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- Comment on 'Scowling Void of Pure Nothingness': Critics Destroy $75 Million Melania Trump Documentary | Common Dreams 1 week ago:
Stupid way to ignore that guy’s point.
- Comment on 'Scowling Void of Pure Nothingness': Critics Destroy $75 Million Melania Trump Documentary | Common Dreams 1 week ago:
As usual, people are giving way too much credit to Trump. The money wasn’t given to him, it was spent on making the shitty movie.
- Comment on 'Scowling Void of Pure Nothingness': Critics Destroy $75 Million Melania Trump Documentary | Common Dreams 1 week ago:
No, insulting is absolutely worthwhile, do you think their goal was to get universal scorn?
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 1 week ago:
Isn’t that already the case though?
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 1 week ago:
Theft of what? The jobs are a legitimate concern though.
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 1 week ago:
Just about every serious commentator in the tech and business spheres find a total VPN ban to be extremely unlikely, despite the rumblings of a few geriatric Parliamentarians. More leaders in the UK have publicly stated that banning VPNs is not on the table and that they have legitimate uses.
Restricting something for children is not the same as so doing for adults. Society already does in a number of ways (driving, smoking, alcohol etc.).
Enforcing a complete ban would be extremely difficult technically and would do serious harm economic harm and undermine cybersecurity. The government is not going to do that out of “spite” despite your generalized anti-government sentiments. Restrictions on kids is not a VPN ban, which would be catastrophic and frankly impossible in the UK. It’s not China. Not only does the UK have different standards and not only do the lack the strangle hold China has, a governing party in the UK would face repercussions for the economic devastation and be voted out of power. As I stated before, in democracies at least, politicians care about the economy because voters care about it, usually more than anything else.
Push for government-sanctioned client-side spyware already happened years ago with the intent to scan all content and keeps happening every other year, each time with more support
Any serious attempt to implement CSS would be met with fierce opposition from constituents and the industry. Not too mention the economic fallout and technical infeasibility. These are the reason any such proposals have consistently been discarded. It’s worth it to pay attention, sure. And to push back if they ever really try. But the odds of it happening are low.
each time with more support
That’s not really true. At best, support fluctuates. Amongst some lawmakers and law enforcement, you’d probably see a higher level of support but those are pretty much it. Media headlines overstate it because it gets views.
there’s constant harassment to tech company for them to create backdoor for spying on demand
Maybe but I think many of them would stop operating in the UK rather than take such a major hit to their reputation globally. This very thread is about companies refusing to operate in the UK. Apple and Signal have both said they’d leave the UK marker before allowing CSS. Not even Google would be down for that.
Years of them pushing for this without success is an indicator that it won’t happen, not that it will. We have to keep in mind that the limitations and fallout that have kept this from happening so far continue to exist. The UK would become a tech pariah, which is actively doesn’t want.
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 1 week ago:
And that’s exactly why they will try
And exactly why they’ll fail. I can guarantee it’s already a minority of lawmakers and that number will dwindle when younger members of their staff tell them how stupid it is.
And every business or school of any size is the “elite”?
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 1 week ago:
No, it won’t. The CCP has no competition. The UK is different.
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 1 week ago:
So you can still easily hide your location? If I live in Maine and my IP says California, that’s still the same country.
Companies and universities are controlled by China in China. There’s no opposition party that will win the next elections based on the bad economy.
Again, this thread is about the UK, which is WHY I’m speaking in terms of Western democracies.
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 1 week ago:
Isn’t a democracy. We’re talking about the UK, remember?
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 1 week ago:
Anyone who thinks government would never do something as utterly stupid as shooting itself repeatedly in the everything out of spite is deluded
Yeah, that’s just kind of unsubstantiated anti-any-government that is not reflective of reality. We can already see the discontent causes by Trump’s economy, it’s the biggest threat to him.
Now tell me, how many insane things have we witnessed in the recent years from our collective governments
What does “insane” mean? How is that measured, however you see fit?
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 1 week ago:
Some random YouTube video? Weak.
Anyone who thinks a government can ban VPNs without destroy economy is deluded. Countless businesses use them every day.
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 1 week ago:
And UK bollocks grew 5 shades bluer that winter
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 1 week ago:
Blatantly misleading title. Makes it sounds like it encompassed more than just search engines.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 2 weeks ago:
First and foremost I would never use one of these things.
That said, supposedly, you can opt out. That won’t protect you from warranted access from law enforcement. Probably not worth it, the peephole works fine.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The history isn’t the stories. It’s who wrote them, why and what the stories meant in their lifetimes and social context.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The history of the Bible is really interesting. Not saying the stories are true but more about how/why they were composed. Especially when looked at in the context of the Ancient Near East.
I believe certain texts/stories had been floating around for centuries but Jewish leaders decided to make an official text after returning from Babylonian exile in the 500s BC.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Genesis
Gimme that sweet tower of babel sugar
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It is entertaining in a fucked up way that god kills his family and then at the end is like “uhh… here’s a new, entirely different family, let us never speak of this again”
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
Or it makes the most sense logistically based on refrigeration needs and building layout.
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
Apparently it’s a conspiracy that they play pop music and offer fresh bread on premises.
These people are fucking idiots.
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
A possible strategy to increase the bread consumption is to make bread more attractive
What a fucking conspiracy, people like fresh bread. This is so fucking stupid.
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
Is this anything you fucking morons won’t whine about? How do they design the space to do that?
It’s not even that, grocery stores bake bread and spread bread smell since it perks people up and makes them more willing to spend, play specific music that calms and soothes you so you’ll walk slower
Jesus fucking Christ, listen to yourself. Everything is a conspiracy to you goddamn idiots.
Baking bread on site is a conspiracy? You need to seek help, this paranoia to point to the point neurological concern.
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 3 weeks ago:
More imagined victimhood
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
Then shut the fuck up and leave the conversation.
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
Can you read? He’s talking about enforcing a separate system, not simply “wanting people to be courteous”
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
You not having seen one doesn’t mean they don’t exist in Europe.
When you leave a room, are you aware that that room continues to exist?
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
Lol, what? I have no issue navigating one. “Overloads you with information”, for fuck’s sake, they’re selling thousands of things.
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
Why do you think disturbing people while shopping is a left wing thing?
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 5 weeks ago:
Also a bit of hypocrisy decrying Maduro’s illegitimate government and then cheering on your own.