b00ty4breakfast

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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
How much a particular head of state fits into the modern, western conception of liberalism and democracy should have no bearing on the matter; Kidnapping that head of state and putting him on trial in a different country for crimes he is, a
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
if it's bad for society then regulate the Social Media companies rather than shifting the burden on the citizenry through ID laws and backdooring increased surveillance under the guise of "muh chillren!"
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
Probably because Instagram wasn't a direct competitor to any of those other companies (except maybe Google+, which wasn't even a year old at the time that FB bought Instagram). I don't know why softbank didn't get them.
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
Pretty sure they bought Insta and Whatsapp. I mean, that's not nothing, buying a successful business and keeping it successful for over a decade. But neither Zuck nor Meta made those platforms; they were both established successes in
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
I have plenty of ebooks, and the main advantage there, for me, is the info density. But there are still advantages to paper books. For one thing, I can't have my paper books revoked after purchase, something that happened to me more
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
Calibre (though this is not so simple with Amazon ebooks since they disabled downloading books to your PC)
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
Even if folks don't kill their commanding officers, this attitude indicates that they are less than willing to just accept their fate (with the usual caveat that you made about anecdotes and also that social media in general isn't
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
Unless you have popular support behind you, a draft is a great way to make your military less effective. You get a bunch of soldiers who don't want to be there, who may not do their job to the utmost either out of apathy or active mal
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
The freedoms afforded by obnoxious wealth far outweigh the loss of anonymity. These folks could buy an entire franchise of pizzerias on a whim and have them transported to a chain of private islands in the Pacific. The myth of the torture
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
I've been hearing about "passive income" for at least the last 10 years, and I reckon it goes back further than that.
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
Well, I'd start by making the production of deepfake porn that depicts real people illegal, doubly so if it depicts children or teens. Fictional depictions of underage people in sexual situations are already illegal in many jurisdicti
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
I think there used to be a ublock filter to hide ytshorts but I haven't used youtube in a while at this so I can't be sure I'm not imagining it. This is obviously not helpful if you use a smartTV or the app, in which case I w
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
Boredom and time breeds creativity.
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
I think in this instance the issue is that these tools shouldn't be available at all to anyone, adult or child. There are not many use-cases for generating porn from images of real people who aren't porn stars and most of them ar
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
because Meta's lobbying has been publicly identified. When the other companies are found to be spending millions of dollars to push these age verification laws, then they, too, will be harped on.
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
that bar is subterranean, haha
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
need prompt macros
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
Luckily, this is a discussion of humans.
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
condemning the US != condoning the Iranian regime. This is not rocket appliance, you guys; saying it's wrong to murder cat burglars while they eat dinner with their kids is not an endorsement of burglary (especially when the murder is
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
Criticizing the US's actions against Iran is in no way condoning the things that the regime has done to it's own citizens. Especially since those actions are contributing directly to the Iranian people's hardship. I'm n
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
There is no universe where any pardon is abolished unless there is a massive political shakeup. The entrenched political class is terrified of endangering their power and privilege even if individual players are ready to do it.
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
Of course they are, because the tech industry is run by ethical midgets and psychopaths, who shouldn't be allowed to own a dog but are in charge of trillion-dollar corporations getting shadow contracts from the pentagon. The more I lea
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
If you don't think that people are entitled to know why their service is being terminated then I don't think we having anything else to discuss. enjoy your day
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
I don't get the impression that the OP was deliberately breaking the ToS. That doesn't mean they weren't violation but you usually inform someone when they are breaking the rules, even if you are taking punitive measures. It
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
or at least an explanation. That would of course require a customer service apparatus designed to service customers rather than one designed to force them to become tangled in the abyssal morass.
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
I know this isn't really your main point but I don't think they've been trying to reduce complexity but rather increasing ease-of-use for the end-user*. Those things are often completely at odds with each other in software a
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
If starlink were anywhere close to as far away as the moon, you would have a comparable antenna size. That's like bragging about how compact your zoom lens us while your buddy trying to get photos of the Martian canals.
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"We are once again sending out checks to EU commissioners to get our handcrafted legislation put into law"
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> We can either hold ourselves back an an endless and futile journey on solving the human condition of poverty and inequality, or we can explore the stars. It's an easy choice. "Sorry, poor people; but I want to live on Jupiter
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
it's amazing, but I'll refer you to Gil Scott-Heron for my feelings on the matter A rat done bit my sister Nell With whitey on the moon Her face and arms began to swell And whitey's on the moon I can't pay no

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