On the one hand, it’s still super fucking stupid. We had to give up an arms dealer or something for that. On the other hand, I could totally picture Russia just arresting someone because they decided that they were wearing the wingy colored socks

At his age, he probably wears then like a badge of honor.

At first, I was mad. Then the slow, sad realization that you’re more right than not…

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In Canada, they have an idea called “right to peace”. It means that you can’t stand outside of an abortion clinic and scream at people because your right to free speech doesn’t exceed that person’s right to peace.

I don’t know if that’s 100% how it works so someone can sort me out, but I kind of liked that idea

I think from context we can assume in favor of. I don’t think anyone is accusing Reddit of masterminding the Gaza conflict. I haven’t been to /r/conspiracy in a while through.

Holy shit!! This is great news. Hey - if we just raise temperatures globally, that could solve our micro plastics problem. Now… How do we get the ball rolling on this new “global warming” idea?

“Editor wastes ink on this bullshit instead of the news”

Talibanned!

It’s been a far right echo chamber for about ten years now, so I don’t know that this holds up.

Sort of seems like there should be now though, eh?

I feel like that might also violate some regulations

I use a Windows box for gaming, and Linux for the main workhorse. I’ve got a pihole on the network that handles most outgoing traffic.

Weird. I’m not using it because of the Microsoft name. I can’t help but think that it’ll go through all of my files and privacy and narc on me to the feds for my abandonware games. Pass

I’m making this claim based on the Wright Bros exhibit at the Smithsonian Air and space museum…

One of the genius things that they did was invent scaled testing (I’m not 100% sure I can make this claim, but I’d be happy to learn it I was wrong). Rather than building the device and testing it, which killed a lot of people through history, they built miniature components and tested them individually to prove concepts, and THEN built their production version in iterations.

Like, to test airfoil designs, they built a table top sized wind tunnel, put a miniature airfoil in, and evaluated its performance, and made determinations for the final product. This SIGNIFICANTLY lowered design costs and prototyping at the time.

This also happened to result in an airplane.

Good to know that nobody will be held accountable for the end of the world.

I think that if they’re letting those cars go out the factory door with the parts for heated rear seats, then I own those too, and I’ll do with them what I please.

I’m not saying it wasn’t profitable. It’s a hell of an achievement that it was.

Just that they took on a lot of investment capital and it wasn’t the kind of return that investors were expecting.

Ultimately, the efficacy of social media advertising on the whole is in the decline. The number and types of companies that used to advertise and run their business on Facebook is so different today than it was five years ago, and business are seeing far less return for their budget.

Twitter was riding a knife’s edge (particularly during COVID) and would have to really scramble to stay in the red in the future.