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"The future ain’t what it used to be."

-Yogi Berra

  • Immune to Rule

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  • Like with "generations" perhaps cougar is more a behavior and state of mind than a demographic. For example if you are getting blond highlights and brunette streaks on a one sided Karen cut, while sporting a whale tail and listening to Brittany Spears.. so what if you are 29?

  • We're not so different you know

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  • oriented

    I see what you did there.

  • Me a master memer

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  • Fren

  • Reality Check: EU Council Chat Control Vote is Not a Retreat, But a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously

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  • I'm trying to learn more about EU politics, and when something like this won't die after being beat down several times, in the US it's almost always some industry lobbying organization.

    And a problem we have globally, is that there isn't an organized counter movement in the opposite direction (that privacy is a human right, that this isn't a path to security, that states need to be restrained and restricted in their tendencies towards authoritarianism).

    Without that countermovement, it's almost inevitable something like this will pass as the lobbying organization can long outlive the current generation of activists or politicians who see the problems with something like chat control.

  • Reality Check: EU Council Chat Control Vote is Not a Retreat, But a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously

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  • Thank you.

    But what groups are advocating for this? There is clearly a significant campaign behind this. It doesn't seem at all grassroots.

  • Reality Check: EU Council Chat Control Vote is Not a Retreat, But a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously

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  • It feels like this is just going to keep coming back, and that it's being pushed by a centrally organized project. If privacy protections aren't effectively enshrined in law, inevitably this kind of nanny state surveillance will happen.

  • Reality Check: EU Council Chat Control Vote is Not a Retreat, But a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously

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  • Who is promoting this and why is it constantly coming back?

  • What's if instead of a dead internet we end up with a dark forest internet

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  • peaks out from behind tree

  • Of all modern Sci-Fi Dystopia depicted in movies, which do you think our world will most resemble or already does resemble?

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  • The Lathe of Heaven.

    Someones having some really bad dreams and fucking with the timeline.

  • Does anyone else miss traditional forums?

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  • Like, a forum, at least in the default view, is like a waterfall of conversation. This is because every topic is single threaded.

    When you have subconversations and quotes that form, the entire conversation history gets bumped along with the reply. It ends up being like... an avalanche of text.

    Threading, like we have here, means I don't get barraged by a wall of text if we have a long conversation. Its nested and makes coherent sense, and doesn't overwhelm.

    Its a major improvement.

  • Does anyone else miss traditional forums?

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  • Yeah. The way forums threaded made things impossible to follow.

  • What's an album with a completely unique sound

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  • I had a friend who was always on coke and acid and always was asking people to get spongled with them

    Dr. Pnut, wherever you ended up, I hope you're still spongle-ing.

  • to my expierence

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  • Also

    Go on...

  • to my expierence

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  • Bing has its uses

    Porn?

  • Bluetooth headsets were probably a godsend for people who talk to themselves

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  • No that was masking during and since the pandemic.

  • Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist

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  • Let F be a geometric object and let C be the set of counterexamples.

    F is a True Fractal ⟺ F satisfies all properties P₁, P₂, ..., Pₙ

    Where for each counterexample c ∈ C that satisfies P₁...Pₙ: Define Pₙ₊₁ := "is not like c"

    The definition recurses infinitely as new counterexamples emerge.

    Corollary: Coastlines exhibit fractal properties at every scale... except they don't, because [insert new property], except that's also not quite right because [insert newer property], except actually [insert even newer property]...

    □ (no true scotsman continues fractally)

  • Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist

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  • Some infinites are larger than other infinites.

  • What is this thing in Star Wars for?

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  • Oh its something with a use so obvious we need not even write down its name or mention it.

  • Apropos the American Standard

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