It’s literally what’s happening.
Texas used the same concept to empower private people to sue abortion providers and receivers under civil law since they couldn’t do it criminally.
The country as a whole has done it for a long time with cellphone data, the five eyes alliance, etc.
They have access to information they’re barred from getting directly themselves, and they get it from private companies. Spying by proxy.
100%. Most business is just advanced sophistry at this point. Marketing and advertising serves a useful purpose for new products, when the market isn’t aware that it exists.
But by quantity and cost, most advertising is just social manipulation and is effectively an extra drain on the economy.
Propaganda, nationalism, and fear of what regressive shitheads will do if you vocalize any opposition
Jail or the front lines.
I saw one program that Rick rolled Bluetooth device lists.
Almost across the board, new technology is used to spread two things: religious dogma and porn.
And the farmer’s almanac, but mostly the Bible and porn.
Not just their business practices, but also just the oculus purchase.
I already had an oculus. I was told (via press release) that I wouldn’t have any issues with not having a Facebook account…only for them to turn around a little while later and require a Facebook login.
This describes what I want - being able to have relatively blank walls/spaces that light up and fill up with content when you’re wearing the headset.
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It’s social media in the technical definition - it’s a place to view media, both entertainment and news, with commentary, groups, the ability to follow someone, etc. Which makes it social.
But yeah, it’s not quite like Facebook/Instagram/LinkedIn. A little bit like Twitter though.
Not really. He’s the “first among equals” as the bishop of Rome. While this translates into a lot of power, he can’t actually just make pronouncements.
Doctrine and catechism take decades to change and catch up, and any pope is largely along for that ride. This pope is using his social influence as much as possible to increase acceptance, which is why I appreciate him.
Much more than this and he will likely be assassinated. It’s not super uncommon historically, and often because a pope did things a strong faction within the cardinals/bishops didn’t like.
The whole church can fuck off. But this pope is alright. This is in response to some cardinals asking him to reaffirm the church’s stance on gay people. If this is what he chose to do instead, I hope he needs it up.
Which may be why they are reserving the weapons for themselves.
My concern is that if you can drop tens of billions of dollars on a single acquisition, what’s to stop you from spending “just” one billion to manipulate the situation to put your target in a vulnerable situation?
Our entire society is set up to wring out anyone who is unfortunate enough to find themselves buying anything.
And as resources get squeezed, more and more people are trying to claw at smaller and smaller pieces of the overall economic pie.
The breaking point will be catastrophic.
Every pixel product I have had was fine when I got it, but Google just won’t commit to support its products in any reasonable way.
I’ve never had similar issues with Samsung.
Russia has begun all of its recent invasions by claiming it is stepping in to protect ethnic Russians from persecution.
Iran can sell their oil to whomever can buy it.
But this was apparently a US company violating US law, so…to your point…the US’s sovereign right to enforce their law and confiscate contraband from their citizen.
Exactly. A broken clock is right twice a day. If “idiot” rich people can monetize their mistakes, consistently do so, and manage to do it almost as if by using the same playbook as each other…they’re not idiots, it is on purpose, and they just want enough plausible deniability that they don’t get strung up from a Michelin star restaurant.
They actively don’t care unless it impacts their pilgrimage directly.
They want Jesus to come back, and they think one part of that is that Jews control the holy land.
They are actively harming the world because they truly believe that 1) humans cannot destroy God’s creation, so 2) if we get close he’ll have to step in and end the world and take them to the heaven that they refused to build here.