Yeah, hard pass on the defense fantasy. That is the thinking that got us here in the first place. It is like trying to live with a bunch of mentally ill people surrounding me.

Airforce 2 picked up his body immediately after his assassination. So apparently he is posthumously?

Make no mistake the 2nd amendment people will be defending ICE and you will be staring down the barrel of their rifle if you fight back.

At this point the 2nd amendment is just a marketing tactic to convince more people to buy guns and they are currently leaning hard on groups who have not traditionally armed themselves.

After they are done arming both sides we can commit to civil war and they can finally purge the government of all dissenters. This is all part of their plan. So go buy more guns!

Lol, they are with the Army not against them.

I liked it up until they started allowing paywall websites.

This depends on what ancestors your talking about. For instance, hunter and gathers rarely worked more than twenty hours a week to provide all their needs.

Ballin!

They have been fucking with Outlook trying to force everyone to use Onedrive. It is really annoying.

Ageism has been around long time

"In all things I yearn for the past. Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased. I find that even among the splendid pieces of furniture built by our master cabinetmakers, those in the old forms are the most pleasing.

And as for writing letters, surviving scraps from the past reveal how superb the phrasing used to be. The ordinary spoken language has also steadily coarsened. People used to say “raise the carriage shafts” or “trim the lamp wick,” but people today say “raise it” or “trim it.” When they should say, “Let the men of the palace staff stand forth!” they say, “Torches! Let’s have some light!” Instead of calling the place where the lectures on the Sutra of the Golden Light are delivered before the emperor “the Hall of the Imperial Lecture,” they shorten it to “the Lecture Hall,” a deplorable corruption, an old gentleman complained."

Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness), Yoshida Kenkō 1330 - 1332 AD

Father of 14 known children. The down low is apparently he pays women one million dollars to bear his child and she has to sign a non-disclosure agreement that she won’t tell people it is his baby.

He is on record saying he wants to make a legion. That is around five thousand babies. He is one of the richest men in the world so this is within his reach. I am going to go throw up now.

No, Linux wants your most precious resource. Your time!

In exchange you get to actually own your software and get to control your operating system. I would argue that this is priceless.

Plot twist: His smart fridge is running an AI girlfriend he has fallen in love with

The only thing special about Is Lemmy is it hasn’t attracted the masses yet. People love to complain there is not enough people here, but coming from Reddit, Dig, Facebook, Myspace, etc I can say more people will just make this place worse.

There is plenty of love but also plenty of hate. There is a reason politics and religion discussion are banned in bars.

As always your take is garbage, but that is the result of GIGO. You are a product of what you see and interact with. You can’t rise above the quagmire of shit we are all in, and that is the point. You are a product of what you are around and putting on the blinders does not help.

We are all stuck in this together, we can’t exist without each other. People much greater than me have already laid all this out. Take a break, step back, and make some room to breathe. We are only here for a short time and the only thing that you can truly moderate is your life for brief moments.

The world is going to take you for a ride whether you like it or not. You will be influenced whether you like it or not. Your life will come crashing down through no fault of your own. Take what little control you have and run with it. Here is wishing a little bit of peace and happiness in your life, good luck and goodbye.

Propaganda works yo, you ain’t changing minds yourself. A swell of like minded people could turn some heads, but without proper amplification this isn’t going to happen either. To put it perfectly, those in charge of our media have us over a barrel.

This one is nothing new though and has been happening since the inception of the US and before it in other countries. Separating fact from fiction, reality from propaganda, objective reality from the one we have constructed in our head is an incredible undertaking. It takes a lifetime to do this and no one cares if you accomplish it.

Unfortunately, it is too late. They don’t need your specific genetic code to extrapolate about you, just the code of one of your relatives who wanted to find out their heritage for fun.

Without serious privacy laws we will be used and abused by corporations, get ready to experience Gattaca in real life.

I am thinking the Alien with his mini mouth sticking out. But yes, the predator looks fine as well.

Great work! Somehow I feel like it would look better reversed though with the alien at the table and two predator chicks.

The most obvious example would be the recent antitrust litigation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Google_LLC_(2023)

But I think that falls into fighting to continue their terrible business practices.

The second is Google refusing warrants due to inadequacies. Google has stated they no longer respond to geofencing warrants although I am having a hard time finding data to back up this statement.

The third is a couple different cases involving private parties and state governments suing Google over violating privacy and illegally collecting data. Once again though, this probably falls under you definition of terrible business practices.

The fourth is Google’s transparency reports that expose request from the government. They have certainly received government pushback from this but I can’t really quantify this in any meaningful way.

Google should show what they think is right, stop giving them a free pass just because you want to. Companies have long resisted decisions issued by governments. Google has gone to court to fight many times but this does not even rise to that level.

The fact is this is the Gulf of Mexico and we should not be renaming bodies of water on someone’s racist whims. We may just have to respectfully disagree here.

Google is wrong here and no one is forcing them to do anything. They are now part of the problem along with anyone else conceding to this madman.

I do agree Aotus is the source, but everyone who goes along with it shares the blame and more importantly the shame.