I follow their news updates via RSS, so pretty much every day I’ll get an outright casino/gambling ad that looks like an article written to share some topic about the casino industry or whatever. I ignore them after rolling my eyes.

This was the first time I was reading, and re-reading, then laughing, then re-reading again… it truly is a spectacle!

This ad most certainly seems like AI word salad. Their actual news articles appear to be written by someone with a pulse. Maybe. 🤔

Just fired up Prime to see.

The movie is there, but you have to have the “Hollywood Suite” or rent/buy it to watch.

Paid subscriptions need additional paid subscriptions to work. 🫠

This is more than mildly infuriating, tbh.

It should be pretty simple: real news that affect people’s lives should always be free, since that’s a journalist’s duty to society.

Entertainment, sports, and the other stuff can be behind a paywall because people do pay for stuff like that. Plus, sensationalized stories about celebrities to get views would be far less damaging to society than sensationalized (often fake) stories about politicians to get the same views.

every website I’ll ever visit and have visited in the past might be a threat

In that sense, you are right. However, there are ways to cloak your IP address and location.

Privacy is a massive rabbit hole depending on what threat you are trying to protect yourself from. Sometimes, the effort (and the stuff that breaks along the way) isn’t worth it.

If location implies an area extending 300 km in either direction, does it really matter? To most people, not really.

Location could also imply IP address-based location, and not necessarily GPS.

According to the actual Aluminum Association, only 43% of aluminum cans shipped within the United States are recycled.

Not only that, but unless you can guarantee that a significant portion users will recycle those aluminum cans, they are significantly more energy intensive to manufacture compared to single use plastic bottles.

Great list, but what the hell are these doing there?

Cloud Storage

• Dropbox - Syncs files across devices with version history.
• Google Drive - Enables real-time collaboration on Google Docs, Sheets and Slides.
• OneDrive - Integrates with Microsoft Office for document collaboration.

As long as individuals are allowed to hoard hundreds of billions (soon, trillions) of dollars that they couldn’t possibly use in 1000 years, then this will never end.

We need to cap personal wealth, and it needs to be a number so low that any one person can’t take over a country like Nazi Musk is doing at this very moment.

There is absolutely no reason why we have homeless people, people who can’t afford medication, kids who are hungry, and students who have to choose between education and a roof over their head.

These problems exist because there are literal trillionsof dollars being hoarded by a few people, when it should have been distributed to everyone who actually earned it.

Whoa, what the actual fuck. They are 100% doing that by choice.

For example, this comes up on duckduckgo search:

And clicking on that link suddenly gives this, as if it never existed:

To make sure this wasn’t just old search data, I went to the internet archive.

As of Jan 20th (the last archived copy), that About page was still up. So, it got taken down in the last few days.

You can say that’s a coincidence, but good luck trying to explain that among 100 other things that Nazis did these past few days.