My life has been a lie

WHERE HE AT?
WHERE HE AT?
WHERE HE AT?
WHERE HE AT?
NOW THERE HE GOES
THERE HE GOES
THERE HE GOES
THERE HE GOES

Oh look… a conservative that refuses to see white supremacy when it’s literally on a screen a few inches from their face.

FTFY. Yawn.

Yeah, the places that do it every night like Disneyland should get in some real trouble for it.

This is the answer - Only salaried jobs are 9-5, otherwise you get an unpaid lunch which adds 30m-1h to the time range. These days, salaried jobs also try to exploit making you work outside of these time ranges…regularly.

The alternatives are:

• Windows based solution: will be super bloated, locked down preventing customizability, and will try to obtain as much data on you as possible to sell to advertisers, I’m sure among other reasons others here will gladly point out.
• MacOS based solution: Even more locked down than a Windows based solution, hardware may even be more proprietary so good luck swapping out components yourself to fix it, and will try to obtain as much data on you as possible to sell to advertisers.
• iOS: same reasons as MacOS, with the exception of it not being as locked down.
• Android based solution: is controlled by Google and therefore will try to obtain as much data on you as possible to sell to advertisers.

Alternatives to Linux like other Unix based systems, FreeBSD, etc. I don’t know enough about, so whether or not it would be better on this kind of a product I don’t know.

Give me a Linux solution not backed by billion dollar corporations looking to consume as much data on you as possible, and I’ll listen lol

For me, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

Every subsequent watch, I add more to the commentary of “Is he crazy?” and “Is Nurse Ratched evil or just doing her job?”

I like how this movie’s fanbase is split on a group of people recommending the theatrical cut and another group recommending the Director’s Cut. I haven’t found another movie that has something similar.

Not seeing my reply show up, so doing it again in case the previous one got lost in the abyss: Subscribed to all 3 just now and I’m looking forward to enjoying some new communities! Thank you!

Subscribed to all three of those and I’m looking forward to finding some new fun communities to be a part of, thank you!

I feel ya. I tire of the politics here, and it can get extremely left leaning, like pro-communism/pro-socialism/pro-fascism and very anti-American to the point where it’s a little sus. I get it, there’s always been anti-America sentiment surrounding conversations and in media all my life, but it’s a bit extreme here.

I go onto social media to turn my brain off, not do elaborate research on the past 500 years of colonialism so that I can make sure I’m accurately arguing my point cohesively on this one comment. At the very least, I’ll engage with conversations about tech when I’m not turning my brain off, but I hate politics/debate. I want a DDR/Stepmania/Etterna community where we can discuss new themes released, new songs on various cabinets, etc.

This thread has plenty of anti-religious stances and oversimplified explanations that just mock those that are religious. Despite how exhausting it will be to think about the replies, I feel that some balance is needed for the sake of good content and discussion. I’m terrible at this shit, so take it with a grain of salt. Obligatory “I’m not religious” - I’m not defending those that have twisted religion to be used for personal gain, perversion, or for enacting upon hatred, but to say there’s zero benefit to religion and that it shouldn’t exist is naive; it is, however, in need of improvement.

Religion provides community, philosophy, and despite what everyone in the comments here are saying, education. You can deny a specific diety all you’d like, but it poses potential answers to questions science has yet to figure out. Did a diety create the universe via The Big Bang? When does life begin? What happens after death? What happens before we’re born? Etc.

Church provides support for those struggling. You can argue that praying to a diety may not do anything on its own, but to have a pastor say that someone in the church has been struggling with something and everyone includes that in their prayers - it helps a lot to cope with the passing of someone, addiction, debt, etc. Some churches will do events to help raise money for a cause. Some will pull you aside to help give direction to resolve the struggle in your life. Some host meetings for AA and other similar programs.

Einstein rejected a conflict between science and religion, and held that cosmic religion was necessary for science.

Multiple strong atheists including my college Language Arts teacher throughout my life have said that The Bible is one of the greatest books ever written - not for the diety, but for the teaching of morals, the poetry, the individual pastorals, and the story overall. Is it the only source to learn morality? No. Additionally, any source where you learn morality from will also have immoral characteristics, so don’t let any strawman arguments prevent you from learning from it.

Nothing and no one is perfect, so use your own judgement to discern the morality from the immoral, and question it. For those interested in pro-religioua debate, books on Apologetics can be an interesting read.

No one asked me to name non-US corporations that sell your personal data, but…it’s not hard to find? TikTok, Wyze, and Samsung immediately come to mind. Idk which EU legislation you’re referring to, but if they only refer to US corporations as examples, then they either have other motives for solely focusing on US (besides Zalando), or they are blind to the rest of the customer data market.

US data collection is pretty terrible, but let’s not ignore everyone else that contributes to the problem.

Fuck data brokers.

Yes.

“American corpos”? Are you implying that it’s okay to share your data with non-American corporations, or government entities?

I WANNA ROCK RIGHT NOW

“Someone screwed the pooch” - Someone made a big mistake, same as the “shit the bed” idiom.

Lol np buddy

The white?