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>What I don't understand is why communities want to block the data centers.

Noise, pollution, energy costs (which you cover in your comment!) and water usage / contamination. I don't want more of those things. I don't want a bunch of strip malls of golf courses in my community, either.

Remember. If you use a service right now, even if you (somehow) fully trust the service, you have no idea what will happen in the future. New CEO wants to make more money? Your data is sold. Parent company goes under? Your data is sold. Poor security? Your data is sold.

I don't think you understood his comment. The emergency landing was not necessarily the problem; it was everything the airline did to remediate that after the fact.

My phone's camera is not playing all the time and doesn't send the data to Meta. It just records a file locally, it's not the same at all.

You liberty is worth nothing. You could hold a camera in your hands. Get a go-pro that records locally, or choose any other option. But nope, you're hoping you can record your child, put their faces in a recognition database associate precise location data, and then hope that Meta does not use this data in ways you don't approve of. (or merely sell it to an endless string of data brokers)

The dead internet theory was a bit ahead of reality, but no less prescient.

You know what the solution is, don't you? You need to stop using your phone for things. At least as much as you can. Apple or Google are going to build the device that makes sense for them. If you get comfortable, or find a workaround, they will change things in the future -- in their favor, and against your interests.

You have other options right now: use an aux cable, play music over bluetooth, listen to the radio, purchase $30 MP3 player, pay attention to your thoughts rather than music, etc.

>Everybody says Trump should be impeached, nobody says the office of the president should be deprived of the powers Trump used to do the things he should be impeached for.

Because when the other side gets in they're going to use those awesome powers to do "good" things. No one believes in institutions anymore.

Breaking news: student anxiety peaks in the second semester.

It sounds like they could just block calls from Morocco and cut off much of the problem.

But what about 1 year ago?

I block all canvas requests. When I can no longer do so, I will just try to use the web less.

Hypocrisy is really not as useful as people think. Imagine if some man, who beat his wife, made a career of talking about the important and harrowing issues of domestic abuse.

People would rightly scratch their heads at such an over-the-top hypocrite. But surely, the man would be correct: domestic abuse is an important issue. And imagine a response from the peanut gallery? "I'm not going to stop beating my _own_ wife until that hypocrite gets his comeuppance!"

It's been done before, and continues to be done in some places. It requires high group trust, and a strong group identity.

I cannot imagine the answer is strictly just one of those two. Young men in particular who have no prospects can and nothing to domesticate them (parents, jobs, relationship prospects) can especially be a lot of trouble.

That said, I'm not particularly convinced that gangs and warlords would suppress employment (if anything, the more organized criminals tend to run protection rackets which sort of require people to have some income they can steal) however they are most certainly reducing the quality of life for people.

Unemployment causing gangs at least feels more plausible, however you seem to have plenty of areas with gang activity that have plenty of employment opportunities as well as social programs. Selling drugs almost certainly makes more money, but comes with much, much higher risks. I might guess that this is more about social mobility than it is about survival, but I don't want to try to over-simplify a complex issue.

That crowd doesn't -- but they often do the following:

- reject all 3rd party cookies

- selectively refuse to load 3rd party domains

- block javascript

- block webgl

- block webrtc

- block canvas

- use a generic user agent because "resist fingerprinting" is checked

- etc.

To a lot of sites, this makes you look like a bot. Most people don't go around deliberately spoofing their user agent these days. (and of course bots themselves can present whatever user agent they want.)

There are places where 20% of society (or more) are unemployed. They're not nice places. They're run by gangs or warlords. They're the kind of place where teenagers sit on steps and just wait for the wrong person to walk past them.

Thank you. I had previously assumed that everyone did share my exact values, and that I could merely introspect and then successfully understand the perspective of any person on earth.

I wonder if this also means that a normal user with a privacy-focused browser also gets this version. I can't see the point (except for click fraud?) of showing ads to AI, so it feels like this is more for the ad-blocking and privacy crowd.

I'm also not advocating for this. I strongly believe that there's not much we can do about a lot of these things. The world is going to move on an be worse, and most people will boil themselves like frogs. They already own TVs that spy on them and serve them ads. If you try to point out that this is bad they say "but it's inconvenient to buy one that does not!" I guess a lot of people's liberty is worth very little.

If a platform tries to take advantage of you, it's worth trying to change the platform. If you have no chance of changing the platform, you should cut the platform out of your life. I'm not saying "oh, just don't buy new video games" I'm saying "you may be faced with a choice where you either acquiesce to Microsoft's business model, or you do not buy new video games." If you were really faced with that choice, what would you do?

Well if all I had were the best movies before 1998 I would still have a really awesome movie collection. Books fall into a different category in mind. They're leisure but are also deep personal enrichment and education.

How many games do you need in your life, though? I'd say the top 500 games on the GoG catalog would be more than a lifetime of gaming. That's not even including open source or rom sets.

>With Microsoft, you will be forced to consume some second-rate engineer's unmanaged,

Or, you'll find the official Microsoft documentation, but will just be out of date, or wrong, or otherwise will not reflect the actual Microsoft product in front of you. It's baffling that people say Linux is hard when I never need to work so hard to get basic things to work as I do with a normal Microsoft product.

Well in fairness so long as you describe the goal as "largely destroying the frontal cortex and all the functions that go along with it," then lobotomy is incredibly sound.

People don't know how to turn the ratchet back. It's pretty maddening. Think about it: when people go to a cabin in the woods, quite a bit of what they do is just live without tech, go on walks, sit in the sun, etc. Quite a bit of the novelty is just having no TV, no internet, but just some books, views, an conversations, etc.

But a lot of people could live like that right now. Do you need multiple TVs? Do you need a desktop, a tablet, a phone, a laptop, a gaming device, etc. Do you need multiple streaming services? etc. A simple life is right in front of a lot of people, but every chance we get we fill our time and and our space. And if you give people that nice cabin and let them curate it -- over time it will just become a 2nd house. They'll keep "improving" it has all the amenities of home and therefore render the cabin's purpose much less useful.

So many things we do are nuts; who would put a nice sound system in a car? Go to your sound system at home, and then turn on a vacuum cleaner in the same room, and then listen to your music. It's a more similar experience than most people would suspect.

Why must every store play relatively-loud music? (sometimes outside!) I understand that some people like this, but is the preference really so ubiquitous?

In cities in particular, people seem to hate the quiet. Your neighbor's TV at near full volume blasting through the walls. The stupid cars with loud sound systems -- normally a huge nuisance in any scenario -- but in the city it seems to be an effort to improve the effectiveness of the attack to its near maximum. In a small town or a suburb, you might only torture tens of people with your loud sound system, but in a city, just driving a few blocks could force hundreds of people to suffer. And of course, this is where you see the most loud sound systems in cars; precisely where they can harm the most people.

I didn't mean to sound rude at all :(

I think very few people are thinking about the harder economic arguments here. We know that if companies are drawing prices, they'll do it in the way that most hurts the consumer and most benefits the company. Or more realistically, in the way that the company _perceives_ it benefits them the most.

I'm not necessarily opposed to the ideas you're talking about, I just have zero faith that anything positive will be stood up if companies have their say.

Even if we take your point that internet may be disappearing. A good way to brace yourself is to expand your scope: books, exercise, hobbies, etc. (and probably download a few romsets) will protect you.

> Patreon only works for famous people

This is flagrantly false, and I suspect you've never had the chance to glimpse at the entire catalog. Quite a lot of it is _distasteful_ but it's also incredibly niche content from absolute nobodies.

I really do understand your sentiment, but please remember that "meatspace" is the whole world. You can hate stupid marvel movies and chain department stores all you like, but the entire world of books, hobbies, technology, etc. is available to you.

I'm not joking: I'll bet that NO ONE at your local library cares that you're weird so long as you're polite and follow the rules.