deweydecibel

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Let's be real, close to a majority of Americans have no issue with their iPhone being used as part of a mesh tracking network, even if it helps abusers with airtags.

All they have to do is sell this to people as benefiting them, and they will gobble it up. Hell, chances are, insurance companies will start offering reduced rates if you drive one (and then they buy the data from Ford and increase rates with it).

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Not just a law enforcement thing, either.

Ford will absolutely, 100%, start selling this data to insurance companies, who will absolutely use it to increase rates.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (6 children)

Both Hillary and Biden are closer to the country as a whole and more likely to pull moderates, who you need to win if you want to actually win a national election.

The internet has allowed leftists to delude themselves into thinking the only people that need to be appealed to is them.

They fundamentally do not understand the kinds of people that make up this country. I'd love if we were a left leaning population. We aren't. Continually lying to ourselves about why Bernie didn't win is a type of paralyzing ignorance that only looks more and more absurd as the years go on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (12 children)

I love how the narrative focuses on 2016 and not 2020, where he lost all on his own.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Legitimately, they have an entire video sub where the spam garbage.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Please stop dragging her into this.

She'd never want to be President. I'd argue we wouldn't like her very much if she was the kind of person that did.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

iPhones will report it too if they have Maps open.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Except no serious regulatory laws will ever make it through Congress so long as it's as broken and paralyzed as it is now.

That's the point. That's the strategy. Congress is frozen, the Court is captured, and now the Executive is diminished. The government is paralyzed to regulate capitalism now. This has been the plan for a long time, only now do people grasp it.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The placement of that text is deeply frustrating. Just a black text box placed without any care? No craftsmanship at all?

And a watermark? Still, in 2024? Uggh.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This article is giving them too much credit, frankly. Saying Republican support dropped from "majority to minority" is misleading, bordering on clickbait.

All that happened was support dropped from 55% to 46%. They were only ever barely a majority.

Saying "Nearly half" or "over half" of all Republicans don't support gay marriage is splitting hairs. They all support the candidates that are against it.

The real story here is that even support among Democrats and Independents dropped a bit in the last 2 years. Meaning the fear mongering is pervasive enough to affect everyone.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (8 children)

You could also just put a fucking padlock on it like a sane human being.

At this point, you're not concerned with keeping your precious cooler, you're just looking to hurt people.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's nice to see Lemmy will be continuing Reddit's tradition of believing booby traps are ok because anyone trying to touching your precious things deserves the be physically hurt, regardless of the countless ways it can hurt other people who were doing nothing wrong.

This example isn't even defendable from a home defense angle because you left the thing out on the damn boat, not locked away. At that point it's not just a booby trap, it's a baited trap.

And for fucks sake it's a damn cooler, who cares this much about it but leave it where anyone can get it?

 

Looking for any Lemmy app that provides a setting to hide or collapse inline images in comments, like RES let you do on Reddit, or like RIF, to re-create the text-only comment experience. I've been using Boost, which I really like it and want to keep supporting, but this setting is still a WIP I think, and it's a must for me. I wanna try others until it's added.

Thanks all

Update: if you're looking for the same thing, I eventually landed on Summit.

 
 

Assuming it's a bug, was told to drop it here.

 

Just thought I'd point this out to anyone looking for an RIF alternative that's actually in the same vein as RIF (compact, simple, clean).

Boost was a Reddit app until today. They just added a preview to the Play Store for their Lemmy app with no fanfare.

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