“Civilized” is this context is a dog whistle for white. Anti-Arab and anti-indigenous beliefs are taking over both.

I’m shocked this is going through. I gotta imagine at least Tennessee will block it. They’re super pro-big isp.

And they’ll just reinstall the spyware next feature update.

This is such a dramatic understatement. They didn’t just sell the genetic data of those 15 million customers. They sold the data of everyone they’re related to, as well. Which is the majority of the population.

You really don’t need to sample a large percentage to get the data of almost everyone.

Why?

I think in Scarlett’s Hot Ones episode, she mentioned that Meryl Streep told her she loved Lucy. Which makes me think Meryl might be a big stoner. Hilarious.

Yeah, I get it. I just prefer the polish.

Emby’s better than both, but jellyfin folks are probably going to crucify me for saying that.

LoL. Totally. Gotta use 0% of your brain in order to enjoy a movie about using 100% of your brain.

But anyway, it’s just code for ‘get stoned as fuck before watching this.’

I don’t think anyone accepts it. But nothing will be done about it until the capitalists are removed from power.

Lucy

It’s entertaining as all hell. It doesn’t pretend to be anything more, so I don’t understand the hate it gets. Just turn off your brain, and have some fun. It’s not supposed to be hard sci-fi.

We desperately need a law against the third party doctrine loophole for the 4th amendment.

Disinformation sources tend to grip onto a grain of truth to launder their bullshit. That’s what makes it effective.

The problem is that big pharma lobbying and deregulation keeps giving these people ammunition to work with. So we have the FDA approving drugs they know don’t work, and the CDC allowing the ceo of Delta to decide Covid isolation guidelines. There’s too much corruption, and too much money involved, with diminishing oversight and accountability.

If scientific institutions want to be trusted, they need to behave in a trustworthy manner, and enforce accountability.

Then ask why no one has patched this well-known bug after all these years, and get flooded with ‘anyone can contribute’ comments.

Unless it’s a Democrat in the White House. Then it’s totally fine! What do you mean you can’t afford food?!! The economy has never been better!!

/s

I have a strong suspicion that they’re capturing screenshots & data, whether you have recall enabled or not, and that’s why the performance on Windows 11 is so drastically worse. Turning on Recall probably just turns on users visibility, or some additional digestion of the data.

Privacy from companies? Kinda. Privacy from government surveillance? Absolutely the fuck not.

https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/04/european-commission-pushes-for-encryption-backdoors/

In the same vein, one can criticize the actual way China is ran, rather than running with every western lie you’re told about China.

Yes, the people are supposed to hold politicians accountable. This attitude of ‘I don’t want to have to pay attention to politics’ from liberals is fucking wild. This is exactly why they don’t know the Dems were supporting most of the same Trump policies, but quietly.

Just go back to brunch.