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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements.⁩ ⁨⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Google says it doesn’t sell your personal info to third parties. While you would be well within your reason to suspect this isn’t true, it is actually legally relevant because it means, as a consequence, Google doesn’t provide a “do not sell my personal information” opt-out link which would otherwise be required by California law (where Google is headquartered).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements.⁩ ⁨⁨34⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the idea is that you are interested in a topic, and so they show you an advertisement that says “Product A does X!” You might not think about it nor click on it, but maybe later on, you need to do X, and then you remember, “hey, Product A does X, I should check it out.” And then that maybe turns into a sale for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements.⁩ ⁨⁨36⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming I’m reading the abstract correctly, it’s about twice as effective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Advertisers pay by the click. Click the Chick-Fil-A advert and waste more of their money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You can use uBlock Origin to block all advertisements. Then in the event you visit a site you want to support, turn it off.

• YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements.myadcenter.google.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, I found the evidence. It supports my point of view. I’ll paste it below.

  I have managed to create a statistic for this. There are 22,000 agents which work for ICE, although this number was 12,000 prior to Trump’s hiring surge (source). ICE claims they made 26,600 arrests in 2025 (source). This means each agent makes about 2 arrests per year on average at most. So unless you believe that most agents are checking only three or four people a year, this would indicate most people are being let go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, I came into this expecting people to understand that most (arbitrary percentage greater than 50 but less than 100) interactions with anyone, ICE or not, are reasonable. You don’t hear about these, because they’re not interesting enough to get posted on the Internet. If your information comes from the Internet only, you will think everything is extreme. I don’t like to use the term “terminally online”, but it’s a problem common with people typically described as being “terminally online”—not realising that real life is a lot more boring than it would appear from clips that people share of ridiculous interactions.

  It’s always difficult to deal with these types of comments because despite it being obvious that they show an extremity bias because the person who made them has a viewpoint influence by an extremely cherry-picked data set, they technically are logically sound (that being that an anecdote doesn’t displace a statistic, though statistics largely don’t exist for this).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Look here mate, you and I both know there’s probably no empirical evidence whatsoever about this. It’s a heuristic based on observations of how law enforcement works and what people choose to post on the Internet. This is like how people post a picture of a deformed boxed pie they bought at the grocery store to complain about it and then you assume that all pies are deformed. No, people only post the bad ones online to complain about it, but if I were to assert that “at least 80% of pies are fine and not deformed” and you choose to reply with “Where do these numbers come from? internet magic?”, I think you can see the inherent ridiculousness of that reasoning.

  I really hate that on the Internet you really have to explain to people that the things they see posted there are almost always the exceptions rather than the rule.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a guess without any empirical evidence whatsoever. However, the only reason why you believe it “contradicts evidence” is because nobody ever talks about ICE encounters that go down peacefully. People only ever talk about and post about ICE encounters that are outrageous. So all the encounters you have ever heard of will be ones where someone gets wrongfully arrested/beaten up by agents/etc.

  When I saw them, they were checking everyone and arrested 0 people in the time I observed them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You can take your own photograph or re-use a previous one. It’s free to apply through the post office. Just $30 for the fee to issue one. That’s all I paid for mine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not going to lie and say it’s 100% effective. But it most certainly will quickly get you out of ICE’s attention 80% of the time when you are not wanting a confrontation at that time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This is actually not super common. I was personally stopped by them and I was let go after showing my passport card. Ideally, ICE should not be arresting any citizens, but it happens anyway because they’ll hire anyone who can breathe and do a decent seig heil. Nonetheless, a thing that works 80% of the time is still worth having.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I got checked by ICE in Portland and they let me go when I gave them my passport card. Of course, it really does depend on whether you got an agent with an IQ of 90 or an IQ of 70. But it doesn’t hurt to have one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been stopped by ICE and was let go after showing my passport card.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You must understand, that the goal of saying that was to cause aggravation. Had I been Mexican I would have chosen a different insult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a difficult thing to respond to. I have actually been stopped by ICE because I live in Portland, Oregon. I gave them my passport card and they said, “okay, you can go”. I then cussed them out, saying “You blind motherfuckers, you aren’t even good at racial profiling; do I look Mexican to you?”

  They told me to fuck off. And I did, after giving them the middle finger and calling them “fucking Blackshirts”. But this interaction accomplished what I wanted it to: it (1) caused aggravation, (2) shows them that they aren’t welcome and (3) that their presence is not appreciated. In hindsight, I should have stayed and argued to waste their time.

  If I had just refused to do anything the whole time, the most likely outcome was that I would have been taken to the ICE facility in downtown Portland and accosted for a few hours, accomplishing nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  REAL IDs are not proof of citizenship. They’re proof that you had legal status at the time of their issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah you know the system’s fucked when even a German is calling it complicated.

  It’s easy to explain when I phrase it like this:

  • The passport card has the same function as the German national ID card, proving both nationality and identity. It can be used for land travel within North America just like how as a German you can drive to the Netherlands or Poland with only your national ID card and no passport.
  • Driving licenses in the US also function as identity documents, but not proof of nationality. It is possible to obtain a non-driving license version that serves only as identification if you don’t drive.
  • The passport book is the same across both countries. It is used for travelling abroad and it proves both nationality and identity.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The most common identity document in the US is the state identification card (“State ID”), which also doubles as a driving license for those licensed to drive. Pretty much everyone has a State ID. While a State ID card is valid proof of identity, it isn’t proof of citizenship because the Department of Motor Vehicles will issue one to anyone, even those without legal immigration status. They did not previously ask about immigration status when you are applying for one (that changed fairly recently to comply with the “Real ID” standards for the newest generation of cards), and old cards are typically good for 10 years.

  The passport card is uncommon because the State ID is sufficient for most purposes, didn’t (used to) require burdensome proof of citizenship to apply for, and could be easily obtained from any DMV office. And if you have a car, which is most Americans, you need a driving license which is a State ID anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  While I agree with the sentiment behind your post, this is like waving a copy of the Weimar constitution to the Gestapo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What should be is not the same as what is.

• YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An all in one PC is less all in one than a laptop (it's only one less part than a regular PC)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The power supply is not necessary to use the computer. The computer is still usable without it, albeit only for a few hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  While AI obviously is not perfect and is flawed in many ways, having AI sift through the torrent of comments and then flag problematic submissions for human review is likely going to be extremely effective with minimal false positives. Though I do say this as a person whose Reddit account is currently banned for 3 days for “inciting violence” because of a knife-based joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not underselling anything. I believe a quick napkin calculation will show that it’s roughly in the right ballpark.

  • Private jet: 100 million USD each (reference)
  • Superyacht: 500 million USD each (reference)
  • Sports car: 150 thousand USD each (reference)
  • Mansion: 10 million USD each (reference)

  Total: 741 million USD

  Most billionaires keep most of their wealth in actual investments (stock, bonds, Caymanian bank accounts, swimming pools filled with gold coins). Though this information is not public, let us assume that only 10% of their wealth is contained within these “lifestyle” objects, which is likely an overestimation. This would give us a total of 7.4 billion USD

  Given the actual average wealth of a billionaire to be 5.3 billion USD (reference), I maintain the objects I have described accurately describe what a typical billionaire would be able to afford (if not slightly more than they could afford, actually).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not reasonably possible to own the stuff on the left without being a billionaire. All of that would cost hundreds of millions.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Companies with TLDs named after them is the best example of how ridiculously big those companies are.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The last part of a Web address is a “TLD”, or “top-level domain”. There used to be relatively few of them, namely .com, .org, .edu, .net, .gov, and .mil. One of the functions of TLDs is to categorise websites so you know what sort of site you’re visiting. The list of valid TLDs is a Web standard and creating a new TLD is not easy.

  As time progressed, more and more TLDs were created. You have familiar ones like country-code TLDs which are for each individual country or region, such as .ca for Canada or .es for Spain.

  In the past decade, several weirder and more arbitrary TLDs which are just random words with no categorisation purpose whatsoever have popped up, like .party, .xyz, or whatever.

  The fact that Google, a private company, can have its own TLD (.google), is an indicator of how supremely influential the company is over the creation of Web standards. Not only does that TLD mean nothing and has no categorisation potential whatsoever (the company largely does not even use it), but based on the original model of only six TLDs, a private company wanting to have its own TLD would have then been considered the pinnacle of hubris.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this gets discussed in the context of the European Union whenever Poland or Hungary uses their veto power to block something important. Basically, the idea is to start “EU 2” and then not invite the offending countries. Then say that EU 2 replaces EU 1 and refuse to let anyone else tell you otherwise.