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  • France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU.

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  • In the same vein, with my family I've been using the analogy of "Imagine that all law enforcement had a key to your home, and they could enter at any time and look through your things, but you wouldn't even know it if they did, or if they took photos or recorded videos of your place to take with them. Their argument is that the only way to keep you and your stuff safe from the bad guys is for the good guys to have access. But because the good guys now have access, it's also easier for the bad guys to get in, because now there's all these extra keys to your home out there, which might fall into the hands of the bad guys."

    Not a perfect analogy, but it seems to make them consider the issue from a more personal angle. And for those that argue, "Well, I don't have anything to hide.", I usually counter with "Then why do you close your curtains/blinds when you change your clothes or get out of the shower?" With my dad who grew up during the World War II, it also helped to mention that a law like this, once on the books, will not be easy to overturn, and while he might be fine with our current regime having access to all his data, that might not be the case with future authorities.

  • Rockwell Retro Encabulator

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  • Can't believe I'd never seen that before. The sequel popped up afterwards, and was also hilarious.

  • What's a luxury that would break you if were no longer able to have it?

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  • Music, without a doubt. Specifically, being able to choose particular songs to listen to. I'd get pretty miserable after a few days.

  • Best alternative to WhatsApp?

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  • Also, outside the US WhatsApp is some kind of standard the way rich Americans think iMessage is. Companies will ask her to contact them on WhatsApp, so she'll have to have it regardless of your personal involvement.

    That really depends on the country that the family member is moving to, and is not an absolute thing world-wide.

  • If you could see back to any year in history, which year would you choose? You can skip around in time and space within your chosen year, but not affect anything.

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  • That sounds so cool, until I realize that I wouldn't understand anyone around me. It'd still be amazing to see everything, but it'd be even better if I could have some subtitles as well. To be fair, I'd have much the same issue, if I were to go back to London of that year.

  • What's the longest amount of time you spent trying to find something?

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  • It took me around 18 years to find the song, It's a Rainy Day by Ice MC (YouTube link), which I rediscovered last year.

    My older sister used to buy a lot of different compilation albums, think stuff like "Now That's What I Call Music! (Wikipedia link)". I started listening to a lot of them, when I was around 6-7 years old, and while Eurodance songs like Rhythm Is a Dancer by Snap!, Be My Lover by La Bouche, Pump Up The Jam by Technotronic (YouTube links), and so on, were easy to track down throughout the years, there was always one song I couldn't find.I couldn't even remember any lyrics, only that there was some rapping, where the dialect made it impossible for my child brain to absorb and retain any words. The only thing that I remembered was that there would be sentences ending with an "eh eh", and that's really not a lot to go on!

    Until one day, when I was walking around a store and they started playing it over the sound system. I didn't even realize at first, but when that organ hit at 0:21, I literally snapped my head up towards the speakers, hahaha. Finding out that he was rapping in Jamaican Patois, it suddenly made a lot more sense why I hadn't retained any of the words.

    Apparently they also used the song during the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony (Wikipedia link), which is wild to find out.

  • Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content

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  • What band is that? I'm always interested in checking out new music.

  • I screen, you screen, we all screen for I screen.

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  • Yeah, that's probably not too far off actually, haha. I just really enjoy a larger screen more. Maybe if I get one of those fancy foldable phones one day, it'll get way higher.

  • I screen, you screen, we all screen for I screen.

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  • I'm okay with this, but I think my PC screen time would look pretty bad :')

  • It's your first date and she/he asks what type of music you like. What's the guilty pleasure you won't tell her/him about?

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  • Was it Queen of the Clouds? I like Lady Wood and Blue Lips too, but QOTC is just such a "leave it on, no need to skip any tracks" album for me. Such a vibe.

  • Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.

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  • As far as I know, that's just always how it's been for markdown, which is what Lemmy uses. So in order to be sure that your comment looks the way you want it to, it's a good idea to use the Preview function, which Voyager thankfully also has under the 3 dots menu in the lower right.

    @Mr_Blott@feddit.uk also mentioned that you can put two spaces at the end of each word, and then it'll count the one enter as a proper line break.Like this. You can also do as I did, and just put a dash in front of everything, and then it'll turn into an unordered list.

  • Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.

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  • Looking at the source of the comment, OP only hit enter once per extension name they entered, and that's why they're showing up as if they're one long run-on sentence. @Num10ck@lemmy.world probably didn't know that you have to double enter for things to show up on separate lines.

    I went ahead and found links for all of them, for anyone curious to check em out. I don't personally know any of them, besides uBlock and Stylebot:

  • Sand - Official Gameplay Demo

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  • Awesome music

  • Casual Games to Play During a Call

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  • I recommend PowerWash Simulator (Steam link). Sometimes when I'm completely wrecked from work, I'll sit and play this, while I chill in a Discord VC with friends. Sometimes both my girlfriend and I will play it multiplayer, while hanging with our friends in Discord. Really nice and relaxing game.

  • If you could "Eternal Sunshine" a piece of media so that you could listen to it for the first time again, what would it be?

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  • Damn, why gatekeep?

  • Weekly what have you been playing discussion - week of September 9th, 2024

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  • I tried Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes again today, after years of not playing it. Had a lot of fun, and even beat a bunch of previously best times!

    I also tried Balatro for the first time today. Really cool music and aesthetics, but not for me. I could see someone who likes Poker, getting super into it though.

    Been playing a lot of Dice & Fold though, which I initially thought that I wouldn't care for, but which has really turned into an obsession. That and Storyteller have been so much fun to play!

    Next up, I want to give PowerWash Simulator a try, as I hear a lot of good things about it.

  • Autocorrect Rule

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  • Women are not good for the next hour anyway y yo no se que es eso amor pero no se que hacer con el amor de mi vida y no me gusta que me diga que no me gusta estar contigo

    It's bad bitch o'clock, featuring Bad Bunny.

  • I once did a toke at a party and then I died true story

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  • I personally prefer a good pan.

  • Can anyone help me find an online calculator that can calculate total the price of items I buy. (euro)

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  • Oh, that actually looks really cool! Seems perfect for those times when you don't want to start up a whole Excel / Google Sheet. That actually seems perfect for what OP is asking for, provided they don't mind that it isn't offline. At least it doesn't require making an account! Pretty cool that you can share pages too.