The way we socialise has changed to the point where it’s normal to talk to people over text chat. This leaves a footprint that talking face to face with someone does not.

In addition to other privacy concerns, I don’t want things I say that I would’ve gotten away with had I spoken it to my friends in real life, to come back and haunt me, either by a platform having a massive data breach, or it being used as evidence in a legal case against me.

On that last point, I’m not using chat services to organise crime, but taken out of context, any message I send can paint a picture that I’m an awful person and change some jury’s opinion of me. This isn’t something I want to think about before sharing a dank meme to a friend on discord.

Royalties every time you use a line from a Disney musical in spoken conversation

And also not born in the United States

What goes on in an agitation washing machine that affects how shoes clean?

Looking at you, Adobe

Or leave it in the office, always on charge, and with no lock screen so anyone can take the phone and accept a request

8.1 as well

So what you’re saying is we should short the stock to make it big

Could even open a lawsuit and force reddit to investigate how much of their traffic is bots, immediately after the IPO

Raising the gas prices 10x overnight won’t create those alternatives overnight, nor will it put petrol companies out of business because they pass the cost on to consumers who are mostly forced to buy gas at whatever the current price is with no other viable transportation method.

Infrastructure takes time. Sadly the US govt isn’t even at the starting line for any meaningful public transit system in most cities.

If gas prices went up 10x overnight, some higher earners could switch to working from home (a positive result), but other industries such as retail don’t really get that luxury… Contributing to more wealth inequality

It’s not like we’ll not see it coming Once threads.net starts federating with the big instances, it’s all over

The information that can be gathered and sold is pretty intense, even when your account is on another instance

• All your posts and comments (this is public information, no cause for alarm)
• Everything you upvote/downvote
• Every time you load an image from another instance (link tracking, can probably be correlated with your IP address you signed into facebook with)
• With enough posts in your feed tracking you, a general picture of your interests and time of day you interact with lemmy will form, which can be sold

Do those not end up as heat later down the line as well?

I think you’re confusing “encrypted in transit” versus “end to end encryption”

Your email between protonmail and gmail would be encrypted between the servers, but both protonmail and gmail could read your email. OpenPGP makes it so incoming emails are encrypted with your public key, so there’s an extra stage of encryption that only your email client can decipher. OpenPGP therefore has the capacity for end to end encryption

I would invest after the UFOs

With enough of them, property values will go down as people move away

Once it’s identified as a hoax, the value will correct itself over time

Is working 2 full time jobs just to be able to afford rent and utilities considered slavery?

Your smartphone probably has a comparable amount of processing power to some of the earlier mining farms. May as well just mine the bitcoin

That means you would doom yourself to die alone…

Or you have to spend your whole life building a boat, collecting food and being able to navigate, just to rejoin civilisation

https://saveymeal-bot.co.nz/recipe/TlQ1dOL4WSu5up6jeRHiDpbb Weed brownies anyone?

Depends what areas of education you mean. I think the most important areas people need to know more about in order to better the world as a whole are literacy, numeracy and world issues (war, current politics, climate change, etc).

Spending $100B to make university free would just accelerate a new problem that the world is facing: overeducation. Now it’s harder to get a job without a college degree as a minimum, especially above minimum wage, even though the skills gained in the degree are not what is actually in demand or being used in whatever job someone ends up with.

Granted that’s mainly a problem in the USA at the moment, and with $100B you could also fund a lot of R&D so people studying STEM end up in STEM jobs bettering the world.

By the sounds of it, the staff at reddit also hate u/spez, so maybe they’ll join in