Monks in D&D are no joke. I've gotten torn up by them before. That class has actually been around since the very beginning. I think I might replay as one.
Arguing in bad faith?
I can imagine the conversation.
Elon: "I own this website, and you're telling me that I'm not allowed to see this person's profile or activity because they blocked me?"
Good luck getting a massive narcissist like him to understand why every user should have that right.
Founded in 1973. It's not a coincidence that we started to see establishment pushback organizations popping up in this time frame. Because in the 60s, people of color started voting en masse after generations of systematic suppression. The civil rights movement empowered them to express their political views like never before. The word "Heritage" in this context means "white people." When they say "traditional American values," they mean "no gays or mixing of the races." When they say "limited government," they mean "weak regulation." When they say "individual freedom," they mean "freedom from consequences," specifically for white males. When they say "the war on drugs," they mean "the war on black people and liberals." And so on. They're speaking in code, and their very name is a code. But it's easily cracked if you've been paying attention.
The clip was part of Guldbrandsen’s documentary, A Storm Foretold, released in March of this year.
So there's nothing actually new about this video. It's just that Donald forgot that someone filmed the slimy inner workings of his re-election campaign when it came time to mount a defense, and he doesn't have any good lawyers to help him avoid painting himself into a corner again. Hell, he probably lied to his lawyers, too.
You sure are going to unusual lengths to (poorly) defend this behavior. Maybe there's something you should be disclosing about who you really are.
Funny how Firefox can be at least as secure without it having to phone home every time you click on a link.
Usually when this happens, we call it spyware, nuke it from orbit, and find an alternative.
Decades of pervasive propaganda across multiple mediums, coupled with a systematic assault on public education and the very concept of critical thinking. The most noteworthy propagandists masquerade smugly under banners like "conspiracy theorist" or "patriot" rather than "liar" or "fascist." They transformed the human-shaped turd Donald Trump into a folk hero, and they're successfully pitching ordinary center-right statesman Joe Biden as a radical leftist.
I wonder if Donald Trump has ever washed a dish in his life. Or a piece of clothing. If he's ever put a bag of trash in a trash can. Changed a light bulb. Boiled an egg. I don't think he would even know how. He's indicated at least once in interviews that grocery stores are completely unfamiliar to him. He literally doesn't understand how they work. Food just materializes at his table, at the appointed time. Including his favorite, well-done steak slathered in ketchup.
I think if Donald Trump had to fend for himself for one week, even with a million dollars in a bank account, he would starve to death in dirty underwear. Yet about one half of America is convinced that he's a man of the people who can relate to our daily struggles. Because of the machine.
And an alternate email service like ProtonMail.
They also have ProtonDrive as an alternative to Google Drive. Apple's iCloud is also end-to-end encrypted now. pCloud is another popular option. There are a number of choices for secure cloud storage these days.
Web search is a bit more difficult. DuckDuckGo is heavily integrated with Bing. Brave Search is hit-or-miss. Yahoo is just a front-end for Bing.
If you need live document collaboration, you're probably already in a setting where either Sharepoint or GSuite are mandated. If you're not, BitAI may be worth looking into.
More than half of Amazon's sales come from third-party merchants who this year started paying an average of over 50% commission on every sale, up from 35.2% in 2016, the result of it raising Fulfillment by Amazon fees every year and increasing storage fees.
While paying for Amazon's logistics and advertising services is optional, most merchants consider these, especially advertising, a necessary part of doing business. Moreover, the FTC has reportedly amassed evidence that Amazon disadvantages merchants who don't use the services by giving them lower placements.
Capitalism at its finest... I still remember when Amazon was just a humble online bookstore. How times have changed.
I've had the impression for a while that Twitter upper management wanted monthly active users on the level of Facebook, Tiktok and other social media. To enrich themselves by way of ad revenue, rather than to create opportunities and experiences for the platform and its users. Then when it became apparent that such a potential opportunity had come and gone (if it was ever there in the first place), they did what was in their minds the next-best thing: They cashed out while they could still find a buyer. Elon's idiotically freewheeling but nevertheless binding offer was basically their winning lottery ticket, so they held his feet to the fire instead of treating it like the thoughtless shitpost it was.
My apartment complex wants me to download some third-party app just to pay my rent, instead of using their perfectly serviceable web portal. I assume they're getting a data harvest kickback that's buried in several layers of fine-print legalese, which will be used to send me targeted spam and junk mail. And that data will be sold and re-sold to other parties ad infinitum. Whatever they can collect about my personal life, for sale to any asshole with enough cash in their pocket. Fuck that. I shouldn't have to deal with this bullshit just to keep a roof over my head.