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Mentally unstable and introverted programmer/gamer/weeb

  • Welp, guess we're just fucked then

  • So when's the revolution going to start?

  • So glad I jumped off the sinking ship and installed CachyOS instead

  • To try to oversimplify: there was some law from the Clinton administration that said for X amount of ads for cigarettes, information for what cigarettes do to you must be aired as well (in the form of an ad). So, to kill 2 birds with one stone, they lobbyed and successfully got cigarette ads banned. This served to try and suppress potential competition outside of the big name brands and information for what cigarettes actually do to you. So, it was a 4D chess move done by the big cigarette companies collaborating with each other. I hope that makes sense

  • Cigarette companies themselves actually lobbied for cigarette commercials to be banned. For more information, look up knowing better cigarettes on YouTube since I'll have to write an essay to explain why and he puts it way better than I can

  • http.cat

  • Yeah, I confused DNS lists with block lists I've realized, lol. My bad

  • Huh, right after Waterfox started to implement it themselves. Must have spooked Mozilla. I don't see how using Brave's adblock engine is all that different from uBlock Origin though since they both just enforce DNS lists, right? Could be wrong, I know nothing about how adblocking works on the backend, lol

  • It is actually legal in Canada, you have the right to kill yourself there

  • Google so badly wants to have a fan base with the undying loyalty of Apple's fan base it seems, lol

  • The one thing that doesn't make sense to me about this is why wouldn't they plant evidence that the assassin was a leftist or at least a liberal? Wouldn't that make more sense if the goal was to increase the odds of Trump's victory? Though it's possible that they just didn't bother or tried to but were too incompetent. Either way, I'm not going to say for sure if it was staged or not until we get definitive evidence, but it is plausible.

  • Copyright is useful for when you're protecting intellectual property from being stolen by big corporations as a smaller business or private citizen. It's actually the original intent for why it exists in the first place. The problem is that it's rarely used that way and is instead used by big corporations as a battering ram to extract as much wealth as possible from the ones below them.

  • Yeah, I agree that the Biden Administration could have tried to do more to stop it. I use Roe v Wade as an example though since it's commonly used for the argument that Democrats and Republicans are the same...even though Biden wasn't the one who overturned it and was done by the supreme court that was appointed by Trump during his first term

  • Trump has been doing everything via executive orders which is why he has been able to bypass everything. I do agree that executive orders need to be nerfed if we ever get out of this mess. The problem with Democrats is that they play by the rules and Republicans don't, thus why Biden never spammed executive orders. Though it might all come back to haunt Trump eventually since there's thousands of lawsuits filed against him for all the times he misused executive orders. That's just wishful thinking on my part though."Mishandled" was perhaps oversimplifying a little too hard, but it's not like the genocide was strictly committed by the Biden Administration. Biden's sin was only making a public statement for Israel to "improve the humanitarian conditions in Gaza" and then continuing to send military aid anyway.

  • Did Biden win the senate? Did he appoint the judges for the supreme court? I agree that he mishandled the conflict in Israel, but I not sure what Biden could have done to stop the abolishment of Roe v Wade as an example. If anything, he did a good job bringing us back to some sense of stability after Trump's 1st term ended in disaster. We should critize the Democrats for their mismanagement in that goal, but this consensus that Republicans and Democrats are exactly the same I've been seeing everywhere is ridiculous. It's a false equivalence fallacy

  • I thought the USSR was nothing more than a state capitalist society like China is today?

  • They seem to be convinced that we can no longer revolt against them. Only time will tell if they are correct if nothing stops them

  • And yet they want us to have many kids just in case it doesn't work. They have no regard for human lives and could care less if anyone beneath them suffers and dies. They need to have their wealth and power cut down to size or it will become reality...

  • Brb, toppling the government by shooting up the white house. Should be easy, right?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml

    Is there an application that stabilizes the volume level of downloaded mp3 files?