Duamerthrax @ Duamerthrax @lemmy.world

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There have been far too many examples of ICE detaining law biding citizens at this point. I'm a US citizen and I don't even want to travel too far.

It's quite.

Apparently this is all about bird feed. Does this stuff normally have expiration dates?

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark(1995)

I think there are several movies about this. We should stop burning fossil fuels.

5000 years could mean bones rather then fossils.

There's been runs of new plastic cases by some companies. I considered getting one and putting modern parts inside as a project, but didn't have the cash at the time. Could be something like that.

I remember when everyone was saying that companies would need programmers and that every kid should learn programming. Now I realize that companies were promoting that idea so they're be a surplus of programmers competing with each other and companies could underpay and swap out workers quickly.

Lag

Degrading minds are very trustful. It's why telemarketers target retirement homes.

Ever notice how any time a Chinese app gets highlighted as being for data harvesting, there's a bunch of people crawling out of the woodwork to claim "whatabout american apps!?", but whenever an American app gets the same exposer, noone ever goes "whatabout Chinese apps apps!?"

Highly personalized, targeted ads are more dangerous because they can create tailor made political ads. This was happening with Cambridge Analytica and it's why having any political discussion online is impossible anymore because you're never really sure what the other person "knows" anymore. Before that shit, everyone got the same speeches, news and ads.

You also have the blackmail factor. I do consider Chinese officials getting blackmail material on American politicians and businesses more dangerous then American companies doing the same. It's a small margin, but there is a difference.

The best I can do is minimize how much they get from me, give them bad data and block any ads. The few times I see targeted ads seems to imply they think I'm a conservative woman. Who the hell else would want Concern Carry Yoga Pants?

These data harvesting creating fake profiles to sell to ad companies are not my concern. Let these shit companies cheat each other.

This is just authoritarianism. I'm not a fan of capitalism, but this would look the same regardless of whether it was Trump or Stalin.

Considering the few times I've seen targeted ads, it's never actually relevant to me, I doubt their profile of me is in anyway accurate.

I use blockers so facebook doesn't know what websites I'm visiting.

Someone should sharpy a ring on the finger.

And if I don't use facebook?

But it does make ya wonder why he wanted to run for a second term.

Look at the average age of congress. Look at what Dianne Feinstein was doing at the end of her life. They don't want power. It's all automatic to them at this point. They don't know now to do anything else then grab and hold as much power as possible without any reason or purpose.

Doesn't change that I wish people cared more about when companies shutdown games that they paid for. It cost Epic pennies to keep the master servers running.

Wish people cared this much when Epic shutdown the servers for the Unreal Tournament games.

I checked it out again when reddit did their api fuckery. The progressives left and the libertarians are all that remain. I didn't stick around long enough to get a better feel for the situation.

This is just parading a corpse around. Glad I never got into Destiny.