There is a good chance the Kremlin is shutting down independent war mongers because it is realizing the war can’t be won and the damage to the economy is getting out of control. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this is happening after the first widespread blackout in Moscow.
Don’t worry! He’s only doing that temporarily, because he knows that while he doesn’t care about the starving children, the Democrats do. And he needs the Democrats because he doesn’t like the Affordable Care Act, because Obama helped make it a law, and everything Obama did has to be undone. Once the Democrats help him nuke the ACA, the starving children can eat again! (They better not choke on anything, though, or get food poisoning, because they might not have health care any longer.)
Let alone open source!
Ricotta and dark chocolate for a dessert pizza
Awkward. That’s his younger brother.
By a wide margin the many different projects for an open source phone OS. From GrapheneOS to PostmarketOS, from Ubuntu Mobile to Plasma Mobile.
I am sick and tired of corporations telling me how I can use my phone. I am sick and tired of corporations deciding what apps I can install, from where, and what data they are allowed to collect. I am done with enshittification and the gradual disappearing of all useful information, either behind a paywall, or replaced by monetized content.
The last straw was when Google Maps decided to replace the “gas station on the route” feature that sent you to the cheapest gas station to some other logic it didn’t disclose, but that stinks of affiliate preference.
Y’all complain about Musk and about the quality issues of the hardware. I am more worried about the software and the willingness of the company to paywall basic functionality. I will never buy a car that can be bricked by the manufacturer remotely because I am not willing to pay a subscription.
It’s a weird article. It starts with the scientific data, summarized: NPI (Narcissistic Personality Index) scores have been increasing dramatically in the past 20 years. That is particularly true for younger people, who both have higher absolute scores and a higher increase. (That’s the data, but the article doesn’t mention it in detail.)
Then it goes on a series of wild speculations about why the scores are increasing, which is the stuff you mention. There is no data backing that up, but somehow the scientists themselves (who should know better) are quoted as providing part of the “explanations.” I think the technical term for those is WGPOYA, Wild Guesses Pulled Out of Your Ass.
We absolutely need more projects like this for the dizzying variety of hardware components that talk to servers that may die any day! (Or start charging extortionate fees for basic functionality, or discontinue perfectly working hardware for reasons of corporate greed.)
Okay, got it, thanks. I was just wondering if I had missed your point.
Personally, I find that absolutely anything that keeps pedophiles away from children is worth looking into. Over the years, I have met a few people that had sex at a young age, most of them willingly, and it always seemed to have broken something in them permanently. It’s just anecdotal, but so consistent I find it frightening, regardless of ick.
I am not sure why you say, “instead.” The argument is that regular porn reduces the desire to pursue a real-life partner, and the second sentence confirms that, no?
As the old disco song says, “Ain’t no closet big enough!” for this preacher
Of course, the letters “c” are pronounced with a Lisp
Now combine the two: the only thing standing in the way of you meeting your deadline or fixing your emergency is having to manually convert spaces to tabs!
–convert-tabs? What is this fuckery! Program like a real man and manually flip the bits until all your spaces are tabs!
I also found that claim troublesome. For all we know, access to plastic or silicone children may reduce the desire for real life children. Hard to say without actual data from professionals and scientists studying this kind of thing.
Sometimes it feels like the absolutely justified “ick” factor of simply wanting to shut down everything related to CSA gets in the way of actually helping the children that are the (potential) victims.
There is the weirdly pushy way the police officer tried to get her to confess that seems to imply that, too. They had a hunch, and hoped the person would be dumb enough to incriminate herself. It’s a real shame she only exonerated herself, I am sure they would have loved it if she had tracked down the real thief.
You think most? But that’s a great suggestion, I’ll check out their funding page.
So many reasons to re-consider.
I pity the person that thinks this only affects gay people and their marriages. The decision rests on the fundamental right to privacy and non-interference by government in private lives established decades earlier. In the Dobbs case, SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade and the right to abortions because they decided this right to privacy and non-interference does not exist. As a result, I expect gay marriage to fall.
But also in general the idea that you have a right to be left alone. That includes controls on all forms of contraception (the original case was about that), pornography, dating apps, consensual adult sex, sex toys, etc.