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@oclsc @b0rk I am mystified by what kind of brain-dead programmer ever thought that the default setting should be dark-blue text on a black background, yet that is what you get in Ubuntu.

@Free_Press The same tired vacuous 'defense' is the bogus you are being antisemetic' attack.

@chrisgeidner The current purpose of most sheriffs and many other so-called 'law enforcement' personnel is to remove humans they don't like.

@realTuckFrumper It is wonderful how egotistical tyrants feel entitled to impose their fantasy of the world on everyone else.

@realTuckFrumper Why 'must' the GOP reform a broken institution when they want it that way?

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Some data protection advocates call for paying people a „fair share“ for their data.

They claim that letting people participate in the profits will enable data subjects to be equal partners in the data economy and empower them to make more informed and reasonable decisions about what data they share (and what they don’t).

This is dangerous.

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PayPal is updating their Terms of Service to automatically give merchants access to your data starting in November and they've already opted you into it.

The EU has better privacy laws than North America, so if you're there you won't even have these settings.

OPT OUT BEFORE THEY START:

Go to Settings > Data & Privacy > PayPal Shopping and toggle it to off.

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#PayPal #Privacy #OptOut

@mattblaze But that is just an "opinion". My opinion may be different. How are we to judge our relative sincerity and aptness of thought?

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“What does a ‘Chief Eschatology Officer’ do?”

“We plan how to maximize shareholder value during and after the end of the world”

“The end of the world caused by your company’s own actions?”

“Pretty much, yeh”

“Didn’t CEO used to stand for something different?”

“Not really”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

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I'm honestly a little disturbed that someone just tried to argue with me that the DOJ shouldn't be bothering with Alabama, since they turn red every election.

1. That's not the point of the DOJ - they're there to protect the interests of all Americans, not the Americans who vote blue.

2. States like Alabama routinely turn red because of voter suppression.

3. Ditching Alabama is directly harming all of the vulnerable people in the state. Like, come on.

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“…when speed cameras are doing the ticketing, the proportion of tickets issued to Black and white drivers aligns closely with their respective share of roadway users. With human enforcement, in contrast, police officers stop Black drivers at a rate that far outstrips their presence on the road.”

Police stop more Black drivers...

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@realTuckFrumper It's just a way to launder money to the Grifter-in-chief

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"Kathleen Siminyu, a natural language processing researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute, said that while pursuing her undergraduate studies in mathematics and computer science, “I had lecturers who would say things in class like, ‘We can’t have a group for a technical project that just consists of the girls, because who is going to write the code? Girls are for writing documentation.’"
newafricanmagazine.com/30540/

@realTuckFrumper This just a way to launder money to Trump. under the guise of buying some worthless thing.

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The federal constitution, as well as the constitutions of 16 states, never fully abolished slavery.

This allows prisons to force incarcerated people to work jobs they have little to no say in for as little as pennies an hour. boltsmag.org/california-amendm

@coreyspowell Maybe 'the universe' is just a slime mold on a bigger scale.

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