I have never had an amazon account or used amazon to buy anything. I will admit, there has been a couple of times it is annoying that I cannot find something or I may have to buy something that is more expensive. But it has been definitely worth it. Not just for the sake of privacy, but to not support that scumbag Bezos or the millions of knockoff chinese sellers trying to undercut mom and pop stores.

The U.S. courts? I wouldn’t hold your breath.

Thanks for the share! Didn’t know who Edward Nernays was until today. Super interesting (also not great).

Because it is I think. Welcome back to the Dark Ages, population: everyone, torches provided, critical thinking not included.

This was a problem. We just acted to ban CFCs, which solved the problem. Now the ozone hole is recovering. I wouldn’t say it turned out not to be a problem though. The human race just had the brains and corporation to come together and deal with it.

Good find! Did not know that. I haven’t used eBay since the 2000s but I certainly won’t moving forward.

“The company said the conduct “is not representative of eBay’s culture” and said it has since changed leadership and strengthened its policies, procedures and ethics training.”

All employees are now required to attend trainings that include no sending of bloody pig masks, funeral wreaths and death threats. If the old leadership only had that mandatory training this would have never happened!

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Good information. However, the safest fix would be to delete the OS and install literally anything else (https://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/). But alas, due to work constraints I understand some are stuck with Windows.

I always try and mix in a little bitumen to thicken it up.

Bitumen would like a word with queso.

“We will only re-enable MCI when we are confident in the effectiveness of our data protection controls,” Stephane Kasriel, a Meta vice president overseeing AI research, told employees Monday, according to Wired. Kasriel said the company discovered and resolved the issue last week, but that the  initial fix didn’t work.

Temporary pause on the program. It will be back on by next week I bet. Also, at this this point, if you work for meta, it is getting harder and harder to feel bad for you.

I think the difference here lies in the fact that Meta the company was downloading it for model training. The company itself was doing something illegal. If an individual was to download copyright material, it is not the fault of the VPN provider.

Here is a terrible analogy. It is sort of like blaming an auto company for someone running over a person. However, if an auto company was purposely designing cars that ran people over, then it is on the auto company. (I did say it was a bad analogy).

I think the best part of the article (besides the decision of course) is the following:

“A Strike 3 Holding investigation found that 47 IP addresses belonging to Meta were used to torrent 2,396 of its videos a total of 6,008 times between 2018 and 2025.”

If videos are being downloaded more than once, it’s hard to argue it’s just for model training. lol.

"Netanyahu said Israel is continuing to operate in Lebanon against the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah, and that Israel “has full right to self-defense, and we will exercise it to the full extent necessary.”

Meanwhile, the Lebanese Health Ministry said an Israeli airstrike on the village of Zefta killed seven people Monday, including a Syrian child. Eight people were wounded. Another strike on the coastal city of Tyre killed five and wounded eight, some of them members of the Lebanese Red Cross, the ministry said."

Thankfully that child and members of the Red Cross were murdered in self defense so Israel can breath easier. /s

That I agree with. Local politicians are more likely to cave to pressure than the US house and Senate. I should have been more clear on my original post.

Wow, happy to hear that worked!

I wish I knew. Don’t get me wrong, I have several times contacted both house and senators in my state. I’ve gotten one response out of probably 10 letters. I find the “contact your representative” method to be challenging when voters are up against massive amounts of bribery and a two party system that forces voters to vote either R or D.

Representatives don’t give one fuck about their constituents and what they have to say. They only care about what corporation and billionaire paid them last. And given the 2 party system in the U.S., they don’t have to care about getting voted out either. If they are a Republican in a red district, they can do whatever they want and get voted back in and the same goes for the Democrats.

The ONLY peaceful thing that will save America is getting money out of politics. Until that happens, and good luck with that, your representative will continue to wipe their ass with your concerns.

“Google says fingerprinting is not a security vulnerability”. That is a very google thing to say.