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Biden admits to taking drugs before the debate.
  • Yeah, this is pretty painful to watch. Trump is a piece of shit, but he's way more forceful and even somewhat coherent. Meanwhile, Biden's just above a whisper and is somewhere between stuttering and rambling.

  • Anon thinks about Google
  • Bring back Google Wave, goddammit!

  • Do these methods work to view private IG profiles ?
  • Pro-tip: these "services" are all rubbish. If you could circumvent their privacy controls that easily, it would be a pretty significant issue for IG and Meta. The way to view private IG posts is to connect with the account or have the login credentials to the account. Anyone telling you there's a secret back door is shoveling horseshit. (A secret back door that random internet users can access, anyway.)

  • List of Last 12 SCOTUS Cases of the Term to be Decided Tomorrow & Friday
  • Boy, I can't wait to watch so many aspects of our society be actively eroded in such a short period of time 🍿

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    [NSFL] Destruction of a Russian invader by the Strike Drone Company.
  • Well, that was the most graphic thing I've seen in quite a while.

  • [SOLVED][POP ROCK][MEDIUM]
  • Jack Johnson - Sitting, Waiting, Wishing

  • Awesome Android Apps - my curated list of ~250 apps
  • I use Voice by Paul Woitaschek (available on F-Droid). It has a nice, simple interface and a few really useful features. I've gone through dozens of audiobooks in various formats with it and haven't had any problems yet.

  • cheugy af
  • Please, hold on to this reality as long as you can.

  • Congo questions Apple over knowledge of conflict minerals in its supply chain
  • This, to me, is one of the biggest fallacies of tech companies claiming they care about sustainability goals. No matter the application, most of our hardware is made with materials that come from central Africa. Those mines and facilities are largely controlled by China. Whatever you think of China politically, you have to recognize that many of the sustainability disclosures that, say, Apple is making are premised on these mines self-reporting compliance with certain standards. In practice, miners are using outdated, poorly maintained equipment. Commonly, they're using shovels and even their hands.

    You can write all the cutesy reports you want with stock photos of green leaves, hands holding soil, and smiling "farmers." Unless and until you're directly funding better means of extracting raw materials like cobalt from the ground, companies' claims about their commitment to ESG should be completely dismissed as nonsense.

    Some sources:

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-24/cobalt-mining-in-the-congo-green-energy/100802588

    https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893248/red-cobalt-congo-drc-mining-siddharth-kara

    https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/09/drc-cobalt-and-copper-mining-for-batteries-leading-to-human-rights-abuses/

  • If you work hard, you can be like me
  • Yeah, this is going into the rotation

  • Manually opting out of data brokers' databases
  • About ten years ago, I went through this process with as many data brokers and reporting agencies as possible. I printed documents, made accounts, mailed letters, and jumped through every hoop they set up. Some of the companies only recognized my request for a term of five years, while some were permanent.

    I don't get random credit card offers in the mail any more. However, since I started using an email alias service a few years ago, I've found my data making its way back to the data brokers. I'm not in the EU, so I don't think I have much recourse for it. Even so, I think it's worth it to jump through all the hoops. Maybe one day it'll feel more meaningful.

    tl;dr: It was cumbersome to do it, and other than a reduction in snail mail spam, I haven't seen much benefit from it. All the same, I'd do it again.

  • Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name.
  • For a bounty hunter? Definitely. For shift supervisor at the run-down Walgreens on the shitty side of town in Des Moines next to a Matress Firm and the CBD shop? Less so.