNS the device, yes? They're not leasing it.

FFS, this should be illegal.

For anyone unsure: Jevon's Paradox is that when there's more of a resource to consume, humans will consume more resource rather than make the gains to use the resource better.

Case in point: AI models could be written to be more efficient in token use (see DeepSeek), but instead AI companies just buy up all the GPUs and shove more compute in.

For the expansive bloat - same goes for phones. Our phones are orders of magnitude better than what they were 10 years ago, and now it's loaded with bloat because the manufacturer thinks "Well, there's more computer and memory. Let's shove more bloat in there!"

STOP CALLING IT PARANOIA! FFS, This stuff is being used to track people that go to protests.

404 needs to shove their paranoia and normalize using truth and real words and not hedging like CNN or something.

The question isn't if you're useful to Lemmy or not. We don't deserve to exert any weight on your heart with opinions and upvotes.

Are you doing something you think is worth your time, with or without external validation? Is this something you would do if you thought it was basically the internet version of putting messages in a bottle?

When you are old and on your death bed, what will the value of your reddit karma be? What is the value of it now?

Do things that matter to you. Do things that help you grow and be a better person.

This is straight up misinformation. First off, it's perfectly legal.

LinkedIn does browser fingerprinting. It's the same thing Google and Meta do. It's how Google Ads is shifting to a post-adblocker revenue stream.

Browser fingerprints show fonts used, audio codecs, WebGL render data, processor, operating system - enough that if you add up several factors together, it makes a statistically unique fingerprint. it does NOT scan applications on your computer. It can't. It DOES scan which browser extensions you have running (if they affect page loading).

If you check your email and then close that and go to Google in an incognito window and search for porn - Google will fucking know what you're looking at. Gmail and all Google apps all fingerprint, and then you'll notice how Google ads trackers are on most sites online? Yep. That's how they track you.

Use a VPN? Use an ad blocker? Great - Google doesn't care. Google can track your fingerprint.

See your own fingerprint - check how it know it's you visit after visit.

https://fingerprint.com/

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

https://amiunique.org/

Typical Newsweek, I've seen several people who have worked in Nepal say that corruption was spiraling out of control and people have been livid about it for months. The protests were already ramping up, which is why social media platforms were cut off, so videos about the corruption and investigations and means to plan protests were cut off. The "they didn't register in time" excuse is for the government to save face internationally.

Not kink-shaming, but I think this transcends anything short of genuine torture.

Oh fun history time!

Especially a couple thousand years ago, the Sahara was far smaller, and far lest hostile to life. The last trees only died in the Sahara about 20 or 30 years ago. Caravans crossed regularly. On top of the very easy route from Sudan to Egypt, and the Greeks were obsessed with Egypt. Even the Bible talks about Nubians in Ancient Egypt, so if even that as a "source" knows about the well-documented reality that Sub-Saharan populations were in contact and well-known individuals present in North Africa and the Levant as far back as 5,000 years ago.

I mean, did you not even think to search for this before spouting off? Literally the first search result for "did black people greece":

Edit: meant to paste this link - my bad - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Greeks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Greeks

This is kind of useless fear-mongering suited to no one's threat model.

Are messages truly E2EE and they don't share meta data? Yes? Then you're fine. It needs a phone number for registration? OK, well buy a burner SIM card (you of course have several, right?) to register it if you're that worried. Because if you're already at a level where you're THAT concerned about your phone number pinging for using a widely popular messaging app, then you have lost the game by even having a phone or sending messages to other humans who are the weakest link in the security chain anyway.

Considering that the Feds tried to make some government-compliant front end for Signal for idiot Hegseth to use to talk about national security stuff with the Vice President, I'd say that it's probably fine for you to buy weed or whatever.

three times a year.

WTF is up with MS doing this rate limiting? I just learned that Win11 will lock you out of your own machine for 2 hours if you restart too many times, like if you have a dualboot and are doing something that requires restarts to resolve.