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Senator Dianne Feinstein's career was filled with firsts, including first woman mayor of San Francisco and one of two of the first women elected to the U.S. Senate from California.

[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 219 points 1 year ago

I love how everybody is so busy about mining your behavior for ad tracking data and then like 2/3 of the ads I actually see are utterly irrelevant gut doctor / toenail fungus / 17 Most Embarrassing Topless Celebrity Moments crap.

(I think the reality is that they're mining that data to identify a small number of people susceptible to high-value scams - like getting addicted to an F2P mobile game and spending $1000s on it - and the rest of us just get generic infill)

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Starfield players looking for how to fix a bug that breaks guns figured out changing their character's gender is a solution.

[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 156 points 1 year ago

The most unrealistic thing about this is the fact that they get to the recipe after just one paragraph; the real version of this would have like 27 photos of the father, a long essay about growing up and his various demons, etc, and there would be at least half a dozen banners about things gut doctors are begging you not to eat along the way.

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The predatory blue crabs are devouring stocks of eels, clams, and mussels and wreaking havoc on fishing nets.

[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 109 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"We are everywhere" -> "literally dozens of us"

Any time a loser wants to feel like less of a loser they need only look at this loser and realize that they are, comparatively speaking, not a loser at all

[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 115 points 1 year ago

This is good advice; I suspect they're outside of the FBI's jurisdiction, but they could also be random idiots, in which case they're random idiots who are about to become registered sex offenders.

[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 105 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

She ran for office on an anti-gerrymandering platform, and the voters elected her (by a huge margin!) in large part because of that; if there's any case she should not recuse herself from, it's this one.

(obviously it'd be better if we didn't have to resolve political questions like this through supreme court elections, but if the legislature creates a situation where it's impossible to vote them out directly, voters are left with little alternative but to fix the system through elected justices)

[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 144 points 1 year ago

Great, seeing a picture of a trans man has made me aware of the existence of trans people, and therefore, according to GOP logic, it's only a matter of time before I become trans myself and have to fucking go bra shopping.

[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 160 points 1 year ago

Honestly, if the combination of AI porn + good AR + haptic fleshlights gets us to a point where horny single men with limited real-world romantic prospects can have fulfilling sex lives without having to bug any actual living women to attain them, I think the world will be a better place.

[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 99 points 1 year ago

Hardly any mention of this from Apple or their associated media, despite the fact that an AAA game launching a Mac port on day 1 is virtually unheard-of in 2023.

[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 123 points 1 year ago

This feels very much like an /r/thathappened post

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[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 104 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but in exchange for a brief flurry of engagement they have to put up with another wave of articles about angry reddit user protests:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/20/redditors-are-already-using-r-place-to-address-api-controversy/

[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 100 points 1 year ago

Along with everything else wrong with this: your icon is literally your brand, and you want your branding to be flawless + everywhere.

This would be like Nike putting an ugly pixelated version of their logo on cheaper sneakers to encourage you to buy more expensive ones; whatever pocket change they made from upgraders would be dwarfed by the damage it would do to their trademark.

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[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 113 points 1 year ago

I don't think proselytizing is necessary anymore; we've got enough folks on here now to get a sustainable community going, other people gradually finding their way over here over the next year or two (much as it happened with digg) is much better than a crazy server-destroying / spam-proliferating rush.

Reddit was perfectly enjoyable a decade ago with 10% as many users, we don't need very many of them to be able to offer a worthy reddit replacement to anybody who seeks one. (plus I suspect within 6 months or so we'll have way better apps than reddit does)

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