pepperball

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by pepperball 8mo ago
> The device, which Heyneman said does not work, is meant to recognize the unique characteristics of a silicon chip to prevent financial fraud. > I give him the same pitch that I gave all the business people in Davos,” Heyneman said.
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by pepperball 8mo ago
Lack of shame, and antisocial behavior in general are also directly economically rewarded nowadays thanks to the attention economy.
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by pepperball 8mo ago
Oh man, we’re fucked though. No one is going to stop these people. Even in the US I can feel the scale tilting as normies start to rationalize a mass surveillance on unprecedented scales.
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by pepperball 8mo ago
> Cold War warriors gonna flip out. All of these people folded immediately when a fat TV retard won. I’ve seen them literally call for the nationalization of private companies that act contrary to Trumps desires in the last couple of yea
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by pepperball 8mo ago
Expect a lot more of this.
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by pepperball 8mo ago
Not everybody. Some very mentally ill individuals thought we’d all be living in some start-trek post scarcity TV show.
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by pepperball 8mo ago
> And I can't even understand why this obsession of lowering interest rates in the USA. You have to understand how much the middle and lower classes can become addicted to cheap lines of credit made accessible to them.
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by pepperball 8mo ago
As a man, I never understood how bad this was. I have only felt unsafe in an Uber a few times, mostly because the driver should have had their license revoked due to their advanced age. Without going into too much detail, I’ve learned just
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by pepperball 8mo ago
A few years back, I had fun setting up an old X11 terminal I had in my rather eccentric retro computing collection. But I don’t think I had much memory in it. I had ordered a fair bit more, but maybe only 4-8M. I did get it to work with onl
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by pepperball 8mo ago
> Meta’s in-house lawyers demanded the erasure of any and all evidence of this finding. When asked by Senator Josh Hawley how often she’d witnessed an underage user being exposed to inappropriate sexual content on Meta VR, Savage replied
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by pepperball 8mo ago
> It is really disturbing to see that most Republican legislators are still not speaking up openly against the Trump administration. Take a look at the voter base: There’s a hubris of invincibility and jingoism in the air. Even among typ
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by pepperball 8mo ago
> You're bringing a knife to a gunfight It’s worse than that, it’s like bringing a knife to a fight against an entire army equipped with all the latest and greatest weapons of the day.
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by pepperball 8mo ago
How much did they deposit you for that lie lmao.
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by pepperball 8mo ago
I haven’t cancelled Spotify etc but I axed HBO max after what seemed to be the third email about another price increase in a short period. Funny thing is, if they just had offered me larger one-shot price increase, I’d have paid it no mind
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by pepperball 8mo ago
It does make sense if they position themselves to take hard power. That’s worth a lot more than money alone and worth losing even large amounts for.
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by pepperball 8mo ago
Anyone of consequence will likely be ok. They have good revenue streams that they would prefer not be interrupted though.
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by pepperball 8mo ago
> except maybe among a certain set of cranks. Eh, a growing set of cranks. The diversity of political opinion in America seems to have exploded over the last decade. Cranks are now serious contenders for power and influence.
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by pepperball 8mo ago
> I can't believe it's current year and this bigot doesn't want his country overrun with foreigners or to have a middle class lifestyle unattainable for the average man Tsk tsk, peasants learned to live with their stature
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by pepperball 8mo ago
Man, a gun is so much cheaper.
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by pepperball 8mo ago
> Its very much like google. Anyone can google anything. But at a certain point, you need to understand _how to google_ to get good results rather than just slapping any random phrase and hoping the top 3 results are magically going to a
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by pepperball 8mo ago
Give it a few months and LLM-skepticism will be framed as domestic terrorism.
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by pepperball 8mo ago
Don’t attention whore on the internet if you want privacy.
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by pepperball 8mo ago
Depends. Can you stomach being an antisocial idiot, a shill, a liar? These are the talents we need.
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by pepperball 8mo ago
How do these mentally ill people continue to rise to such heights. This sounds like the description of someone’s manic episode.
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by pepperball 8mo ago
“Nepotism” worked pretty well for me. A year out of work, only to be turned around when I lucked out and a family member referred me to a company they had just started at. This was around 2022-2023 though, things may have changed significan
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by pepperball 8mo ago
Yeah really seems like the only way to win (or rather not lose) is simply not to play. At this point I’ve realized I need to cast all other ambitions aside and work on getting some out of the way land that I own.
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by pepperball 8mo ago
Most likely the people living somewhere continuously with gunfire wasn’t ever going to succeed academically either way. There are exceptions of course. You’d have to basically rebirth and resocialize them in a different culture entirely. Fa
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by pepperball 8mo ago
I’m certain that if Russia somehow managed to attack or invade Spain, they would not be standing alone. I can’t imagine the French will be as content to sit around twiddling thumbs when their neighbor is lit up.
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by pepperball 8mo ago
> I don't see a many habitual problem accounts. It’s usually old/high karma accounts, as they can get away with it easier. Throwaways that establish themselves for a time too, but those are usually dealt with eventually
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by pepperball 8mo ago
> I don't see a many habitual problem accounts. It’s usually old/high karma accounts, as they can get away with it easier

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