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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I like that rule

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The list would be fluid

  If the killer keeps the money they take the ‘vacant’ place in the list, in the end the person most willing to use violence and most capable to buy protection end up with most money. Might not really be a meaningful difference to what we have now lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A mural drawn by artist: Topsy depicting Alex Pretti trying to protect Lady Justice from ICE.⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it’s by Topsy. Also, OP put his name in the description.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A mural drawn by artist: Topsy depicting Alex Pretti trying to protect Lady Justice from ICE.⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  R.I.P. Alex Pretti and Lady US justice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨noyb win: Microsoft ordered to stop tracking school children⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Not necessarily, TikTok now delete accounts they believe to belong to children under 13. They could have chosen to do age authentication the British way but i suppose they had a big reason not to. Microsoft might understand they could lose business if they force users to prove they’re not children. It’s not like everybody would trust MS with such data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨noyb win: Microsoft ordered to stop tracking school children⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Humanity is a corrupting force.

  There is a reason we put locks on our doors and have insurance in case someone does break in. Sure this is an issue that needs to be addressed but it is one much smaller than getting the people in power to put things in motion. Once that happens (and we’re getting there) there will be funding and a public awareness campaign for sure, especially once the first politician gets hacked because they were using non-proprietary software because he wanted to kick Big Tech out..

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truth hurts!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truth hurts!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally for me having the comfort of modern life beats getting to live with dinosaurs, but no judgement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 2024, 2.3 billion people experienced food insecurity and 2.6 billion people couldn’t afford the least expensive healthy diet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But at least we might soon have the worlds first trillionaire /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denominator, go Mercator⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  but that was just Mercator playing a trick upon me

  Nearly every projection that show the entire globe on a 2d canvas will show you a map where the horizontal distance is almost double the vertical distance, so it is very correct that a journey from the top to the bottom is much shorter than from the most left to the most right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denominator, go Mercator⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Crossing the globe north to south is the same distance as east to west, but since it is folded open on 2d maps it looks as if the earth is wider then it is higher. In this projection that means the map is stretched more horizontally than vertically, if i understand correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denominator, go Mercator⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There also an interactive version of this, also a bunch of copies (not sure if this is the original, but i believe so): https://thetruesize.com/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China Ties Need to Be Repaired, New Czech Premier’s Adviser Says⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If China stops treating Europe as hostile, maybe. But let’s not replace our dysfunctional relationship with a fascist world leader with another one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man uses 99 phones to trick Google Maps into thinking there’s a traffic jam to prove a big point⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a neighborhood in the Netherlands near the beach that was being flooded by tourists looking to park their car, they complained about it but the local government didn’t listen to their concerns. So then they decided to take matters into their own hands and came up with a plan to continuously report road construction to Google. The result was that Google Maps no longer directed tourists into the neighbourhood, but this led to parking problems at the beach entrances but instead of building more parking spaces the municipality created signs telling drivers to turn their gps off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man uses 99 phones to trick Google Maps into thinking there’s a traffic jam to prove a big point⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This could also lead the opposite way, having traffic be redirected so they can do their razzia in peace…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two-shay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So she did know a woman who didn’t but she dead now? RIP grandma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Carney mulling $1B membership to Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t have to sell it to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Threatens Tariffs on Any Nation That Opposes US Efforts to Conquer Greenland | Common Dreams⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the craziest things he did in geopolitics so far:

  • Greenland is NATO-territory
  • Greenland would like to be (more) independent and is very willing to sell rare earths to the US
  • Greenland (through Denmark) signed treaties decades ago to allow US troops and weapons on its soil no questions asked

  So no need for US to own it. Also,

  • Greenland does not want to join the US

  Make America Go Away!

• ⁨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 ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just a stamp saying ‘this person is unwanted but haven’t found a reason to get rid of them yet’ so you can show to the next ice ‘agent’ you’ve already been harassed earlier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well if north-Korea can call itself and democracy, why can’t Trump call the us an island?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally meant that as a good thing, now I read it back I see how that could be interpreted differently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we have shampoo, conditioner, and body wash soaps?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same goes for cleaning your house, you can choose to a buy a single bottle of buy multipurpose cleaner and clean everything with that. Just pour it over dirty dishes, dirty loundry, sticky floors, smelly toilets. Just kidding of course, but there is a balance. You don’t need handwash, feetwash, neckwash and bellywash because those areas are rather similar. If you have sensitive or acne prone skin you better get something gentle for your face. If your hair doesn’t gets clean with body wash (or you get dry or oily skin if you wash your body with shampoo), better get something specialised for that.

  That leaves you with 1 to 3 cleaning products (bodywash, facewash, shampoo). If you not only want to clean, but also want to care you’ll need 1 to 3 caring products (body lotion, face cream, conditioner). But capitalism means you can get 1 to infinity products, it’s good you’re questioning what you do and don’t need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indonesia blocks Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad someone does, now the rest of the civilised world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  instead of love and therapy.

  Way too late for that. But i honestly think if he was loved as a child nobody outside of upper class new york would have known his name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5 million users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t imagine that was after facebook took over

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's coming?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget to also bring a second you that you’ve had in the freezer, shovels don’t shovel by themselves!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨idk how to title this one man⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only in your version lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My point is the USA is a warmonger who needs to be treated as such.

  Not only your point, but also China’s point. I think it is fair to talk about the wrongs of China when they point the wrongs of the US. On the other hand, since I am not from either country i feel they can endlessly point at each other because it might fuel the desire to be better. And both China and the US really need to do better when it comes to abiding to international humanitarian law.

  This is a perfect example of the pot accusing the kettle, that saying is exactly meant for ‘whataboutism in the opposite direction’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re very vocal about the perceived infractions of others, while refusing to acknowledge their own.

  Its more about shaping the perceptions of their own citizens than whatever foreigners might think.

  Unlike the US. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would be interesting if they rerelease it with even more redacted