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Anon wants to live on Super Earth
no racism
white af family is the only visible race
Yeahhhh no fucking thanks.
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Anon wants to live on Super Earth
no racism
white af family is the only visible race
Yeahhhh no fucking thanks.
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Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ?
This is honestly a disgusting take because it shows how biased you are against addicts. Not a stupid question. Just a nasty one. Your 2nd and 3rd are good questions though. I don't think there's jack shit qualifying him to give health advice in reality. He's a crackpot supplement pusher. Which I feel kinda answers your 3rd; americans have a long history of being stupid and blindly trusting whatever the pill-pusher says, because they hear what they want to hear. Unfortunately.
I hate RFK and all the damage he's done/is doing to our country's general state of health. His history of addiction is literally last on the list of reasons not to trust him. In my view, a history of addiction (now being in recovery) usually gives you a pretty sane view of health, since it brings you so close to death. The overwhelming majority of recovering addicts that I know lead healthier lifestyles than non-addicts. Oftentimes when people see with clarity how much damage they've done to themselves, they desperately want to treat their body better.
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Age verification is the new digital ID
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Advertising to children is significantly more tightly regulated, for the very reason that they're so damn thirsty for it.
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My initial reaction is to be thankful; now the unknown thousands of people who don't see the toxicity of their own dependence can begin to be free. The subsequent models seem to be less prone to inducing that kind of deep infatuation.
But then I realize most of them will probably never recover, as long as this technology persists. The base model will be wrapped in an infinite number of seductive agents sold in an app, with a subscription, as a loving companion. Capitalism smells blood in the water. If I was a hedge fund manager witnessing the birth of a new market demographic with a lifelong addiction that possibly hooks harder than cigarettes, which is not federally regulated, and won't be for the forseeable future; I would be foaming at the mouth with this opening in the market.
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Engineer turns disposable vape pen into a working web server
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As someone who vapes quite a bit, I would genuinely love to see this. Disposables are an absolute shitshow and never should have existed in the first place.
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"Loomer's Gooners" declined comment
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She actually looked like a normal, good looking human before the mar-a-lago plastic treatment she got. He likes the alien look, it reflects how inhuman he himself is.
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Democrat strategists
Fucking purity testing bullshit, fully functional and operational at the highest levels. The left will purity test itself into extinction if it doesn't realize it's happening.
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A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
This is lame as shit. The tone of the writing is going to get non-tech people feeling quite dismissive, or scared enough to seek out surface level info, which just rolls back into feeling dismissive. It's actually really stupid because they're clearly driving fear, but hardly touch the real thing to be scared of. Fingerprinting is barely mentioned, it's only really addressed once, in the font identification section. The issue with all these data points is how they can be collected and correlated across the web - it basically means fuck-all if it's only from one page.
edit: On top of that, each data point is presented as some sort of horrible catastrophe, when some are completely benign. Barely addressing why some points actually matter, or not at all. (Like click/touch data, it's needed for site functionality, but it gets creepy when that data is used for things like psychological profiling)
Even more disappointing because the formatting/appearance is more than clean enough to share with basically anyone. Yet the tone and focus makes that out of the question. What a waste of time to make this.
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Bitwarden New CEO has extensive M&A, Private equity experience, Removes Transparency from its Motto
Ah for fuck's sake. Seems like every month I have to change something because some fucking company starts getting a taste for greed via data sucking. I'm goddamn sick of it.
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Want to track your package? Scan our QR code to download our app!
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Seconding this. Dropout listens to feedback. They've shown enough grace in the past for me to assume it's not intentional - there's a good chance the storefront didn't even operate like that when they set it up. It's a textbook enshittification pattern. If I were them, I'd want to know.
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We do what we must because we can.
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??? I'm not playing guessing games to figure out what you're saying. If you want others to understand your words, speak with your full chest.
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What is the most ridiculous conspiracy theory?
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Man that chart has not aged well at all, just in the last few years. Also the artist's motivations are pretty visible.
Most of these are hyper-exaggerations of what real people believe. Or purposeful misunderstandings of the underlying point. Take 'Jet fuel can't melt steel beams' for example. Used since its inception as a meme to undermine 9/11 conspiracy theories.
Ultimately this is a tactic in itself. My conspiracy theory is that all the antisemetic theories, insane-sounding theories, theories that have no attachment to reality, rothschilds etc, are not perpetuated by ordinary people (though they unwittingly participate). They are perpetuated by the very parties the conspiracies are about. If someone hears that being a 9/11 truther is inextricably linked to antisemitism, and they think of themselves as a good person, they'll shy away from ever looking into it any further than that; it's a normal reaction if someonebis already stressed, busy, or otherwise precluded from more critical thought.
Edit: Yes some of these are totally insane, I am just referring to things that have roots firmly in reality.
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What is the most ridiculous conspiracy theory?
Flat earth. At the point we're at now when it comes to personally accessible technology, anyone still believing it is 100% making a choice to do so, because it makes them feel better about things for some reason.
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Google faces lawsuit after Gemini chatbot allegedly instructed man to kill himself
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Weird how you expect intimate details like a full chat log to just be immediately publicly available, when this is currently under litigation. Really weird to basically simp for a corporation when this isn't even close to the first instance of LLM output encouraging suicide. Almost like your motivations are more closely aligned with theirs instead of average people who are vulnerable. 🤷
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People with the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap: What do you mean by "Cilantro tastes like soap"? In what way does anything taste like soap?
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I had no idea it could change over time, that's really cool. Makes me wonder what other genetic factors can change like that.
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It's an interesting situation. SPD has plenty of issues, but it's very territorial over the people it's abusing. I could see this potentially working out as planned.
Potentially.
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This Phishing email... What is the IP?
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That's exactly the reaction they want. That aspect of the scam helps filter out people who might be smart enough to properly retaliate if they were to get scammed out of 20k or whatever.
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Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US
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As a smaller guy with a slightly feminine appearance (that I try to lean away from but how much can I do), I also fear men I don't know (bad experiences) and wish that somehow I could choose too. But any sort of 'qualified selection' would guarantee someone malicious slips through eventually, and that's obviously not worth it. I'm not going to let jealousy and whataboutism get in the way of progress. On that note, I do worry slightly about how they're verifying gender? If it's by DL, this will affect trans folks in some states much more than others. If it's not, then verification becomes a very big question mark.
I also can't help but notice all the language is very passive, on one hand it makes sense they wouldn't be able to guarantee anything but at the same time I find it so hard to trust passive language from any tech company, they've all abused my good faith of it into the ground. But I digress.
No flak just thoughts, concerns notwithstanding this is good to see overall. I'm sure Lyft will have to deploy something equivalent to stay competetive.
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Get Your Freak On
Interesting. I've been familiar with this kink for years. I wonder why the sudden spike? Honestly I would bet it's related to the disturbing number of gen-z guys who lean right. No shame on the kink, I think it's great, but it's the sort of thing that definitely falls under the BDSM umbrella. Strongly tied to control and power, it gives domination in an absolute sense. The kind that should only exist in a fantasy scene, not ever carried out in real life.
To make things even more precise, I see nothing wrong with having a D/S relationship in daily life. It's totally possible (not even that hard tbh) to do it in a way that remains safe and sane for everyone. But the degree and combination of things that comprise Bimbofication (degradation, objectification, dehumanization in some instances, control of all appearance) make it a sort of advanced kink.
My thoughts are a bit disorganized but this makes me somewhat nervous as to why it's spiking. Someone or something is promoting/producing much more of it, potentially? Any ideas, anyone?
Edit: lmfao I saw it now
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Anon argues on reddit
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Yeah but how would you trust that the LLM isn't biased, or the company that licenses and puts it in a browser extension isn't either? I don't know.
I'm asking because I like the idea, it's a good one.