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bobbyfiend

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  • Convenient critique

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  • Not in my experience. Liberals criticize their parties and communities constantly, at least in the circles I know. The criticism is most often about treatment if others in ways that don't affect the person themself. Sometimes it even seems like status seeking and gets obnoxious. But I'll take a movement where status can be had by advocating for others over over where it comes from selfishness.

  • ICE: Wrench = We don't need a warrant

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  • They have access to it if they threaten/indimidate/blackmail you into giving them access. Dummy phones are a real thing; saw a post today on masto by a company... person (?) who said they keep a stash of clean burner phones for when employees travel through US borders. These are all reasonable, and maybe even CalyxOS's decoy partition (does it still have that?). The larger problem is that few people will use these things, not even bringing a clean phone. And once they start threatening your family and your long-term safety and freedom, it's highly likely you'll give them access, if they know there is any access to be had. Which they increasingly do, because universal surveillance blah blah.

  • Digital Independence

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  • This is a great list and thanks for posting it.

    Also, the pixelfed guy needs to give up full control of his project (no matter how nicely or reasonably he argues "not yet"). I have asked on mastodon and nobody seems to know of anyone else who truly understands the project so if he dies or gets disappeared the project... Dies? Maybe? More concerningly, it isn't open source. He cotes good reasons for this (the massive labor to refactor and whatever else goes into open sourcing a functioning project), but he also occasionally humblebrags about being offered huge sums of money to sell it to corporations. I suspect it will become corporate at some point if he doesn't open source it soon.

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  • Even Muad'Dib started out small.

  • What is the profession you wouldn't work, even for a day and even if paid your weight in gold?

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  • IDF member

  • What is the least amusing joke you're aware of?

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  • As someone who's been hearing impaired my whole life, yes. The urge to punch the person in the face right at that moment sometimes seems irresistible.

  • What is the least amusing joke you're aware of?

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  • It's a toss-up between Elon Musk and people saying "WHAT?!" when I tell them I'm hearing impaired.

  • You've been instantly teleported two feet to the left. How does this affect you?

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  • Damnmit. I asked that kid to clean off this coffee table and now there's a pepper grinder, a bag of terrible candy, three remote controls, and some crushed fortune cookies, all under my back.

  • inb4 Call me what you want but pay me the same

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  • Of course you're an engineer. I could tell you didn't have to take gen ed courses from the punctuation mistake.

  • What is a fun gadget you have purchased that has added value to your life?

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  • As someone who speaks Spanish

    culoclean

    choking on my White Russian

  • What is a fun gadget you have purchased that has added value to your life?

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  • Your wife sounds like mine. I value transparency and openness fundamentally, but after a decade of "no" to almost everything, I've learned that if I just do stuff without asking, she frequently says, "Oh, that's a nice idea." If I ask, however, it's "not a good idea," "not now," "we don't need that," etc.

  • What is the weirdest thing you were under an NDA for?

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  • Not that strange, but certainly fucking annoying: at universities it's becoming more common to have "closed searches" for upper administrators like presidents, provosts, deans, etc. This is very much a labor/management thing, and historically (in the US) public universities have had open searches, where faculty and staff get to meet candidates, ask them questions, etc. Upper admins have taken over all decision making power in recent decades, but in the past few years they've even started preventing faculty/staff from even knowing who is applying to be their new uni president. Under pressure to do something about "the consent of the governed," admins have "allowed" some faculty and staff to view interviews and things, but are forced to sign NDAs to do so.

    At public universities, using taxpayer money, promising large amounts of taxpayer money to some person. It's stupid and annoying.

  • You find yourself in a room with people.Everyone else is someone you have had sex with in your life.

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  • Those three people already know each other, so...

  • Houthis Capture Vessel in Red Sea with Links to Israel and Call for Immediate Ceasefire

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  • No, Yemen declared war on Israel. It's war, so it's cool.

  • POV: Your paper doesn't quite meet the page requirement.

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  • Professor here: do this all you want. It's not a page requirement, it's a word requirement. And it's a maximum, not a minimum. You have some tasks to accomplish in 1,000 words or less. Anything more than 1,000 words gets deleted or (if in hardcopy) crossed out/torn off and thrown away. I grade what's left.

  • Anon meets a guy online

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  • met a guy online who has [opinions]

    see the guy

    I'm not racist or anything but he's clearly [race] so his [opinions] are hypocritical

  • Fascism Everywhere

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  • You're doing the dangerous thing: identifying fascism where Americans have been taught it's clearly not possible because it's "our team."

    You're right, of course.

  • What is the skill/talent you have that you get praised for but you fiercely keep as an hobby/interest with no plans to expand on it?

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  • I would watch the shit out of this YouTube channel.

  • Introducing Badger Swarm: New Project Helps Privacy Badger Block Ever More Trackers

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  • Privacy mushroom?