Schadrach @ Schadrach @lemmy.sdf.org

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Rumble is youtube for people that got banned from youtube

I thought that was BitChute? Or is Rumble BitChute but not banned from all posts on Reddit (Reddit did a global block of all BitChute links as part of the attempt to black hole the video of the Christchurch shooting and the video the shooter's manifesto suggests was what pushed him over the edge into action).

It was never soundly debunked in theory. We are animals and like all animals our offspring inherit traits from us. Hypothetically if you could agree on what "good traits" looks like you could selectively breed people based on those traits and get people who are more likely than average to have those traits. Keep doing it for generations upon generations and you'd get people optimized for those traits. Even without knowing what gene or genes are responsible.

The problem is that we're notoriously bad at deciding what is and is not in the set of "good traits" and tend to pick stupid shit like "being Aryan/white." Also forced/restricted breeding is unethical at best, and fucking monstrous on average. It's one of those things that goes in the bin of "it would probably work, but if we start doing it we've already become the villains".

And, since it’s a subliminal process, it’s extremely difficult to make a concious decision to not buy products you’ve seen or heard ads of.

Instead, I make a conscious decision to not buy products I remember seeing or hearing ads of. If you're using subtle product placement to subliminally manipulate me in a way I don't notice, good for you. If it's obvious enough I remember you doing it then I will not buy your product unless it is already the best deal available (aka the cheapest per unit or best quality per price, excepting products I have had a bad experience with).

Right, emulators aren't illegal but a bunch of adjacent things can be - for example system BIOS/FW/encryption keys/ROMs if you don't dump them yourself from your own personal hardware.

What got Yuzu in the crosshairs was announcing support for Tears of the Kingdom before it released, meaning they were testing their emulator on an unreleased game and the odds that every dev and tester had legitimately gotten a copy of the game before official release is so low that they weren't about to fight it and go through discovery (which might have identified significant additional piracy on their part). It was easier to fold and settle, and probably saved them from an immense amount of fines for piracy used for testing.

Iron rust. Can be used with the aluminum you included to produce thermite.

I know we have citizens united but corporations are not people lol

Citizens United didn't make corporations people. Corporate personhood had been a thing for a very long time, largely about whether or not forming a business means you lose legal rights operating under it (Does a business entity have freedom of speech? What does freedom of the press even mean in an 18th century context if it doesn't apply to a business [aka a newspaper]?) and whether or not regular old laws prohibiting a person from doing a thing can be applied to businesses.

Talking about being able to ride a bus in the US is comical.

Depends where you live. It's much more doable in the densest urban areas than it is somewhere rural. I have a friend who lives in Boston for example and he doesn't have a car, at all. Because Boston's mass transit is good enough for his routine needs. I can't do that here, however.

he’ll also be strongly encouraged to buy some merch.

Eh, they usually don't see merch as much as ask you to subscribe to their crowdfunding (ideally for 10% of your total income) for performative Jesusing done bi-weekly.

Dishwashers have the same issue.

Newer dishwashers cycle the same water through repeatedly during the wash cycle, only bringing in fresh a few times during the process. Old ones from before they were concerned about water efficiency would just pull in fresh water and drain out dirty water instead of cycling the same water through repeatedly during each phase of the process.

Because they only run clean water it takes less runtime on the older dishwashers but they're also constantly pulling in fresh water. It's also why newer dishwashers require more cleaning out filters - they don't just drain to the drain, so they need to care that the water draining won't gum up the sprayers and such because it's going to go back through. The point is that they use much less total water to get the job done.

CFC’s are great at coolimg things as long as you do not care about having an ozone layer.

They're even fine if you care about the ozone layer so long as you never ever let any leak. Until the coolant leaks the CFCs are cycling in a closed system in which they can't do any damage. The problem is that "not letting any leak" is harder than it sounds, and the newer coolants just don't do the job as well.

It's like how asbestos tiles are fine until they get damaged, and then they fuck the lungs of anyone unfortunate enough to breathe in a tiny bit of it.

Got banned off redit for using an alt to comment on publicfreakout which I was supposedly banned from

If you were banned from a Reddit sub you've never posted or commented on, you won't receive a message informing you you've been banned. Mostly likely cause for being banned from a sub you've never used is the sub using a bot to preemptively ban people it sees as "problematic" - usually but not always these bots are configured to ban anyone who has ever commented on a list of "bad" subs determined by the mod setting up the bot, regardless of content or context. There are some others, like certain porn subs will preemptively ban any account they detect that has an OnlyFans link.

The net result is if you comment on any remotely controversial sub in any context you've likely been banned from one or more unrelated subs, possibly without your knowledge.

This is hypothetically against the mod rules, but not enforced in any way. Mostly because of which subs tend to do it and which subs tend to be targeted.

(so far?) avoided falling off the right wing conspiracy cliff

People's views typically tend to move slowly but what's the current progressive position tends to move much faster, so if he's young enough he'll probably eventually fall off the progressive treadmill.

Another Chinese-owned social media.

Doesn't that mean it's just law enforcement noticing it exists and applying the law that bans TikTok away from also being banned?

No, no, no. Just like a tax on unrealized gains is a bad idea because of how much it would royally fuck up the stock market, including every 401(k). What they need to do instead is tax the ways used by the extremely wealthy to utilize their gains without technically realizing them, even if that sometimes means taxing debt (aka treating it as income when they borrow against it and taxing accordingly).

Of all the social media popular in the US, only one of them is doing that tracking and is under the thumb of a foreign adversary. That is specifically the line drawn in the law. I'm actually curious if WeChat shouldn't fall under it too?

No. He was found liable for sexual abuse in a civil trial. Convictions are criminal and the standard of evidence is higher.

Basically the courts have decided that it's slightly more likely than not that he sexually abused Carroll, which is all that's needed to win a civil case. Criminal cases are on a "beyond a reasonable doubt" threshold which is much harder to meet.

Frankly, he probably wouldn't be criminally convicted because of the higher standard - the defense in a criminal trial doesn't have to prove the accused didn't do it, they don't even have to prove it's more likely than not they didn't do it, they only need to prove there's a reasonable doubt that they might not have done it. And I think there's just enough wiggle room around it he could possibly skate by.

Sounds like an obvious spot in the market for a bullshit-free smart TV. You'd just have to get the UX right.

I was just assuming it was just Power Word: Shit and would effect anyone up to however many hit dice.

To be fair, the president elected two months ago is the oldest asshole to have ever won the office.

Let's be fair, if I told you that a UFO cult led by a sci-fi writer performed a massive infiltration of the US government (the largest ever detected) in order to whitewash itself in official records you'd have thought I was wacko before Operation: Snow White came to light. The same UFO cult also had a number of their agents insert themselves into the life of a journalist who had written negative things about them in an attempt to get her to either off herself or be institutionalized, dubbed Operation: Freakout which was only uncovered in the aftermath of the discovery of Operation: Snow White.

The UFO cult in question is Scientology.