Cue music: the internet is for porn

I downloaded porn from Microsoft.com once I’m pretty sure

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Yes. And there’s also famous people you have never heard of.

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So, regularatory capture is now announced to fanfare?

Fuck me. If our treasonous legislature hadn’t been cutting funding for decades, there would be no problem to solve. This is a bullshit “solution” to an engineered problem.

The flag is a dumpster, and is on fire.

True. Better to have at least two - the suction from the slurry will make it hard to get you out.

In fact, we never entered a lagoon without a second team on site, and one or more from the leadership team would almost always be there as well.

That’s just how dangerous it is.

Damn. That is awful.

Never even so much as consider entering a slurry lagoon without a tether and protective gear.

Used to work for a company that maintained sewer lift stations. Had my earbuds in one day when we walk into the little shack over the station. I scratched an itch by my ear, my earbud popped out and I watched it fall into the slurry. Just stood there for a moment as there was literally no action to take.

On another occasion one of my glasses lenses popped out. My coworker saw it happen, and managed to grab the lens. Unfortunately, it was a plastic lens and contact with the slurry destroyed the surface, so I had to get new glasses anyway. I was able to get a payday loan for new glasses, thankfully, so I invested in 2 pairs of prescription safety glasses!

Edit: As a rule, we all left our phones in the work truck while on site, for obvious reasons.

Yes. But actually, no.

This is about enterprise licensing, not retail (home users). But otherwise, yeah, that’s the basic idea they’re proposing.

When it comes to a consumer using Copilot, it’s all about having a new way to manipulate you into voluntarily handing them more of your personal data (which they will sell on the scummy as hell market created just for enabling surveillance capitalism).

Exactly this. He explicitly threatened to hunt down any ship that paid the toll.

Protesters have launched an effort called “Resist and Unsubscribe” targeting ten tech companies they perceive as exceptionally supportive of ICE. That list includes Meta, Google, and Amazon, but not Reddit.

That’s… odd. I seriously doubt Reddit deserves the exclusion.

You honestly expected otherwise…?

If so, welcome to how the real world works, I’m afraid…

Interesting theory. Personally, I’m from the US and fuck this place, I won’t hype it up to anyone. But that’s anecdotal, of course…

Did you ask this just to setup your reply??

Either way, brilliant.

I doubt it. I find it far more likely that the merchant is arbitrarily declining if they can’t scrape enough of your data to sell later…

Fair. I didn’t realize how embedded into my life I’ve let those fuckers get until I started looking into de-Googling. So for me it’s gonna be a slow process, but I’ll get there! Recently repurposed an OpenWRT One (a banana pi in a branded case, basically, for those who don’t know) into a home server to start learning about self hosting, which I expect will help immensely on my quest.

Firefox with the UDM14 plugin, and Google doesn’t give me that ai crap anymore.

Oh they allow alternative stores now, too; you can install Epic for example. I wonder if that’ll be subject to these new rules as well?

I’m more curious about Starbucks Exotic Coffee for Men