parody 4d ago • 87%
TST shouldn’t doorknock to spread the word about their services?!
parody 6d ago • 92%
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your letter and for your enclosed pizza menu suggestions. I have given some thought to our recent correspondence about topping choices. It is always difficult to decide on how to respond to people whose culinary ethos is so alien and, in fact, repellent to one's own. It is not that I take exception to the general points made by you about pizza toppings, but that every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel fruit placement, compulsive sweetness, and the sadistic persecution of traditional savory flavors which has characterised the philosophy and practice of pineapple-on-pizza advocacy.
I feel obliged to say that the gastronomic universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from a shared pizza between us.
I should like you to understand the intensity of this conviction on my part. It is not out of any attempt to be rude that I say this but because of all that I value in Italian culinary experience and pizza-making achievement.
Yours sincerely,
What are the chances I had just sent something similar to someone advocating for pineapple on pizza?
Jokes aside - dude was pretty badass:
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public intellectual. He had influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, and various areas of analytic philosophy.
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parody 2w ago • 96%
Let’s say everyone used an identity verification service to signup, like had to send photos of their ID and their SSN (national identity number) to be vetted by a third party.
How long after the service got popular would it take for the most aggressive marketers to pay rings of fraudsters to lend their identities and/or make fake reviews?
I think it would definitely start out great until it got big enough to be super useful and then the fraud would ramp up. I think an organization like Consumer Reports has a chance at successfully maintaining a low-bias product database, but the paywall is a big obstacle, as is the fact they’ll only review the largest product catalogs.
parody 2w ago • 83%
Audible chuckle
parody 2w ago • 100%
Tailscale w/burner GitHub for watch together
Oooooooh
Noted 😎
💩posting after a 5+ year-old memory came to mind. The face of the employee I’d been chatting with (before momentarily freeing my hand) was positively aghast. Olympic contender in no-coaster defense competitions, guarding the impervious exterior of large corporate marketing assets like it’s the Mona Lisa. “OBVIOUSLY you’re not supposed to put anything on it!” -my friend (A little context - I would hope to be described as deferential and polite, occasionally even to a fault.) Oops
parody 3w ago • 100%
Isn’t the FBI supposed to be non-political?
Yet here they are trying to own Z-Libs
parody 3w ago • 100%
ED Vance never does 😢
(Disclaimer: it’s okay if you have ED, this is only directed at couchfoker)
parody 3w ago • 71%
For those who wanna shell out some money:
Pricing is likely a little higher than the lowest price they show. Expect a couple bucks or something after making a purchase of like… five bucks or so.
Apparently Monero is accepted.
(They have plenty of competitors and some might be cheaper or not require purchasing a balance.)
parody 3w ago • 56%
Came to the comments b/c I was wildly confused. Nowwww I get it, live round ammunition. Thank uuuu
parody 3w ago • 93%
I’m wondering the timeframe. Did the gun SWOOSH out of his hand and then he slammed the button right in front of him worried the gun was going to explode or something?
What’s unforgivable is cops in LOS ANGELES even using one penny of taxpayer dollars to even think about cannabis. I guess they’re protecting state coffers - illegal buds = no tax revenue.
I’d want them to respond to complaints about growers near schools or something… and try to be proactive I suppose if a residential neighborhood reeks…
But reviewing all business power consumption and going on fishing expeditions WTF?! In LA?!?
parody 1mo ago • 100%
Seem to work as an enema but concerning without knowing the bidet was deep cleaned moments before. Any thoughts on this very common thing we all like to talk about?
parody 1mo ago • 100%
Been experiencing this for days now: on Voyager iOS, the wheel spins and spins while posting comments before eventually posting after about 45sec to 2min. Testing from a browser with this comment to see if it’s faster!
Edit: this was instant, hmm, will have to try commenting on a thread on a different instance from browser.
BTW: you say [Solved] - how’s that?
Edit 2: something’s up. In browser:
1: I try to load the news community on Lemmy.world by visiting:
https://lemmings.world/c/news@lemmy.world
And it takes 30 seconds to show any posts.
Then, I go to a post with 2 upvotes and 0 comments on Lemmings.world, then open it on Lemmy.World to see 241 upvotes and 24 comments.
parody 1mo ago • 100%
Awww surely not!
Ever heard that quote, paraphrasing the start of it:
You run into a jerk in the morning, you ran into a jerk.
(Maybe you know the rest) If you give that some thought for the rest of the week (assuming you’re out and about), interested to hear any thoughts on it :)
parody 1mo ago • 66%
parody 1mo ago • 100%
Read about those DCP drives! Maybe cammers are just burning theaters one by one and careful not to return for a long time if ever.
A theater operator doing the recording would be wildly risky it seems unless watermarking has been defeated. Visual and audio watermarking perhaps.
Seems like they’re very comfortable with applying watermarks at least for those betting sites!
parody 1mo ago • 100%
Amazing clip you posted seven months ago here. Doesn’t seem like it could even be any better now.
parody 1mo ago • 100%
Might have to make a new post about this:
How are there still cams if there’s been anti-piracy watermarks reported on since at least 2006?
Maybe the pirates never hit the same theater twice in a row… travel to different cities… only record at any given theater once every few years… then you’d need resources to catch somebody I’d guess.
I expect not all theaters can afford to send guys in with night vision goggles:
Maybe that’s outdated now since they can just throw up IR cameras:
Corrupt theater manager or shifty projectionist: no camera/security concerns, but still watermark concerns
Regular theatergoer: both camera/security concerns AND watermark concerns
Gutsy pirates out there!
Looks like the new Beetlejuice movie was released as a telesync. I thought they were a thing of the past!
COMMUNITY/MODS: want this post gone, it’s gone - would remove ASAP. _Please_ be excellent to each other here. We have to self moderate or I’ll delete without being asked. Assume good intent. --- I’m pro human which is why I’d rather have some people in office here in the US than others, and why I’m pro human rights. Trans rights are human rights. After reading criticism of the dems, this question resurfaced in my mind. I know we don’t have time machines, I know it’s easy to claim a false equivalency is being drawn. So note **this question doesn’t represent reality.** It represents a curiosity of a hypothetical. Trans rights are human rights! Thank you. PS: I hope neither this post nor its comments represent/produce any content that bad people will use to make arguments to further evil causes. Have I already erred? Yes I’m worried, I’m also curious enough to hit this post button here… _gulp_ ::: spoiler alt text of featured screenshot **Imagine you have a time machine that lets you peek into the future, specifically the 2024 election.** You can see two possible pathways: ## Pathway 1: Democrats go all-in on trans rights. They champion inclusive policies, fight for trans healthcare, and actively challenge anti-trans legislation. However, this galvanizes the opposition and they lose the election. ## Pathway 2: Democrats stay completely silent on trans rights. They avoid the issue entirely, focusing on other policy areas. This strategy helps them win the election, but trans rights are left in a vulnerable position. The question is: which pathway would you choose? Would you prioritize a Democrat win, even if it means sacrificing progress on trans rights? Or would you fight for trans rights, even if it means risking a loss? :::
Hey friends, I'd like to: - Register for a social media account under a client's company name - Research the presence companies in the client's industry have on the site - Have a reasonable assurance the account will not be linked to my real name nor my network - Use a VM for 10-30? hr/mo, short term I am: - US West Coast based - Tech savvy but don't code (unless copypasta) - Price conscious - Privacy conscious in terms of social media companies linking my account and my identity --- ::: spoiler Assumptions and Understandings Given the complexity of fingerprinting techniques, I am under the impression logging in to a remote computer and doing all this work from a browser there has one of the highest likelihoods of success. I'd measure success by not getting spammed with work-related ads, whenever I have to disable Ublock Origin at least. It seems likely a social network will know I'm using a remote desktop (based on IP and loading time/delays), but seems difficult for them to understand who exactly is using the cloud machine if I only use it for a singular purpose. I would hope data brokers aren't efficiently tying VM usage back to VM leasers. I understand a VPS isn't typically suited for GUI usage, and VPNs can leave me more vulnerable to fingerprinting. Finally, it looks like most of the low-end cloud PC options would support web browsing at a reasonable speed. ::: --- Questions: - Have I betrayed any misconceptions? - Is a cloud PC one of my best options, and if so: - Can you recommend a provider and specs? - Is there anything I'm missing? --- ::: spoiler Providers in consideration w/screenshots *Caution: aggressive anti-privacy corporate behemoths below* # [Azure Virtual Desktop](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/virtual-desktop/) Too cheap to be true? Requires some agreement...  # [Amazon WorkSpaces Personal](https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces-family/workspaces/pricing/) Yay Amazon. Inexpensive.  # [Windows 365 Business Cloud PC](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/business/compare-plans-pricing) Priciest option.  # [Vagon Remote Windows Desktop Cloud Computer](https://vagon.io/cloud-computer/pricing) A little guy!  ::: --- Thank you!
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Developers (two dudes) are super responsive and would likely release an IP customization feature upon request. Is there any service that would tolerate this [D]DOS-y kind of behavior that would feel more privacy friendly than Cloudflare? >[IsThereNet](https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/IsThereNet) [for macOS] watches for internet connection status changes and draws a colored line at the top of the screen to indicate the status. --- Edit: Thanks everybody! (1) ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) Echo Requests hardly constitute a burden on a server. (2) There is little privacy concern simply exposing your IP to Cloudflare. (3) [Uptime-Kuma](https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma) can be self hosted to accomplish this task with more bells and whistles. (4) There is an appetite for daydreaming of DDOSing bad Alphabetic actors ;) You civilly digidisobedient rascals!
Here’s a (very stupid) parody of the attitude as I imagine it from the most obstinate people with this view: >Well, my doctor says I need to take this medication, so that's what I'm going to do. I don't care what all those other people online are saying about their experiences with it. My doctor knows best, and I'm not going to listen to a bunch of anonymous strangers on the internet. They're probably just making stuff up anyway. >Sure, I get that a lot of people had some nasty side effects or didn't see any improvement, but my doctor assured me that won't happen to me. He's a professional, so I trust him completely. And I know he's only trying to help, not line his own pockets or anything. >All those online forums and support groups are just a waste of time. What could a bunch of regular people possibly know that my highly educated, experienced doctor doesn't? I'm going to take this medication exactly as prescribed and not ask any questions. My doctor is infallible, and I refuse to get a second opinion or consider any other options. Nope, I'm just going to blindly follow his advice and ignore everyone else. That's the smart and responsible thing to do! (Yes, this is extraordinary (and like I said **stupid**), and **yes your doctor knows more than JoeRando420 telling you to buy homeopathic crystal suppositories.** In fact I only have one user in mind writing this post, someone I forget who posted long ago about a condition I cannot remember. Hope they got better.) Main point is: why not let a large number of people who heard about a condition from their own qualified doctors help you at least scribble down some questions to ask your own medical folks at your next appointment? (But please avoid those crystal suppositories.) --- Edit: thanks everybody, read all your posts and they're all great points! Glad I posted here. Thanks for reading something at least 80% dumb :)