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6h0st_in_the_machin3

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He/Him... just in case.
I'm from Earth, ya know, that thing that keeps getting effed because of greed and unaccountability... I like the middle, not the radical left or right, some things may be tough and make sense, others are up to individuals. Be free, let others be.

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This, I've just installed it this week and I think it's better than Google (though I'm suspicious of the "free" service.

Question to those not in the USA, and who have lived outside the USA.

I’ve been thinking about something and want to check an assumption I have. I only hear directly from other people in the USA, and interract with the global community through memes. How are the gun regulations/laws different from yours in terms of strictness, and do you wish there was more or less where you live?...

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Portuguese here:

  • There was compulsory male military service, that would be the only place where you could "handle" military grade hardware, aka assault rifles.
  • Currently IIRC, guns are accessible if: you're a military or law enforcement agent, a hunter (rifle or shotgun) or go through a process for a fire arm license due to professional or business reasons (e.g. a goldsmith) for self-defense.
    As well hand guns are limited to "non-military" calibers... for instance 9mm is for government agents solely.

Of course there's black market and use by shady actors...

As for people's personal relationship with guns, most people doesn't care to have one as there's not much violent crime to justify said behavior.

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“With CalRx, we are getting at the underlying cost, which is the true sustainable solution to high-cost pharmaceuticals,” Newsom wrote in a message explaining why he vetoed the bill on Saturday. “With co-pay caps however, the long-term costs are still passed down to consumers through higher premiums from health plans.”

Makes sense, when you block a corporation by increasing taxes, they will always pass the "new" cost to the consumers, in this case the "competition" will provide true lower costs...

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I'm sorry, but when a title says "here's what you need to know"... immediately a red flag to not open the site.

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They just buy good ideas to monetize the shit out of them without giving users new features, and when the revneu stream dies, they kill the app and but the "next best thing".

Essentially, Google is killing creativity, expansion, usability and profitability for small companies just for the "ad revenue".

I'm de-googling as fast as I can.

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It's a duality...

  • In Europe, you can get a hefty fine if you are a public figure and slander someone else without evidence, see the two examples below on the same politician, a MEP (former):

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-angola-dossantos-portugal-idINKBN1ZG29K

https://www.portugalresident.com/former-mep-tv-commentator-ana-gomes-condemned-over-crook-tweet/

So it's not like in US where the "first amendment" allows you to derail everyone and everything without consequences...

At the same time, EU wants to fight criminality, e.g. drug cartels, money laundering, terrorism, human trafficking, etc... by removing encryption that makes investigation "more" difficult...

And if you think about it, most people use encryption and other security measures not because they are criminals, but because they are essentially "owned and spied" by big tech...

As some douchbag once said, the government doesn't care which porn sites you visit or with who you go to bed with...

Duet AI for Google Meet can take notes, summarize, and even attend meetings - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

Another new Meet feature lets Duet “attend” a meeting on your behalf. On a meeting invite, you can click an “attend for me” button, and Google can auto-generate some text about what you might want to discuss. Those notes will be viewable to attendees during the meeting so that they can discuss them.

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Every now and then just throw a "miau", in the conversation... 🤪

U.S., Florida Gov. DeSantis says shorter lifespans should protect people from losing Social Security and Medicare protection (web.archive.org)

"I think it started before COVID and I think it’s continued even here afterwards. I think it’s more than, more than just COVID. I mean, I think that there’s deaths of despair. I think you have (drugs),” DeSantis said. Life expectancy in the U.S. has decreased to 76.4 years in 2023 from 77.28 in 2020, according to Centers...

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📢START BY YOURSELF!!!

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And may be related to Twitter, Musk may need to sell a LOT of Tesla stock to cover his failure in the platform, and the stock might come down or be even claimed by Musk's co-investors on Shitter...

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Better question yet "does anybody care"?

6h0st_in_the_machin3,
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Yes, but if you look at the number of voters, the southwest, more left leaning, is heavily more unpopulated than the other regions like Galiza (northwest)

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The most reliable for them, I'm trying to move away from Google as fast as I can:

  • Vivaldi browser,
  • DuckDuckGo / Bing
  • Next will be LineageOS...
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Nice try, ain't going back to Reddit

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYUwBGQS5_E

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Not everyone on this planet grows wanting to be an actress or a football player, some people have dreams that don't follow the norm, it's called "being independent"...

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Hummm... 12 years ago that was my yearly net salary, are you telling me you can launch a business at 18 yo that will return a living profit within one year or less?

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Here's a "radical" idea... hang out IRL...

OceanGate CEO Bragged About Using Expired Carbon Fiber to Build Doomed Sub (futurism.com)

New evidence strongly suggests that OceanGate’s submersible, which imploded and killed all passengers on its way to the Titanic wreck, was unfit for the journey. The CEO, Stockton Rush, bought discounted carbon fiber past its shelf life from Boeing, which experts say is a terrible choice for a deep-sea vessel. This likely...

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Actually, money could have been saved... here's why:

  1. The US Navy's submarine detection network heard a "boom" on the day of the implosion, which they kept close to their chests...
  2. Sounded the alarm, they spent money and resources looking for something they were almost sure was lost...
  3. After the expiration of time when the submarine "could be recoverable" was when they said "well... we did heard something the other day"...

Imagine the other possible scenario where the say on the first day "Hey, the sub imploded, we heard it on our underwater microphones, we won't spend money looking for these people..."
And then a future investigation reveals that they got stuck somewhere or lost power but were "buoyant" for 48 hours or so, and died for lack of oxygen when no one was looking for them.

Can you imagine the lawsuits?

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Pfff... I'm in Poland, of course it's cloudy today!

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Especially if as the news report, he will move to Belarus. Speaking of it, is he moving by himself with his entourage, or also "his" army? Because all the sudden having the Wagner moving men and material inside Belarus is "a ruse" in itself to create another front line for Ukraine... to say the least.

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