mctoasterson

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Me, still using a site licensed copy of Office 2007 from a job I had over a decade ago.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Unfortunately it has been demonstrated through whitehat research that simply deleting your old account is relatively useless. They have shadow profiles of users based on probabilistic data. For example, say your spouse with her decades old account keeps making posts about what you ate on date night, your trip to Cabo, or worse yet she posts a bunch of pictures of her, you, and the kids. Facebook makes a shell profile based on this conception of "you" and begins aggregating all the info it can about this person.

More over, every time an acquaintance of yours gives their FB app permissions to access their contacts (to suggest Friends or whatever) if your contact info is on the list, FB now has your real name, your email, your mobile phone number, etc. You never opted in, but it doesnt matter - other people are opting you into FB data collection all the time, unless you literally don't tell anyone your real phone number or email address.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Problem is, if the goal is to greatly reduce or eliminate the debt, you could confiscate 100% of the 1%s wealth and it would barely make a dent.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Kinda surprised Japan doesn't already have digital Waifu figurines, to be honest. Seems like a logical progression from plastic figure statues, with decent margins and potential subscription or add-on sales.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (4 children)

We did this exercise as a civic learning experience in 9th year government/social studies classes. The teacher had us go through a mock (simplified) Federal budget and decide which line items to cut to achieve a "balanced budget" with debt reduction.

The problem is largely intractable for reasons that become obvious even to middleschool kids. Do you completely cut popular things like the space program? Gut entitlement spending? Massively increase taxes across all brackets? Reduce the military or infrastructure spending to laughable levels? All of those things are very unpopular but that is what it would really take to tackle the problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

And I say to myself... I need exact change...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

All they have to do is sell a million copies for $700 each and they break even!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Luckily the YouTube app gets way worse with each update. Mine now tries to dark pattern you into signing in, and now features extra ads when you pause a video.

I'm switching to sideloaded SmartTube on a GoogleTV with Chromecast dongle.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'd pretend to be outraged except I don't give a shit. They could go after the Chinese companies for continuing to sell products they know are dangerous and/or illegal in the US but so far nobody has done that.

Suppressors should probably just be an over the counter item anyway, as they are in much of Europe. They are a hearing safety device. The NFA is bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

It's not a toy. It makes real cupcakes... with a 40 watt bulb... and there's icing packets. But the secret ingredient is love... Damn it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Orange Box is one of the last gaming purchases that I actually got my moneys worth out of.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Every streaming service now hordes their decent IP and sprinkles it in amongst a vast pile of shovelware content. They prize exclusives but don't adequately communicate what they have access to or why, or when the rights to that content expire.

There's nothing more ridiculous than paying for two streaming services, having shared access to two more, and then realizing the old movie you want to watch is only available as an ala carte $1.99 rental on a 5th service.

At that point just Yarr that shit.

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