BrandonMarc
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While true, I'm kinda wondering if that's even possible ...
Hiding from surveillance is not the same as planning to do something illegal.
... but it benefits the state if people think it's the same ...
About this website: as soon as i scroll downwards, the font-size doubles and page margins increase quite a bit. So I'm reading skinny paragraphs in large-ish type.
As soon as i scroll upwards, the font size shrinks back to normal and page margins similarly retreat.
No matter where i am in the page, i scroll down it does the one; i scroll up it does the other.
FWIW I'm using the DuckDuckGo browser on Android.
I expect the company sees them as private, so that they'll only share capacity with competitors when they want to and for the right price, untilllllll ....
Some other country decides to pull shenanigans and cut / hack the cable, in which case the company will insist the U.S. gov't get involved, maybe pay for the repair. Saying it's crucial for national security.
I believe that was the commenter's point - that the designers described patronizingly virtue signal about their accessibility priorities, while their other decisions are troublesome.
Sounds like the asylum process is an alternative stream, and the entire border has become a "port of entry."
When asylum is the low-friction way to enter the country and acquire a legal status, economics suggests fewer people will use the traditional immigration process.
Unless I'm missing something that does sound rather HCOL ...
I assume the 900°F part had a lot to do with making this a viable consideration.
Of course, I'm with you - wouldn't want to be behind it either. That said, in the 1970s cars left a cloud enriched with lead so ...
Consider also how common leaded gasoline was in the 1970s.
The universities and loan compaines win. Who loses? The chump who gets left holding the bag ... taxpayers. As usual.
When former students need the federal government to bail them out of their debt, it's clear the value of higher ed has plummeted.
The corporate press went out of their way to solidify this notion. Because of course.
This reads like a story from the daily wtf
Fission company, eh? Wonder when we'll see the first stock split.
"Mosquitos have been present in Scotland for millennia" ... now let's bring in climate change for click bait.
... If that's the which case, "2024" makes this post title misleading. Submitter likely didn't know, but still.
... and for that kind of rumination, we have therapists to help out.
I can personally vouch for this.
In Morocco cats were everywhere. Cafes, high rises, farms, University, everywhere I went.
Even the airport! As we queued up to the ticket counter (this was decades ago) i saw cats wandering independently. I mused to my companion, "i wonder if they get into the secure area of the airport?"
Sure enough, after going through security and waiting at the gate, there goes a feline walking by wholly unbothered.
I wondered if cats ever got onto planes unwittingly. Didn't see any on our plane ... still wonder.
Brings to mind this quote from the film The Big Short:
"Tell me the difference between stupid and illegal and I'll have my wife's brother arrested."
(based on the book of the same name by Michael Lewis, a name I've seen elsewhere in these comments: go figure)
Rather abrupt end to the article. Lots of ethical questions left unanswered .... which i guess is the point.
> the most profitable thing to do is unfortunately to drag a problem out
... which is why our medical intitutions would rather manage chronic conditions than cure or prevent them
... and also why our "defense" institutions would rather manage chronic, unwinnable conflicts rather than see any side achieve victory (Ukraine, Syria, Gaza, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan) ... and also why our weapons / aid keep appearing on both sides of various conflicts
Because that's where the profit is.
Unless clean free toilets are a big part of their advertising. See: Buc-ee's locations.
Google Search's
customers are companies who advertise on the SERPs.
Google Search's users are people who do the searching.
If a service is free to use, you are the product.
I've tried that. One by one the stores near me stopped accepting batteries.
Even the municipal recycling center, where I sometimes take bags full of paper or plastic bottles, refuses to take batteries.
The local Batteries+Bulbs store is the only place left near me. For how long?
It should be FAR far easier to do.
IF being rhe keyword. If programmers as a whole do not tolerate such conditions, or if they are less productive, it won't be inescapable.
"A booming industry of cybersecurity consultants, software suppliers and incident-response teams have so far failed to turn the tide against hackers and identity thieves who fuel their businesses by tapping these deep reservoirs of stolen corporate data."Exactly. Heaven forbid we blame the corporations whose lax security led to the stolen data in the first place. That would make advertisers unhappy.
Scanning is pretty inexpensive. Maintaining a complex system that passes the scans? That's something different altogether.
If I take a clunker to a mechanic, how much will it cost me to hear everything that needs fixing? About $150. But actually performing the fixes? One order of magnitude greater - and that's if I'm very, very lucky!
Reuters really thinks the world is stupid. You know search engines won't make this error on the anniversary of Jan 6th. But just a coincidence this "error" works in favor of the CCP.
Are we really that dumb?
You have encountered a Grue.
