we asked respondents to rate each president on a scale of 0-100 for their overall greatness

With this phrasing i’d expect the opposite result, Trump voters giving him a perfect 100 tremendous greatness would average out with all the zeroes and at least put him above the 30ish presidents that nobody really remembers

Hopefully this is a sign that the MAGA brain rot is going away.

TLDR: privacy law won’t pass because it would limit the government’s right to buy “commercially available data” on anyone without a warrant

This includes location data collected from cell phones that are capable in many cases of tracking people’s physical whereabouts almost constantly. The data is purportedly gathered for advertising purposes…

A government that actually cares about privacy wouldn’t be debating ‘should we be able to buy that data’, it would be asking the real question ‘why the fuck is it legal to collect and sell that data?’

Even if we pretend that data will only ever be used for ads, it’s still not fucking OK for advertisers to stalk everyone everywhere 24/7 (and every use other than ad stuff is probably worse)

I assume there’s some in universe reason why they can’t / don’t keep copies of the teleportation data, otherwise everyone would be effectively indestructible

“Oh no the captain got eaten by a space tiger”

“No problem, I’ll teleport a backup from an hour ago, he’ll be there in 5 minutes”

Unpopular opinion: obvious stuff that 99% of the people here will agree with.

I used to get myself into traps like that a lot, “I need to get that impossible achievement”, “I need to play only at the highest difficulty”, “I need to get 200% completion”.

At the end of the day video games are just toys, play them as you like and if you’re not enjoying it just do something else instead. After I realized that games are fun again.

This ghost achievement in particular is a very hard challenge run, the kind of thing you go for after you finished the game and want more with an extra twist, trying to force it on your first time playing is guaranteed to be frustrating

Meta has no interest in being part of the fediverse, it only wants to eliminate any posible competition.

The usual MO of buying the competitors isn’t posible on the fediverse, so the way to do it is embrace, extend and extinguish

Defederating is important because is Metastasis is allowed in the fediverse it will consume the fediverse, and then we’ll be right back at the corporate social media we’re trying to break away from, with the surveillance, ads and nazis being welcome as long as it’s profitable

Did anyone here read the article?

He’s not saying “those lazy peasants should know their only purpose is to make me richer and be happy about it”, he’s saying “obviously nobody will be motivated by making some rich jerks richer while getting paid peanuts”.

Unfortunately in the second half he goes into out of touch CEO mode, but the quote on the ragebait title is actually very reasonable

Mind elaborating a little more? Why do you think limiting violent abusers’ access to murder toys is bad?

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I got better though

Taylor Swift turned me into a newt!!

Cops can’t stop you because you were on your way to a bank, just because they feel you might want to rob it.

LOL Sure, in theory they can’t, but in reality cops do stop people for any made up reason and they can also shoot you for any made up reason without consequence.

And “pro-life” people will support every cop that kills a pregnant woman on that highway.

Everytime I try to google anything that might be remotely related to a product every result will be a store.

I’d never have assumed that they just replaced my query but in hindsight it’s kinda obvious

Climate change is only this bad because a handful of rich assholes decided that those billions of deaths a few years away are a small price to pay for quarterly profit… So maybe talking about how it’s gonna affect the economy™ is the way

Ironically that trump quote is a perfect description of Trump’s government

Thanks alot