what’s the word for a thing that worms its way into your life, makes you depend on it, then uses that to exploit and damage you?
there’s a word for that.
what’s the word for a thing that worms its way into your life, makes you depend on it, then uses that to exploit and damage you?
there’s a word for that.
what cities should be VS what cities are.
it WAS dealt with pretty quick, but yeah I bet it’s still pretty absurd, even if they at least ask… some questions?
no, mine is broken right now.
wouldn’t shock me
basic state logic.
they’re incapable of sucking less. their whole episteme is about centralizing, about reducing thought the farther it gets from the central authority (whether that’s one guy, a class, or a building like the pentagon), but you CAN increase violence, threaten, flatten, disable, basically wherever.
for several years in the early 00’s, the process for getting security clearance involved no background check, just knowing who to ask. they literally rubber stamped it.
getting a fed job or something still did, but just security clearance, on its own, for anyone? just ask. not even nicely.
of course.
it wouldn’t shock me
like I said; wouldn’t shock me.
im not sure its abuse? I know at first they were just collecting cat poop in the wild.
it being abuse wouldn’t shock me, but it seems like the only thing necessary to make this is just, like, the civets eating stuff they normally eat, then collecting their poop.
eating cat poop: 👎 drinking cat poop: 👍
of course that asshole uses he/him pronouns.
and nope, not interested in proxies, only perfect opposites.
e ending is what I’ve seen from gender non conforming spanish-as-first-language speakers most often. I’m gonna go with it until it starts being overwhelmed with something else, languages being living things and them being the people who I see as having any right to determine this bit.
they outnumber the ‘tech crowd’ because we use technology to infantilize outselves, of which this is a prime example.
to be fair I don’t know how to pronounce the x in english either.
but that is the one I’ve heard most often. edit: e not x, most often
because you’re no fun and don’t want to install a proper cat door.
kinda what psychopomps are for, yeah.
tl;dr: copyright law has always been nonsense designed to protect corporations and fuck over artists+consumers
but now corpo daddy and corpo mommy are fighting, and we need to take sides.
and it’s revealing that copyright law never existed to protect artists, and will continue to not do that, but MUCH more obviously, and all the cucks who whined about free culture violating laws are reaping what they fucking sowed.
also, generally, you want your data going as few places as possible. not to beijing, not to washington, not to palo alto.