Mate, it’s a cheese quesadilla. It’s two tortillas, cheese, and heat…

Joking aside, there are a few out there. A lot of people are surprisingly into figuring out copycatting popular fast food.

There are some instances where Reddit is still a great source of information just due to the sheer size of the community. But there’s a lot more shit to wade through after the exodus a couple years back. I haven’t signed back in for years.

While China is considered part of the global south, its economy is so massive and it is so influential globally it really shouldn’t be.

Edit: Also in China’s case, that was the UK, not the US.

Lieberman wasn’t a Democrat.

Yeah mate, he tried. Congress didn’t pass single-payer and he didn’t anticipate that level of Republican hostility because it hadn’t happened on that scale in the modern era of politics. So we got the ACA instead, which has likely saved thousands of lives just through no denial of coverage for preexisting conditions, let alone everything else it did.

It’s true, Sabra’s zero-day exploits must be stopped!

Ok but no one is arguing Windows is encrypted. Google is specifically stating, in a way that could get them sued for shitloads of money, that their messaging protocol is E2EE. They have explicitly described how it is E2EE. Google can be a bad company while still doing this thing within the bounds we all understand. For example, just because the chat can’t be backdoored doesn’t mean the device can’t be.

It’s actually kjnd of the opposite: America has the dominant culture going back generations. It’s just that culture is very materialistic, so people try to find something deeper. That’s my theory anyway. Besides, most of us are immigrants and I think a lot of Americans want some connection to their place of origin.

It’s a more complicated version of that feature where Gmail offers suggested responses like “let me look into that” and “thank you.”

Didn’t he tour with Mastodon?

I don’t see anywhere that you can’t also just buy a battery and charge it yourself if you’d prefer that over a subscription.

Sort of like how you pay over and over for gas, without which your car doesn’t work?

It’s a fairly routine argument by the defense (we’re being singled out/the regulations are unclear). And regarding federal enforcement, there’s a lot of hamstringing by Congress.

All that to say, this is arguably a good sign of the FTC properly enforcing, not a reason for pessimism.

I’m not sure how that’s indicative of the FTC not being serious? You’re quoting a defense argument, of course they’re going to argue the agency is wrong.

Every instance gets to decide on its own, there’s no set of rules governing the whole thing. That’s why I stated this is my opinion, not some hard and fast rule.

So your argument is if the regulation isn’t perfectly applied to every possible instance of a potential violation simultaneously, then it should never be applied? How does that make any sense?

For example, I’m personally of the opinion that instances should be allowed to federate until they prove themselves to be bad actors, but in Meta’s case there’s a lot of existing evidence that shows they shouldn’t be allowed to federate in the first instance.

Mate, that’s not art, that’s coding. Congratulations on learning a new coding skill and how inputs can affect outputs. Frankly, it’s barely coding, it’s adding degrees of specification so a program can do all the work. I get that it took you a while to learn what all of it means and how it works, sort of, but something being hard to do doesn’t make it art.

And don’t cheapen photography by comparing it to generating an AI image. There’s physical labor involved in photography on top of composition and patience.

Monopolies for modern necessities (the internet and phone) don’t have to worry about customer retention.

Is “you’re the passenger, you do it, please,” an acceptable response?