DMessham @DMessham27

I hope all flock cameras are forced to be removed as soon as possible. Mass surveillance is unconstitutional and any company or organization trying to force it on Americans should be sued into oblivion & broken up.

RednBlackSalamander @9mmballpoint

a day ago

No guys it's fine, Flock cameras only read license plates, it's just normal traffic control, stop being so paranoid Anyway here's one on a bike path

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I just found Brave's "Force Paste" option that bypasses the work of sordid retards who prevent pasting into form fields. This might have just endured me to this browser for life.

Sounding an awful lot like the person that needs to be warned not to drink the contents of their battery here “If you ignore all of the warnings that this machine is going to run out of fuel and stop working, it runs out of fuel and stops working”

Lawrence Whittaker @ListerLawrence

3 days ago

I’m not an EV hater, but the problem with EV’s that no one talks about is: When the range gets to 0 in an EV the car just stops. In some cases they can’t even be pushed… When the range gets to 0 in a Petrol or Diesel car, you have a built in grace period of 30-40 miles that

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might delete idk but it's the "everyone wants to save the world but no one wants to help mom do the dishes" thing to me. they want to be hero of the day saving women in dark streets but never tackle the everyday things/ppl (incl themselves) contributing to rape culture

cat @dollshojo

4 days ago

rape the concept is far more hated than rape the act.

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This video of Indian students trying to open a door to save someone from suicide in india gets recycled on this app every month with the exact same caption with elon's platform boosting it. We don't hate these people enough.

Garbage Human @GarbageHuman24

4 days ago

Dorm room of the only white woman in the entire University of Toronto engineering department, yet they all flood my comments when I call them rapejeets.

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The U.S. is investigating Germany for making medication and healthcare a little too affordable for their citizens. They're pressuring Germany to raise prices and invest more in "innovative pharmaceutical research" to keep international drug prices from going down.

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We heckin’ love publicly available FCC internal photo documents

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I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this. The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home. There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered. What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business. Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not. This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy. That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids. What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes. Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming? No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.

Seán Ako 🇮🇪 @TheAkoFiles

a week ago

My first instinct was to support the UK’s social media ban for under 16s. Protecting children from grooming, exploitation and harmful content seems like common sense. But I’m seeing a lot of opposition to it, so I’m genuinely curious as to why? One thing making me second guess

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"90% support it" Yeah in the same way dictators "win" elections - its a made up stat; the survey was publicly available and there was NO way to say no lol

Sam @SamCKx

a week ago

People will attack this policy, but after extensive government consultation, 90% of the parents of under-16s support it. They have watched social media consume huge portions of their children’s lives, so have a very different perspective. Social media amplifies narcissism,

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The people smugly gloating that young people will just have to 'find something else to do' in response to the social media bans are usually the exact same people who seethe with anger and make reports about 'loitering' whenever they have to share public spaces with teenagers.

ridiculous that we have all these supposed billionaire geniuses running around, and their greatest innovation of our lifetime has been stealing our personal data to sell us targeted ads.

@senfre_ Amazingly my Sky router has the ability to configure specific devices to go offline when I decide they should. I can also disable gambling sites, adults sites, social media, etc myself. All without the government nannying me

I used to play Xbox 360 late into the morning when I was in school. My parents found out and started turning the router off at night. Amazingly they didn’t require a parliamentary majority and royal assent.

Politics UK @PolitlcsUK

a week ago

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer will introduce nightly social media curfews for 16 and 17-year-olds as part of the Government's social media ban [@thetimes]

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@gunpeiyokoifan the average british parent wants the government to make every parenting decision for them. their ideal world is shipping their kids off to be raised by the state & having the kids returned to them solely for the purpose of taking photos of them for instagram

Fun AI overview "glitch".

Are you a heavy emitter over 50,000 Tonnes? The industrial carbon tax works out to a WHOPPING $0.09 a BARREL, or a CRIPPLING $0.0006 a litre! You’re going to tell me THAT minuscule amount is what’s breaking you at the grocery store? Get fucked! #cdnpoli #cdnpolitics

Darth_Canadian @CanadianDarth

a week ago

@terry_truchan @JDirt1980 So you acknowledge there is still a carbon tax.

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I mean, I’m all for putting things into perspective, but when it comes to global warming, zooming out a couple thousand years is not exactly reassuring.

John Dunton-Downer @doubledee3

a week ago

@hausfath Zoom out your graph to include just a few thousand little years. And…. Breathe. Happy weekend!

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the narrative that poor ppl commit all the crime is the most successful copaganda in modern history. crime committed by poor ppl is insignificant & inconsequential to the crimes committed by the wealthy. we're comparing petty theft to crimes against humanity #readtheEpsteinFiles

‏ً @omgsidewalks

2 weeks ago

You reduce crime by eliminating poverty. The actual reason so called nice neighborhoods have lower crime rates is because people’s basic needs are being met. It is not because of police, alarm systems, or neighborhood associations. Poverty creates crime.

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The darkest part of the FW900 legend is that it relies on impossible-to-source components with high failure rates. Every surviving unit is living on borrowed time.

Lain on the Blockchain @CryptoCyberia

2 weeks ago

REMINDER: The Sony GDM-FW900 is the greatest consumer display device ever. It has the absolute best picture quality at resolutions that it supports (1440p natively, 2560 x 1600 when overclocked) with better motion clarity at 60hz than the best OLED gaming monitor at 480hz

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