Th4tGuyII

Because it is much less mentally taxing to believe that the world is meritocratic and fair, than to realise that your outcome in life is oftentimes just as dependent on where you’re from, who you know, and pure dumb luck.

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek.

Can’t say I’m surprised to see this. Google do state that they can and will block access to all services associated with a violating account.

The fact that you only ever had permission to access Google services for as long as they permitted should not be a surprise to anyone. You don’t have rights to someone else’s private space, whether that be physical or digital - and promises from big tech aren’t worth the paper they’re signed on.

Always have a backup, because you’ll want something soft to land on if the rug ever gets pulled from under you.

Having said that, what doesn’t make sense - and would even be illegal in much of Europe - is that not only are they locked out of being able to cancel their subscriptions, but that they’re still active in the first place despite the account being permanently closed (rendering the paid for services inaccessible).

Great suggestion Shapiro. Have every working class young American immigrate elsewhere and watch your infrastructure die as nobody replaces the existing workers…

I have no doubt Shapiro is saying this full well knowing that if they can’t afford to live in the US, they definitely can’t afford to leave. He gets to puff his chest out like he’s a big man with nobody to take his bluff.

Yeah… Leaked… Definitely not any kind of insider trading or something like that. Trump’s government has neeeeever been linked to anything like thaaaat.

Exactly. It’s not exactly like the right-wing hide their distain for all people of the LGBT spectra.

It’s the classic “but I’m one of the good ones” trope. There’s no such thing, just tokens to be used and tossed away.

No matter how much you try to be a “good one”, you’ll never truly be accepted amongst those who hate your kin. Once you’ve outlived your usefulness, they’ll eat your face just like everyone else.

Exactly. Its classic misdirection.

Our intentionally addictive and predatory design isn’t the problem, it’s the youngsters using it, that’s the real problem.

The reality is that worldwide governments are itching for more surveillance powers, and big tech always want less accountability - so age verification is perfect for both of them, and even allows them to spin the “what about the children” angle (despite the fact that an increasing number of these powerful people are being revealed as pedos)

To be fair, there’s a whole lot of difference between defacing a banknote vs. rendering it unfit for issue.

In any case, cause of how often it changes hands, and how little supervision its under, it’d be very difficult to actually identify who defaced a specific note - especially if you’ve git a whole bunch of people doing it to a whole bunch of notes

Honestly. It feels like some people have become so dependent on LLMs that they’ll ask them to solve the even most basic of questions.

Our bodies evolved on a “use it or lose it” basis, and like every other muscle in our bodies, the brain is not immune to this…

If you let your brain sit idle while passing on such simple tasks to AI, the neuronal pathways for these tasks will weaken to the point you’ll have to relearn them from scratch.

These AI companies want this to happen. They want more and more people to become dependent, so that once they decide to rug pull you with the true cost, you’ll have no choice but to pay up because you can’t cope without it. This is true not just for humans but even entire industries as a whole, who have very keenly taken to replacing humans with it.

Its hard to say if there was ever an modern “age” of science, so much as it is a major component of all our most recent ages for the last couple of centuries.

I’d find it hard not to argue that the scientific method was pivotal to the industrial revolution, the electric age, the atomic age, and the informational age we’re in now (although some would argue we’re in the enshitification age).

Exactly. It’s the same reason they’re being forced into new cars despite the fact that an awful lot of people don’t like them

Was about to say, pot calling the kettle black much?

Trump’s administration doing something blatantly corrupt in the open and getting away with it completely… colour me shocked.

Understand there will be no justice. Even if Trump is kicked out, those with the power to go after him and his cronies simply won’t at this point.

Honestly I agree. Getting banned is one thing (is getting banned from furry content that much of a loss), but the literal trash talking in their comments (knowing you can’t respond) is plain childish.

If you’re gonna insult someone, grow a spine and do it where they can punch back.

On the off chance this isn’t just a joke and never happened, in theory they had to have eaten the exact same dish each time, but requested removal of a single ingredient, and are now down to the last two eliminations?

The only problem with this method being they’re going in with the assumption that a single ingredient is causing the issue, when it could be multiple or all of the ingredients - or even a result of poor hygiene from the person preparing these pokes.

For myself, it’s gaming consoles that I already own. Why go for the brand new when the things I already own not only still work - but have more functionality than they ever did before thanks to their respective modding scenes?

Hell, just in 2025 the Xbox 360 got it’s first software exploit that works on all models - which was thought to be basically impossible outside of very limited scenarios like the King Kong Exploit…

Forget soldering, forget RGH and JTAG - you can now have an almost cold-boot modded 360 with just a USB and 30-60 minutes of your time (and that’s not even counting the full cold-boot exploit teased by Grim Doomer on twitter).

If you’ve got the right console, you could be sitting on a goldmine of fun right now and never know it until you try.

X argued that if content creators are permitted to sue AI platforms when people use their technology to violate copyright law, the tech companies would “have no choice but to constrain their actions” to avoid the potential liability.

Would’ve been nice to have a win for the average person that didn’t also vicariously benefit AI companies, but that won’t be today.

Well I don’t know about eating babies, but when they say fuck the poor, I doubt they’re being just metaphorical

The problem with pointing out contradictory points of view to the right wing is that they largely don’t care. These arguments are ultimately just dog whistles and plausible deniability towards their real ends.

They’ll argue parent’s right when the parents agree with them, then trample those same rights when they don’t - and won’t even blink because parent’s rights wasn’t the goal, it was the elimination of Trans kids, which both points are consistent with.

Wow, a real win here…

Have to enable developer mode, have a miniature interview, restart and reauthenticate on my device, THEN still have to wait an entire day just to install an app that Google hasn’t approved.

That’s not just friction, that’s a brick wall!

Google can get stuffed if they expect me to believe that’s for user safety, considering the amount of blatant malware and adware is already on the Playstore, threatening their user’s device safety.

Yeah, even in the last decade this has steadily gotten worse. It feels like more and more things are being forcibly centralised for express purpose of making data harvesting easier - and the people doing it aren’t even really trying to hide it either.