Not trying to be argumentative, but can’t Meta and governments already scrape everyone’s RSS feed in the Fediverse? It’s open; that’s the point.

Maybe if Russia wasn’t in Crimea, they wouldn’t have to worry about getting bombed?

Crazy idea

We have an article by Kaspersky Labs about why Kaspersky Labs’ software is just fine and totally not used as a back door by the Russian government.

Was the Kremlin spokesperson not available?

*ghoti

They let you tickle your girlfriend at the office? That’s pretty progressive!

Right. Do they have a manager assigning them work? And then after a couple of weeks of mouse-juggling, no assignments done.

It sounds like poor management, too, aside from the mouse-jiggling.

Or more likely, Jesus was an eminent rabbi of the era, that oral stories expanded for hundreds of years, until he became a literal avatar of a god.

Or maybe he was a fraudster like another magician of the time - Simon Magus, who is mentioned in the Bible. Simon was an escape artist, and had a levitation illusion. That’s not far from water to wine or walking on water.

Show me 12 guys that experience something absolutely world changing, and none of them write anything about it for decades and then tell me they were factually motivated

Literacy and writing were uncommon then, though.

I agree with this and do not dispute it.

However, I think there is value to the human mind in performing ritual, meditation, and positive thinking. We can think ourselves into feeling better. The placebo effect works, even in you know about the placebo effect.

Jesus didn’t know about these things 2000 years ago, but the stories about him make him seem like a worldly rabbi. He might have seen evidence of people getting better from disease through the power of prayer. (Never amputees, though.) The human body can fight disease; it can never regrow a limb.

The human mind also tends to remember positive experiences, and tends to ignore things that don’t seem to work. This is how fake psychics and cold readers work. You send out a bunch of guesses, and get a couple of “hits”, and the client remembers the hits. We all remember the hits. It’s harder to remember the misses. (Side note: I experienced a palm reader at a party and experienced this first-hand, and despite knowing their techniques, I still felt it a little.)

All this makes me believe that our brains are generally susceptible to a construct like religion. And that there could be some value in meditation, ritual, and positive thinking. However religion is frequently a grift and makes people do bad things - it doesn’t have to be, though. Being quietly spiritual is ok, which is what Jesus taught.

Ah, I didn’t understand how the app worked. Thanks!

PeerTube could use some love.

Pixelfed is pretty damn easy.

My car can detect if there’s someone in the passenger seat, and sends an alert if they didn’t fasten their seat belt.

People should tip their servers, what they can afford.

It’s worth it

Yes, and if you ask a lawyer, they’ll say “it depends”.

And the thing it usually depends on, is “how much money you got?” 😎

Maybe?

Again, I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve read a lot of EULAs.

However, to challenge that, your have to sue Microsoft, against their team of super-lawyers, the best that Microsoft could buy. And you’d have to do it in the jurisdiction started in the license agreement, which is undoubtedly friendly to Microsoft. And you’d have to have some sort of standing, meaning you have suffered some actual damage from the thing you arguing against, and that you want remedied. So you sue for damages, but it can only be for the amount that you were actually damaged, which is problematic - especially for free Microsoft software. But for paid software, I’m sure there’s a return/refund clause which would make you whole.

And you are paying your own lawyer to Microsoft, right? How long do you plan to sue Microsoft? I guarantee they have deeper pockets than you, and can outlast you in court. And remember if you lose the lawsuit, you will probably be countersued for the cost of their lawyers.

Basically the EULAs are written by Microsoft’s very expensive lawyers. Other corporations cower in fear of Microsoft’s lawyers; I know the ones in my office did. And the rewards you’d get would be a Pyrrhic victory at best. “Do you feel lucky, punk?”

Sorry, this may be unpopular, but software license click-through agreements are enforceable.

Source: I’m not a lawyer, but worked in a software contracts office with lawyers, so some of it ruined off. Essentially your legal options are, use the software according to the license agreement, or don’t use the software.

A third option would be, I guess, use open source software so you don’t deal with that bullshit.

Edit: Part of it is wrapped up in the Uniform Commercial Code, which is a whole bundle of standard laws which is quite complex. Basically you pays your money, and you get a thing, but there are all sports of knobs and levers to handle every contingency. You can nope out of the transaction, but you don’t get the thing.

What if I were to buy back all my own DVDs and watch them? Would I need to voluntarily show myself ads later?

Smedley Butler was right. It is a racket.

I’m four-twenties-ten-nine percent sure that French counting is not confusing