Pointing out the hypocrisy is not supposed to suddenly convince the actual fascists that they’re wrong, it’s to convince the people they’ve duped into following them that they’re both wrong and evil.

So now he cares about such principles…

How about this (not OP): most things people attribute to planned obsolescence are not planned obsolescence.

SSL operates after name resolution. It’s one way that information about your browsing habits is not protected by application-layer encryption; the domains you’re visiting are available to your DNS server.

Hehe :)

The top image is a sunny day; the bottom is cloudy. (Look at the shadows). The exposure in the bottom image is much brighter - you can also see this from the appearance of the building on the left - dark in the top image, light in the bottom image.

This has nothing to do with pushing saturation; it’s just a different (better) exposed photo. People throw terms like saturation and HDR around willy nilly.

There are no HDR haloes and the saturation is only high in the greens. I think you’re just comparing two pictures, one of which has bright green in and feeling weird about it.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/petrol

I think there is a difference between different people - and maybe it has changed generationally too. I can think of some obvious potential reasons though:

1. the number of people who are being horrible is increasing. The increasing division in society is reflected online. That means people have more reason to block people.
2. the proliferation of social media bubbles makes people less used to encountering opinions that differ significantly from their own.

I usually find myself blocked by people who just disagree with me. I (increasingly) rarely lose my rag online, but people find it annoying to have someone reply to them who disagrees on certain things and who doesn’t just shut up and go away quickly.

I have a pretty high tolerance for that kind of irritation but after a few dozen replies back and forth I’ll also use the block button. It’s less about not seeing their posts in the future, more as a way to force myself to disengage and get annoyed again.

The erosion of free speech in the UK continues, though it’ll be interesting to see whether the far-right (who claim to want to protect women and girls, don’t forget) will care about it.

I got banned from /r/WorldNews and /r/ukpolitics for saying that “from the river to the sea” isn’t antisemitic. It was in the early days post Oct 7th when reddit was virulently pro-Israel; I don’t think they’d do the same nowadays.

I didn’t leave immediately but thinking about it again really pissed me off as I’d been a regular commenter without much issue for years. It genuinely left me feeling quite depressed thinking about how little I mattered to them. When you get banned there’s always some shit about how you should ask if you don’t understand the ban, but one sub never replied, the other went further and told me to stop messaging their mods (I did so once a week when I wasn’t receiving replies, to not spam them) so that was meaningless.

The irony is that here I’m usually getting downvoted for being insufficiently anti-Israel.

Plenty of phones only charge at 25W which is why I picked the figure :P

More efficient sensors mean better battery life, which is more likely what this is about.

Relating this to carbon emissions is absurd. Your phone’s maximum power consumption is about 25W, of which sensors are a tiny, minuscule fraction. Running your phone at 25W for an entire year would allow you to drive a typical petrol car doing 40mpg for 250 miles on the same energy budget.

Reducing sensor power usage is good, but not for this reason.

The state is collecting a database of which names are which IP addresses

Why do you believe this?

You are giving me the lawyerly pr bs

I am trying to get you to do the bare fucking minimum to convince me that what you fear has anything to do with this article.

thank you for clarifying that the UN itself has no troops, despite me not making that claim in the first place

When I said “what do you expect them to do” I was referring to the UN, the topic of discussion. You then said you expected “them to mobilize their troops”.

you’re shrugging your shoulders and saying “what can we do, the UN has no power” instead of recognizing the failure of UN member nations to actually do something

That is not something it makes sense to say in light of what I actually said:

When people make fun of the UN for “writing a strongly worded letter” that is a missed opportunity to criticise national governments, especially that of the USA

First they came for the communists, and all that. Palestine won’t be the end, and when you find your own people the target of the Nazis, you’ll have no one left asking their nations to intervene so you can twist their words into an irrelevant strawman to pour gasoline on and lite.

If you think that we need effective criticism of governments who enable Israeli crimes against humanity to avoid that future, then you should be agreeing with me.

I support a two-state solution, whatever that means in your lexicon. But yes, the Israeli officials ought to be tried and sentenced for crimes against humanity.

The words “disclaimer”, “waiver” and “sign” do not occur in the bill. Whatever process you think exists does not, because, again, you haven’t bothered to understand what the bill is about. It’s not getting anyone to sign any disclaimer, so that information, whatever it might be, cannot be newly collected.

If you disagree, you need identify - preferably by referencing the actual clauses of the bill that I linked above - what new thing the bill introduces, and what harm that is likely to lead to.

I didn’t realise just how biased Middle East Eye was until this article. What a shitrag.

First of all, the information data Brokers collect which includes Google is sold to government agencies that use it without warrant or judicial supervision.

If you believe that, then why do you believe this bill will make the situation any worse?

This is a question I already asked but which you didn’t answer.

I’m gonna be as pedantic as I ever am, yeah, because boring moaning about the UN is misguided and seeps into society.

When people make fun of the UN for “writing a strongly worded letter” that is a missed opportunity to criticise national governments, especially that of the USA, who are the ones with actual actions they can take, Israel itself notwithstanding.

Apathy rules, unfortunately, and when the Nazis come for you, there won’t be anyone left to hear you say “actually, the UN does not have “troops” to save me”.

Do you think whingeing about the UN would have saved me, or else what are you even trying to say here?