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Kiernian

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  • YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers

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  • The kicker there is ... Nobody I know is going to think "wow, playback on this video sucks, I should disable my ad blocker".

    Like, it wouldn't occur to ANYONE I know that a piece of software we consider necessary could be the problem, ESPECIALLY if everything else is working fine.

    That's not even number ten on the list of troubleshooting steps and most people don't make it past one or two before giving up.

    WTF were they thinking?

  • Soliciting Feedback for Improvements to the Media Bias Fact Checker Bot

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  • Hackers may have stolen the Social Security numbers of all Americans. Here's what to know.

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  • In the sense of "Simpsons did it!":

    Equifax did it first.

    Sure wish the massive corporate incompetence and malfeasance causing huge data leaks multiple times over the years would get mentioned every time one of these stories comes up.

    Hackers did blah, this WOULD ALMOST matter, but!

    We need to start redirecting some of those board bonuses and CEO dollars back into infrastructure to actually secure this shit as a required responsibility and stop places from being allowed to request personal information they shouldn't have.

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    Disney wants wrongful death of LI doctor lawsuit tossed over Disney+ streaming terms

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  • Event happened at raglan road Irish pub, when raglan road staff failed to do their job in regards to food allergens.

    Diner dies from anaphylaxis due to ingested dairy and nuts, which they were ASSURED BY THE WAITER WAS NOT IN ANY OF THEIR FOOD.

    Disney is calling for the lawsuit to be dismissed because her husband signed up for a one-month trial of the Disney+ streaming service years prior. The company says signing up for the trial requires users to arbitrate all disputes with the company

  • MyPillow Man Mike Lindell Ordered to Pay Legal Fees for Guy Who Proved Him Wrong at ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ Event

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  • People in the throes of full blown addiction don't typically donate to rehab non-profits?

    Or not, I dunno. I guess they might when they're rich and don't have to worry about how they're going to afford their next baggie they probably don't freak out about where their money is going as much. Shrug

  • MyPillow Man Mike Lindell Ordered to Pay Legal Fees for Guy Who Proved Him Wrong at ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ Event

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  • I don't believe so.

    As I understand it, he was an actually recovered addict, so it would be "fueled by the damage drugs had already done to his brain before he quit".

    And I think it was crack.

    Not to defend the guy, but for a while there pre COVID, while I was doing some volunteer work, I heard from a connected volunteer that Mikey was donating cases upon cases of pillows to rehab locations in his home state, which, speaking as the bleeding heart liberal that I am who wishes we provided more for services like mental health and addiction, is pretty awesome.

    A tax write off is possibly just a tax write off, but for a while, at least, it's possible he might not have been totally reprehensible.

    I mean, he also professed to be Christian and there was a stink about him not paying employees like four or five years ago too, so since the Bible has specific things to say about THAT behavior too, it's pretty easy to draw conclusions but even people who behave like shit bags can perhaps sometimes be nuanced.

  • Tim Walz is giving MAGA a master class in manhood

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  • Suffering is completely normal and a true necessity if you are striving towards any sort of development of "self".

    Most of what's commonly referred to as "western" society does not typically see things that way, though. That's part of why I personally think normalizing therapy by suggesting it regularly to people, even ones who don't currently have "serious" problems is so important.

    Many of us did not get the "tools" necessary to deal with simple normal every day parts of life like suffering (in any degree) from either our parents, from people around us, or from society at large.

    That also means stuff like

    A therapist, really?

    Might deter someone who could otherwise benefit.

  • British MPs want to haul Elon Musk before parliament over riots

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  • The word that's the first four letters of a country's name is that serious of an insult now?

    I'm a yank so I'm pretty out of touch on this but I was under the apparently mistaken impression that it was no more serious than calling an Irishman a mick or a paddy (neither of which are awesome but don't approach the derogatory ferocity of the T- word for Roman Catholic Irish).

  • US Court Rules Google a Monopoly in 'Biggest Antitrust Case of the 21st Century'.

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  • Huh.

    Maybe it's just the games I play, but I mostly hear people in MMO's ranting about steam and swearing they'll never use it (or never use it again). At least some of these people have seemingly zero personal issues with Amazon gaming, arc, epic, gog, and a few other steam clones.

    I realize that by the numbers, steam is probably still the biggest, but unlike that early half-life debacle, most games are on multiple platforms now. Steam being bigger isn't what I'd call monopolistic anymore, it's just good sales on games and inertia.

    Given epic's often BETTER sales, despite the fact that I really dislike the layout and functionality of the epic client, most of what steam has going for it is the deck and inertia.

  • Olympic silver medalist Yusuf Dikec of Turkiye with his cat

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  • Wow. That's the first time anyone has managed to explain whataboutism in a way that makes sense.

    For years it's been all "fallacious logic" this and "counter-argument" that. "Reductio", "partial tu quoque", "changing the subject", and a myriad of other things that say lots while describing little.

    Thank You.

  • TIL kobolds in Japan are dog-people because of a mistranslation in a copy of AD&D in the 80s

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  • You've ruined your own lands, you'll not ruin mine!

  • TIL kobolds in Japan are dog-people because of a mistranslation in a copy of AD&D in the 80s

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  • Fahhhhk, thank you.

    I swear I remembered dog people from 2nd edition and was super confused when I started playing DDO and they were some kind of dragonkin. Then people who started with 3rd were telling me kobolds had always been lizards.

    Somewhere my old 2nd edition books are still around in a box, but damned if I know where.

  • Critics question JD Vance’s ‘weird’ defense of wife Usha after white supremacist attacks

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  • Yes, but they have to keep associating "person of color" with "poor" and therefore "crime". If they don't keep lumping all non-white people in with other "undesirable" things, some of their followers might look around and realize that non-white people can achieve things on their own too, and that makes non-white folks start to resemble actual human beings a bit too much for their liking. If she was single, he wouldn't be lauding any of her achievements. The unspoken belief is that women are as incapable as non-whites when there's no husband involved. The dehumanizing and belittling narrative has to be constant with them or some of their followers might start thinking for themselves.

  • How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet

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  • For those wondering about the upswing here:

    If the age verification movement goes unchecked, it's possible that you could be forced to tie your government ID to much of your online activity, Gillmor says. Some civil rights groups fear it could usher in a new era of state and corporate surveillance that would transform our online behaviour.

    "This is the canary in the coalmine, it isn't just about porn," says Evan Greer, director of Fight for the Future, a digital rights advocacy group. Greer says age verification laws are a thinly veiled ploy to impose censorship across the web. A host of campaigners warn that these measures could be used to limit access not just to pornography, but to art, literature and basic facts about sex education and LGBTQ+ life.

  • Let's blame the dev who pressed "Deploy"

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  • I've said it before and I'll say it again.

    Corporate culture is a malicious bad actor.

    Corporate culture, from management books to magazine ads to magic quadrants is all about profits over people, short term over stability, and massaging statistics over building a trustworthy reputation.

    All of it is fully orchestrated from the top down to make the richest folks richer right now at the expense of everything else. All of it. From open floor plans to unlimited PTO to perverting every decent plan whether it be agile or ITIL or whatever, every idea it lays its hands on turns into a shell of itself with only one goal.

    Until we fix that problem, the enshittification, the golden parachutes, and the passing around of horrible execs who prove time and time again they should not be in charge of anything will continue as part of the game where we sacrifice human beings on the Altar of Record Quarterly Profits.

  • The Death of Decentralized Email

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  • Aside from one (seemingly very out of place at the time) early mention that the author used Bitcoin, there was no hint of it being pro-bitcoin until the very, very end.

    I found it to be a very worthwhile article right up until that point and even slightly intriguing from an academic perspective after that point.

    I despise the endless blind parroting of the typical cryptobro refrains elsewhere on the Internet when crypto is brought up and I still liked the article, so I wouldn't write it off just because one guy with a cryptohammer inevitably sees the very real SMTP problem as a cryptonail in the end. It's natural when you have a "solution in search of a problem" situation like we do with crypto (and block chain, and for that matter SharePoint. People with knowledge of a thing often try to use it to solve problems it probably wasn't meant for.)

  • Trump's Project 2025 is now being searched in Google more than Taylor Swift and the NFL

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  • Because no one is answering you, "hawk tuah" is the nickname for a lady who got stopped by one of those annoying YouTubers/tiktokkers doing the old nighttime talk show "man on the street" gig, stopping pedestrians and asking them stupid questions in the hopes of getting an equally stupid or funny answer.

    The question was something like "what's the most whatever thing you can do in bed with a guy that something something" or whatever, I forget the specific question because it reminded me of the crap you see on the cover of cosmopolitan magazine.

    Anyway, this gal says the functional equivalent of "spit on his dick(to lube him up)" only she says it like "you gotta give it that HAWK TUAH" making a sound like she's Hocking up a huge lugey and spitting it out in the downward direction.

    She is now known as hawk tuah and I think someone is trying to put her on reality TV.

  • 'There Are No Kings in America': Biden Blasts Supreme Court, Issues Dire Warning After Immunity Ruling

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  • they could really tell the IRS to audit 501(c) and remove their status from the churches and bullshit Republican charities

    That would be juuuuuust about the dumbest thing they could possibly do. It would mobilize gigantic swaths of voters who are heavily invested in rhetoric over fact-checking.

    Doing away with Roe mobilized many of those voters who could be considered to be fence sitters towards the left. Removing church tax exemptions would move them right back and it would do NOTHING to solve the problem, because while the actual big offenders are happily USING the hell out of that tax exemption, they're rich enough that they'll get along fine without it.

    It WOULD hurt a whole lot of TINY churches that employ 1-50 people per church and actually do community work, though. All of those would go away. That's a LOT of rural food shelves.

    I'm largely against the religious tax exemption, but that's a problem we should worry about AFTER we can replace the nationwide infrastructure we'd be dismantling by doing so with something at least as effective as what's there now.

  • Ultra-processed foods need tobacco-style warnings, says scientist

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  • Holy cow, thank you!