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Content warning: Angry fox noises Every US mobile carrier selling your location data.
I love how news agencies are treating the FCC fines against these multi-billion dollar cellular carriers like they're huge. Compared to their revenue, they're laughable.
What's a 50 million dollar fine when you've made 15 billion dollars this year.
To put this in perspective, it's about the same as fining someone that makes $75,000 a year $100 for something that makes them tens of thousands. The only reason they care at all is because they know how this looks, and they don't want to set a prescient for fines in the future.
Signs you live in 2024
1. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
3. You call your son's phone to let him know it's time to eat, he emails you back from his bedroom.
4. Your daughter sells Girl Scout cookies via her website.
5. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you haven't spoken with your next door neighbour yet this year.
6. You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea.
7. Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screen saver.
8. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
9. Every commercial on television has a web site address at the bottom of the screen.
10. You buy a computer and 4-months later it is out of date and now sells for half the price you paid for it.
11. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 10-40 years of your life, is cause for panic and turning around to go get it.
12. Using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase would be a hassle and takes planning.
13. Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
14. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
15. You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.
16. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.
17. Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored post-it notes.
18. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.
19. You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls.
20. You disconnect from the Internet and get thi! s awful feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
21. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.
22. You wake up at 2 am to go to the bathroom and check your e-mail on your way back to bed.
23. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. [:)]
24. You're reading this.
25. Even worse; you're going to forward it to someone else!!! Yep...
It must be wild to be a student right now.
School shootings? Youβre on your own. Thoughts and prayers.
Peaceful protest? Thatβs going too far. Send in the riot gear.
That America feels empowered to intervene in one but not the other tells you everything you need to know.
Never forget how differently police carry themselves when the person on the other end cannot harm them.
The cops are excited to LARP with their military-grade toys, until the other side is armed. Then theyβre gonna cower outside the classroom because they might get a boo-boo.
Matching colors of a different species, also they're cute
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1 week until I can see other furries again! I havenβt even done so since this Michigan bowling meet I went to back in January :O
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Ft: Goldie, @juke , me , @Dilyn_LD , @fluffycyborgs
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systemd+chromium
just... gonna entirely watch the world burn
someone. actually. wanted. this.
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-os-dev/c/c8lnhSV9rWk
i need to go run up to the sierra nevadas and stick my head in a snowbank
Sheβs back and ready to fight! π¦
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FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus βN95 gradeβ RGB masks
βDeceptive advertising and misinformation posed a risk to public health."
5οΈβ£ Here's the 5th installment of my series of posts highlighting key new features of the upcoming v256 release of systemd.Mastodon
Most people working as librarians in the US did not wake up, head to work, and wonder, What are the chances Iβm going to be charged with a crime for letting someone take out a book today?
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/17-states-are-considering-laws-that-would-imprison-librarians
Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis has been forced to limit certain Floridians to only one book-banning attempt per month.Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
This is like a bad supervillain movie where some maniac amasses greater and greater influence until he is ready to take over the world.
Sudo has a "large attack surface" and systemd does not ?
Really ?
https://outpost.fosspost.org/d/19-systemd-wants-to-expand-to-include-a-sudo-replacement
Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has posted on Mastodon about their upcoming v256 release of Systemd, which is expected to include a sudo replacem...M.Hanny Sabbagh (FOSS Outpost)
If you really want to get upset about something going on in open source / open data space, I would suggest considering Niantic.
After years of refusing any communication with #OpenStreetMap, not to mention -any- kind of support. Niantic joined the Linux Foundations @linuxfoundation Overture (for substantial amounts of money), but its customers continue to vandalize OSM, burning lots of volunteer time at multiple levels.
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/beware-of-fake-beaches-pokemon-go/112413
Five days ago Niantic announced a new PokΓ©mon in PokΓ©mon Go, which spawns only in beaches. So it could happen that someone could add fake beaches in these days (I found two users already in Italy with a quick check), this is just a reminder to take aβ¦OpenStreetMap Community Forum
Scientists have been absolutely clear that we MUST make immediate and drastic changes if we are to avoid catastrophic eco-system collapse. But, as Greta Thunberg has said, all we ever get from politicians and industry leaders is more useless blah blah blahβ¦
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #BusinessAsUsual
"Last year there was an #AxeTheTax rally that was supposed to be held in the Yellowknife that got cancelled because #Yellowknife was being evacuated because of a #wildfire. How does it start cutting through to folks that the alternative to #ClimateAction is burning cities?"
https://www.podcastics.com/episode/290038/link/
#Climate #Moratorium #abpoli #EnergyTransition #AxeTheTax #BurnBabyBurn #wildfires #drought #cdnpoli
*Taps mic*
There's no such thing as cosmetic surgery. The phrase is BS rhetoric.
Boob jobs, butt lifts, lipo, hair transplants--they should all be fully covered by insurance, *for cis people as well as trans*, and they should be covered to save costs.
Let me show you the math.
But wait, *it gets even more stark*.
Say it's a dude, and he's balding. Same stats. He stops hair loss with finasteride, but wants his hairline back.
A 1500-graft transplant, so one of average size, costs $6, 750, at a pretty average retail price of $4.50/graft.
Insurance turns a profit at 45 weeks.
45.
Weeks.
And if the insurer negotiates the rate to $4/graft, which is a very modest negotiation that they can probably beat, it costs them only $6,000.
I understand and appreciate this thread. Healthcare, especially in the States, is a big scam when paired with insurance.
That said, I also think therapy is a necessary step that exists even when surgery is an option. It's another rabbit hole but the discussion about easy and inexpensive access to therapy plays into all of this.
Corporate income tax rate before the Trump tax cuts: 35%
After the Trump tax cuts: 21%
What many corporations actually paid with loopholes: 14%
What Netflix, Bank of America, and Nike paid: Less than 5%
What Trumpβs planning for a second term? Even more corporate tax cuts.
We can't or Google won't pick up our pages and we'll get fired...
Legit, this is all Google's fault. At least on the journalist side of things. Though sadly, I bet you aren't finding blogs that do exactly what you want due to their BS too. :C
Completely mind boggling to me that we threw away 5 billion phones in 2022.
Some of those could have been repurposed: smartphones are hardly innovating any more. The most eco-friendly phone is the one you already have.
We need to publicly support communities like @postmarketOS who work on making these phones repurposable, and @gnome that work on making a polished mobile experience that serves people, not creepy corporations.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63245150
Billions of phones will be hoarded in drawers and cupboards or thrown away rather than recycled, studies suggest.By Victoria Gill (BBC News)
okay lmao
airport security made a big fuzz about me being trans
i was sent to the female security guard to be checked, she asked me for my name and i said my deadname (the name on my passport)
then she was like "oh, uhm, oh, okay, I don't know if I'm allowed to touch you, I'll go check with my colleagues"
so she got her colleagues and started to explain "this lady uhm, uhm, she's (looking for words) she's a man??"
the colleague said well, what matters is what's on my passport, I said my passport says male and I don't really mind who I get checked by (I really don't, I'm bisexual, it doesn't make a difference to me)
so then they said in theory I have to get checked by the male officer, I said (again) that I don't mind, but the male officer looked at me and was like "no, no, I can't touch her"
then the officers went to get the federal police to testify that it's okay for me to be touched by a woman, I assured them that I do not care who touches me
so I ended up getting checked by the female security guard, she apologized a lot and said she doesn't mind personally, she just didn't learn how to deal with this and what she's allowed to do, and that if I feel uncomfortable I can tell her and she will stop immediately, and that I should please not feel discriminated
honestly this entire thing made my day, I'm in a good mood now
this means that I pass pretty well, and the fact that my gender is so confusing the federal police had to get involved just makes me incredibly smug
Let me explain this real slow.
1. I borrow $100 from you today.
2. I pay you $10 every day for a year.
3. I have paid you back $3,650
4. I still owe you $90 somehow.
5. You then "forgive" the $90 debt.
In this scenario, absolutely nobody is paying anybody $90. Nobody is being stiffed $90. Nobody is being forced to pay someone else's $90 debt. Absolutely nobody is "getting a $90 handout for free".
What's happening is you have been paid back your original $100 and then profited a mere $3,550 on top of that and we're saying that's enough profit.
This post is about student loan forgiveness.
and debt forgivness has existed for just as long. It's only the recent colonial/capitalist era that people suddenly decided that no debts can be forgiven ever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_debt_relief
The earliest known debt cancellation was proclaimed by Enmetena of Lagash c.β2400 BCE.
Similar measures were enacted by later Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian rulers of Mesopotamia, where they were known as "freedom decrees" (ama-gi in Sumerian).
From what I read on it by David Graeber, the Babylonian king had to periodically forgive all debts in the city, because literally everyone became a debt slave to the temple, so they all started depopulating the city en-masse, because back then there was a place to retreat where the debt collectors couldn't follow.
https://files.libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf
This is brilliant. Some rancid TERF emailed the Lib Dem Mayoral candidate in her area with some "polite questions" and got this response.
Bravo Hannah π π€£
#UKPolitics #TransRightsAreHumanRights
Ruviki is intended to be a more βtrustworthyβ source of information for Russians by editing out anything that makes the Russian government look bad.Jules Roscoe (404 Media)
Vendor ships bottle of wine with a three digit tumbler lock on the bottle with a "book a meeting with us to get the code"
lol no.
Pick it in a few minutes and laugh at the vendor whilst we drink it. Thank you vendor.
it's not brill, but it's nice to see the stick embiggening and being wielded with more force than is usual.