SanctimoniousApe @ SanctimoniousApe @lemmings.world

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So.... they banned social media for a whole 15 seconds?

No, he looks forward to using me as a target for their collective derision.

Yes. Humans.

Can't wait to hear the explanation for the "unconstitutional" claim.

Did you even read the article - particularly the part (and a further linked article) about that asshole Robby Starbuck (name now forever ruined for me)?

I think the problem lies in the very heart of what it means to be conservative or liberal. Conservatives tend towards group-think because they're either bullies, or the bullied. Liberals - by the very definition of the word - are a much more widely varied bunch that understand & respect other people's right to have a difference of opinion. Therefore it's much more difficult to achieve a unified front on the left than it is on the right. This is why the right dominates our lives so much despite being in a relative minority.

Kinda hard to read this seeming stream of consciousness response, but I'm probably not qualified to do so anyway since I'm not much of a history buff (although I will point out that Philadelphia was under a black mayor during the MOVE incident you referenced - not that this fact means much, all things considered).

It seems to me that people seeking positions of power are rarely the type of people who actually should have that power, and the examples you cite are just some of the many experienced by the world at large. Humanity sucks. We may be more "intelligent" than the rest of the animal kingdom we evolved from, but we're still animals at heart - with all the "survival of the fittest" mentality baggage that fact comes with. Unless and until we somehow outgrow that background, we will always be short-sighted, instinctively selfish, and therefore ultimately self-destructive beings as a whole. This is why so many of us have little hope for the future as we watch the inevitable self-destruction happen yet again - only this time with a level of destructive power we've never had before and which we're unlikely to survive as a species.

Perhaps I'm self-deluded in having believed that - despite our not insignificant faults - America was at least as a whole trying to set a better example for how a human society can operate. If that ever was true, I have precious little hope of ever getting fully back on that path - at least not in what remains of my - or even my children's - lifetime.

To be fair, that IS why they exist, after all. That's why it's important to have regulations imposed by whatever authority so that they ALL have to honor certain minimum expectations of decency - you can't reasonably expect any business to have expenses geared towards doing "the right things" that their competitors don't also have to abide by. This is part of what the government is there for, and these assholes insist upon removing those guardrails just to squeeze out another few million dollars they don't actually need.

No, because America is not really a democracy.

EDIT: Here's a comment chain I read last night that says it better than I can.

Money. Money changes EVERYTHING. - Cyndi Lauper

That's actually how I took it at first, seemed highly apropos.

You're dependent upon the recording you're listening to having been set to a decent volume to begin with. I will occasionally come across videos or music with significantly quieter sound than usual. I know what a good volume for my need at the moment is, while this warning is a dumb automatic pop-up based solely upon the single factor of the master device volume control setting - without any consideration for the actual decibels being output.

I think you took it way more offensively than it was intended.

There are exceedingly few phones that have them anymore - particularly more powerful ones. I prefer a headphone jack because I don't have to juggle keeping everything charged long enough for when I want to use it.

A prime example is when I go to sleep. I live on a somewhat busy street in an apartment facing said street. I have noisy neighbors. My spouse is used to sleeping with the TV on (there are reasons for this which I understand) - thankfully, the screen doesn't have to be on. As such, I use wired earbuds that block out most external sound, along with an audio track I've been using for many years on a loop to put (and keep) me to sleep. Show me any wireless earbuds that'll last the night, block out sound, and not be too big to lay upon comfortably since I'm a side-sleeper (let alone not have controls accidentally activated by laying on them).

ETA: Never mind that my Bluetooth earbuds always seem to develop a problem keeping contact with their charge contacts in the case before long, so it's not infrequent that I go to use them and they're dead when they shouldn't be.

Yet, they can't win an election. SMDH.

I wish I could only selectively see the seemingly fewer and fewer good things in life, but I've lived long enough to see how far downhill we've gone over the past handful of decades. It's made even more depressing by the fact of having seen the root cause (mostly aggressive manipulation by the right wing eaten up by selfish masses) of what was an upward trajectory turned to shit needlessly in order to serve as a scoreboard to a pissing match for the ultra-domineering control freaks.

Even if climate change doesn't make human life completely unbearable for humans on what's left of the planet, it's going to take too long to rebalance our living circumstances to see much hope for a good future for the masses. Especially as those at the top work so vociferously against the common interest.

Expulsion of an enema all over the camera would be tempting if it weren't such a mess to clean up. Maybe in a rental...

Nowhere near an expert in this, but I know I've seen in the past that you could set your phone to turn on at a specific time (which means the RTC at a minimum is still running) - could a determined adversary not find a way to take advantage of that?

Your carrier HAS ratted on you. Under the incoming US administration, I've little doubt they will again.

If you're logging in via Wi-Fi, that shouldn't transmit your IMEI - but I admit that I don't know if that's something they do behind the scenes. They also could just use your IP address if logging in from home. They would be making an assumption you hadn't sold it (or given it to someone else), but I can see that not being enough assurance.

As such, get a used tablet that you only ever use on public Wi-Fi (i.e. never log it into your home Wi-Fi). I'm sure there are some really cheap old ones on eBay - just make sure it's on a version of Android the Play Store still supports (I think 6 is the minimum nowadays).