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  • can learn how to be rejected without getting violent, or even mildly annoyed, anyone can. The reason people don’t is because they don’t want to

    it’s because they’re pieces of shit and it reflects on their personality, and no one likes people who have a shitty personality

    Rejection makes people feel bad as a rule. That's not an excuse for treating others badly, and there's ways to learn to have a healthier mindset, but I think it's worth mentioning that it's ok for people to at least feel the way they do and that having the "wrong" emotions in response to things doesn't make you a bad person. It just means you might have to work harder to make sure to treat others with decency.

  • No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog

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  • Bloat is a valid concern but imo a lesser one compared to the potential for centralized data harvesting.

  • It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"

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  • I like the translate feature, just make all the AI stuff local and I'm fine with it, though if not I hope

    AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off.

    is a commitment they take seriously.

  • Fake ‘One Battle After Another’ torrent hides malware in subtitles

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  • oh, so it wasn't a video player having an absurd exploit then

  • Fake ‘One Battle After Another’ torrent hides malware in subtitles

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  • So wait, literally all it took was putting command line commands on their own line in a subtitles file? Am I interpreting this right

  • Revealed: Israel Used Palantir Technologies In Pager Terrorist Attack In Lebanon

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  • In a recent interview, the former head of the Israeli Mossad, Yossi Cohen, revealed that Israel has similar “booby-trapped and spy-manipulated equipment” in “all the countries you can imagine”.

    Chilling. Which of our devices are actually Israeli remote controlled bombs?

  • So 5 stars then

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  • That's what you'd think is being implied, but it's a lawyer so who knows if this is the case

  • [Pluribus Spoilers] A distressing thought about Koumba and the hive...

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  • If the moral value of consent is about ensuring bodily and social autonomy for individuals, that's kind of already entirely out the window in this situation to the point where it doesn't seem like sex could meaningfully make it worse. What he's doing is a violation of norms and is creepy, but it doesn't seem like something that could cause actual harm. That's in contrast with Carol's interactions with the hive, which are all much more sympathetic, but did cause harm in various ways.

  • 10 scientific truths that somehow became unpopular in 2025

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  • Many minimize or even deny this outright, but it remains true whether anyone believes it or not.

    Come on, at least quantify "unpopular"

  • Is gold investing a scam?

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  • I looked up some stuff about Argentina's financial crisis since you mentioned it before, and it looks like they actually did something a bit like what I'm talking about, directly appropriating the valuable assets they could in an effort to keep being able to function:

    In addition to the corralito, the Ministry of Economy dictated the pesificación; all bank accounts denominated in dollars would be converted to pesos at an official rate. Deposits would be converted at 1.40 ARS per dollar and debt was converted on 1 to 1 basis.[69]

    There's some indication that this also applied to financial products:

    As noted above, a number of U.S. investors have filed ICSID arbitration claims against the government of Argentina. Most of these investors consider the January 2002 pesification of dollar-denominated contracts, and/or the ex post facto prohibition on contracts linked to foreign inflation indices, to be an effective expropriation of their investments

    I can't specifically confirm this included gold held on paper, but I think it probably would have.

    As for the plausibility of this sort of thing happening in the US, in addition to the actions of Roosevelt mentioned by @diablexical@sh.itjust.works, the main trigger for Nixon abandoning the gold convertibility of US dollars was France attempting to physically withdraw the gold they had stored in US banks, which they didn't want to allow.

  • Upwards mobility

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  • Well at least harming Amazon is a net good

  • Is gold investing a scam?

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  • I think what they're saying is that in a hyperinflation scenario, it is an option for the government to seize the physical gold backing the financial products people hold in order to continue paying to run the government now that fiat is worthless and they are having trouble with that.

    Gold you have buried in your basement, they will have to work a little harder to get.

  • Exploitable deviations from the rule

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  • I feel like if someone was getting bullied by their coworkers for a trait that made them different, and then got promoted by the boss for that trait, it would only increase the level of resentment.

  • Anyone else spending Christmas alone?

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  • Same, traveling around the holidays is awful

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  • I've read that there are more effective ways to deanonymize tor traffic that goes through exit nodes, as opposed to accessing onion services which is more secure

  • Their goods just got a whole lot less appealing

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  • There is research showing that processed foods are worse for you, even if the exact mechanism isn't clear. Plus there are more opportunities for various contamination, a lot of the recalls you see for dangerous pathogens seem to be premade food products. Although yeah, fast food would also have that problem.

  • Fair question

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  • The trick with those is, if you never acknowledge you received it in any way you don't have to pay and never get in trouble.

    ...Probably, I only have one data point.

  • Anger Management 😌

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  • They targeted gamers.

    Gamers.

  • Their goods just got a whole lot less appealing

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  • Wait why would premade foods be better than making your own

  • As AI Data Centers Disrupt US Cities, Wisconsin Woman Violently Arrested After Speaking Out

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  • If the main effect of allowing them nearby is your electric bill going up it seems reasonable to not want them.