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boywar3

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  • uBlock Origin developer recommends switching to Firefox as Chrome flags the extension

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  • Lol ok whatever you say. Enjoy the consequences of letting the uneducated run things

  • Ukrainian soldiers suspected they would invade Russia when they got new rifles, but still thought it was a joke when the orders came through

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  • How do you think shift destruction to russian villages will help end the war sooner?

    Gee, I dunno, let's ask Germany how the Soviet advance into Germany helped end the war faster lmfao

    Hitting someone until they stop hitting you is a good way to end an altercation, especially since the aggressor clearly won't use words to end it.

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  • And, pray tell, what library or school has pornography in it that is easily accessible to minors?

    Furthermore, having lived my entire life around educators and now working for an educational institution: parents are fucking stupid lol

    The sheer numbers of videos of parents bitching and crying at school meetings or libraries about "X book is pornographic" or "this book has witchcraft and should be burned" is absurd. Those mouth breathers don't even know how to critically examine a fucking facebook post for bullshit, let alone comprehend the difficulty in teaching children.

    Don't like your kid learning about how Trans people exist? Go fuck yourself and homeschool your kid so they can be permanently stunted in terms of preparation for the real world. Let the vast majority of regular people make sure their kids grow up socially aware and at least passingly prepared for the future.

    Also, "this will be the law?" Have you seen the flailing Republican party? Guess what fucker - the average American thinks project 2025 is batshit and the republican party got hijacked by a manchild and ruined their stupid plans. It's only downhill from here now that they went mask off - most people think they're nuts.

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  • What a weird thing to say

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  • Usually, they are used to burn books :/

  • YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete

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  • The effort/cost expended to go after a tiny group of people vs the amount of money generated/saved from stopping them was (and probably still is) not worth it. There just aren't that many people who use 3rd party services without accounts.

  • YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete

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  • There is still a footprint of "person is watching X, then they go to Y" with or without an account by my understanding.

    Its less valuable data, sure, but it all feeds thr algorithm

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  • Again, the point is that those accounts are still users that can be pointed out as such for all to see. Remember: a youtube account is just a Google account.

    One could argue that youtube is a highly effective loss leader - people get into the Google ecosystem because of making an account to subscribe to their favorite content creators. Now Google has data they can sell, and metrics for advertisers to go "I see 18-30 year old white guys who watch things about X are likely to respond positively to things about Y." The algorithm, even without advertisements, is constantly building a profile of every user.

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  • It still goes to active user counts though. There will still be a footprint left by any view and that can be marketed as "we have X million users daily!"

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  • They are still a metric they can peddle to their advertisers to show "how many people see this ad in a month."

  • Meta removes Trump account restrictions ahead of 2024 election

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  • Hoosier here...yuuuup

    The pockets of blue are growing a little bit in some of the more affluent areas just outside of Indianapolis like Carmel (or, at least, it's more purple than it was 20 years ago).

    I'm hoping as remote work continues to grow, people move here to change the place because of how cheap it is - even in like the heart of Indianapolis lol

  • Too real

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  • How many Palestinians are gonna be killed by a Trump presidency vs a Biden presidency?

  • Biden administration moves toward allowing American military contractors to deploy to Ukraine

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  • To be clear, I didn't necessarily state I advocated for those things, but the prompt was for what interests the US has in being involved in Ukraine.

    Whether it is right or justified is another matter, but it is undeniably of significant importance for a state to be able to show it can project force/inflict harm on those it deems a problem.

    As for US involvement in the Middle East...yeah...not great. US involvement in Ukraine? I'd say it's a different story since we are actually wanted there by the Ukrainian people, and it is reasonably likely that Russia would be involved in Ukraine whether or not it wished to be involved with the West, as it is valuable land in an area of historical Russian influence, and the crackpot ideology of Putin's Russia all but demands its subjugation (no, really, shit's wild).

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  • I think you're conflating "maintaining a global hegemonic order" with "fucking up a nation that has actively tried to harm the United States AND is provably committing war crimes."

    Is American hegemony all sunshine and roses? Fuck no lol

    At least it is built more on consensus of member states than a hegemony built up by dictatorships like Russia (which, let's be real, isn't ever gonna be a global hegemon) or China?

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  • Not giving a hostile power control of 20% of the world's grain supply is a good one.

    Demonstration of American commitment to stopping its enemies worldwide is always handy.

    Weakening of a major geopolitical enemy's military capabilities for a fraction of the cost of a conventional war.

    That's just off the top of my head, though.

  • Do we need to create increasingly more children for a stable economy?

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  • Is your friend a Cold-War era Romanian dictator?

  • People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you

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  • Same lol

    Between that and the random shit it has listed as what I get ads for...it isn't a whole lot. I spend most of time looking up highly specific things on Wikipedia or out of immediate utility, so I suppose I'm just not that interesting...also ublock origin ftw

  • What $61bn US aid boost could mean for Ukraine

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  • It arguably gets better than that - the 61 billion was already spent on making the things; Ukraine isn't just getting $61 billion handed over to it lol

  • 'Oppenheimer' finally premieres in Japan to mixed reactions and high emotions

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  • I'd like to see the amount of discourse surrounding strategic bombing compared to the atomic bombings for average people. There aren't any movies today talking about how horrific the normal bombing campaigns were, whereas this entire thread is dedicated to a recently released film about the Manhattan project...

    As for an isolated place, well, they thought about that:

    It was evident that everyone would suspect trickery. If a bomb were exploded in Japan with previous notice, the Japanese air power was still adequate to give serious interference. An atomic bomb was an intricate device, still in the developmental stage. Its operation would be far from routine. If during the final adjustments of the bomb the Japanese defenders should attack, a faulty move might easily result in some kind of failure. Such an end to an advertised demonstration of power would be much worse than if the attempt had not been made. It was now evident that when the time came for the bombs to be used we should have only one of them available, followed afterwards by others at all-too-long intervals. We could not afford the chance that one of them might be a dud. If the test were made on some neutral territory, it was hard to believe that Japan's determined and fanatical military men would be impressed. If such an open test were made first and failed to bring surrender, the chance would be gone to give the shock of surprise that proved so effective. On the contrary, it would make the Japanese ready to interfere with an atomic attack if they could. Though the possibility of a demonstration that would not destroy human lives was attractive, no one could suggest a way in which it could be made so convincing that it would be likely to stop the war.

    The key takeaway here is that they were unconvinced the Japanese military would react to anything else.

    If the Allies wanted to kill more civilians with bombings, why did they drop millions of leaflets into cities urging people to evacuate? And no, they did not do so in any special sense for the atomic bombings out of fears the bomb wouldn't work.

    Again, it is quite easy to simply handwave this with "they could've done X" without being in the shoes of the people who made the choices. The project barely worked and cost billions of dollars, the enemy was assumed to be utterly fanatical in their devotion to continue the war, and there was no guarantee the bomb would have worked at all.

    As for your claims of made-up BS...my statements are true to the best of my knowledge around allied war planning and bombing doctrine. There were plenty of ways to maximize civilian deaths using area bombing, and the Allies generally refused to do them, instead focusing on targets of military value.

    Idk personally. I'm not that educated in this topic.

    Ah, so then you are stating you lack sufficient data to make the right decision? Congratulations! You are experiencing, in part, what it was like to be living at that time! Nobody was educated in atomic warfare, as it hadn't happened yet and we'd had basically 1 test a few weeks before it began for real. Pair that with not knowing what the Japanese were thinking and only having data based on their actions and official communications (which pointed to essentially national suicide in defense of the Emperor), and now you get a glimpse of the calculus being made about the bombings. Don't fall into the classic "20/20 hindsight" trap many people fall into: think about the problem as though you were there.