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    British public wrong about nearly everything

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  • Americans, stop thinking their accents sound smart! Look! Just look! They're as stupid as us! And drunker, which is fine, but still! We are the only country that still takes them seriously!

  • Here’s What Your Browser is Telling Everyone About You

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  • I'm well-versed in privacy issues.

    EFF's test is fine, but CreepJS does a better job. I'm really sad that a few months ago they removed an API where it would estimate your fingerprint and give you a 30 day window of how many times you've visited. Tor's benefit was it told me on my first visit that I had been there 80 times in the last 30 days, which wasn't true at all.

    Fonts are typically where most browsers fail at hiding hyper-detailed fingerprinting. Mullvad and Tor are the only 2 browsers that hide all that, but can't hide your OS. Nothing can, which is where a VM comes in handy as well. Spoofing values is helpful as it at least masks true values, making your data garbage. Notable garbage, but still garbage.

  • Do I dare say it 🥺

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  • There are a lot of people who think "customization" of an OS goes no further than changing the wallpaper. How many people have the same 8-charachter email password in 2025 as they had in 2003 when they signed up for Yahoo mail?

    The more grannies that have a kid help them get on Linux, the more people experienced with Linux there are to say "Oh, you're still on Windows? Why?"

  • Beware of horses bearing Greeks?

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  • She cheated on you with half the city of Troy!

  • Here’s What Your Browser is Telling Everyone About You

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  • 2 schools of thought on fingerprinting.

    One is Tor only and prevent anything, your internet sucks and everything else is exposed.

    Second is that every browser and browser extension and IP makes a new fingerprint. So get a VPN and install vanilla Firefox, Floorp, Chromite, Brave, LibreWolf, Mullvad, and 2 others, all with uBlock Origin (not Brave). Do your business associated with your real name in FF, then rotate VPN locations and browsers based on how you feel. Add JShelter and a header blocker to turn on only when you feel like it. You now have 20 different browser fingerprints and only 1 is tied to your name.

  • Greece lawmakers back plan to allow 13-hour workday

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  • This is typically for seasonal work. The legal max is 37 days per year, only for 1 employer.

    Considering Greece's tourism industry is just an inhumane crush of cruise ships and pale dickbags for 3-5 months a year, and large scale construction projects can demand what are essentially "sessional shifts" of surge work, there's ample room for young people to get paid hardcore for 3 months of grueling work, and then, as one Greek person explained to me what tourism industry folks do off season, go hole up in a house on a mountain all winter and not see people at all.

    Source: Have worked in tourism industry; Greece is one of my most favorite places.

  • Henry Avery was quite something

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  • Changed his name to Bob Bobberson and sulked back to London to work as a fishmonger.

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    Have you ever traveled outside of America? (Not to Canada or Mexico)

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  • 1 million percent correct here.

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    Have you ever traveled outside of America? (Not to Canada or Mexico)

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  • 100% yes.

    I am privileged to be able to travel for fun, but also live in and get immersed in other cultures thanks to work.

    The Americans that spend 5 days in Cancun, an all-inclusive in DR, or "went to Africa" by touching Morocco on a day trip from Spain...ugh. Y'all look bad saying box-ticking is anything else than that. It's not a competition; what did you actually personally gain from the experience? What makes you grow as a person with greater understanding of our world? Sometimes the answers surprise you, but largely, it's about saving money and being a dick to people you wrongly assume don't speak English.

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    Have you ever traveled outside of America? (Not to Canada or Mexico)

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  • Yeah. I'm aware, and it makes me sick.

    But not as much as the fact that the Republic is over. Strap your survival pants on, pal.

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    Have you ever traveled outside of America? (Not to Canada or Mexico)

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  • What does seem to be a point of agreement for Europeans that live in the States for years is that the US is so huge that for most people, there's no reason to leave. Whatever landscape you want can be had, from the tropics to the Arctic Circle. Geography makes it easy to never have a passport and experience 20 lifetimes of places. It actually is an amazing and diverse place.

    That being said, getting an outside perspective of the world is an entirely different thing. Until an American gets their exceptionalism challenged by someone, it's an internal emotional paper tiger. It typically benefits Americans to leave the country.

    I won't touch your point about most dangerous. I don't agree, but won't engage because I don't want to end up in a Palintir database. Delete this post unless you want CBP searching your phone next time you re-enter the country.

  • What do Americans die from vs. what the news report on

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  • It's worth looking at if the NYT and WaPo are reporting on terrorism from a policy or international affairs angle, rather than fearmongering Fox News.

  • Borg cube vs travel pod

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  • Lol, as if the Borg could assimilate Shatner's 1979 silky greasy coked up and permed sex appeal.

    The Borg Queen would suddenly find herself in fuzzy focus, drapped in gausey polyester, smooching on Kirk.

    Meanwhile, Scotty's hotwired that shit, has knocked out the drones, and is flying it around the sun at warp 9 to go back in time so he don't gotta deal with that mess.

  • Can anyone recommend a very simple and hopefully inexpensive 'system' by which a bedridden older person might be able to access music or videos?

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  • Off hand, I would say an iPad or tablet, maybe with the accessibility settings to max. Load books all you can, a few movies. If you did a large format eink tablet, movies are out, but audio and books are still in play, even apps for soduku or crosswords.

  • Gotta catch ’em all: Man under Customs probe for not declaring over $30k of Pokemon cards at airport

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  • I got a couple kidneys that are gonna ding me here.

    Seriously, though, people regularly travel with luggage and watches and shoes worth more than $500. How are Pokemon cards any different?

  • Leaving food on the counter - the absolute survey

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  • There are some bacteria that when they die, release toxins that are harmful. So cooking alone isn't enough to render them harmless.

    From the Canadian food agency's website:

    Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus, E. coli O157:H7, Clostridium botulinum, Clostridium perfringens and Clostridium difficile.

  • People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads

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  • 'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

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  • It's 30% satire. Some of the white ones were terrible Lefties that have been to a college and so they didn't re-hire ALL of them.

  • Daily Google Joke

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  • Sorry, buddy, you just can't travel or buy a new device!