skummetmaelk

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by skummetmaelk 4y ago
So what? Are we going to find a new word for "driver" because it brings to mind being driven to do something, without autonomy, perhaps against your will too? Are we going to remove "duplicate" because we can somehow ima
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
> If you aren't paying Google, then they are harvesting your attention, activities, preferences, and future spending habits to eventually sell to the highest bidder. Do they stop if you pay them?
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
Except if you don't want to sign into icloud.
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
Potato potato.
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
Nothing makes me more depressed than thinking about the amount of human ingenuity dedicated to making teens spend as much time as possible consuming "digital crack".
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
> These are false equivalencies to the question of restricting raw milk consumption. E.g., it’s illegal to not wear a seat belt because i don’t want a stranger splattered on my windshield - that affects me yet i would have had no choice
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
That's the federal ban. Individual states restricted sales of raw milk prior to that. I just find it weird that we start applying germ theory to combating tubercolosis outbreaks, find out raw milk is a problem, FDA makes recommendation
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
It must be some weird blindness to the privilege of living in a mostly well organized and safe society. The rules were established a long time ago and do their job like a well oiled IT support department. Invisible to the common person when
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
Yes, everyone knows. That's why there are people in this thread and others like it, on a website catering to highly technical people, who are surprised at how deep the tracking goes and what it is used for. Surely then, the average per
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
> To emphasize the importance of negotiation: several friends of mine told me their bosses said they could have started with nearly double their starting salaries if they had negotiated better, so this aspect makes a huge difference, at
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
It's not like paying for YouTube prevents Google from hoovering up your data and using it for targeted advertising. Sure, you won't see the ads on YouTube, but you'll see them literally _everywhere_ else unless you use that a
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
A few countries in Europe ban face coverings in public. Mainly driven by fear of people wearing burkas.
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
I support several content creators on Patreon because I greatly value their content and want them to continue making it. I realise not everyone is in a position to do so and that is fine. > If something can be taken for free with no repe
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
That's not my point. My point is that content has evolved steadily into becoming something that a great deal of the population actually feels bad about consuming. They feel bad about losing hours on Youtube clicking video after video,
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
How about making content that people actually feel like they obtain value in their lives from. They'd pay for that. Instead we have the majority of content creators engaged in an arms race to hijack your attention and produce the most
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
> It corrupts and twists everything it touches into a constant hustle for eyeball-cash This cannot be overstated. Everything today is a battle for eye-balls and ad money. The corruption is insane. You can't even buy appliances desig
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
5G modems in every TV are just around the corner.
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
Banning targeted advertising is the only solution. Confine ads to known spaces you can visit and expect to be advertised to. You can still find new products, but the economic incentives behind surveillance capitalism are gone.
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
We're approaching the point where asking this question is like asking why we set a cold temperature record when there's supposed to be global warming. It's just willful ignorance.
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
> Maybe places will find a workaround like just export the video to a different geographic zone datacenter to analyze it. Which is also illegal.
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
A language is a dialect with an army and navy.
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
The market has spoken. It wants factories to dump waste into nearby rivers because it allows them to make cheaper products that are more competetive. It's not really a good argument is it?
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
Considering the statistical overlap between climate change deniers and religiosity, belief in natural medicines, and likelyhood to believe in conspiracy theories. Climate change deniers are not denying it based on the quality of the researc
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
When all you have is a hammer...
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
Do you have a source on that? I'd like to know more about it.
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
On the other hand being overly optimistic about ideas that are clearly silly/inefficient/worse than every other option is how you waste millions of dollars on things like solar roadways or the Dodger stadium dugout loop.
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
And why is that? That is because national media cover only national politics in 99% of cases. The EU is only mentioned when the national politicians blame the EU for some of their own failings.
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
Well I guess I had been putting off setting up that pi-hole for too long anyway.
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
It's more like you going to the public library to borrow every single book they have. Thereby forcing the library staff to handle all your requests. You would probably not expect to be allowed to do this in real life.
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by skummetmaelk 5y ago
You underestimate what people will sacrifice in order to be able to say "Alexa, what's the weather like today" rather than pull out their phone and open the weather app which is probably faster to do anyway. "But what if

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