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Kidnapping is a strong word. Perhaps “strategically relocated” would suffice?

Mullvad VPN and Proton Mail Plus (mainly just to use my Proton account on Thunderbird)

I’m actually surprised that the PS5 is right behind Xbox 360 and PS3

Up until that last paragraph at least. Not that I’m for minors getting trans surgeries, but they were never getting those surgeries in the first place until they turn 18. So, the fact that they bothered to make a law about it speaks to the rising transphobia in our government on both sides. So, I personally wouldn’t consider it good news. Everything else was really refreshing to read though

Well, it’s either that or be oppressed under a fascist government. So its a lose-lose either way in this scenario. Unless the democrats suddenly turn left I guess

I feel like any strong opinions involving the democrats regardless of your side will get downvoted at this point. Democratic party is getting torn apart in general just like the Republican party right now

As much as I would love to believe the good in humanity, at this point I’m skeptical that even if 50% of the population started to resist the government that it would do anything. After all, both viable parties are in the pockets of the billionaires that bought our current government. So unless we have a straight up armed uprising, this will mean nothing.

Why would I trust the big corporations that has been actively helping the Trump Administration? Call me paranoid, but I think there’s going to be a big crackdown at silicon valley soon

You can also disable ai via toggling browser.ml.enable to false on about:config. For now at least…

How is that measured exactly? If wage theft is able to be measured, then shouldn’t the corporations be punished for it? Last year, Amazon stole from me by claiming I didn’t work on days that I know for a fact I clocked in and out for, fired me over it, and then denied my appeal without reviewing any footage. I know that example is purely on experience rather than objective fact, but that’s how I imagine most wage theft happens. Therefore, if it’s able to be measured out reliably, then why isn’t anything done towards them? Isn’t wage theft highly illegal?? Or am I just ignorant???

Pretty sure this has already been a thing

That might be true as I haven’t looked into it in detail. Though even then, if the goal is to make cars more affordable, there’s lots of other features you can cut down on that has nothing to do with safety

Ah yes, it’s safety that makes newer cars expensive you see. Not the wireless key-fobs, power seats, built in ipad to replace the perfectly fine knobs and buttons, autonomous driving features…

The government is shutdown, people are starving, flights are being cancelled, inflation is being suffocating, and people are being kidnapped at the streets. So obviously, the name of a new football stadium is DEFINITELY what he should be focusing on. Fucking hell

Isn’t Lemmy technically a form of social media? 🤔

What’s a backbone?

Yeah, if Android effectively kills fdroid, then it essentially becomes like iOS. Whilst you can technically still sideload, apps must get certified by Google themselves and there’s no way they’ll allow 90% of fdroid unless its their Google Play versions.Tbf though, I didn’t know the background thing, which just goes to show that neither of them are ideal. Especially since Apple locks down their devices really hard which turns things like transferring files without a cloud service into a challenge. Therefore, in the future, I might just use a dumb phone for basic phone calls and text messages (meanly just for things like job applications or services like pharmacies) and a Linux phone for everything else. That’s assuming Linux phones have evolved just enough to be usable alongside a dumb phone for what it can’t do, which is SMS.

iOS would be the better alternative, if it wasn’t for the hardware they run on. After all, Apple is infamous for their blatant planned obsolescence on their iPhones since the iPhone 6. Unfortunately, Google seems to be following Apple in this way as well since they launched an update that made the Pixel 6a’s battery so much worse than before. Therefore, we must all have a dumb phone + Linux phone set up…or something

True, though it still makes it harder for my sister to seek asylum when they are cracking down on immigration, no? I didn’t mean to imply that they are equivalent. Of course America is much, much worse.

However, since Canada also seems to be turning right, it’ll more so be a move to delay the inevitable even if she is able to seek asylum. It’d be better than staying here at least, assuming America doesn’t invade Canada for Lebensraum within 4 years.

Seek asylum where? Canada? They’re also slowly becoming more right wing and cracking down on immigration iirc. Which is unfortunate, since I might be forced to become a criminal to support my sister’s right to exist