all i know is jefferies has lost all confidence i might have had for him after his tone deaf john stewart interview, these assholes need to be primaried

thank you for correcting me, you appear to be right. For added context had o1 also give me the conventions of the two terms, “Despite” and “in spite of” are indeed very close in meaning: both convey “regardless of” or “not prevented by.” In modern usage, they’re essentially interchangeable. While “in spite of” can sometimes feel a bit more personal or emphatic—and in older or more formal contexts might suggest defiance—it typically does not carry a strong sense of “malice” or hostile intent. Most English speakers use “despite” and “in spite of” interchangeably without any intended ill will.

is this actually in spite, or despite? i'm sure there is some umbrage being felt, but I doubt that is the primary reason

on top of that, amazon and google this past week said that their devices would now listen all the time by default and send that data to hq. Now if you are just discussing something it will be added to your advertising profiles. I bet a bunch of cars and other benign objects are doing similar things.

gpt and low cost cameras now give companies the ability to monitor you 365 while on their property if they want to. Discussing something in line at the grocery store, llm note take takes that, time stamps it with your order and ties it to you profile. Doing a drug deal at your local circle K and dont by anything, cameras catch you license plate and suddenly you are getting amazon ads for the types of rubber bands your customers prefer you use on their 8balls

thank you, i had a feeling there was some privacy issues with the openness of the network. I always thought reddit would do good to have multiple profiles allowed to a main account, so if you wanted to shitpost, or if you wanted to wankbank it, or discuss Friedman economics you would have profile to do that with. Of course big reddit would admin all that, but it would reduce in theory all the new accounts constantly being made alongside the bot accounts and reduce some of the throw away nature of accounts that accrue to much data over time thru the nature of commenting

So how does that lemmy work? do I need a whole nother login for that? Some people mention lemm.ee would i need a new sign in for that as well?

i think the image was used to illustrate the point of being on a spectrum of differences and as a proper shit post follow up to a well thought out and carefully worded comment. Saw a pretty good tedtalk on this recently :24 is where it gets into it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

and quite comfortable that way and screaming at people while their eyes water from the stench

someone pointed out the trump has a history of making the people that help him succeed get ruined and a lot of his most vocal people from his first term lost everything

shows up but it is not selectable

that sounds kinda cool actually, i just got into thrift shopping. Any good resources for getting started with estate auctions, and do you ever find anything worth the effort? Im a minimalist and just sort of furnishing my place or trading up

only if you upvote something that might condone violence against racists