Gives me a nice flashback to this interaction, which caused me to be banned from !europe@feddit.org for the following (since deleted) comment, which I backed up with reliable sources in the part of the thread that remains online:
insufficient avenues for engagement beyond voting.
Funny what banning protests does to a country.
The reason given was that I "derailed the conversation", though I'd argue the following discussion was extremely on-topic for a post about how young people in Germany "feel disillusioned with politics" and consider there to be "insufficient avenues for engagement".
Funny what banning discussion does to an instance, I guess.
It's all about the marketing and nothing about the technology or company.
I opened google for the first time in months (years?) to check out the results for "best private browser". Predictably, the AI overview confidently responds as follows:
The best private browsers in 2026 for enhancing online anonymity and blocking trackers are Tor Browser, Brave, and Mullvad Browser. For maximum privacy with high security, Tor is top, while Brave is best for daily, fast browsing. Mullvad is ideal for anti-fingerprinting, and LibreWolf offers excellent privacy for Firefox users.
I would be very surprised if Brave did not at least at some point sponsor content to position itself as privacy oriented. This hidden advertisement then bleeds into both AI and human armchair experts with no deeper understanding of the tech they're commenting on. And so the myth that Brave has good privacy becomes self-enforcing.
Unrelated edit: Answering "why is firefox bad for privacy", Google AI becomes oddly self-hating:
Firefox is often considered "bad" for privacy by privacy-conscious users because, despite its pro-privacy marketing,it collects significant user data by default via telemetry, relies on Google as its default search engine, and has updated its privacy policy to allow broader use of user data. While superior to Chrome, its default settings are not "privacy-maximalist," necessitating manual configuration.
We pretty much all agree the US sucks here, you're trying to argue the mass murdering mess of the USSR somehow didn't also suck. Whataboutism won't help you.
Not to mention the re-normalization of rape culture. And to get rid of the fucking foreigners stealing all those lucrative jobs picking fruit or whatever. And to protect the god-given right of schoolchildren to blast each other's brains out.
There's all kinds of reasons really! We shouldn't be so quick to judge.
A "black mariah" refers either to a police wagon or a hearse. In the case of this poor fellow he's got a wooden coat and he's never coming home—the narrator is seeing the hearse coming, in the form of a big black Ford.
It gets a bit confusing when the Clash sings "no need for the black mariah" in Guns of Brixton—in that case they're saying there's no need for a police wagon, as the protagonist of the song has already been shot dead. Presumably they'll need a hearse though.
Nick Cave uses the slang for a police car in the Curse of Milhaven, where the protagonist is "off to the asylum in an old black mariah".
You're being distracted from actually doing something.
A constant stream of awful bullshit, right to your screen. The feeling of doing something by shouting into the abyss.
Trump doesn't care if you see pictures of him raping children or learn about all his corruption unless it is transformed into actual political action. Taking to the street, organizing, running for office, supporting those who do.
For real. Whenever I eat (Italian) pizza normally around a bunch of freaks using knife and fork I just silently rejoice about my superior cultural capital.
And if OP is American, chances are those people don't even know how to use a knife and fork properly.
"You made many unusual offers. You offered to buy my baby six months into our relationship and 6 years later you offered to support my next boyfriend"
This does not read like a woman who sold her teenage daughter into human trafficking, more like someone who was a victim herself whom Epstein bought off in any way he could.
They've changed it in recent years, apparently changed it back for the half time show.
I suspect a lot of things would have been said had the artists been allowed to say what they wanted. I'm impressed and disappointed by their professionalism.
Then again, within the constraints of not saying anything political, it seems both Bad Bunny and Green Day did a decent job getting their points across.
As a European, half time shows generally seem overproduced and kinda shit. Like Eurovision without the ironic distance, but with more corporate sponsors.
Bad Bunny was just genuinely great. Never listened to any of his work before, but what a show.
Gives me a nice flashback to this interaction, which caused me to be banned from !europe@feddit.org for the following (since deleted) comment, which I backed up with reliable sources in the part of the thread that remains online:
The reason given was that I "derailed the conversation", though I'd argue the following discussion was extremely on-topic for a post about how young people in Germany "feel disillusioned with politics" and consider there to be "insufficient avenues for engagement".
Funny what banning discussion does to an instance, I guess.
Oh well, /rant