JohnTHaller

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by JohnTHaller 4d ago
It's relevant to know when the source of information is biased due to a conflict of interest. The source's business is apparently scraping Google (and Bing, etc).
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by JohnTHaller 5d ago
Note: Article published by Autom.dev which, from a quick read of their homepage, seems like it scrapes Google search results in violation of Google's terms of service and sells those results to customers via an API. That's just my
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by JohnTHaller 7d ago
There is indeed a crease: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1wbx1wo/there_is_a_cr...
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by JohnTHaller 8d ago
I use this for everything except where I write the month out or use an abbreviation. Much easier.
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by JohnTHaller 8d ago
It has no AI built in, which is a feature to a growing set of users. No AI buttons all over the place and sending your personal data off to who knows where. And if you want AI, you can add your choice of AI via plugins if you want AI in you
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by JohnTHaller 8d ago
We knew they were reporting back our watching habits of the built-in stuff. Then we learned they were doing video capture on HDMI ports to report back on what we watched on external sources (Xbox, Apple TV, etc). Then we learned that they d
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by JohnTHaller 9d ago
Essentially: US Dept of War refuses to pay out war benefits to US soldiers killed in the Iran war because it isn't a war.
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by JohnTHaller 10d ago
You said: > Why didn’t the other parties do anything or immediately declare war on Russia besides just the United States? I pointed out the fallacy of your statement. The US didn't declare war on Russia. And the fact that the EU isn
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by JohnTHaller 11d ago
Can you honestly say with a straight face that you believe Jared Kushner is in Moscow negotiating in good faith with Putin with respect to Ukraine? Especially given his lack of experience and multiple corruption accusations and investigatio
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by JohnTHaller 11d ago
This is Russia's second violation of the Budapest Memorandum. We know Putin will simply ignore another treaty when he feels like. We also know the US under the current administration is "negotiating" in bad faith (via the pre
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by JohnTHaller 11d ago
Russia's word has been ironclad each time it's been given to Ukraine previously. It surely would be the same this time.
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by JohnTHaller 12d ago
Reminds me of all the smaller/local newspapers and stations in the US that geo-block the EU from their content because complying with the GDPR - and paying the appropriate folks to ensure you are in compliance - simply made no business
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by JohnTHaller 12d ago
Hopefully they aren't forcing the military to install Trump's spyware White House app
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by JohnTHaller 13d ago
There's nobody left at the DoJ in a high enough position to do anything like this. I'm not a gambler myself, but if I were, I certainly wouldn't used something that seems made for insider traders and suckers.
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by JohnTHaller 15d ago
macOS slowly ramping up the friction to run unsigned/unapproved apps over the years
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by JohnTHaller 17d ago
It's Flock... is this surprising?
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by JohnTHaller 19d ago
Given administration's obsession with Antifa being in the room with them at all times, it's impossible to take anything they say in relation to this as even close to factual.
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by JohnTHaller 19d ago
The administration and Republicans get paid off, right wing billionaires produce propaganda news, voters consume said news.
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by JohnTHaller 20d ago
Meanwhile, the administration is planning to import 661,000,000 lbs of beef to try to reduce record high prices but refuses to say where it will come from.
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by JohnTHaller 21d ago
Most of this administration contradicts themselves within a few minutes within a single speech, so this isn't unexpected.
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by JohnTHaller 21d ago
Y'all-Queda making deals with Al Queda would not have been on my bingo card a decade ago
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by JohnTHaller 21d ago
That's the goal of MAHA with explosive diarrhea.
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by JohnTHaller 22d ago
If it's your remote-in laptop, I'd suggest getting a used MacBook Pro or Air with an M series processor in your preferred 13/15" size and memory/storage configuration. You can get a used MacBook Air M3 with 16GB of
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by JohnTHaller 25d ago
He was fired because he wouldn't change facts for the current administration. Same thing that happened at 60 Minutes.
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by JohnTHaller 26d ago
Or getting their debts paid off by shady right-wing groups
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by JohnTHaller 1mo ago
We could end the absurd war on drugs that conservatives are intent on waging and follow evidence-based solutions instead. About 20% of prisoners in the US are there for drug crimes. At the federal level it's 42.6%.
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by JohnTHaller 1mo ago
I don't recall previous instances of companies donating heavily to the president and visiting the White House followed by the FDA walking back their findings.
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by JohnTHaller 1mo ago
The modern version replaces a good chunk of the sugar in the old version with corn syrup and adds artificial flavor.
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by JohnTHaller 1mo ago
I use uBlock Origin on my Windows, macOS, and Android versions of Firefox but I also pay for YT Premium. It means I can use the official YouTube client on my Android devices without ads. I get YouTube Music. The creators I watch get a share
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by JohnTHaller 1mo ago
... along with fraud and sexual predation

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