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You're able to disable the pin feature to prevent that data from being saved though, so it definitely isn't a requirement.

I'm also not sure where you've read that they collect the contents of messages, because as far as I'm aware they still aren't doing that and I can't find any info online that indicates that they are (other than their secure backup feature that's opt-in only I suppose)

This is actually a great point but for the opposite reason - if you ask a blind person if the night sky is beautiful, they would say they don't know because they've never seen it (they might add that they've heard other people describe it as such). Meanwhile, I just asked ChatGPT "Do you think the night sky is beautiful?" And it responded "Yes, I do..." and went on to explain why while describing senses its incapable of experiencing.

It sounds silly but it fits. NATO's new 5% spending target is somewhat fluff. It's 3.5% for actual defence spending and 1.5% for "critical infrastructure" expenses. It makes sense when you consider most of the infrastructure initally created by NATO countries to counter Russia ends in Germany and envisions a different sort of battleplan, but you could also see it as a way of inflating NATO's apparent military investments.

>If you are worried, just run a second Chrome session with NordVPN and uBlock Origin in a loose jurisdiction and browse YouTube unlogged.

If you actually did this you would know that it works for all of a week or two before YouTube stops letting you watch videos until you login.

That may be true, but it certainly helped that he DID pay his workers enough for them to be able to afford the cars they were making.

That really doesn't sound at all comparable to what the article is describing though.

Do you actually believe this NYT opinion article speaks for everybody on this topic or is that just convenient to the argument you're trying to make right now?

Because there are plenty of people who just enjoy explaining things or helping others understand, and to say the only two reasons for that behavior is that their time is worthless or they have an agenda is myopic.

No, changing your gender identity doesn't affect your selective service registration

A laughable false equivalance, at least in the West you won't be executed for "crimes" such as apostasy and homosexuality.

Er, the man actually plays a very significant role in "making" the kid...