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eahman00
8y ago
Why would you share screenshots of death threats? That's like taking a screenshot of a picture of animal abuse that was posted on Facebook and reposting it. Of course it will get you blocked.
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eahman00
8y ago
>a pharmacy with the self-serve digital photo services ...Why does a pharmacy print photographies? I've never heard of a pharmacy selling something that isn't drugs.
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eahman00
8y ago
I believe only Debian does that, out of vanity (I presume).
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eahman00
8y ago
>becoming financially independent in the US is a matter of years [2], not decades (European here) I don't care about being financially dependent on the state, because the state is not my enemy. The state gave me healthcare, the stat
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eahman00
8y ago
The fact that fraud has been found out can mean two things: 1) That the system works so well that the only time fraud has occurred it has been found out 2) That the system works very poorly and this is the only time fraud has been found out
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eahman00
8y ago
>to display/not display ads to users whom Facebook categorizes as interested in a particular place of worship, religion or tenet, such as the "Christian Church," "Sikhism," "Hinduism," or the "Bibl
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eahman00
8y ago
That is funny. The reason I don't follow tech people on Twitter is that they spend all day posting about left-leaning US politics, feminism, LGBTQ-whatever, etc. which are things I couldn't care less about. That's one of the
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eahman00
8y ago
That's especially bad. If XYZ and 7 other people I follow also follow ABC, I surely know of ABC's existence, and I don't follow him because I don't want to. The last thing I want is seeing his tweets in my timeline!!
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eahman00
8y ago
As I said above, I believe this will be some kind of emergency measure to discredit handpicked tweets that have an enormous amount of retweets or made by specific users with an enormous amount of followers. It doesn't matter if it does
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eahman00
8y ago
I doubt you'll get right-wing stuff, this looks like it will be handpicked by some human, and only enabled for tweets they deem too controversial. i.e. Alex Jones says something, and then some human at Twitter HQ slaps a CNN tweet and
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eahman00
8y ago
>One solution Twitter is exploring is to surround false tweets with factual context I quit Twitter because they started choosing for me what they show me. Before it was all what I chose to follow in chronological order, nowadays you get