FormerBandmate

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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Why would you ever deliberately put yourself in jeopardy of criminal prosecution ever
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
You’re thinking of cartel members like they’re VCs. They’re gangsters. They “assert control” over everything and everyone, that’s what gangsters do and they’re literally the worst ones around. There is no way you can do anything with them t
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Do you not ask questions at your job? That sounds terrible
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Calibri literally toppled the government of a nuclear power
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
This value is nowhere near 200 thousand dollars, and everyone knows it
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
There is also a massive difference between a $500 credit limit of hypothetical spending for a credit card and actually giving out $100,000 in an unsecured loan. At the worst case scenario, your credit card loss will probably on average be $
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
The government taking credit risk into account would have such regressive results it would be hilarious. The cost of college would dramatically plunge for kids from rich families taking CS and finance classes and skyrocket for everyone else
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
If the EU wants to be able to not have to rely on US data they need to have a substantially more business friendly environment for nascent EU startups and heavily subsidize them. Right now the European software market is tiny and almost ent
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Here’s an actual reliable source on the reliability of Wikipedia that confirms the meta Wikipedia article: https://amp.smh.com.au/national/evidence-suggests-wikipedia-... https://sci-hub.ee/https:/
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Contact tracing is also phenomenal cover for increasing surveillance on people, and China’s a dictatorship so no one can really complain that much. You can do things like spend more on cameras, use Bluetooth beacons to determine people’s lo
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/story-of-a-former... Yoyre like someone who thinks gravity doesn’t exist. Literally everyone knows this, they’re not stupid, they’re lied to their entire lives. There are
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
The Chinese Communist Party doesn’t give a shit whether it stops Covid or not. The technology isn’t exactly hard and they’re not doing it with US tech companies
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Apple utterly destroys every Android manufacturer in Geekbench and it’s competitive in AnTuTu, ahead of everyone for half the year
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Abercrombie blew their brand up by doing that. In today’s world that is an atrocious idea
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
It’s not intellectual. I love it, it’s great for workout and vacation pics and seeing what people you know are up to. I get the feeling Twitter powerusers hate it
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Threads is literally just textual Instagram and TikTok. I don’t get the feeling Twitter users ever really used those, and Threads is much closer to those
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
ChatGPT writes the averagest content possible. Only creatively dead websites will use it
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Threads is definitely going to be dominated by friends and family. It already is, it’s just that and memes. Twitter is much closer to your Google+, and Threads in no way will be anything like that from what I’ve seen of it over the past few
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Even the recommended page is completely different. It’s Twitter when celebrities used it before Donald Trump completely reshaped the platform
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Ferraris also go 200 miles per hour. Why do you think Ferraris include that when you don’t drive 200 miles per hour on a road
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Speeding is massively profitable for local governments. Most DC speed cameras make things much less safe by creating artificial bottlenecks on highways (there’s a 40 mph speed camera on I-66 which is 75 most of the country), but they put th
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Honestly a modern Usenet isn’t the worst idea. Isn’t it still used for piracy?
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Yeah, literally a modern Usenet. Reddit is barely different than Usenet anyway
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
The Atomwaffen are legitimately a gang that has killed several people
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Alabama used to love that method of justice. It was not a very good idea
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
If the NSA’s going after you they can probably hack your instance more easily than a professional one. Spambots might just do it anyway because one guy doesn’t have a full security infrastructure. Why do crypto and Fediverse people keep rec
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
The centralized moderator that enforced the rules got arrested by the FBI, so they have the entire server
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Instagram Threads is going to thrash Twitter. It will be insane, like Snapchat stories but much worse
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
The main difference appears to be random ideological shit. The instances I’ve heard of are Beehaw, Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml, ShitJustWorks, and ExplodingHeads, and all of them have been involved in defederation because of trolls or fascists or
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Who doesn’t make their operating system in the United States? I can’t think of any technology I own that has an operating system not made here

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