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The funny thing is, THIS seems to be the part the media is rolling with, but if you read the full details about what it can do and how poorly it’s made, tracking your location is only one thing to worry about (though it’s a big one to be fair).
E.g The potential for running arbitrary malicious code if one random dude on the internet (who is unrelated to the US government) has his GitHub account compromised? Daaaaaaawg
One day people will look back on your comment and be impressed at how you predicted the future four great nations of the world.
This is gonna be fuckin hilarious
What I hate most about the Independent these days is that they’re a UK news agency for UK news reporting, but seem to want to heavily report on local USA news now.
Not just big international news worthy stuff, but lots of small local area USA news.
I’ll see some headline that sounds serious, only to open it and find it’s not referring to events in the UK at all, but in the USA, which is entirely irrelevant to me.
Not sure why they pivoted to being a US news company, but I’m sick of it, so they’re on my blacklist now.
They killed the man himself, Dow Jones!
Hey now, they care so much about protecting children that they’ll cover them in body armour and send them in big groups to far away lands (to keep them safe from domestic terrorism ofc)!
The fanbase? They didn’t take this kindly and have now been making it a campaign to make that user’s life a living hell.
I only browse the community stuff rather than engaging with it, but we’ve had very different experiences.
What I’ve seen is everybody discussing how messed up you’d have to be to do something like that, after a minority of players did all that horrible stuff, the fanbase overwhelmingly calling for those responsible to face punishment in court and to be permanently banned from the game and community.
As can be expected of any community, there’s always unhinged, bad people in the mix. There are bad people on Lemmy, there are bad people everywhere. That’s just life. As a society, we deal with them when they show themselves, and we take care of each other.
You can tar the whole community with one brush if you’d like, but that’s not a path towards anything positive. It only leads to people like me being offended and angry when you claim I’ve (as part of the fanbase) been on a campaign to make someone’s life hell.
It’s just not productive.
Finally, the one thing missing from our modern day sci-fi Star Trek future was a Self Destruct built in to all our vehicles!
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If it has a MicroSD slot, 3.5mm jack, a removable battery and costs no more than £300, I’m interested! <3
I’d rather it were made in Europe too, but I understand we can’t have everything, supply chains being what they are.
P.S Bonus points if it has an IR blaster, I use the one on my current phone quite a lot, surprisingly enough!
Gambling. Call it gambling.
Trying to whitewash it as “Prediction Markets” so it doesn’t sound scummy, addictive, damaging and horrible is really annoying.
There is a market for predicting outcomes of things and waging money against those predictions, yes. We call it Gambling.
Motorola has been kinda crap for years now, not supporting their android phones with updates, etc.
Hopefully this is a new leaf for them.
Isn’t Lenovo that dodgy company that did the China stuff though? Hopefully they’ve been bought by someone else since then.
Is anybody acting like this is new? Shops relabel stuff with price changes regularly, this just makes it quicker and easier - staff don’t have to run around for a hour with a price gun and a bunch of shelf labels any more.
Improving how we display prices isn’t the issue, that’s a good move, it’s how prices are decided that are the problem.
Every penny given to a US company is bankrolling their government through taxes, and thus funding authoritarianism.
OpenAI has direct government contracts sure, but yeah.
I agree it sucks.
Which planet do we owe the money to?
Break fast and move things!
(Thanks for the informative response! It made my brain go off on a bit of a tangent haha)
I always thought that term was weird, African American.
Like, are they African, or American, they can’t be both. If we’re trying to say “American but of African genetic descent”, that can (maybe) include white Africans who have lived there many generations, not to mention the more truly native people in African nations like Egypt or Morocco, who, to put it crudely, may not always be considered ‘black’ enough or from the appropriate cultural group to be called African American.
And, if we’re using the term, why aren’t most white people in the USA called European Americans?
It seems a weird and very specific label applied to people of a very particular skin colour and heritage, to avoid using the word black, even though that’s not, on its own, a racist term. It’s just a descriptive visual trait, like tall, thin, white, muscly, gaunt, etc.
I think it says more about the person saying it, when they feel like calling a person black is, in a vacuum, being racist, you know?
Like, coming up with a weird special term that doesn’t really stay logically consistent just to dance around the fact that you’re uncomfortable with someone else’s skin colour is weird, you know?
Anyway, I’m not from there, so there are probably big gaps in my knowledge on the subject, it’s just always seemed really odd to me as an outsider looking in, haha.
…Especially when some Americans come over here and start calling local black people “African American”. Dawg you in Europe! You’re calling a French black dude American 😂
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Ur such a dhork <3
Haha, fuckin hilarious. I’m gonna proclaim February 6th as Margaret Thatcher Day too.
That’ll give us a year to really prepare for next year’s Margaret Thatcher Day.
What should be some of the hall marks of Margaret Thatcher Day? What should go on the bunting and balloons? What sort of foods should we encourage people to make for the street parties?
How dare you besmirch the famous Nestlé name! They didn’t murder all those babies and steal all that water and support all that slavery to have their chocolate insulted! How DARE