too Soviet

I mean… that’s like… the entire point of the show.

Tbh I’d be making a complaint to the practice, med org (if any) the practice is a part of, as well as the AMA. That’s absolutely egregious, and entirely indefensible as a medical practitioner.

One of my three strikes was for commenting on an antifascist thread as follows:

it’s always a good day to punch a Nazi

are you sure about that

please enjoy this sneak preview

So:

Critics say buying commercially available records allows government agencies to bypass safeguards that could require a warrant or court order if the information were demanded directly.

The SEC is controlled by regime flunkies now. This is an end-run of the 4th amendment.

ARC announced last November that it was shutting down TIP following pressure from lawmakers and reports about its government contracts. The program ended in 2025, but the newly released SEC documents reveal that its reach was far wider than previously known, and that overseas travelers were included in the system.

In related news, it was reported in March that FBI Director Kash Patel defended the bureau’s continued purchase of Americans’ location data, despite warnings from lawmakers that the practice sidesteps Fourth Amendment protections.

You can’t imprison a company

What are you talking about? USB-C is mandated in the EU. All Apple stuff can charge on that now.

For fucks sake can we stop doing flat dollar amount fines on megacorps and do percentage of revenue - yes, revenue specifically, not profit, which can be gamed in tons of interesting ways - as punitive measures? Even astronomical 8 or 9 figure fines on companies with market caps in the ballpark of a trillion fucking dollars are effectively brushed off as the cost of doing business, and are ultimately inconsequential and entirely ineffective in terms of serving as a meaningful deterrent to the things they’re being fined for.

Meta is not going to give a single shit about this. This is a small speed bump, nothing more.

lol I’m so glad I unsubbed back when they started letting ICEatzgruppen advertise on their platform. I paid for ad free, but simply knowing they were running ads for the all-American Stasi made me drop them like a hot potato.

I mean… I’ll be the one to say it: he’s not gonna know.

Do what you want and need to in order to maintain your sanity. Placate him with a white lie - and it is a white lie - to make him feel better, if you want to. But maintaining your boundaries and avoiding people you find utterly caustic isn’t “childish”. In fact, I’d call it a consummately adult behavior.

Same. Seriously considering popping for one before the 18 releases simply because it’s probs gonna be like $300 more expensive than the analogous 17 models.

Gaze upon mine field of fucks; ‘lo, it is barren.

I have absolutely zero interest in or sympathy for “influencers”.

I’m sorry buddy I’ll definitely hit you up next time we get together to definitely not cut down Flock cameras ❤️

Whoever did it was having pizza and playing Mario kart with me at my apartment

The regime will 100% try to use it as a weapon

Yeah wow hey maybe you should have fucking listened to everyone who’s been saying that for goddamn YEARS. 🫩

Right? I remember vista, and good god was it bad. In fact, I was finishing college and looking for a job back around when W7 was coming out, and I remember specifically asking the interview what had happened with the quality on Vista compared to XP. Turns out the outsourced ALL of their SQA from Redmond to contractors in India. Nowadays, they don’t even have that excuse - it’s dogshit by design these days.

Fuck /u/spez lmao

Microsoft legit single-handedly bringing about the Year of Linux with how they’re turning W11 into categorical dogshit lmfao 🤣