Yup. Seems quite ragebaity.

First strategic stop: Chick-fil-A

Mine has usage, at the very least.

some kind of literacy crash course…

I love how today actual literacy isn’t even a thing. No one talks about teaching readimg and writing (in the EU, at least). It’s all about financial literacy, digital literacy, social media literacy, hell, even (and bear with me here) AI literacy. Yes, really. There’s probably 800 of these fake literacies floating around.

Whoever thought of this is an idiot. The word literacy means one thing: the ability to read and write (and perhaps understand what you read/wrote). Nothing more, nothing less.

It isn’t just stupid, it’s also malicious. Kids all over the globe are suffering from poor literacy, and instead of fixing the problem you quite literally shift the goalposts.

Why be able to read and consult a dictionary when I can just consult AI or social media to explain it to my borderline-illiterate brain?

The fuck is RT FOOT PN and why the hell is it not RT FT PN

“A phone’s schematics are publically available, like those of a gun”

I can assure you, I’ve written no such thing in my original reply.

“Ownership” totally does mean it’s yours and you can do whatever you want with it.

That means you can do it, not that you should, nor that what you do won’t have consequences.

It just means your phone won’t stop you from downloading an unapproved app just like a gun won’t stop you from loading an unapproved bullet.

It means your gun has a safety mechanism you can unlock to shoot, as does your phone to download “unverified” apps.

It means you can sell either freely to someone else without it becoming bricked or the new owner losing any rights (lookin’ at you, Tesla cars).

It means defaulting on the loan will require the physical reposession of your phone or gun, and that neither will magically lock you out of using it using telemetry.

It means anyone with the right knowledge and tools can fix your phone and it’ll work, just like your gun.

It means your phone works for you, and not for someone else - just like your gun.

Your phone is a tool. Just like your gun. It can be used for good - and for bad.

What you do with it is up to you, and not up to it or its manufacturer.

It means you can shoot people with your gun, just as you can extort and blackmail people with your phone. Nothing, other than your own morality, the morals of society and therule of law are preventing you from doing bad things. Certainly not the will of the manufacturer.

Any forensic inquiry into a phone on a crime scene would be like that of a gun.

Any taking of your phone from your home or person would require a warrant - like with a gun.

Any inquiry into your phone’s contents and qualities should require outside tools - like a similar inquiry into your gun.

Your phone won’t have a special police-only history of what you’ve used it for - like your gun.

Your phone won’t report what you’ve been doing with it to 3rd parties without your consent - like won’t your gun.

And so on.

If “Life” is “Evolutionary”, then yes.

Every now and then, I can’t help but wonder

Is me’s AC ready for Summer?

Will nobody mention the wrong placement of the checks notes stigmata?

Well, here’s me hoping the victims suing for damages get them paid from the one responsible for making the poor (wo)man work, and not from them directly.

Exactly. You can’t spam upvites, because the problem with spam is that it buries and dilutes actual, useful, quality content. A user “spamming” upvoting or downvoting isn’t really actionable spam - his up/downvote isn’t drowning out the others.

The problem is brigading - when multiple people start mass up/downvoting and water down other votes.

Same goes for spaming votes with multiole accounts.

I did not ban you, call you out publically, or insult you in any way

I decided to ban you

lolwut.

He didn’t call you out publically because ke was afraid of the rightfuk and expected backlash.

Threats done in private have a larger chance of success, and they knew it.

It’s about Snap being an impurgeable rootkit on your machine. It’s the same as Onedrive or Copilot on Windows.

Have you heard of grue?

In any case, the same applies to animals. They may not be linguistucally differentiated in the same way across language boundaries.

Number one is pee, number two is poo, and number three is barf.

What are four and five, then?

Trump is clearly dishonoring prescious Charlie.

Where are his “consequences”?

‘Petrol’ is british for gasoline. No one will be driving around on Vaseline.

They must’ve been… Immaculately concieved.

I think “brick” started because laptop chargers used to have the adapter like an actual brick (most still do).

Since phones can get away with smaller power cables, the brick got stuck onto the regular power socket.

And since they use(d) less juice, the brick isn’t a brick anymore.

AFAIK batteries are power banks, but brick and bank sound alike so I guess it got lost in translation a bit.