plagiarist

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by plagiarist 29d ago
I would also love for ubiquitous surveillance to be used for good, but what would happen in your scenario is ICE using the footage to hunt and kidnap people who "look" like undocumented immigrants.
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by plagiarist 29d ago
What isn't? It is increasingly impossible to do anything without being monitored and tracked, and that data is aggregated more and more. Cars, TVs, random appliances...
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by plagiarist 29d ago
At what age will you put the glasses away?
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by plagiarist 29d ago
You say suspicion is warranted, you're still not only charging forward with this but also complaining about other people's perception of you doing so. You're not being left out, you're included in the narrative. You just
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by plagiarist 2mo ago
I am not an expert but I am pretty sure changing a job is a "qualified life event" that allows an out-of-band change. I hate privatized insurance but I didn't think this thing in particular was a problem.
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by plagiarist 2mo ago
Two companies stole trillions of tokens worth of IP from Americans so of course the US government will step in and protect "their IP" from competitors
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by plagiarist 2mo ago
That's the point isn't it? You overpay a wealthy dude with connections to gain a node on nepotism graph.
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by plagiarist 2mo ago
Oh, SCOTUS doesn't radically reinterpret the Constitution in that direction. Or, perhaps maybe it does, but nobody's bought Clarence the right RV yet.
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by plagiarist 2mo ago
Well that one is the classic far-right talking point that overpaying to be denied healthcare is preferable to the bogeyman of "wait times." Their other popular talking point is that with private insurance you can choose which doct
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by plagiarist 2mo ago
Catastrophic events seem to wipe people out financially regardless of insurance status. I keep hearing of people divorcing so their former spouse can keep some assets while they are battling cancer. There's just no winning unless you n
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by plagiarist 2mo ago
Heh. I hate having any attached cables, they're too easy to fray. But otherwise I am with you, I only buy wired headphones.
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by plagiarist 2mo ago
Occasionally mobs of hateful psychos will target individuals with harassment. There is absolutely not enough protection from unwanted messages, unwanted phone calls, false reports to SWAT teams, identity theft, who knows what else.
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by plagiarist 2mo ago
Simply remove protections and deal out massive fines to platforms hosting obviously fraudulent listings, they will figure out solutions overnight.
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by plagiarist 2mo ago
You are interested in providing something worth paying for. Other people are interested in maximizing ROI for ad spend.
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by plagiarist 2mo ago
It's glib, but allegedly they are losing money on those. Certainly compared to what they'd be getting with their usage-based pricing. Unless you mean people are forgetting to use the maximum amount every month, or forgetting to ca
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by plagiarist 3mo ago
An assumption required to make capitalism work efficiently is that customers have meaningful choices. Trustbusting is one of the important roles of the government, if it were functional.
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by plagiarist 3mo ago
I love solutions like that. Like if you are splitting food, one person cuts and the other chooses.
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by plagiarist 3mo ago
It would probably improve my life that the internet dies, except there are no longer many third spaces. Those spaces that do exist are also recording my every movement anyway. As is my privately-owned vehicle that I took to get there.
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by plagiarist 3mo ago
I guess I am a 4A absolutist. The original case is clear that that person's rights were violated. It certainly is reasonable for the officers to believe they could conduct a search in that case, so they should not have consequences. (O
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by plagiarist 3mo ago
That interpretation is insane to me. If all it takes is, "haha, oops," to use evidence gained from an unconstitutional search, people do not actually have Fourth Amendment rights. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, knowing tha
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by plagiarist 3mo ago
Which specific mass media are controlled by the left?
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by plagiarist 3mo ago
In retrospect, the part I quoted is very unclear for what I intended. I should have added more. What's hard to believe is the data is apparently still allowed in the case. Like... how?
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by plagiarist 3mo ago
Of course you would set up another strawman for this. Yes, very intelligent, declining to support a business when their founders have odious politics is exactly the government's thought police enforcing wrongthink violations.
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by plagiarist 3mo ago
"Yet you participate in society. Curious!"
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by plagiarist 3mo ago
> [E]ven if there had been a violation of the Fourth Amendment, law enforcement officials had acted in good faith. How is this even remotely a possibility?
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by plagiarist 3mo ago
If the only way to interact with a business is via Facebook or Instagram, I don't interact with the business. Unfortunately this is more of a problem for me than it is for them. I hope my position on this becomes more popular over time
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by plagiarist 3mo ago
As soon as they find the side of the story they already agree with they know that the platform is a marketplace of ideas instead of a bubble.
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by plagiarist 3mo ago
Has the US ever opened a single DMCA perjury case against anyone?
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by plagiarist 3mo ago
Steal $20 from a gas station and it is jail time. Instead, steal wages from employees and double-charge customers to make it a civil case.
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by plagiarist 3mo ago
Those need to be banned, the billboard trucks (and boats) need to be banned, and the shockingly bright headlamps need to be banned.

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