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RememberTheApollo_

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RememberTheApollo_ ,

They’re going to fight tooth and nail to do the usual: remove any responsibility for what their AI says and does but do everything they can to keep the money any AI error generates.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

I don't think that's going to be the case. People will find workarounds. The whole point of these alternative browsers is to use the web in whatever way the developers think their user base wants to use it. If the web is inaccessible to non-chromium browsers then people will spoof their browser to the site to look like a chromium browser.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Cops patting themselves in the back for busting this theft ring while it was a regular citizen who took the time and effort to do the work the police couldn’t be bothered to do in the first place.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Seconded. Only downside is that you might need to replace part or all of your dash where the radio goes (because many radio designs are proprietary and aren’t a standard double-DIN bezel), and possibly get an adapter if you have any steering wheel controls like volume or skip. It can be a little involved, though generally the instructions are quite good if you buy from someplace like Crutchfield, or use YouTube videos explaining how to remove and replace the parts.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Now if we could do like other countries and just have the government send a pre formatted document of things like wages, dependents, and other taxable items so we all know what we owe because the government has all that information already. Add what you need as far as write offs or other income and send it back. Done. None of this collection of tons of different forms, figuring out what percent you can write off, etc. and submitting it all hoping you don’t get it wrong and get audited or owe fines and interest.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

That’s completely subjective.

Depends on what you want to get out of your hike. Want historic sites and a café? Go hike an old city. Want mosquitos and beautiful open vistas? Go hike a mountain trail.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Well, if you insist on technicality:

a long walk, especially in the country or wilderness:

So a long walk in an urban environment also qualifies. However, I agree that “hike” more commonly means a rural excursion.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Stole this from the boomers posting it on FB.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

I’d have a lot more sympathy for this comment if people would actually do this in reference to Space Billionaires. I’ve had far too many conversations online and elsewhere where the individual shits on NASA for space industry problems and worships Space Billionaires because [some convoluted “government bad rich entrepreneurs good” reason] and their problems aren’t really problems. I’m not saying you’re part of the billionaire sycophant club, but I’m not against musk’s well deserved criticism as he sacrifices people in his rush, and probably work quality suffers alongside them.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Worst Santa.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Dr. Richard Chopin.

Too subtle?

RememberTheApollo_ ,

The people yelling genocide over and over have an agenda, not an opinion.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Yeah, that’s totally what I said. (Deep /s in case it isn’t obvious)

RememberTheApollo_ ,

One of the things I haven’t seen yet is that this may push people to upsize their drinks so McD’s can charge more. If you know you can’t get a refill some may choose the larger drink.

Profit.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Welcome to your deregulated "free market", Texas. Don't want to be tied to government regulation? Guess you get to pay more or cook...or freeze. Your choice by season.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Unless it’s life threatening, we all wait in line at the ER. It takes me 4 months to get an appointment with my PCP, and any specialists tests take weeks to get (again, unless it’s a need-it-right-now thing like a chest X-ray for pneumonia). You wait your turn at any walk-in clinic.

Dunno why anyone thinks we have it special in the US.

Oh, wait…if you’re wealthy you can get seen immediately. Guess everyone’s wealthy in the US.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

As an American, please vote. Our country is owned by the corporations, at least yours can bring them to heel sometimes.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

This. I know FB/Meta is awful, but I have a ton of hobby and interest groups I participate in on the platform. So that’s why I stay. However, I have all sorts of browser add-ons that strip the site of all kinds of trackers, suggestions, and all sorts of annoyances. My FB is closer to FB a decade+ ago than what a “normal” user sees.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Some. Other than basic anti-tracking add ons, Facebook Container is one, and so is Social Media Fixer, which will block whatever you tell it to on FB. I block all “suggested for you” as a keyword and it removes so much junk from FB. I have a couple more I think that help FB be more like its old self, but unfortunately I’m not home and can’t look them up right now on mobile.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

There is no freedom of speech guarantee in private or public enterprise. Only government.

Yet another tool that uses “freedom of speech” incorrectly to basically mean “I want to force people to listen to my bullshit.” How these people running for office don’t get the first amendment is amazing.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

That’s lovely, and I appreciate the sentiment. It doesn’t change the fact that someone abuses the term in order to force others to listen to BS. I’m not opposed to the ideal, I am opposed to the expectation that people have a right to make you listen to them.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Yeah. That’s also a problem. But then you have to upend corporate ownership of the control of speech, and we’re already facing that problem.

RememberTheApollo_ , (edited )

Funny how rich people can get away with that. I could say I fully believe I’m going to win $50 million in the lottery next week, buy a bunch of shit I can’t pay for, and probably wind up jailed pretty shortly thereafter and nobody would bat an eye. Rich guy selling vaporware? No problem, he just believed his own hype train. Sorry, investors.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

And prevent anyone from being really rich.

And prevent banks from getting too big.

And be hospitable to refugees.

And a whole lot of other things that Y’all Qaeda don’t want.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

I’m not sure about that. Popular shows get canceled, unfinished. Huge price hikes, and you can’t jump to another provider to watch the shows at a new rate or call and threaten to cancel to get a new rate. Sure, there are a few good series, but it’s still mostly crap. Sure, you can watch some older movies on demand, but plenty aren’t available, are available on some other service, and/or require you to pay a rental fee if you can find it. Prices keep climbing, ads are constantly a threat, and they place more restrictions on how many devices you’re allowed to watch on.

They are doing everything they can to re-insert the worst aspects of cable.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

How about making formula affordable. My concern is that greed will simply jack up prices and soak up any UBI, therefore putting even more people in need of financial and food assistance.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Isn't it amazing that places like this built on user support and contribution turn around and pull a “we don’t need you”?

RememberTheApollo_ ,

When does a company care about the constitution? When it’s profits are threatened and the constitution suits their argument.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

What a bunch or random junk.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Not entirely true. I lived in a house that was just over a century old. The framing was exactly what it said it was, a 2x4 was 2” by 4”. Same for all the structure. These were mill cut, but still pretty clean. It was WW2-ish and after that we started to get planed lumber that gave us 1.5x3.5. It wasn’t even until probably the early part of the 1900s that lumber started to become “dimensional”, as in the standard sizes we know of today.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Harry Potter reference.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Who says EV are going to fix climate change?

RememberTheApollo_ ,

But capitalism good!

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Don’t forget that if you have to rewind a part to see something the creator blew past that you needed to see and you get another two ads. Fuck that noise.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

I still give it a try once in a while. Often it isn’t the album, but another by the band might have something enjoyable.

Pretty rare to have a whole A-side’s worth of songs that slaps these days.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

With the advent of electronic tools (computers and other digital means of sound creation) IMO it has become rare to find an album that has a decent number of good songs on it. The band or musician(s) just seem to throw a bunch of styles at the wall and see what sticks, or the songs are so similar they just run together in a boring mass. Maybe it’s because music is so cheaply and easily produced with so little oversight and editorial input we just get what any mid can crank out with basic Ableton Instrument packs. Before, bands would have to fight to hold on to the crown and keep airplay and the record contracts coming (not trying to say the recording industry is good - its a shit industry - but it did have a few good points) and that pressure came from the record companies and radio stations. Now anyone can dump almost anything on Spotify and never look back.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Yeah. We keep trying to dump stuff in the ocean, it always comes back and bites us in the ass.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

The price will only be exceeded by the power bill for the electricity needed to run it.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Before, it was pretty much just Tesla. Now the market has more choices. They’re not dumping Tesla, they just have options now.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Yeah, how’s that going to be cheaper? Unions in Germany aren’t known for that. Unless Germany has an easier route to cheaper foreign workers with visas working there?

Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?

I'm sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I'm sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I'm sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it's been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one back?

RememberTheApollo_ ,

I turned off autocorrect/predictive text. I got so tired of the errors that I figured I was no worse off with my own typos than dealing with the frustration of having to fix and re-fix stubbornly incorrect words replacing what I meant.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Yeah. Nobody’s ever done real communism on a national scale. As in, not just being a dictatorship in charge of everything that funnels money and power to the top while giving communism lip service and the people get screwed.

RememberTheApollo_ , (edited )

I know it’s spring because that’s when the drone of small gas motors starts up. Non-stop mowers, blowers, trimmers, and chain saws.

I’ve started moving towards electric. Some of the newer, smaller equipment like trimmers have gotten really good with good power and longevity. I prefer it to gas. However, bigger equipment like mowers haven’t caught up yet, there are quite a few for smaller lawns, but bigger lawnmowers are quite expensive so far.

Hope that continues to improve.

E: it takes me an hour to do my lawn with a gas ZT mower, we have a large lot with lots of trees. Thank you, northeast US, for large lawns being in style when this house was built. Yes, we’ve looked/are looking at low/no-mow lawn alternatives. The closest in performance replacement mower in electric costs nearly $6k. It’s just not in the budget.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

They want privacy from us but not privacy for us.

IOW there are plenty in the government who don’t want citizens to have access to information about what they’re doing in government, but they’re quite happy to try to make more legislation giving them rights or backdoor access to citizens’ information.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Well, you could land on a bad site full of nasty ads or wind up downloading software that offered you the finest of malware or viruses.

And you could just not go to them, or not download sus programs or warez.

Now the sites and apps hunt you down and shove it in your face. They follow you, rat on you, sell your info, and constantly try to sell
You stuff every page you land on.

Yeah, Old Internet wasn’t great, but it wasn’t institutionalized malice like we have today.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

No. Several Jan 6 participants tried burners and they still got caught because the burners were still linked to their movements and activities and their personal phones were unusually unused/off/immobile for the amount of time the burners were used. You would have to expend a lot of effort to make sure your burner was completely disconnected from yours and your phone’s location, as well as making sure your phone showed signs of appropriate activity in your absence.

Not so easy.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Seconded for difficulty with Razer products. 15+ years ago they were pretty good. But since then I’ve had 2 headsets crap out right after warranty, one in warranty failed, mice quit working and a keyboard fail. They only replaced the one headset. Plus, their gaming software for their upper tier headsets is unbelievably bloated and awful. I’ve had to uninstall and reinstall it several times to get it working when some update f’s it up.

So far, my Logitech gear is still trucking along, even my cheap $14 travel mouse.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

They are not the same. One manipulates and exploits its own country’s citizens for profit, the other exploits and manipulates both its own and citizens of other countries for profit and government data collection.

While TikTok doesn’t offer financial incentive to any US corporation, it certainly offers incentives to the users of the platform.

Let’s not move the goalposts/butwhatabout to talking about minors using social media or Chinese manufacturing, that’s too much to get into and keep it focused on the communist/capitalist debate and why TikTok is being treated as it is.

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