Yet another 'study' claiming something is going to kill you. Never mind that people have been drinking ethanol in moderation for about a million years.
WTF is this shit? Is Puritanism making a comeback? Is this more Dominionist bullshit? Or are they selling something?
Guess what: everything is going to kill you. Just scroll through the internet, you'll find somebody presenting all sorts of evidence that anything you care to name that you eat, drink, or breathe, is going to take DECADES off your life. Don't fall for it, folks.
Trump is leaving Cohen holding the bag while he denies everything, and apparently Cohen isn't an omega pussy who will lay down and take being thrown under the bus like this, he's returning a lack of loyalty and gratitude with the same: he's going to reveal every dirty little thing Trump has done. People will know even better than they already do what sort of son-of-a-bitch they've elected as POTUS. Of course meanwhile Trump will claim it's all 'fake' even if he's recorded saying otherwise, and his staunch supporters will continue to put fingers in their ears going LALALALAL WE CAN'T HEAR YOU! and deny all of it. The GOP will continue to hold their nose and keep their mouths shut because they know as soon as they admit Trump is the worst they'll lose control of Congress and they'll be the minority party again. Meanwhile all ~350,000,000 of us in this country are taking it in the ass by our own government and the rest of the world, we're a laughingstock, it'll be decades before we have any credibility anymore or are taken seriously by anyone.
It's probably a PR stunt. "Look at us, we're helping humanity out of the goodness of our hearts!". Right up there with a child-abusing parent buying the kid a toy or a treat afterwards.
The ruling Communist party makes that much more difficult, but yeah, I've been kinda waiting for that to happen for quite some time now. It's hard to suppress unrest when you have over a billion people in your country. Imagine what Bashir al-Assad has done to the people of Syria, but on the scale of China. It might just plunge the rest of the world into World War III along with it, as it polarized every other nation on Earth, one by one.
He's set himself up as Emperor for all intents and purposes. Apropos for Emperors, especially in China, he probably considers himself a god. Therefore anything he decrees as Good is 'righteous'. Disagreeing with him becomes 'blasphemy'. Disobeying his decrees makes you a 'sinner'. And so on.
AC if you're going to go there then why not just sever all the cables connecting China to the rest of the Internet and let them have their own literal walled garden?
The difference between all of those groups and Xi is that he actually has the power to censor the Internet within the territorial boundaries of China.
Fixed that for you. NO ONE can censor the entire worldwide Internet. If that fact ever changes then we've all got a much bigger problem to worry about.
Where precisely did I say 'Puritans were a religious denomination'? Stop making shit up, don't put words in my mouth.
That being said: yeah, the GOP sounds and acts an awful lot like them don't they?
Know what this fuckwad communist dictator sounds like? The Puritans. Remember them? They were at least as corrupted as anyone else, all the while pretending to pure and 'righteous'. Of course in this case it's an order of magnitude worse: this jackass includes things like 'freedom of speech', 'freedom of expression', 'criticizing the communist party', 'criticizing the government', and of course 'criticizing him' among the things he considers 'vulgar' and 'pornographic' content.
As an aside to all this: know what I think is really ironically funny about this? For a country that has recorded history going back, what, 3000 years at least? They still fail to learn from their own history. This guy has set himself up as Emperor of China for all intents and purposes. How's that worked out for you in the past, China? Do you even remember? Or has the Communist party removed your access to (or worse, rewritten) your own history, too? Sad, sad, sad. I actually feel bad for the average Chinese citizen.
I vote by mail anyway. Going back to paper ballots for now is a good idea while we're waiting for someone to get off their ass and fix the security issues. Paper ballots may not be foolproof either, but it's more of a chore to fake them and you more or less have to do it in person.
* Turn your phone off or put it in Airplane Mode when you're not actively using it
* The above makes 'storage' irrelevant
* Don't use SMS messages for anything important or personal, save that for in-person conversations
* Phone companies have been doing that since there were phone companies so what's the point, how else do they bill you?
There was that so hard?
Honestly you can dump wireless entirely and get a landline instead if you want your privacy back. What everyone is doing, as usual, is trading their privacy for 'convenience'. You don't have to, it's all a matter of how important your privacy is to you.
"short of chucking your phone into the river, shunning the internet, and learning to read paper maps again, there's not much you can do to keep Google from collecting data about you."
Don't own a smartphone, use DuckDuckGo instead of Google, use tracking protection, delete unnecessary cookies, use NoScript and a good adblocker like Ubox, and use OpenStreetMaps instead of Google maps. There, was that so hard?
Lazy and cowards will now say: "Oh they probably can still track you and collect data on you so why bother trying it's useless"
You're a bad example, no one should listen to you. Take back your privacy, even SOME of it, and take back at least SOME of your life.
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Fuck you sideways with a rusty chainsaw, Comcast. You're just waiting for your chance to screw everyone, aren't you?
Yet another 'study' claiming something is going to kill you. Never mind that people have been drinking ethanol in moderation for about a million years.
WTF is this shit? Is Puritanism making a comeback? Is this more Dominionist bullshit? Or are they selling something?
Guess what: everything is going to kill you. Just scroll through the internet, you'll find somebody presenting all sorts of evidence that anything you care to name that you eat, drink, or breathe, is going to take DECADES off your life. Don't fall for it, folks.
Trump is leaving Cohen holding the bag while he denies everything, and apparently Cohen isn't an omega pussy who will lay down and take being thrown under the bus like this, he's returning a lack of loyalty and gratitude with the same: he's going to reveal every dirty little thing Trump has done. People will know even better than they already do what sort of son-of-a-bitch they've elected as POTUS. Of course meanwhile Trump will claim it's all 'fake' even if he's recorded saying otherwise, and his staunch supporters will continue to put fingers in their ears going LALALALAL WE CAN'T HEAR YOU! and deny all of it. The GOP will continue to hold their nose and keep their mouths shut because they know as soon as they admit Trump is the worst they'll lose control of Congress and they'll be the minority party again. Meanwhile all ~350,000,000 of us in this country are taking it in the ass by our own government and the rest of the world, we're a laughingstock, it'll be decades before we have any credibility anymore or are taken seriously by anyone.
If you say so, buddy. Maybe airlines just don't want to confuse travellers, did that occur to any of you? Of course not.
It's probably a PR stunt. "Look at us, we're helping humanity out of the goodness of our hearts!". Right up there with a child-abusing parent buying the kid a toy or a treat afterwards.
I know, AC, I know. The Correction is forthcoming, however.
That's not 'censorship', perhaps you should go look at the defiinition of the word?
Yes. 'Vulgar content' == 'criticism of the Communist party or of the God Emperor Xi'.
+1
revolutions
The ruling Communist party makes that much more difficult, but yeah, I've been kinda waiting for that to happen for quite some time now. It's hard to suppress unrest when you have over a billion people in your country. Imagine what Bashir al-Assad has done to the people of Syria, but on the scale of China. It might just plunge the rest of the world into World War III along with it, as it polarized every other nation on Earth, one by one.
He's set himself up as Emperor for all intents and purposes. Apropos for Emperors, especially in China, he probably considers himself a god. Therefore anything he decrees as Good is 'righteous'. Disagreeing with him becomes 'blasphemy'. Disobeying his decrees makes you a 'sinner'. And so on.
'Communism getting with the program' == 'Democracy, freedom of speech, and freedom of expression'.
AC if you're going to go there then why not just sever all the cables connecting China to the rest of the Internet and let them have their own literal walled garden?
The difference between all of those groups and Xi is that he actually has the power to censor the Internet within the territorial boundaries of China.
Fixed that for you.
NO ONE can censor the entire worldwide Internet. If that fact ever changes then we've all got a much bigger problem to worry about.
You'd need an entire tanker ship full of bleach to scrub tub girl from your brain, though, and it still wouldn't be enough.
Where precisely did I say 'Puritans were a religious denomination'? Stop making shit up, don't put words in my mouth.
That being said: yeah, the GOP sounds and acts an awful lot like them don't they?
*Drum hit*
Wow. Just. Wow. Were you homeschooled? That would certainly explain it.
Know what this fuckwad communist dictator sounds like? The Puritans. Remember them? They were at least as corrupted as anyone else, all the while pretending to pure and 'righteous'. Of course in this case it's an order of magnitude worse: this jackass includes things like 'freedom of speech', 'freedom of expression', 'criticizing the communist party', 'criticizing the government', and of course 'criticizing him' among the things he considers 'vulgar' and 'pornographic' content.
As an aside to all this: know what I think is really ironically funny about this? For a country that has recorded history going back, what, 3000 years at least? They still fail to learn from their own history. This guy has set himself up as Emperor of China for all intents and purposes. How's that worked out for you in the past, China? Do you even remember? Or has the Communist party removed your access to (or worse, rewritten) your own history, too? Sad, sad, sad. I actually feel bad for the average Chinese citizen.
I vote by mail anyway. Going back to paper ballots for now is a good idea while we're waiting for someone to get off their ass and fix the security issues. Paper ballots may not be foolproof either, but it's more of a chore to fake them and you more or less have to do it in person.
Oh look another lazy-ass coward who won't even bother to try. You must like being sodomized.
Block their web scripts from loading, and use DecentralEyes instead.
My immediate thought was, they're collecting the data on you instead. You'd have to go a long way to prove that they're not.
* Turn your phone off or put it in Airplane Mode when you're not actively using it
* The above makes 'storage' irrelevant
* Don't use SMS messages for anything important or personal, save that for in-person conversations
* Phone companies have been doing that since there were phone companies so what's the point, how else do they bill you?
There was that so hard?
Honestly you can dump wireless entirely and get a landline instead if you want your privacy back. What everyone is doing, as usual, is trading their privacy for 'convenience'. You don't have to, it's all a matter of how important your privacy is to you.
Hear, hear.
"short of chucking your phone into the river, shunning the internet, and learning to read paper maps again, there's not much you can do to keep Google from collecting data about you."
Don't own a smartphone, use DuckDuckGo instead of Google, use tracking protection, delete unnecessary cookies, use NoScript and a good adblocker like Ubox, and use OpenStreetMaps instead of Google maps. There, was that so hard?
Lazy and cowards will now say: "Oh they probably can still track you and collect data on you so why bother trying it's useless"
You're a bad example, no one should listen to you. Take back your privacy, even SOME of it, and take back at least SOME of your life.