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by toofy 1y ago
how long until we find out that the brand new government/palantir deal is using these photos as well against citizens? i give it a year or less.
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by toofy 1y ago
> we have to control the children for their own good as long it’s your own children. you don’t get to dictate what other’s kids cant see. religious fundamentalists don’t get to say other kids can’t see a gay wedding. same thing in the
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by toofy 1y ago
if you had kids, would it bother you if your neighbor told you legally what your kid has access? “no, your kid can’t have access to that pg-13 movie. why? because i won’t let my kid watch it. therefor your kid can’t either.” if that wou
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by toofy 1y ago
from what i understand orion is overflowing with bugs. even without the bugs, after everything we’ve been through with crazy shit from closed sourced browser companies, the last thing i’d install would be orion/kagi. lol nuh uh. not a
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by toofy 1y ago
and you trust meta with this? i don’t mean to be crass but that would be crazy. they have proven over and over and over and over again they are absolutely not trustworthy. at some point we have to come to grips with the fact that people li
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by toofy 1y ago
its not something i follow closely, but i have seen a lot (i mean it, A LOT) of conspiracy types claiming the UN, pharmaceutical companies, and "them" are intentionally lowering our birth rates. for the usual conspiracy nut rea
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by toofy 1y ago
the reason for people rushing to engage in birth control is mostly economics. everyone i know who prevented birth at an early age explicitly did so because it would have fucked their life up to have a baby--financially, career dreams, and
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by toofy 1y ago
for anyone curious, this wasn’t specifically trump, but it was indeed a republican congress bill. texas republican was the initial sponsor and then republicans lined up to cosponsor. this was done to fuel their tax cuts to a small group of
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by toofy 1y ago
> …removing expert humans from the loop is the deeply stupid thing the Tech Elite Who Want To Crush Their Own Workforce… this is completely expected behavior by them. departments with well paid experts will be one of the first they’ll wa
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by toofy 1y ago
this seems strange to me, shouldn’t we expect a high quality journal to retract often as we gather more information? obviously this is hyperbole of two extremes, but i certainly trust a journal far more if it actively and loudly looks to co
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by toofy 1y ago
he’ll say three entirely different things on this within 24 hours im sure. it’s likely not even legal for a president to do this to a single product or a single company. but, if this is the precedent he wants to push to normalize, i say go
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by toofy 1y ago
if ya love learning about secret spaces, there is documentary named Dark Days about the hundreds of people who lived in the Freedom Tunnels beneath Manhattan in the 90s. incredible incredible movie. the Freedom Tunnels where the crew did th
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by toofy 1y ago
went to the documentary about this at a local theater a few days ago. was good, even kept my 10 yo niece’s attention. for years i had been wondering why we didn’t have apartments/condos directly attached to malls, particularly in cold
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by toofy 1y ago
i don’t follow him specifically, but what i have seen are videos of him saying “analysis does not equal an endorsement” followed by him saying it was expected behavior given the messy circumstances there, followed up again with “and so i’m
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by toofy 1y ago
while it wouldn’t surprise me to learn they might be discussing this, but if they were it would almost certainly be in disgust—opus dei is very very extreme in their dislike of ideas such as those from pope leo. one of my grandparents dab
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by toofy 1y ago
> The problem is that everyone says we want this then votes with our wallet that we don’t. I don’t see that as a problem whatsoever. i see this idea of “i need to manipulate people for them to give me money” as the problem. “if i don’t m
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by toofy 1y ago
it is a bit troubling to me how this and stories covering the same group of people are so often quickly flagged. i saw this story on other sites and immediately thought: hacker news will be the best place to follow along with this only to s
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by toofy 1y ago
indeed. it will also not be limited to one agriculture crisis. the number of things these departments do that we don’t realize is crazy. putting out fire after fire. since these departments generally don’t brag about non-sexy things like
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by toofy 1y ago
interesting, out of curiosity did this lead you to not see his bullying and behaviors coming? did this lead you to deny yourself the bigger picture of past behaviors, context, etc…?
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by toofy 1y ago
its pretty normal not to know immediately when something with this many variables stumbles. it may take a bit, but they'll figure it out.
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by toofy 1y ago
> … what users “want”. what *some* users want. sure, it may have been a majority at the time. but imo chasing that was incredibly short sighted. many many many people warned them this would be the outcome. in typical fashion for these
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by toofy 1y ago
> which usually prompts some level of red tape, but no one likes red tape. we’re finding out in real time very good reasons why some red tape exists.
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by toofy 1y ago
the 80% does not include withdrawal. the numbers are here [0]. 80+% rely on things like pill, condom, tied tubes, etc...: 23.9: tube ligation/implants 16.4: pill 13.2: condom 12.0: iud 8.50: vasectomy 2.6: implant 2.1: injectable 1.2
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by toofy 1y ago
no, this doesn’t seem to be the case. more than 80% of those avoiding pregnancy use condoms, pill, tied tubes, vasectomy, iud, etc… this 80% does not include withdrawal. [0] 5.8% rely on withdrawal. [0] https://www.guttmacher.org
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by toofy 1y ago
oh, indeed, thanks. only like 5.8%. and only 2.6 rely on family planning. more than 80% are using pills, condoms, iud, vasectomy, etc. again, “most normal people” are not relying on pulling out. most people, by a significant amount, are
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by toofy 1y ago
To be fair, that isn’t correct at all. i could be misinterpreting what you mean by “most normal people” but it’s a wildly strange use, most people who aren’t seeking pregnancy use some form of contraceptive [0], the pill, condoms, etc… it
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by toofy 1y ago
> I am immediately asked if I have kids and whether I would support some random fascist book being shelved. i see people often claim "the left" wants to ban fascist content, but reality just doesn't seem to back this up.
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by toofy 2y ago
again, it doesn’t make me a structural engineer—it’s the outcome of hiring someone else to do it. it really isn’t complicated. i’m not suddenly somehow a structural engineer. even worse, i would have no way to know when its full of dangerou
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by toofy 2y ago
it’s not that deep. *if* it were a structurally sound bridge, it means i outsourced it. it’s that simple. it doesn’t magically make me a structural engineer, it means it was designed elsewhere. if i hire someone to paint a picture it does
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by toofy 2y ago
> Everything seems to be hastily thrown together features that barely work and piles of debt that will never get fixed. move fast and break things is going to be studied in the future as a hilariously clusterfuk misuse of an idea.

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