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Only if they kill each other. Prigozhin is every bit the monster that Putin is and then some, and worse yet he's got no pretense of being anything otherwise. You see Russians flip to support him and it'll get a lot worse for the world before it gets better. There's not many people more ardently Nazi in their views than Prigozhin. The guy is a brutal fascist warlord.

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"Fairly decent" is a bit of a stretch. Panels come up, features sold to you that won't work and will endanger your life. "Fairly" standard for luxury rides amiright?

"Decent". Hmph.

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That dude 100% deserved it. Not for anything he said but for being a tech career guy and wiring his house up so hard he couldn't open it without Alexa. He wouldn't have been able to open it without wifi either.

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I just can't fathom buying a luxury car and coping with "well it works and gets me where I need to go". If I'm spending that kinda change on a car, and also paying for its services in ongoing fashion apart from the car payment itself ... it better do more than just "get me there".

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Especially those that don't require captchas...

The increase is primarily bots that are inactive. You'll see them activate though and it'll go to shit. Instance owners need to start defederating other bot majority instances.

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Right? We've known for well over a decade that user counts are meaningless and never reflect truth. But if it benefits your guy, oh, let's celebrate!

This is a generally BAD thing for Lemmy. Bots are going to kill it and we're letting them nest.

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Say I'm an investor. And I want to invest in a business. And that business tells me "we have 330 million customers" and then come to find out, they only have 3.3 million customers .. I'm gonna call that fraud and courts should too.

What happens if a US site just ignores the GDPR?

Forget all the stuff out there that says the GDPR protects EU citizens. This is a question of jurisdiction and enforcement. Say I run a blog under a business registered in the US funded by advertisers in the US. A EU citizen that comments on posts issues a GDPR request that I ignore. Their government fines me. I tell them to get...

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No he didn't. The context was "as a US citizen" per the post. You gave him a 6th grade civics lesson about how bills turn into laws a-la school house rock before even sort of addressing the question. The next step would've been explaining what laws even are.

That's a little condescending, assuming a citizen of a nation doesn't know how their own laws are created. It isn't a LOT condescending but it is a little.

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On reddit you'll see reply counts reflecting replies of any user, including shadowbanned ones. You won't see shadowbanned comments though. That's why you see 3 count but not the comments. Chances are those comments are from bots who were shadowbanned.

Should we also take a serious look at properly governed centralised solutions instead of federations decentralisation? What about a non-profit running a platform with democratic governance? (feddit.de)

While the second paragraph has been slightly debunked, the first paragraph is an interesting idea I've underappreciated/neglected until now....

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It used to be. It isn't. He was pointing out that it's irrelevant today, and he's not wrong.

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The only time I find it kind of cumbersome is when I'm trying to kind of lounge or slouch out on the couch and I'm propping my elbows up against something. That's because the propping combined with the muscles in my arms gripping the thing is causing poor circulation.

Simple fix, don't do that.

Otherwise the biggest issue is posture. Hunching over a screen for prolonged periods is gonna be bad no matter how light the thing is.

To put it another way, I have a gaming pc and I haven't used it to game since I got my steam deck a couple months ago.

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Nah, the art of being stubborn and not giving a shit will just come back to the fore. It's a lost art. So many people think it's an activity, not giving a shit, but it's the exact opposite. Its just a state of mind. There's a lot of Christians out there that would laugh just as hard at this as anyone because they know Hobby Lobby isn't their church in the first place, and they recognize people who treat it like one are being blasphemous already.

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Laugh all you want but programmers have just been glorified "people who can Google really well" for years now, that's exactly what we're already describing here. And we do get paid well.

We need to be able to differentiate between NSFW and porn.

A boob, a butt, or even some violence like one might see on the news anyway, I’m not freaked out about all that and I don’t feel the need to hide it from those around me usually… that’s all fine fine, but I don’t want porn on my feed like at all....

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Any kind of tag you use to convey "sensitive content that may be offensive" will always become a meme. That's how human nature works and history proves it over and over.

Examples abound. Skulls and cross bones, the nuclear / atomic symbol, X ratings becoming XXX tags in porno titles, Parental Advisory Explicit Content .... this list keeps going on the closer you look. If a symbol, or a meme, is used to denote a warning, it will be co-opted by a subset of folks who will use it in ironic fashion. NSFW tags, "trigger warning" - all of these in the end are doomed from the very start to, at least in part, fail and have the exact opposite effect.

There's an interesting problem for nuclear researchers these days: how do you label a thing as dangerous in such a way that societies in ten thousand years will still recognize what it means? Because some of the shit they're toying with will be. They gotta think about it. Like even today the image of a skull means something very different depending on the culture that image is from.

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Hold up, the problem with jailbait is it was scantily clad little children in sexuality suggestive situations. That was the problem. Whether it was technically legal or not it's irrelevant, it was intended to sexualized children.

It's "not a good look" because it's abhorrent trash meant to skirt child porn laws. Was it illegal? No. Was it just advertisers who had a problem with it? Also no. Users thought it was abhorrent too. There were user campaigns to ban the sub all the same, who do you think kept notifying the media?

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"Disrespectful" is absolutely the wrong word. I don't owe cops shit. Certainly not respect.

I act mature around them for my own benefit, not to satiate their need for "respect". What the average person gives cops isn't respect, its fear. I respect cops the way I respect guns, treat them poorly and shit you don't want will happen. That speaks far far less of police officers than it ever rightly should.

Fuck the police, I want to speak with an attorney.

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