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urist

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she/her

I am a feminist and some sort of left anarchist. I like video games, FOSS software, Lord of the Rings, math, and summoning uncountably many demons by digging too deep.

I am not LGBTQ+ but I try to be a good ally. (How’s my driving?)

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Ever seen this? (2014 protest against net neutrality stuff)

There’s nothing wrong with companies informing their customers on how ongoing legislation will affect them.

That being said, I approve of restricting TikTok’s power and influence. I don’t approve of it happening like this. This is a problem for every social media company, not just TikTok. Americans need full privacy protections and transparency behind algorithms that shape their content.

Forcing the sale of one company doesn’t do much but get it out of China’s hands (which… okay fine, this is probably good. We wouldn’t be in this scenario in the first place if congress could do anything to put more control in consumer’s hands in regards to their privacy/content).

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Correct, it does not, which is why they need to be deleted individually or overwritten.

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lol

for others: video (futurama)

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The irony of a billion dollar company losing my personal info and helpfully offering me credit monitoring service from the other billion dollar company that lost my info. It’s so good.

Throw into the mix: I had to do business with AT&T because they were the only ISP available to my Appartment complex. I never had the choice to not do business with these companies.

Equifax handles my company’s payroll.

Please, I want to get off Mr bones wild ride.

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This is great advice. Everyone knows that as soon as you vote you can take no other action politically so the best you can do is a kick in the nuts.

All my leftist friends found out I voted and I was immediately kicked out of their clique for being uncool. At least the cops aren’t after me. They totally care about my friend’s shitposting on the internet

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I’m having trouble interpreting your comment. Who is cringe, my hypothetical friends? I’m just being sarcastic in my previous comment here. Maybe my delivery is off.

I think people should vote. I got snarky because I think that the way the person that I responded to has a bad take on this.

I have no idea what you mean about freedom of speech. People can choose not to vote, and I’m going to choose to try to convince them to vote. I don’t think you gotta make it weird, dude.

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Hell yea!

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mood

I filed my taxes 5 hrs ago

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https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/452/095/18c.jpg

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She’s still making comics after all these years??? Wow, thanks for reminding me about her OP.

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We use it at work for it’s actual intended purpose: as a small database that isn’t customer facing. It’s used and maintained by nontechnical staff to keep data about equipment (slot machines).

It would be too much info for excel, but it’s not enough to really need anything more.

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I really wish they hadn’t included it. I personally found it unenjoyable to watch those first couple episodes because of it.

(Dear reader: If you’re first reaction to my opinion is that sexual violence against women in this setting is realistic and fits in the show, 1) this is a series with mutant animals caused by radiation and a guy in a robot suit 2) you don’t think much of your fellow man if you think it’s inevitable 3) it’s just like, my opinion, man)

I haven’t watched the whole first season but we’re about halfway through and they didn’t mention it again. It would have been worse if the main character herself felt more… harmed, but she seems very utilitarian about it. I feel pretty mid about the show overall (for more reasons than just this), and I’m just really tired of acts of sexual violence showing up in media that’s meant to be goofy entertainment.

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In the game, too.

I must point out, I don’t remember sexual violence being part of the game (I played only 3 and 4, though).

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I can’t believe this comment chain is this long and no one has pointed out that drunk and stoned humans are terrible at figuring stuff like this out.

You’re not planning for the dumbest human trying in earnest. You’re planning for humans who are tired, distracted and/or chemically altered. A 80 IQ person can figure out a weird trash can eventually if they are trying.

These comments (not just yours) feel misanthropic. I haven’t been to a campsite in ages so I don’t know what sort of trash can puzzlebox we’re talking about, but I work somewhere with alcohol so I can guess what the true issue is.

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ok, just as long as it’s demographically proportional there’s no problem here! After all, this means that the “Hamas terrorist” population is also 56% children

Otherwise it would be pretty obvious proof that Isreal doesn’t care about civillian casualties!

(edit: The reason, then, that children only comprise 44% of deaths is because of their higher armor class from their small size. Much harder to hit).

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…don’t you think this is a little dismissive? Maybe I’m wrong but most people are catholic because they were raised that way.

It sure would suck if something I had no control over excluded me from my own culture/religion/family. In fact, if I found myself in that situation, the right thing to do would be to make changes, if I could, for other people like me and those people’s families.

By the way, I do think religion as an institution sucks. But, I don’t think these people are supporting face-eating leopards. These people live in the jungle already, their choice is to leave or fight leopards.

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achievable goals and a clear path to success

I’d settle for fast travel

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Have you noticed?

1 - one

2 - two

3 - three

…

9 - nine

10 - ten

11 - eleven

12 - twelve (A DOZEN)

13 - thirteen

Why does the way we name numbers in english change after twelve?

A dozen dozen? We have a word for that, a gross. An hour? 60 minutes, or 5 dozen minutes.

We were always meant to count in base 12. It’s a conspiracy; I know you see it too. The truth cannot be silenced forever.

[insert more timecube/flat earth style ramblings here]

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If you give your ss number out, you should assume the company will save it forever and misuse it.

We have ss numbers from customers dating back at least 15 years. It saves us time if they come back, that’s the only reason they’re kept that long (to my knowledge). It’s a casino, we need ss if you win enough to pay taxes. So, we do need to keep them for some length of time.

But, ss are visible to most customer service staff that handle reward cards (starting pay is the defacto minimum wage for the area for some of those roles, btw).

Demographics Professor Warns that by 2531, Everyone in Japan Will be Named Sato (www.spoon-tamago.com)

Despite today’s date, this is not an April Fool’s prank. At a press conference in Tokyo last weekend, professor Hiroshi Yoshida from the Tohoku University Research Center for Aged Economy and Society, sounded the alarm bell for a looming crisis. By the year 2531, e

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Ah, damn. I wish I could read their paper (article doesn’t mention a translation). That’s incredibly interesting!

From the article, it is because 1.83% of the population in Japan has a last name of Sato (and also I assume probably because of their low immigration). A law in Japan forces married women to take their husband’s name.

I wonder if there is a number like that for the US? Like if 10% of the population had a last name of Smith, would we all become Mr/Ms Smith after x years? Do all countries converge to a single name after a finite amount of years?

Will the whole world be Wang after x million years?

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Oh… he’s just doing an exponential growth model?? I have trouble understanding how this got traction at all then, he should be embarrassed. Maybe the delivery was tongue-in-cheek?

I assumed there was more interesting happening in that paper. How disappointing.

I assumed there was more behind that graph (I assumed he calculated the coefficient from something more interesting and just slapped it on a graph with like y = exp(\beta_0 x) for his news article)

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Fine, let’s run with this analogy:

This is like watching a bunch of people with Stockholm Syndrom trying to convince each other than one of the people keeping them imprisioned is a good guy and it’s the other that’s a bad guy.

We’re all in prison, both dudes will keep us there. One dude wants to murder your gay cell mate and give smaller cells to Hispanic prisoners. Voting, not voting, neither will win you your freedom. Your vote might make your friend’s life easier.

There is no solution to the problems of the US via the traditional political parties, only via civil society movements and even those given the almost-dictatorship-level of civil society surveillance in the US, are under surveillance and are often subverted.

Which political party is restricting the speech of LGBTQ+ people right now? Which party wants to put them all on a list? Which party is visibly anti-labor instead of just pretending not to be?

If you want change, fight for it. If Trump wins you activate hard mode.

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There will be so much damage done before the dems get their shit together, if they ever do. Trump (or whoever takes over after him when he dies of stroke/heart attack) may not let us have a normal 2028 election.

As far as damage, check out “project 2025” if you don’t believe me. Many parts of federal government will be hogtied at best, and that includes ones that people like, like the EPA. I, for one, like environmental protections.

Even if the damage stops after one term, you can’t unfuck the thanksgiving turkey.

Edit: by the way, I’m no democrat, I just recognize we’re playing with fire here.

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Project 2025 is the 50 year accumulation of ‘lesser evil’ voting.

Agree. But I must point out, ‘lesser evil’ voting is a natural consequence of the way our voting system works. I only see one path forward: our voting system must be changed to some sort of ranked-choice system. Personally I think trying to convince fascists (republicans) of this fact is pretty impossible, less so for democrats. I could be wrong here.

All that is irrelevant I guess. No matter which party wins, both are totally open to listening to leftist policies. If Trump does something obviously bad we all saw coming, I won’t need to feel bad if I don’t vote. Even if it was something he said he was going to do. I mean, I guess Biden could also do something bad, it’s pretty likely, but I haven’t found his project 2025 manifesto yet. Regardless, everything will suck and people will look around and go, “Wow, I guess all those people who didn’t vote, they we right! They all were rejecting the two-party system in unison. They all think the same way, and they express that through not voting.”

Then we’ll all join hands and immediately form a socialist utopia.

It only scares white liberals now because its finally something that will impact them directly.

You’re right but you’re going to make someone whine very loudly typing that out.

For right now they will oppose it, but when it gets rebranded as something positive in a few years and offered up by a democrat they will laud it as progress.

I would totally let a democrat run my socialist utopia, as long as they ran it as a socialist utopia (they are not capable of doing this, they would no longer be dems). They can call it New Dems, I don’t care, I want healthcare, basic guaranteed standards of living, more rights at work, etc etc.

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