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I thought this sounded familiar.

Twitter collected user phone numbers and email addresses for the stated reason of account verification/security. It then used that data for advertising.

It’s currently banned from profiting from deceptively collected data, is required to allow users to utilize MFA not tied to their phone number, must assess the privacy and security risks of new products, must disclose data breaches to the FCC, and limit employee access to user private information.

Not that a Republican FCC would enforce the rules, but this would make it official that Twitter can do all those things. Expect Musk to be sliming into the DM’s of everyone.

I guess the ‘reasonable’ part of reasonable accommodation is highly subjective.

The people in my neck of the woods will range from 65 to 85 sometimes! It’s why I’ve adopted a more passive approach - because people are randomly hyper aggressive.

I must have.

My wife is an anxious passenger. I usually set the adaptive cruise control to whatever matches prevailing traffic, and stay in the outermost lane unless I have to pass someone. Most of my driving is honestly trying to make sure if someone does something stupid, I’m reacting to it in a calm way.

A lot of people have big feels about controlling the road.
The adaptive cruise control is interesting - if I’m a few hundred feet behind someone long enough for it to “lock in”, I know their speed because my car is pacing them.

It’s fascinating to see people suddenly accelerate after miles of the same speed on a relatively empty road because I moved into the passing lane, or (conversely) slow down because they’re alongside a slow vehicle and not in danger of being under-passed by another driver. The ego and herd mentality is something to behold.

No response of substance.

Oh, sorry. Comment snuck up on you too fast? Put you ill at ease while you thought you were the only person on the internet?
What are you gonna do, claim personal offense and use that as justification to return the offense ten-fold?

There is another option. It’s minding your business.
We can’t know the justifications or dispositions of others, but we can choose not to pick fights with strangers. In fact: choosing to avoid confrontation could save a life! Someone else’s, or even your own - you don’t know who you’re messing with on the road. 🌈💫

What I’m hearing is you require other drivers to drive deferentially in such a way that caters to your ego in order for you to drive safely and avoid conflicts, otherwise you drive like a sociopath for sport?

I just bought a Mac mini for $50 from a local university’s surplus store. I plan to use it as spare hdd space for another device (it came with a 1tb drive), but even being older, it’s still very capable.
Perhaps a similar device could work for you?

Responding with an implied insult is transparent and seems small. It was already fairly dumbed down.

Your defensiveness is getting in the way of understanding my statement. The issue was a lack of faith in your audience.
This isn’t Reddit, and you don’t have to act like that here.

I’ll do you one better. (Well, worse…)

He had $296k CAD in his Shopify/PayPal accounts and sent out these pills to 1,200 people. That’s about $250 CAD / $180 USD / 155 Euro per transaction - minimum, assuming he had not withdrawn funds from those accounts.

Anyone with a welding/industrial supply store nearby could beat him on price without having to ingest anything. Painlessly, too.

I find your comment infuriating and I don’t exactly know why. It feels like you’ve tried to explain things for a less intelligent audience. If someone said that to me, I would struggle to fix my face.

You don’t have to use your first sentence to say that designers design designs, and you don’t have to spend two sentences (“The reasons […] but some are.”) to make a qualifier.

You could just say “Those fucks probably did it on purpose because there’s no law preventing them from it, and they will keep doing it, too”

Errybody knows companies are gonna roll you if they can get away with it.

Truthfully - can’t have shit under capitalism.

Detroit was one of the first great American cities and it became hollowed out under the big and little effects of capitalism (and other kinds of isms that lead to the inequitable distribution of resources).

The consolidation and destruction of local news stations is just another outcome of capitalism.

I appreciate that you stuck with it and worked to figure out what they were talking about - or, well, at least - got them to cross-check such a confidently incorrect statement.

Not the person you’re responding to:

I’ve not heard that before.
Would you elaborate? Is it all genitalia-referencing name calling, or ‘twat’ specifically?

And why?

Well, his metastatic prostate cancer will probably get him before old age.

When you think about yourself or users carrying their devices, what sort of devices do you envision?
My 2021 MBP has those round feet that stick out an bit and is like 5 lbs. It’s an aluminum unibody. Grippy in the hands and rigid. I can gesture with it and have absolutely held it at the extent of my reach with two fingers to physically block an excited (but leg-injured) dog from running. My 2024 Dell Precision is 7 lbs, smooth, slippery plastic, and don’t move it without two hands on it at all times.

But, truthfully - from my IT view - 5/26 blaze it.
Do what you want, when you want, how you want as long as you don’t fuck with the security of the device. If you mess up your work device, your employer should have a plan for that. It sucks, but that’s the cost of doing business and a reasonable employer should know that. Obviously, don’t be careless, but things happen and we can’t nanny everyone. We’re adults, and if people mess up their gear, then respond appropriately. As a matter of IT and organizational planning, clear, effective, but reasonable policies and contingencies should be in place.
As far as personal devices go, meh. All the devices back up regularly and there’s usually a budget or warranty program in place for repair/replacement.

I sort of feel bad for doing that, and I am probably tempting fate, but it feels so natural to just hold it like a frisbee.

Would that be druncle, or drunkle?

The ol’ parka boogie.

If it is impossible to quickly find useful information online, we spend more time looking for information.

Many Fediverse users will have adblockers up, but the rest of the population? More time scrolling past advertisements put out by the web’s largest advertising firm and search engine.