Adaptive cruise control generally sucks, it slams on the brakes when someone merges.into your lane and gets you going 20 under regularly. I’m shocked by the claim that 75% of people use it.

Lane assist is great though.

I’m forced to assume he crossed paths with a natural tetrachromat and destroyed his research so that she could never use it to surpass his ultimate color vision.

Maybe we should investigate all the recent murder suicides to see if we can find him?

Alright, so I read through your other comments and you’ve proven yourself to be a Nazi.

I am not saying you are a Nazi because I disagree with you. I am saying you are a Nazi because you are looking to shift the definition of what a Nazi is so that Neo-Nazis can exist more easily and more freely without being called a Nazi. Fuck Nazis, such as yourself.

By definition homophobia or transfobia is no nazism even if it is as bad as nazism.

What the fuck did I just read? Nazis rounded gay and trans folks up and put them in death camps too.

Get the fuck out of here, Nazi fucking scum.

Most people look back on Nazi Germany and see the populace as the Nazi scum they were. Most of the populace that wasn’t a victim, including the ones that voted against Nazism, deserve this treatment, as they did not do enough to stop it.

My point is that even as a political strategy we might be better off trying to find reasons on why other people is “one of us” instead of trying to find reasons on why they are the worst scum on earth.

This is an extremely valid point you are making. It is why I oppose Democratic leaders like Gavin Newsom, Amy Acton, etc throwing trans people under the bus in an effort to get Republican voters.

The rest of your comment is incredibly anectdotal, and doesn’t match with my lived reality, where local Republican leaders called me a pedophile because I hosted some drag shows. My experience has been that Republicans lead and convince with fear, as opposed to using intellectualism to get people to hate gay people. Sure, that convincing may be incremental, but I don’t think the conversation you created in your head has ever happened in any reality.

Likewise, I have never seen a Democrat organization kick someone out for being opposed to taxing the rich, let alone call them a Nazi. In fact, most of the Democratic party’s leadership at the national and at state levels oppose taxing the rich. That’s why the DSA and similar parties/caucuses are gaining power within the Democratic party.

But let’s be clear, the story you made up in your head, has never happened, despite how fucking erect I would get if it did happen. Your story is less believable than Candyland.

All Republicans are Nazis. Republicans may be misguided in why they are voting Republican, but that doesn’t make them any less of a Nazi.

A Republican voter may be incredibly passionate about crashing the economy (9 of the past 10 economic recessions have been caused by Republicans), and they may be voting Republican because they want to crash the economy. But they doesn’t absolve them of voting for ICE to terrorize communities.

We didn’t give the 1940s Nazis a pass because they didn’t know what that the wretched smell was bodies burning. We treated them exactly as who they were: Nazi scum.

implying that every republican is a nazi

You seem to be implying that not all Republicans are not Nazis.

10 years ago it was true that not all Republicans are Nazis. However, there has not been no resistance from every elected Republican to the Nazi movement within the party for far too long to be able to honestly make the claim that Republicanism is not Nazism.

I find the electric usage one to be strong. If you have a lot of data centers near, your electric will go up.

Similarly, if you have a data center near you, your water bill will go up, and your well may dry up.

Data centers are demanding incentives from governments across the country with promises of lots of jobs, but they just need the people to supplement their low usage of utilities.

Fuck you, this isn’t interesting!

Now where’s my upvotes?

Thank you for that! Turns out this organization received a $5 million+ grant from Google, after operating under $5000 for like 4ish year.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/300100369

The image can be found in the filings…

I wonder what the organization did so successfully in their first few years to warrant Google giving them $5 million.

For something as sensitive as typing in a license plate that can be identified to you, and potentially label you as a domestic terrorist, this article is garbage.

The lazy reporter did not do any research or reporting on who funds the website.

Have no fear, I’m pooping at work and have time, as I am more curious than journalist hack Matthew Benton.

HaveIbeenflocked.com appears to be funded by an organization called:

https://altnewsfoundation.org/

They fund quite a few smaller local publications, with a focus on LatinX publications. Notably they do not fund any queer focused publications.

Their board appears to be 3/4 white. And their directors appears to be 50% white.

I cannot find where most of their funding comes from, the average, or the median donation size.

HaveIbeenflocked.com does claim they get their data from public access requests, which I find to be believable. They do not make clear that they dont save who has searched for a license plate number. They also don’t share how they save any search history.

My assumption is that they are saving every license plate search on their servers unencrpyted. Even if they aren’t malicious actors, they are not protecting your data from malicious actors.

Tl;Dr: Use this site with caution. Maybe dont use it at all. I don’t think I will.

Thanks! She’s been doing it mostly on her ereader, I didn’t realize it should hook up to a computer but that makes sense!

The punchline was right in the drawing.

There are no good white basketball players, my friend.

Hell yes! Its easier to get a new job when you have a job so if its not right, fuck em

DAMION: Security via obsolescence

I mean, sure, I could have had a more specific search. I just assumed that DDG was privacy focused and more or less gave the same search results to everyone.

My states midterms happened months ago, and weren’t particularly newsworthy then. Let alone now.

Given the newsworthiness of Michigan, especially, and 4 other states last night, I would have expected to see results skew towards the trending news story as opposed to old, largely irrelevant, results that skew towards knowing who is performing the search.

It’s backwards of my expectations with the product. And based on my understanding of how search engines operate, youvare more likely to catch search engine bias with broad sweeping searches, than you would with hyper specific searches. As an example, this search was able to identify that DDG biases location over relevance/newsworthiness. Which is why I asked about it in the community I did.

I wasn’t complaining about the effectiveness of the search, rather the privacy concerns.

This makes sense, thanks! How precisely does an IP address give me away? State level, metropolitan area, city, street?

I actually saw some praise on Flock today on Facebook. Youre probably right

Shit article. Doesn’t even explain what data collectives and cooperatives look like.

But sure theyll save the world.