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Schadrach

@ Schadrach @lemmy.sdf.org

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  • Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads

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  • Let's see...I've been banned from subs I've never viewed so much as a single post from for having commented on other, entirely unrelated subs.

    I've been banned from r/atheism for "egregious immorality" which ironically sounds like the sort of thing you'd be banned from a religious sub for.

  • Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads

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  • The point of course is that if you don't want to see it, you refuse to use any platform that allows others to see it. Which must make it awfully hard to use the internet. Surprised you manage to even use Lemmy.

  • Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules

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  • Search engines other than Google seem to be able to index reddit just fine though. I thought the Reddit deal was about API access to make for easier AI training data, also I hadn't seen anything saying that such a deal would be exclusive to Google.

  • Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules

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  • Who do they have an exclusive deal with? Are there sites you can currently only search on Google? Or browsers or similar that require you to use Google?

  • Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules

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  • The problem is, if one company dominates search, you have no way to evaluate whether they are doing it well.

    You could just go to other search engines and run the same queries and compare results.

    For example, I did a search on 6 different search engines earlier today looking for a specific Reddit thread related to an update to a certain Skyrim mod without quite naming the mod (because I couldn't remember the exact name of the mod, and was hoping to find the Reddit thread to get the mod name or Nexus link). All 6 had the Nexus page for the mod itself within the top 3 results, and all of them but Google and Yandex had the Reddit thread in question on the first page.

  • Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules

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  • Google can be REQUIRED to give users A CHOICE of Search Engines.

    Don't they, err, already do this?

    I mean a search engine is literally just a website and absolutely nothing prevents you from just going to duckduckgo.com or bing.com or wherever. Don't think Chrome prevents you from accessing other search engines in general, and last time I used it (admittedly a while back) it had a setting to change the search engine used by default if you just typed something into the address bar.

  • What can a city do when neo-Nazis start marching down its streets?

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  • But it still pisses me off the city allowed those pricks to even gather in the first place.

    First Amendment basically means the government can't bar people from rallying or protesting based on what beliefs they are doing so in the name of. Same reason why there are no hate speech laws, and why basically the only expression that is inherently criminal is expression that requires doing another crime to create (think child pornography, as you can't make it without sexually abusing children).

  • $200 rule

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  • At that point, the government's already paying for it, so why not just implement universal healthcare?

    Because private health insurance companies are major donors, and no politician wants to upset the donor class?

  • Why The Left Should Care About Privacy

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  • There's an argument to make that digital data is by default a post-scarcity sort of thing and that in a post-scarcity environment communism is the only reasonable system. But we don't operate in a post scarcity environment for physical goods and services, and there's really not anything we can point to historically that suggests a communist takeover doesn't do terrible things to availability, quality and variety of food available.

  • But how will people know what size the pp is?

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  • Sure, sure, but that ruins the joke.

  • But how will people know what size the pp is?

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  • It's not like the beds are the same size. Length sure, but don't you know that girth is what mattera for your dick replacements?

  • Kamala Harris Launches Presidential Bid: ‘My Intention Is to Earn and Win This Nomination’

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  • She doesn't have to worry about people turned off by Biden in general to win the nomination. She doesn't need to care about voters at all to win the nomination, she just has to appeal to a handful of DNC operatives because the primary is over.

    Assuming the Biden can't simply reassign his delegates to Harris that is - in which case she's essentially already won the nomination before she even started running.

    Now the election on the other hand...the election also isn't particularly about what she has to offer. The election is all about Trump. People are either voting for Trump or not-Trump, and the vast majority of not-Trump voters aren't all that concerned with what form not-Trump takes so long as it isn't Trump. It's entirely a matter of turnout.

    I'm more curious whether she'll go for a milquetoast generic moderate Democrat or a progressive well to her left - if nothing else it will say something about what she sees as her bigger weakness. I'd put odds on a white guy either way to appease the lesser racists (aka the same reason Biden was Obama's VP).

  • Kamala Harris Launches Presidential Bid: ‘My Intention Is to Earn and Win This Nomination’

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  • I mean, that is essentially how Biden ended up as VP.

    And aside from the racial angle how Pence ended up as VP - a milquetoast, boring standard politician type to counterbalance Trump's lunacy, someone hypothetically to be the adult in the room.

  • Kamala Harris Launches Presidential Bid: ‘My Intention Is to Earn and Win This Nomination’

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  • Huh, didn't know her birthday offhand. So she'll be 35 by Jan 20, 2025? And she of course is a natural born US citizen who has lived in the US for the requisite number of years.

    Normally POTUS candidates pick VPs that in their minds shore up their perceived weak spots among voters to make them overall more electable. So who do you think Harris would do worst with and why would AOC draw that demographic in?

  • Still Got It

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  • Hey now, if the Democrats win the presidency and a veto proof majority in both houses then they'll do something and then take that proposal and compromise it with the right.

    Anything less than the presidency and veto proof majorities in both houses and they'll get nothing done at all.

  • Illinois sheriff's deputy charged with murder in fatal shooting of woman who called 911

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  • He shot a woman for no good reason. That's enough. People care more when bad things happen to women.

    It's why black folks being a larger share of people shot by police than their share of population is definitely racist but no one bats an eye at more than 95% of folks shot by police being men.

  • Capitalism and fascism

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  • The most recent season has a surprising amount of sexually assaulting Huey though. The first time they even play it for laughs.

  • priorities rule

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  • And the comparatively recent shift in Sony policy about what content is acceptable is because who makes those decisions moved from the Japanese office to the US one and the US is full of various flavors of prudes.

  • Judge dismisses classified documents case against Donald Trump

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  • Given her argument for dismissing it was that the DOJ was incompetent and didn't use the right kind of prosecutor, that seems fitting.