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by r3bl 7y ago
Because sanctions (on the Internet) will radicalize younger people. Iran happens to have an abundance of them: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Ir... If you want to help the
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by r3bl 7y ago
> Anyway, I wonder why DuckDuckGo is choosing Apple Maps. It makes no sense IMO from a user experience perspective. It makes sense from a privacy perspective. Both of the companies are probably aware of the fact that Apple Maps are reall
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by r3bl 7y ago
A woman? No, sorry, try again. Here's an article[0] from October. Relevant quote: > After publication of this article, Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, and Ms. Naughton wrote in an email to employees that the company had f
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by r3bl 7y ago
Glad we agree!
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by r3bl 7y ago
Yeah, it's almost as if I lived in that "but what about men's issues?" bullshit a few years previously. The only difference between us two is that I snapped out of it.
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by r3bl 7y ago
You do understand it, you just refuse to understand it. But to answer your question, yes. If enough women were affected that they felt compelled to step out, and men didn't, that's clearly a gender bias issue.
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by r3bl 7y ago
> I mean, they can be, but is there any reason to believe they are? Yes, there is: women stepped forward. > Have male leaders of similar protests been treated better? Men either haven't experienced the same, or they are keeping t
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by r3bl 7y ago
The one you've responded to was clearly making fun of the one who dismissed the issues as "politics".
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by r3bl 7y ago
As a rebuttal: > We are not anti-union, but we are not neutral either. https://youtu.be/AQeGBHxIyHw Of course they're gonna say that. All of the other countries listed in that article didn't, so quite a cherry
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by r3bl 7y ago
There's precisely two ways of increasing the profit: 1) raise the prices, or 2) reduce the costs. Amazon took the second route. They still can't automate everything. If they could, they'd do so already. Workers are what keeps
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by r3bl 7y ago
It's unavoidable in the short term. Way too many websites use AWS for a consumer to boycott them, and if you're using it within a company, you can't switch away easily on a short notice. But I agree, if you work for a company
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by r3bl 7y ago
Just a casual reminder that a portion of Amazon workers are on a strike during the Prime Days. Support them by not visiting any Amazon property for the next two days. No Amazon purchases, no Audible, no Goodreads, no Twitch. AWS is kinda un
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by r3bl 7y ago
It's always because of the ads. Whenever you're wondering why the video is too long, or why the author is somewhat rambling around the point, or why they include those "like and subscribe" sections in every video (someti
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by r3bl 7y ago
In general, I'd agree. In my specific example, I don't. The title I've gained in high school is "computer technician". Not everyone needs to know the alternatives, but people with my title are in the perfect positio
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by r3bl 7y ago
I believe Microsoft isn't innocent in this at all. Every school in my city used to pirate every Microsoft product there is. I was taught how to pirate their stuff as a part of my curriculum. Now they don't, but now they're ti
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by r3bl 7y ago
I believe that they're unique in a sense that nobody has typed in that exact query previously. Of course, Google knows better but to treat every search query literally. Slight deviations and synonyms work for the majority of the people
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by r3bl 7y ago
I've seen the same in Amsterdam, but I believe it's important to understand why they do that. According to additional anecdotal evidence, no cash what so ever is their way of reducing the odds of a burglary. Within myriads of sh
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by r3bl 7y ago
Yes, it's a person using a female character in-game. No way of determining the gender of the player behind that character. Hence, a gender-neutral term.
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by r3bl 7y ago
Science is never "settled". Instead, there's a consensus that most scientists agree on and build on top of. Building on top of the consensus usually explains things — until it doesn't. Then they try to tweak that consens
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by r3bl 7y ago
Yeah, I've been using DDG for years, but I just can't get "Google it" out of my dictionary. I try to replace it with "Duck it", which feels stupid as fuck to say, but "Google it" doesn't feel any
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by r3bl 7y ago
Oh yeah, poor endangered drivers. Why does nobody think about them? Injury =/= death. If you swerve off the road, you have airbags. If a car behind you hits you, again, you have airbags. You have tons of metal shielding you from a coll
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by r3bl 7y ago
Because your life, as a driver, is shielded by a huge metal can. Pedestrian life is not. Pedestrians can't put your life in danger, while you can put their life in danger. That's why, in "normal" countries, it's alw
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by r3bl 7y ago
Fair enough. I've used that term because I wanted to represent them as left-leaning "saviors" (as in, opposition to PragerU, Shapiro, JBP, Crowder, and the rest of the shit on YouTube that only reinforces bigotry) without my
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by r3bl 7y ago
Here's how Mastodon does it: the owner's account is visible from the homepage of the node, the owner of every node that Mastodon includes on its homepage has agreed to give at least a three-month warning before shutting down, as w
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by r3bl 7y ago
May I suggest Jim Sterling's video on the problem? If you can get past his snarky way of addressing the problem, that is: https://youtu.be/twor6RYVtdQ In short, G2A pretends that the problem isn't big enough, bu
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by r3bl 7y ago
Your user experience will be the same regardless of which node you choose, since you can follow people regardless of what node they're using. Every user account is constructed as @user@pixelfed.tld. But, yeah, onboarding is a rough pro
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by r3bl 7y ago
Full stack development. His work hours have recently been cut, so if you know of a freelance project or a full-time position that needs to be fulfilled, get in touch with him: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/10240941582
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by r3bl 7y ago
Ah, too bad. It's the crappiest of the bunch UX-wise, but nothing comes close to it feature-wise. I don't use it to read (I have an e-reader for that purpose), but I'd be lost without Calibre for ebook management.
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by r3bl 7y ago
And if you're into political stuff and want to actually have your views challenged instead of reinforced, on top of Philosophy Tube I'd also recommend: ContraPoints, Some More News, Shaun, Innuendo Studios, Three Arrows.
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by r3bl 7y ago
Huh? From a quick skim here[0], they don't collect IP addresses, respect DNT headers, and delete user agents after 90 days. I legitly can't think of a more privacy-friendly way to do that. If you're paranoid enough to believe

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