Yes. Third parties include, but are not limited to insurance companies, the government (state and local and federal), international medical data banks, collection agencies, credit bureaus, every big pharma doing research on the planet, and anyone with a ‘smart’ phone. Oh. And them… the smartphone guys.
I begin to wonder if this is how these fuckers planned to slide out of sight all along. I know they don’t seem very bright, and they aren’t, but they are crafty. Trump isn’t a ‘smart’ man - he’s crafty. Smart and crafty are two completely different things. There’s been a rash of this type headline - republicans spouting batshit crazy lies and spinning them into worse lies.
Was there a bachelor’s to be had in “Lie Your Ass Off - 101 → 666”? (i don’t remember this being a course objective during my time in school)
So anyway, they spout some shit like this even they don’t believe in order to be kicked off the team and into ticket sales… cash baby! Hard to follow with “donation” rules.
…say something stupidly preposterous - get kicked out - disappear into the fundraiser scam… more money in their bank.
The lawsuit caps years of regulatory scrutiny of Apple’s wildly popular suite of devices and services, which have fueled its growth into a nearly $3 trillion public company.
… [Hanging] trans rights on the thin peg of gender identity, a concept clumsily adapted from psychiatry and strongly influenced by both gender studies and the born-this-way tactics of the campaign for marriage equality [was a mistake]. [It] has won us modest gains at the level of social acceptance. But we have largely failed...
Unpopular opinion ahead. I would like to see the person emerge from the child into a personality prior to allowing chemical intoxicants or gender rectification or anything unnatural to the maturation of the child into a person.
Then whatever the fuck they want to do is completely up to them.
I am not a native English speaker and I have sometimes referred to people as male and female (as that is what I have been taught) but I have received some backlash in some cases, especially for the word “female”, is there some negative thought in the word which I am unaware of?...
A gay man in Florida who said he was only exercising his right to free speech was convicted by a federal jury on Thursday of threatening to kill former U.S. Rep. George Santos and his husband last year in a voicemail laced with profanity and antigay slurs....
Didn’t we JUST do this shit? How many goddam times are WE, the people who pay for it, going to give money to “THEM” - the people & corporations the government will “bail out”. Fuck this game.
It seems like the benefits are having the device lock/wipe itself after a set amount of attempts in case of a brute force attack and not having to run software to decrypt the drive on the device you plug it into....
Excluding the Horror genre and individual movies in a series, what movie story ends with evil winning?
It looks like we'll soon be welcoming a lot of new Linux users here (www.theverge.com)
Almost all hospitals in the USA share data with third parties report finds (jamanetwork.com)
the future seems bleak (discuss.tchncs.de)
I hate antichrist meme template....
To everyone who hates the concepts of landlords and rent, what counts as being a landlord?
Does having an AirBNB setup make someone deserving of the guillotine or does that only apply to owners of multiple houses? What about apartments?...
Congressman rebuked for call to bomb Gaza ‘like Nagasaki and Hiroshima’ (www.theguardian.com)
Boulevard of Broken Dreams (hexbear.net)
But under communist party rule you’ll be a coal miner 😉
U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly (www.nytimes.com)
The lawsuit caps years of regulatory scrutiny of Apple’s wildly popular suite of devices and services, which have fueled its growth into a nearly $3 trillion public company.
Freedom of Sex - The moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies. (nymag.com)
… [Hanging] trans rights on the thin peg of gender identity, a concept clumsily adapted from psychiatry and strongly influenced by both gender studies and the born-this-way tactics of the campaign for marriage equality [was a mistake]. [It] has won us modest gains at the level of social acceptance. But we have largely failed...
China's housing minister says real estate developers must go bankrupt if necessary (www.cnbc.com)
Is "female" offensive?
I am not a native English speaker and I have sometimes referred to people as male and female (as that is what I have been taught) but I have received some backlash in some cases, especially for the word “female”, is there some negative thought in the word which I am unaware of?...
Israel to restrict access to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan (www.aljazeera.com)
Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images (www.bbc.com)
... (lemmy.ml)
Florida man convicted of antigay death threats to George Santos (www.advocate.com)
A gay man in Florida who said he was only exercising his right to free speech was convicted by a federal jury on Thursday of threatening to kill former U.S. Rep. George Santos and his husband last year in a voicemail laced with profanity and antigay slurs....
Burger chain Wendy's looking to test surge pricing at restaurants as early as next year (apnews.com)
Troubled Commercial Real Estate Loans Outstrip Reserves at Top US Banks (www.businessinsider.com)
I’m 18 — and facing jail because I won’t fight for Israel (www.thetimes.co.uk)
What are your thoughts on USB storage drives that have keypad encryption? (leminal.space)
It seems like the benefits are having the device lock/wipe itself after a set amount of attempts in case of a brute force attack and not having to run software to decrypt the drive on the device you plug it into....
Costco Says It’s Not Anti-Union. Unionized Workers Are Putting That to the Test. (truthout.org)
Costco bosses basked in praise for making union-friendly statements but have yet to commit to bargain in good faith....
New Critical Stack: Our oppressors are not infallible (criticalresist.substack.com)
I find this shit on instagram ppl are going crazy man (lemdro.id)