switknee

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   by switknee 1y ago

   Part of solving that problem is to make it expensive for governments to violate human rights. If spying on everyone is easier than targeted spying, they'll spy on everyone. Governments have a lot of different priorities and it's n
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   by switknee 1y ago

   Meat provides a lot of nutrition that crops do not. How about we "cut back" on manicured lawns instead? Ornamental grass is the single largest crop in the united states; and while some of it goes to compost which can be used to gr
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   by switknee 1y ago

   Gift cards are much more commonly used for scams, because your grandma knows how to buy gift cards. The difference is that gift cards are very profitable to big chain stores, whereas cryptocurrency presents a threat to the status quo. Polic
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   by switknee 1y ago

   Buses have slightly lower capex but much higher opex from the perspective of the community. City street gets ripped up by buses, cyclists get caught under the bus and dragged for miles, children get asthma from the tire dust. It being easie
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   by switknee 1y ago

   The xz backdoor was caught before anyone used it. This is typical of open source backdoors, but atypical of proprietary ones. History is full of proprietary software with backdoors which were discovered after years or decades of being activ