I would want the superpower of linguistics: the ability to fluently read, speak, and understand any language ever spoken or will be spoken.

“I made a mistake, but you guys are trying to put me away for 10 to 20 years—on a mistake,”

A mistake?

A mistake is when you hit reply all to an email to talk shit about your boss. A mistake is when you push a door clearly marked pull. My son not wearing the wrist strap on his VR controller and breaking the TV was a mistake.

A girl dying because you couldn’t be bothered to put your goddamned phone down and do your fucking job is not a mistake.

Mistakes don’t result in the death or serious harm of another person.

You can turn it off when in Mlem. It’s worth nothing Mlem is iOS only.

Where are all those “free speech” and “censorship bad” people to complain about this travesty of American freedoms?

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Ahem

Thank you. That was easy to understand.

it’s hubris to equate America with democracy

I would wager the OP meant American democracy. Not global democracy. But you’re right that we Americans should speak as if there are other people out there other than us.

Perhaps we’ll be the cautionary tale for the next generation.

I’m at this point in my life where I feel like it doesn’t really matter what happens to me personally. But, I do have two children, and I am sad for them at the thought of what kind of world they’ll be inheriting. They genuinely deserve better than what they seem to be getting.

Can someone smarter than me (I know, it’s a low bar) explain how DEI is unconstitutional? Especially when it comes to private enterprises like Apple and Costco?

Edit: okay, I found a decent article that lays it out. While I agree with the basic premise, I know its effect won’t be more equality.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say you’re not understanding: it’s not only the insurance company’s app doing the tracking; it’s potentially any app that asks for location data.

Sometimes apps ask permission to use your location data and you find yourself wondering, why does this app need to know where my phone is?

This is one possible reason.

Whenever you are asked to share your location data with an app and there’s no clear reason why you might need to, deny the app that permission.

I’ll concede that maybe it’s me that is not understanding. 😊

It’s my understanding that the “secret software” is not the app itself, but code embedded into the app, that track your location and send it back to Arity. And it’s not one particular app, but many apps that were paid to add the code.

Pretty sure there is a Linux community for just about any question you can think of already on Lemmy.

You saw how that house was decorated. It was asking for it.

Happy cake day!

Women in America (other countries too I’m sure) have been (and still are to some extent) treated like objects or property of a man. It’s barely been over 100 years (1910) since they finally earned their right to vote. It wasn’t until the 60s that no-fault divorce was allowed, as well as women being able to have their own bank accounts.

Even the Charleston Heston movie Soylent Green perpetuated the property stereotypes by calling all women in the movie “furniture”.

We’re still fighting some of these same battles today (no-fault divorce seems to be on the chopping block, and abortion is banned again).

So we “1st-world” Americans as a country still have a long way to go to bringing women (and other non-white male groups) to genuine equality.

You’re right on each count, and unfortunately that is what will keep us in this endless cycle.

Genuinely lasting change is hard because it means making hard sacrifices. We as a country have become very complacent and afraid of sacrifice. We’ve been whipped so badly over the decades/centuries, that either we drank the kool-aid, or are too scared of our world ending (hint: it won’t).

It’s not just social media. It’s main stream media, which is mostly (if not completely) owned by billionaires who manipulate what we see.

The thing is, if everyone (or at least a large enough majority of everyone) left corporate social media, they’d likely end up bringing the shills, astroturfers, and other bad actors with them.

You could also say that we ditch MSM, but there are so many “independent” “news” sites that peddle worse garbage than MSM.

The thing is that these bad actors don’t play by any rules or sense of decorum. Most people who spread misinformation are not “evil” people (there are those that I’d say are genuinely evil, but most people ignorantly parrot the talking heads of their choice because they don’t know any better).

The fediverse is not the bastion of truth everyone wants it to be. It has its fair share of problems too. The difference is that the fediverse kitchen is much bigger, and there are many more cooks who have the opportunity to become men-in-the-middle of the information we see.

Oh if only we could successfully organize an entire nation not going to work for one day, on the same day… that would be epic.

Mm hmm. But we can replace droves of workers with robots, AI, and H1B visas?

It’s not the “industry” in danger, it’s the executives. “God” forbid they have to learn a new trade. They might actually have to make an effort.

Or fortshit, for those who don’t eat enough fiber.