xe3

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the actual point of a bra?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got stoned enough to forget my age a few months ago… not like for a moment… I consciously focused on it for 5 minutes, couldn’t figure it out, and couldn’t remember until the next morning…

  I am old enough to occasionally forget my age, not to literally not be able to recall it… so I can empathize if bro is just waaay too stoned to comprehend the concept of a bra haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the actual point of a bra?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Make: Bouncy things less bouncy Pokey things less pokey Gravity less gravit-y

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbf most consumers hate all customer service.

  While I’d prefer to just speak to a human, I’d much prefer AI over the status quo of dead dumb automated systems that just keep looping through the same preset options until you get enraged and give up or mash zero

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ironing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Slutty Little Tramps

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN by Google One is shutting down for good⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering that in this analogy you’d be asking the mugger to be your protector it is still unreasonable.

  Particularly considering there are plenty of reputable and privacy respecting vpn providers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN by Google One is shutting down for good⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah voluntarily using a VPN from Google (the largest tracking and Adtech company), is like voluntarily seeking out Mob “protection”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just wish that a free-speech-absolutist-billionaire would buy the platform so things like this wouldn’t happen anymore. He could even rename it something cool (like ‘Y’ or ‘Z’) to get some street-cred with edgy middleschoolers…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do we think of greenpeace activists?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there is no “we” and there is no “them”

  It’s an arbitrary distinction between two groupings that are too broad to meaningfully judge.

  There is also no point or honor in judging on its own. If you dislike Greenpeace’s approach, find another approach and devote yourself to it, put your money where your mouth is.

  Activism is in reality often a choice between choosing the least worst strategy in a context where you have limited power and control, and any decision you make will alienate someone. Particularly the armchair-sitters who believe they are “in the middle” and who’s only contribution tends to be saying empty things like “I believe in their mission just not their tactics” but don’t put forward a practical strategy of their own. This applies to most activism, particularly direct action.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microplastic overdose⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, the so called “”cheese”” inside the plastic wrap is probably mostly plastic / petro product as welll…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of those alternative “YouTube” apps are not limited to YouTube as a backend/source of content. I don’t recall if it’s freetube, new pipe or both that allow using Peertube and YouTube from the same app, which helps bridge the gap in content / ease the transition from an end user perspective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think about MX Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the fact that OP calls systemd “new” or even knows what systemd is makes me doubt the authenticity of the original post (or more likely I just misinterpreted the top post).

  I read it as an excited new Linux user who “Doesn’t know how to use Debian” and is enthusiastic about MX Linux. But there is no way in hell someone who doesn’t know how to use Debian would have a preference for alternative unit systems and definitely wouldn’t be calling systemd new

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Please see comments)Alternatives to Signal if they exit EU due to ending E2EE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Signal won’t leave unless they have to (have to meaning if the only alternative to leaving is to undermine user privacy/security which they will not do)

  And if Signal has no other alternative than I can’t see how every other e2ee messenger wouldn’t also face the same difficult choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think about MX Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Debian is far from difficult but it is certainly not as easy and beginner friendly to install as Ubuntu, Fedora, or Mint or any other mainstream distro (unless I’m using the wrong iso or something). Debian is a great intermediate distro, but I can’t feel comfortable recommending it to newbies until there is a proper beginner friendly guided install process.

  I understand and respect the choice of some distros to not go the guided installer route and go with approaches that are more traditional, flexible, and better suited for more advanced users. And I don’t want to see these options go away. But I don’t recommend these distros to beginners unless they express interest in learning/DIY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think about MX Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If it works for you go for it. I don’t hear much about it, and haven’t encountered anyone using it. I know it is one of few Debian based distros that is based on Debian itself and not Ubuntu, that is about all I know about it.

  What attracts you to it? What are its selling points and what makes it different from Debian? Do you know anything about the developers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix says people just kind of rolled over and accepted the password sharing crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not for long. Netflix recently changed their rules so that regardless of the number of screens you pay for you they are going to start enforcing that you all primarily live and access netflix from the same household