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by autoexec 4mo ago
> I think that this says even more about the law than about lawyers. The law seems to require a lot of documents that nobody actually wishes to read -- exactly the kind of thing that we like to turn over to AI. Why would you turn them ov
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by autoexec 4mo ago
This problem mostly goes away the minute lawyers lose their license for this shit. The system was designed with a way to kick out bad lawyers and keep those in the profession acting ethically, but for some reason getting a state bar associa
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by autoexec 4mo ago
I'm not Amish, but if I walk into a restaurant where they won't show me a menu without scanning a QR code, I walk right out.
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by autoexec 4mo ago
I had reason to pick up a couple cheap pre-paid phones at a gas station once. I wasn't asked to give an ID to anyone to buy them, but once I had them I needed to call a company to activate the phone and they were very particular about
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Exactly. Often they're not even real https://www.kcra.com/article/more-sacramento-victims-discove... The companies paid to flood the FCC with fake comments get to do it as long as they're willing to give the
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Leaving those climate refugees where they are wouldn't mean they were poor, it would mean they were dead. There are all kinds of irrational extreme positions that would maximize environmental protection. Certainly the best thing we cou
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by autoexec 4mo ago
> You're complaining about an optional back-up service. No data is being "collected," Every app offering cloud-based backup is in fact designed to "collect and store" sensitive data. That at least is opt in. The
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by autoexec 4mo ago
It's an opt-in feature. https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/08/signal-introduces-free-and... A service that advertises itself as privacy focused refusing to update their privacy policy while adding features l
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Signal just can't be trusted at this point. They're probably compromised. My theory is that that's why the very first line of their privacy is a lie saying that it's designed to never collect or store sensitive data when
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Signal outright lies in their privacy policy. It opens with "Signal is designed to never collect or store any sensitive information." but they collect and permanently store sensitive information in the cloud (user's name, pho
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Nobody implemented DRM with a gun pointed at their heads, and anyone capable of implementing harmful technology has the skills to work on something else for lots of money implementing other things. It was always a choice.
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by autoexec 4mo ago
> Whatever your philosophical stance, history has shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that giving most people complete control over their device has been an unmitigiated disaster. I'd argue that giving governments and corporations con
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Christian fascism exists. In the US it's how fascism came to the country. Christofascism doesn't seem to have any problem with the absence of atheism.
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Yet they stopped thinking as soon as their wallet got involved and never considered that their kids also need freedom and the ability to use technology that works for them and not against them. Selfishness and greed are the problem. The kid
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by autoexec 4mo ago
If they're exporting crops that's about feeding somebody . People who would have to try to get their food elsewhere and have to worry about the standards/quality of those new sources. It's even perfectly fine for people
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by autoexec 4mo ago
You don't have to jump right to one child per household (which is a bad idea anyway) but maintaining sustainable population levels should extend beyond just border control. It should include things like building out infrastructure in u
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Exactly. This is one of those "not everyone who cares about border controls are racist, but most racists care a lot about border controls" situations
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by autoexec 4mo ago
I think that immigration actually is an ecology/sustainability issue. There are economic and cultural effects to immigration as well, and that's what people tend to focus on, but they aren't the only issues to consider. I thi
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by autoexec 4mo ago
It seems like a good idea to start worrying about population long before it feels overcrowded and there's no room left on the trains. The issue isn't about how much open space there is to stuff people into, but about how many peop
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by autoexec 4mo ago
If you get a Mac it means you're paying a premium for the carefully curated Apple Experience and if you don't like it you just need to Think Different and do only what Apple allows you to do and only in the way that Apple tells yo
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by autoexec 4mo ago
The scientists they paid off are the ones deciding if food additives are safe too https://www.yahoo.com/news/food-safety-scientists-ties-big-0...
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by autoexec 4mo ago
More like a FOUND.000 folder or a root directory filled with .CHK files
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Maybe you could avoid the thornier issues entirely by outlawing the adtech industry instead of free services. With the backbone of surveillance capitalism out of the picture most of the free services would stop existing or move to pay model
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by autoexec 4mo ago
You should try it because I bet you'll find out why pretty fast. It just isn't worth it.
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by autoexec 4mo ago
I haven't checked the data for myself, but supposedly, while still not a common cause of death, malnutrition is the fastest growing cause of death in the US ( https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/health-and-fa
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by autoexec 4mo ago
It also drastically accelerated the rate that those nitrates entered the aquifer. Amazon pulled in and spit out tens of millions of gallons of water which forced the nitrates deeper and deeper into the earth until they contaminated the wate
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by autoexec 4mo ago
technology and communism you mean.
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by autoexec 4mo ago
> You don't need to have life all figured out before you have kids. You do need to be able to afford to care for them and be reasonably capable of providing them with a stable and healthy environment to grow up in though. People who
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Men can sire offspring into their 60s but not without some increased risk of undesirable outcomes such as their kid having schizophrenia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternal_age_effect
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by autoexec 4mo ago
> People forget that there's been a multi generational messaging of preventing women from having kids without economic security I think it's probably a wise thing to advise against having children you can't afford to take

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