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  • A witness can still be punished if the court can prove that claims of poor recollection are being abused.

  • Propagandists must spend a fortune influencing the wealthy. If enough is known about them, they might even be targeted by advertisements at the individual level by fine-tuned demographics.

  • It was starting at $10k with an undisclosed reserve price.

  • Cobwebs/Penlink seemed much more tailored to that, but these companies also have an incentive to exaggerate their products' capabilities as much as they can get away with.

  • The government doesn't need a warrant to browse data that it's already in possession of. Food for thought.

  • I'll always be distrustful of Google hardware, but yes. I've been considering a Pixel as my next.

  • In my experience several years ago, Facebook was actually super fast to take down bad groups. I must've been reporting so many and with such reliability that they started coming down instantaneously after reporting them.

  • I did some digging and it seems like the family's suit should actually be against the pub that was renting the in-park space from Disney. It's just unfortunate that the prevalence of corporate propaganda in news media, especially in what would be a critical period for Disney to invest in damage control for their public image, makes it difficult to confidently believe one thing or the other in light of that finding.

    I never cared much for Disney to begin with, so I won't waste any more time with verification. Regardless, the suit definitely shouldn't be dismissed on their argument of the arbitration agreement alone because it would set an awful precedent, even if the suit itself happens to be toothless. I wouldn't put it past Disney to try to take advantage of the situation to that end (They may be hoping the suit will be dismissed for arbitration because the judge already knows the suit is pointless so that future legitimate lawsuits against them for wrongful deaths in their park can be more easily dismissed on the same grounds).

  • "...to maintain the safety and security of the building and everyone in it." - An actual FAQ

    Way to make home feel like a prison.

  • I would see if there's a way to disable updates for that app.

  • I was frustrated by the lack of low sodium options in processed foods before I cut them out entirely.

  • I went to visit family recently, and they were sipping on a carton of Bright and Early by HI-C with an orange on the label. I had to look. Ingredients: High-fructose corn syrup, citric acid. NO JUICE

    Disgusting.

  • U.S.. Not an actual tracking device, just a cell phone. I usually leave it at home, which would have been impossible to do at many of those buildings.

  • I haven't felt the need to just yet. That feature would've come in handy on Reddit when Kanye and Formula 1 were taking over.

  • I passed on a lot of the fancier apartment buildings for requiring an app and a cell phone to gain access to your own home. I shouldn't have to agree to an arbitration/class action waiver to use my own front door, I don't feel comfortable with management getting a notification on their phone every time I come or go, I don't like the fact that 20+ listed partner companies have access to sensitive personal data, and I shouldn't have to wait for maintenance to show up in the middle of the night because I couldn't make it back home before my personal tracking device died on me.

    The sad thing is that most of these locking units cost these apartments hundreds of dollars each on top of a monthly subscription.

  • Couch fucker voters will most certainly not hold him accountable. That's one demographic J.D. has in the bag.

  • I hear that the average conservative militia has trained extensively in the military art of marching in formation marching walking down the street. Some of them even bought a box of green tip right off the store shelf.

  • I went back to check things out for the first time in a while and realized just how awful it is in comparison to Lemmy. It's an incomprehensible clusterfuck of bots and influence campaigns. As long as engagement and new account numbers look good on paper to appease shareholders, I guess.