well in some cases they were on the verge of being regulated or in the case of Google being threatened to be broken up. So a lot of this seems like self preservation which is just sad.

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Okay but seriously whose cum is your typical fuel?

So easy to just screenshot or something there is no reason to link there.

So at what point do you actually become a Nazi is it when start doing the seig heils or do you need to be like goose stepping down the street first?

And yet you can borrow anything from the local library for free and its considered totally fine and not pirating.

I moved to Lemmy during the reddut exodus itsjustt become better overtime I don’t miss reddit at all. Also lots of fellow Linux and free software nerds over here and I like that.

I am so out of the loop on this. People care about what instance they are on?

As someone who lives through the height of the mall era I’m sad to see the go personally. However before online shopping it was sort of a pain in the ass. Not only did you have to go to the mall for clothes shopping sometimes you would have to go to more than one. I remember school clothes shopping would be a multi day affair to buy some jeans and shirts and a pair of shoes. If the mall didn’t have the store you needed you would sometimes have to drive really far to go to that store. If the mall didn’t have what you needed you were sort of SOL. So when online shopping started to provide anything you want in a few clicks it was not just the hard to obtain stuff people bought it was everything else too. But it’s sad so many teenage sagas played out in malls for me. Friendships were solidified and dating occured there. It was a place you could hang out for a few hours with no parents and navigate teenage social life. I am sure teens will just do something else but it holds a special place in my memory.

I honestly think it’s everyone’s responsibility to make their job as hard as possible. Use providers that prioritize privacy and that are located outside the US. Don’t ever use telephony or sms always use end to end encrypted services for conversations, leave your phone at home or turn it off, use a rom without Google play services. Really drive them nuts and use cash for most purchases. This by no means stops everything but it makes it harder. You can’t stop all data collection but you can reduce it and every reduction helps.

I’ve had a brother laser printer for 8 years now. Recently my wife was asked “can we get a color printer” and I said but we have at least 5+ years of toner left in this thing!

yeah headline should have been “told ya so”

disappointed is an interesting choice of words. But I guess not having a roving hellscape is kind of boring.

I always think it’s interesting when I read these stories. No matter how bad it gets. No matter how many red flags are raised no one is going to do a single thing. Our governments are completely failing us by doing nothing useful.

honestly it’s sort of useless for that function. The only thing my family posts is dumb crap. I still basically have to see them or talk to them to actually catch up. As a means of keeping up with people I have found FB as practically useless.

we sorta haven’t. We haven’t even made it a few hundred years without a civil war or some sort of uprising.

This is sort of an interesting article. It seems like ( unlike what I thought ) the Supreme court might not have much it could even do to overturn the situation: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lawyer-explains-supreme-courts-only-wiggle-room-in-trump-colorado-case/ar-AA1m1hit

I think they mean ten

I’m feeling sorta quilbert