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Rediphile

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Rediphile ,

What's this!? Complexity in your opinions!? Don't 100% agree or disagree on something based on a 3-5 word sentence?! Straight to jail.

Rediphile ,

Imo the only actually divisive opinions are around tipping.

Rediphile ,

Eminem used the term in the song 'Criminal' which came out 24 years ago.

Coming to terms with no longer having privacy and control over my technology

I miss the days of VHS and DVD shelfs in homes, for example. If you bought the tapes and had them in your home, no corporate entity could alter those tapes without your consent, monitor how many times you watch them, sell your data to whomever they please without your knowledge, roll out new mandatory conditions to a 'user...

Rediphile ,

Yep. And I'd argue it's an almost ethical responsibility for those aware of all this to preserve a media archive via piracy. Sort of like those monks that would repeatedly copy old scrolls before they would degrade or whatever.

Rediphile ,

And it was always clearly stated as such. It's absurd that anyone was upset by this. I have yet to find a single user on here who did not properly understand what it was for, or at least none willing admit to being that dumb.

Rediphile ,

Who gets to be the parents in this situation?

Rediphile ,

I think the best solution would be daily free drugs in exchange for maintaining behavior in and around the shelter.

Rediphile ,

Sounds like something the people on top would say to ensure I work more hours.

Rediphile , (edited )

Free will also isn't real, but I don't go around to people I know and care about trying to collapse their entire world view around it. Sometimes it's better if people believe in fundamentally incorrect things that don't impact others.

Edit: here's a crazy idea, if you think I'm wrong...that's ok. Just leave me be? Maybe? Isn't that the point of my entire initial comment. Lol.

Rediphile ,

It was relevant to this discussion as I'm saying I similarly wouldn't bring this truth up with someone like my mother or similar as shown in the original post.

My goal is not to convince anyone who feels differently, I just felt others could relate to my example. I will not provide any explanation unless specifically asked as my goal here is not to force my knowledge onto someone who doesn't want it.

Rediphile , (edited )

Sorry I triggered you. I was predestined to make the comment I made. This one too. Please choose to disengage if it would benefit you most.

I'm always open to any evidence to change my position, I just never am presented with any.

Rediphile ,

I do not believe I had free will to make or not the comment. And this seems upsetting to many. So I suggest they just keep their world view if it benefits them.

Rediphile ,

Lol no it's not. This is the dumbest argument of them all.

Rediphile ,

Lol, thank you.

Rediphile ,

I agree entirely with your comment and I experience the illusion of free will. I just recognize it's an illusion.

Rediphile , (edited )

Yes, that's correct.

I have answered the only question presented to me. The rest is you ranting aimlessly to feel better about your own position.

I wish I had 1,000 more understanding though! If you have any legitimate evidence to provide that demonstrates I'm wrong, please share it. If not, shut the fuck up. Or don't. It's not in your control anyway.

I would greatly appreciate it if you could meaningfully clarify what 'truths' I should take away from your comment and why.

Rediphile ,

Misread your comment. My mistake. Missed the sarcasm.

Rediphile ,

2+2= who the fuck knows.

Rediphile , (edited )

Are you religious or something? I'm confused. Don't worry about me bro, worry about yourself. You sound unwell.

Edit: and the contemporary thinking is that we have free will, not my position that we do not

Rediphile ,

What name calling?

You're the only one making personal attacks. I only expressed my concern that you are unwell. Like just read what you yourself wrote, it's all right there.

Rediphile ,

You didn't answer the only question: 'what name calling?'

You may want to consider showing this thread to a friend or family member you trust and get their opinion of the interaction. I'm not at all trying to hurt your feelings or belittle you.

Rediphile ,

What name calling? What name?

Rediphile ,

Until the idiots all complained about it being 'creepy'. Ever since the tracking completely continued, but no longer with any benefit to us.

Great job idiots. Why people just don't opt not to use features they find 'creepy' I'll never understand. They are only satisfied if they bring it down for everyone.

Rediphile ,

Dealerships are literally the worst place to take a vehicle for a repair. They are in the car selling business, not the car fixing business.

Rediphile ,

Tipping landlords makes the same amount of sense as tipping dentists or food servers: none.

Rediphile ,

"Appreciate their work" is a pretty weak suggestion too...

Rediphile ,

I struggle to see Japan as a bastion of freedom lol. Fun place to visit for sure, but between the archaic drug laws and suicide forests I'm not sure they are a society others should be modeling themselves after.

Rediphile ,

'you up?'

A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock. (www.theverge.com)

A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock.::Reddit seems like a likely candidate for a meme stock. But the actual reaction suggests that r/WallStreetBets isn’t going to send the stock to the moon.

Rediphile ,

Haha same despite not being active at all for months now. In any case, the email explains only residents of the USA are eligible.

Rediphile ,

Hard to call them stupid when they got to use it for free within the return window. Seems like a good deal. I agree with all the other points though.

Rediphile ,

Just ordered one. I had no real interest, but once you tell me I can't have one....I must have one.

Rediphile ,

So not a 7000lb+ EV then?

Rediphile ,

The entire article is about an EV truck specifically.

Rediphile ,

This whole thread started because someone mentioned the idea of taxing vehicles over 5000lbs, which a normal gas f150 is not. So this hypothetical tax probably wouldn't apply to your work truck.

And yeah, I also was poking fun at the people giving you shit because they are accidentally showing implied support for combustion engines.

And I'm having a giggle in general about how often people don't read the article or get sidetracked from what is actually even being talked about.

Rediphile ,

Lol it's probably one of the most famous weather delays in history.

A rant about an experience I had with Google maps today.

I am currently studying in college and part of my college course dictates that I most do a work experience placement. I ended being placed in a charity shop. The first couple of days went well. Its a small little shop in a shopping center so there wasn't much for me to do. So they decided that today I'll do some work in the...

Rediphile ,

Had you accidentally turned on 'avoid highways' by chance? Because the one time that happened to me it was.

Rediphile ,

I don't believe it was ever called 'private mode', or am I wrong on this?

Rediphile ,

It seems the whole last decade has been focused on dumbing the Internet down for the dumbest 10% of the population. The Internet was better when it was less inclusive.

Rediphile ,

The amount of words needed to fully explain this to tech illiterate idiots would be so many that those idiots would just argue they cannot be expected to read all of it. These people already do this with the terms + conditions documents they agree to.

Incognito mode did every single thing it said it did and behaved exactly as I expected from day one. Is there a single user here who actually was surprised by how it worked? Did anyone honestly think it was like Tor or something? Why? Where did anyone ever get that idea at all?

Rediphile ,

I can bitch about chrome all day long... but none of that bitching will be about incognito mode as that was and continues to be an useful feature that did exactly what I expected it to do. Everything it said it did, it did.

Just because people made up their own imaginary ideas about what they think it does isn't really Google's fault. If people think snorkels allow them to scuba dive and then drown, I'm not about to blame the snorkel maker that wrote 'diving googles and snorkel' on the packaging.

Rediphile ,

So do you feel the naming was inherently misleading which led you astray? Because incognito mode absolutely kept things 'sneaky' in terms of hiding the things I look up from other people who use the same computer. Which is specifically what Google said it would do and showed examples of in TV commercials. And it definitely did (and still does) that.

I'm also struggling to understand what you feel you 'trusted' Google on exactly. What did they tell you that you believed but, as it turns out, was not true?

Rediphile ,

I don't understand paying for streaming media at all... but I'm from the before times.

Rediphile ,

Aww man I thought I found one! Guess I'm back down to zero people.

Rediphile ,

Yep, I never switched from torrents as I never found anything more convenient.

Rediphile ,

I always saw Google as a website too. So if I type 'giant donkey dicks' into the url/search bar, then Google is obviously going to know my preference for large donkey dicks. Since I googled it.

Or are these hypothetical common folk typing in full urls themselves or something? If it's auto-filling in any way, that's thanks to Google and they can only provide it if aware what has been typed so far.

Rediphile ,

If Google specifically denied tracking that's definitely misleading, but I'm unable to find a source for it and don't recall it myself.

Saying that the sites you visit track you would absolutely lead me to believe that search engines sites are included. Since it would not be possible to provide results for the search without knowing what was searched for by the user. And where would they send those results to without knowing the users IP or other form of network address? It just doesn't make any sense to think a search engine would not know who searched for what, since it is required for them to function.

Rediphile ,

I take a 2min pause of silence over 30 seconds of ads any day.

Rediphile ,

Agreed. Piracy, aka the sharing of information freely (see also: libraries), is a fundamentally ethically correct course of action. Always.

Withholding knowledge for personal profit on the other hand is obviously not.

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