[-] astutemural@midwest.social 1 points 3 days ago

New Reformation when

[-] astutemural@midwest.social 21 points 3 weeks ago

Allergy desensitization therapy was invented in 1911. It's just that your insurance company doesn't consider it a 'necessary procedure', so they don't pay for it.

[-] astutemural@midwest.social 41 points 1 month ago

Previously you had to be enormously wealthy and surround yourself with yes-men to go mad from comfirmation bias. Now we have built a yes-man machine so that even the common plebs can do it! Truely we live in a communist utopia.

[-] astutemural@midwest.social 25 points 1 month ago

Heard somewhere once that dreams have a hard time with details. It's all loose impressions that your brain rapidly confabulates into experiences. It's why (supposedly) light switches don't work in dreams. If any of this is true, the same probably applies to other devices.

[-] astutemural@midwest.social 32 points 2 months ago

Nope. Commitment to equality in wealth comes first, or you lose your opportunity to ever do it again. The dragons do not give up their ill-gotten hoards.

[-] astutemural@midwest.social 19 points 3 months ago

Or wargaming, which is a type of model railroading.

[-] astutemural@midwest.social 28 points 3 months ago

You have no control over big events, so you're not offended by them. The small stuff you can control (or at least think you can), so it's immediately offensive to your sense of personal control and importance.

[-] astutemural@midwest.social 32 points 5 months ago

Oh no! This dastardly Europeans wanted to come here and work! How dare they! Deport them!

This country was cooked a long time ago.

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The Mozilla Foundation is calling upon 30 technology companies, social networks, and websites to block web scraping by an ICE surveillance contractor called ShadowDragon after 404 Media published a list of sites that the contractor pulls data from.

...ShadowDragon sells a tool called SocialNet that streamlines the process of pulling public data from various sites, apps, and services. Marketing material available online says SocialNet can “follow the breadcrumbs of your target’s digital life and find hidden correlations in your research.” In one promotional video, ShadowDragon says users can enter “an email, an alias, a name, a phone number, a variety of different things, and immediately have information on your target. We can see interests, we can see who friends are, pictures, videos.”

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[-] astutemural@midwest.social 56 points 6 months ago

Anyone think about what they used to do before we started making indelible records of all our social activity? Probably ask you some questions and that's it. Yet now they think it's 'vital' that they be able to see everything you ever said to your friends? Bullshit it is, they're just powerhungry petty tyrants.

[-] astutemural@midwest.social 32 points 7 months ago

No? If I ACTUALLY wanted to ride out through some sort of apocalypse, a bunker ain't gonna cut it. I would bankroll and actively participate in a fully self-sustaining off-the-grid community. Rich people always forget the second part, probably because they are psychopaths. Remember that article where they were asking about putting shock collars on their bunker security guys? If they literally just got beers with them once a week, they'd probably shoot all the migrants you ask them to. It's an irony that they consider their time 'too valuable' for that, as it turns out that the one thing you can't buy is a sense of community.

Of course, I would endeavor to not own several billion dollars of stolen property in the first place, but different strokes.

[-] astutemural@midwest.social 29 points 7 months ago

Wow, it's almost like if you routinely put people in authority over others, someone will misuse it. Huh. I wonder if anyone had maybe thought about that before.

[-] astutemural@midwest.social 244 points 7 months ago

The Harris campaign had to cover the governor’s tracks when he tripped up during a California fundraiser by stating that the constitutionally-mandated system used to select the president, otherwise known as the electoral college, “needs to go”.

How the hell is that a gaffe? It's both the truth and exactly what people want to hear. Any lib who thinks like that needs to kindly keep their mouths shut for the next four years. This country needs radical change, the only choice you get is which one you want.

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