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Meeting new roommates for college and I suggested Signal and this was someone's response. I hate Gen Z.
Who the fuck uses instagram for group chats?
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Meeting new roommates for college and I suggested Signal and this was someone's response. I hate Gen Z.
Who the fuck uses instagram for group chats?
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PSA: Lemmy votes can be manipulated
PSA: internet votes are based on a biased sample of users of that site and bots
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Microsoft might want to be making Windows 12 a subscription OS, suggests leak
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Meta offering two options. Either buy addfree experience or accept targeted ads
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Anon gets his iPhone battery replaced
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Fairphone sounds great but currently has a poor price to performance ratio
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Denmark plans jail term for burning Quran in public
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Hinduism often has a belief in, "sanctity of the cow, ... the belief that the cow is representative of divine and natural beneficence and should therefore be protected and venerated" (Brittanica).
One could argue that eating beef is inciting and degrading to [probably a select few] members of Hinduism.
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Private jets are awful for the climate. It’s time to tax the rich who fly in them | US Senator Edward J Markey
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Right. There's no reason why private jets shouldn't be paying to offset 100% of their emissions. For cars it's a different story because it's a tax on the poor for something they need. Private jets are purely luxuries, only used by the wealthy, and have a viable alternative.
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Fourth of July overshadowed by 16 mass shootings across US
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I didn't know "children" included 18 and 19 year olds but not infants.
Regardless, I hope that you and your family were able to enjoy the holiday and feel safe wherever you were. Freedom includes doing what you feel is best, and nobody should fault you for wanting to keep your kids safe.
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Youtube bans 3D print channel after manually reviewing its videos as suitable for monetization [Louis Rossmann explains the censorship]
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Yep, if you're a criminal making ghost guns to commit crimes because you can't pass a background check to buy a gun (and then scratch the serial number off), then it's already a crime for you to have that ghost gun because you're a prohibited person.
Requiring a serial number changes nothing and only affects nerds, not criminals.
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What is an extremely dangerous thing that we use daily?
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Nope. Under 10% of households have a swimming pool, but over 40% of households have a gun in the USA. When we're talking about owning one as opposed to actively using one, the pool is more dangerous than the gun.
Now, if you just left your loaded gun out in your backyard 24/7, it may be a different story.
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'No accountability': Nancy Pelosi calls for term limits for Supreme Court justices
Nancy Pelosi has been a representative since 1987, predating Clarence Thomas (current longest serving justice) by four years (1991). All other justices started in the 21st century at least, and 4/9 within the past 10 years.
"Rules for thee but not for me" just as Nancy Pelosi has consistently demonstrated regarding insider trading, metal detector security, and COVID-19 lockdowns.
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Add Lemmy to Reddit r/place
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Exactly. Pump up the site visits and hope that some visitors will even come back again once they see the other content.
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Youtube bans 3D print channel after manually reviewing its videos as suitable for monetization [Louis Rossmann explains the censorship]
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Untraceable for what?
Almost all of them still use metal parts that can be x-rayed and still have barrels that leave ballistic fingerprints on bullets. Serial numbers don't make something GPS-tracked.
Untraceable in terms of ownership? There is no national firearm registry. Guns bought from FFLs require a NICS background check that is stored in an ATF database (of questionable legality), but private sale guns often don't require NICS so the database isn't an accurate registry of gun ownership.
And criminals scratch off serial numbers anyways.
And add on that any laws requiring serialization of privately-made firearms are only affecting nerds, not criminals. Criminals that are making guns because they can't pass a NICS background check will continue not adding serial numbers - because they're criminals.
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Search engines compared
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It's refutable, and also you can use Google's results through a different search engine, like SearXNG
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Do you use adblock? Why? Why not?
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This.
If you're a creator or platform that runs intrusive/invasive ads, you don't care about users
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What screams "poorly educated"?
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Without sharing too many personal details for privacy reasons, I likely have slightly less higher education than @[email protected]. Based on the info provided alone we aren't far off, but it might be valuable to also look at non-academic experience, what field, or how we compare to others in our field or region. I'm not comfortable sharing these details, so I'm fine with conceding that I have slightly less higher education.
Edit: I'll also add that I don't support namecalling.
Edit2: I want to carify that the topic is poorly educated, and in my opinion the belief that you know more about other people's self interest than they do can come from a place of being poorly educated about those people.
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Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data
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US appeals court keeps California assault weapons ban in force
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