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Linux is not an option due legacy software compatibility - they do more than use a browser.

I think you'd be surprised. But obviously this isn't what you're looking for.

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Unbelievable. I mean look at this...

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Err. Hmmm.

Edit: The joke in my comment no longer makes sense. Please disregard.

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Reddit was always better than Digg too. I prefer the smaller community.

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This is what people like Musk are concerned about when they claim to be "free speech absolutists". This is where their concern for that freedom begins and ends: their ability to use it to profit.

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my penis has gone up two sizes

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Are these alleged "sizes" universal? Or is it like shoes where a 12 in the US means 45.5 or some shit in EU?

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I still use my porn account, though it seems that I go to it less and less

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Yeah. I'm glad that people seem to have more interest in and understanding of rent seeking behaviors, but can we stop pretending this is new?

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And he's not going to Mars for now. In NASA's moon mission the spaceship is basically an orbital fuel truck.

And my (admittedly lacking) understanding is that the rest of the contractors on that project fucking hate working with the guy.

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Oh shit guys he named three people!

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Don't worry guys, it's not racist because he said they're "his people".

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Are we playing a game where we list the names of greedy fucks who have ruined society? Because I assure you that we're looking at a ration of 10:1, at least, of white names vs. any other ethnicity. And that's being extremely generous. It's all old white dudes.

Stop fooling yourself. Power is defined by "whiteness," it's literally a synonym for systemic power and control. If you're in a position to negatively affect society in such a way, then you're white.

Naming a handful of outliers means nothing. Not to mention that those people have all been furthering the goals of that systemic "white" control structure, regardless of their skin color.

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Do you have any concept of how statistics works? It's interesting (I mean, maybe but probably not really) that you can name a few greedy Indian tech execs, and act like this is some sort of nationwide or worldwide trend. As if your ability to name three people somehow negates centuries of history of the planet (including India, "your land") being ravaged by white people for profit at the expense of native populations.

If you think your ability to name three people is somehow meaningful, why don't we just take a few minutes on LinkedIn to see who's running these massive US corporations. If you want to make this a racial thing, let's see how many of them are old white dudes. Let's see how many of them ARE LITERALLY RUNNING THE SAME CORPORATIONS YOU REFER TO. But they've got one Indian dude in their C-Suite, and for you that's a smoking gun that this is a problem with their race right?

Brain broken. Taking you at your word that you're actually Indian (and that this isn't some overflow from some ethno-religious, Hindu vs. Muslim bullshit), it's pretty fucking sad that your mind seems to work this way. Talk about self-loathing.

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You know what, I just had a great idea... Why don't we try to actually make this at least somewhat scientific.

Let's compile a list of the worst "most evil" corporations on the planet. Your Nestles, your Amazons, your Down Chemicals, your Union Carbides, your Godman Sachs, your Blackwaters, etc. etc. and break down their C-Suite employees by ethnicity.

Let's see how unique this concept of greed is to Indians. I would bet my next paycheck that at the very least it would be a white plurality.

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I'm the racist? The fuck lol

Calling out the person claiming Indian CEOs are greedy because they're Indian, for being racist is the actual racist.

Go fuck yourself.

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I didn't do that, you just did. Try to grasp a little nuance.

On a systemic level, "white," is power. Power often means negative, yes.

In the US, are Italian Americans considered white? Yes. How about Irish? Hard to think of many people whiter than the Irish. I say this as an American of Irish descent.

And yet, their inclusion in this definition is relatively recent. Up until recently, Irish and Italian people were decidedly not white. And yet, the color of their pale skin...? I don't understand?

So clearly, the term (at the systemic level, obviously, I'm not talking about individual racism) is elastic. It is culturally defined in the context of the times.

At a systemic level, "racism" implies oppression by that power. Oppression against "whiteness" at a systemic level is not possible because there is no power in a position to oppress whites. By definition, they're at the top.

I fully expect you to just gloss over everything I said and call me racist again. Maybe someone will read this and think twice about how they view these things.

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Really great point that adds a ton to the conversation. Clearly the semantics of the word "political" are what's important here.

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In what country do you think you’re allowed to violate company policy?

Lol did you already forget what you said? Or did your original comment actually say, "Violating company policy at the work place has been an HR violation for some time..." Because yeah, no shit. Somehow I don't think that's what you were going for...

Did you purposefully completely change the topic, or was that some kind of "sly" attempt to pivot? Shit is real weird.

Maybe you were about to ask the actual logical follow-up question of, "In what country do you think you're allowed to discuss politics at work?" before doing a quick google search and realizing you'd make yourself look even stupider.

As if the entire conversation wasn't about whether or not something should be allowed to be a company's policy. Not whether or not employees should be able to break their work's HR policy. Do you not see the distinction here?

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"A company should not be able to make X part of their policy."

In what country is an employee allowed to violate their company's policy?

That's you. If only there was a word for this... Shmallacy?

The actual question would be,

In what country is an employer barred from firing a person for talking about politics?

Maybe I'm giving you too much credit, but I feel like you knew this and realize how stupid you sounded. The better thing to do would probably just have been to quietly exit the conversation.

By the way, check usernames, I just entered this thread.

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Lol I can't help but laugh at the disparity between the left vs. the right, when it comes to just general ability to speak coherently. Like is this even a coherent thought?

Like this is the best they've got. I guess it's no wonder then that charlatans like Jordan Peterson can sink their hooks in so easily.

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Aggressive? Uh what?

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I love seeing comments like this on Lemmy. Reminds me of early reddit. Super informative.

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https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/0b4f0df2-d98e-4c5c-94fd-4d3c702895dc.gif

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Careful, you might trigger a conservative.

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https://www.npr.org/2023/03/31/1167550482/how-a-conspiracy-theory-about-eating-bugs-made-its-way-to-international-politics

https://www.independent.co.uk/indy-eats/edible-insects-conspiracy-bugs-b2216024.html

https://newrepublic.com/article/171781/meat-culture-war-crickets

etc.

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I've just noticed that any time anyone ever brings up eating insects, or making flour out of insects, on the internet, some right wing dumbass reveals themself. Maybe lemmy is different, but I've seen that here too.

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Depends on the instance

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I would teach myself coding with books just so I could learn how to crack the DRM

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I'm certain you could find one.

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Laughs/cries in EU4.

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Richard Scarry was the author/illustrator

Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract (www.theverge.com)

Google fired 28 employees in connection with sit-in protests at two of its offices this week, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The firings come after 9 employees were suspended and then arrested in New York and California on Tuesday....

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Capitalism.

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LOL

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Would that new GE Proton-led project meant to make a "universal launcher" help with the latter? It might not be out yet.

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Of course... Can you imagine just finishing up school with a degree in Actuarial Sciences, something historically considered extremely difficult, and therefore typically led to lucrative jobs, only to find out that it is being taken over by AI, and your degree is basically an even more meaningless math degree...

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Just recently signed up for Mullvad... No CC numbers or email addresses, you just get a string of numbers and that's all you need to connect with it anywhere. And you can pay with Monero.

It's like the paranoid person's dream.

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Yeah, that's what I was going to say. Thank god that shit didn't exist when I was in college, or every paper I ever wrote would have been flagged. I guess I write like a robot.

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As others have said, Mullvad is pretty close to (if not at) 100% guarantee... No personal info whatsoever is required to be given when you sign up (including email address or payment information; you can use Monero if you want), so there isn't really anything that they could give to authorities even if they wanted.

Even if they did keep logs (which im 99.9% sure they don't), all that would show is an IP address, and from what I understand based on past precedent, that is not enough to identify a person on its own. But IANAL.

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Just switched to Mullvad and haven't tried torrenting with it yet... Doesn't work? Or just slow?

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Thing is, I don't even feel like I do write like a robot per-se... Maybe it's more like I write like the average of every person who has ever written anything ever lol.

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Is it suddenly fine to war crime my entire home town?

Depends, are there lots of black people there and/or is it called "Tulsa"?

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Nationalism was a theme of the old testament and Jesus called his followers to move beyond national identity.

What?

Gotta love when Christians ignore half of their holy book when it's inconvenient for them.

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Have they changed the fallacy to "No true Christian" yet?

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You're right, if anyone deserves the benefit of the doubt it's Donald Trump and Evangelical Christians.

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Right. I was able to skip the interview process for What because I was a member of OiNK and got lucky enough to find someone on reddit to send me an invite. The whole idea of interviewing to join a torrent site rubs me the wrong way and as I said above, I don't really care about that stuff enough anymore to go through the hassle.

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I've got a what.cd hoodie lying around somewhere. Wore that thing out for years, so it's falling apart at this point.

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I know GameCube discs had a sort of copy protection built in (don't remember exactly how it worked, but it was pretty creative if I recall). I don't think they had the CD logo on them though.

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You might be able to find some dedicated metalheads ripping vinyl, but my experience was that it seemed to be done more with albums that were released prior to the rise of digital music. I feel like it makes more sense when the album was written and recorded with vinyl in mind, otherwise you're taking a digital recording and putting it on a record so I'm not sure you're going to get anything that sounds better by ripping the vinyl over just ripping the CD. If that makes sense.

I could be wrong though...

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Yeah. I've still got my massive music collection from those private trackers backed up on a couple external drives, so I already have most of what I want/need stored in a couple different locations. And you can find 320kbps rips of stuff on public trackers these days. Might not has the same pedigree as someone on a private tracker using EAC and making sure everything runs perfectly, but it's good enough for me.

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