Ah, lucky. All the banks around me seem to require it now. My kingdom for an independent authenticator they’d accept!

How do you get around 2FA? I was able to stay off of phones for so long, but the standard 2FA implementation has made it impossible.

I thought these were jobs Americans wanted to fill. I’m pretty sure I heard that line from Republicans… I guess I’m a little surprised they aren’t just bringing the ICE detainees directly out to the fields.

I suspect you’re significantly more screwed than just one next president.

Remember when everyone was up in arms against China for their social credit score? I guess it’s fine as long as it’s administered by a billionaire.

This is how they kill open source.

Hm. I think that if you don’t have empathy for more than your own immediate friends and family, you don’t have empathy. You have concern over how other people’s pain directly impacts you. That’s egoism, not empathy.

Plus, Epstein considered all the rest of them targets too, just a different type.

I’m aphantasic. Until people started really talking about how they “see” things in their heads, I assumed it was all just a figure of speech. Flashbacks, thought bubbles, daydreams in media… I assumed that was all just, you know, an easy way to get the information across. Now I know you freaks actually see stuff and the mind’s eye isn’t some convenient turn of phrase. Weirdos!

In a similar vein, I have empathy. It is difficult for me to intuitively understand the perspective of someone who doesn’t have any. As an example, it’s hard for me to understand a person who’s exploiting children a la Epstein. And in truth, I don’t want to understand them, either. Even knowing how many of them are the way they are… if I had a little less introspection, I’d probably just default to “they’re just like us.”

I’m not surprised. People thought he was a good guy because he sued Apple and Google, but he did it for his own profit, not for the principle. And now he wants AI slop games for his own profit, too.

Sorry, I wasn’t really trying to say that no one likes doing it, or that those who want to shouldn’t. There are plenty of home chefs, and those of you who love it should absolutely do it to your heart’s content! For those whom it’s about the money, asking people to bring ingredients might work?

But I guess I was reading entitlement into the original statement, a sense of “my aunt used to do it all by herself and now the rest of us are expected to help ugh.”

Food is expensive, but my first thought is that one aunt cooking for twenty people on their own is a shitty model regardless of cost. You were asking your aunt to run a restaurant for an evening. Your aunt probably got too old to do that much work, and the next generation decided that was a bullshit thing to force on a single person.

I would certainly say that anyone coming over for the explicit purpose of representing the IDF in some way is “IDF soldier” enough to ban. And I would further argue that anyone serving in the most recent conflict may need to be investigated further before being allowed in.

I’m sure they’ll be powered by gen AI chatbots, so just tell them it would be helpful if they’d get you the water.

“Reddit bans sexually suggestive images of children” that was in 2012. They were still cool with doxing on alt-right subs up until 2017. Were there overzealous mods in 2015? I’m sure there were, but as a whole, Reddit as a platform has historically allowed for an awful lot of shit in the name of free speech.

Admin-led bans were for a minority of things. “Jailbait” bans were admin required. Doxing bans were admin required. Now… Pro-Luigi bans are admin required. Bans when posting about protests being admin required is another step that seeks to alienate the userbase, IMO.

Right, but Reddit’s whole schtick was that it was more of a free speech sort of place, so long as you didn’t do anything overtly illegal. That’s the user base it built. When you get rid of your user base, you typically destroy the site.

Just look at LiveJournal. Chased out the users because they wanted to clamp down on the gays in Russia, and I haven’t heard of anyone with a LiveJournal in over a decade.

I think this is the argument people give for abandoning their pet dogs in the countryside. We all know the dogs never stand a better chance. I doubt the whales would either.

“My kid is dead but it’s not as bad as the media is making it out to be.” Wut.

Well, I guess at least that child has been saved from the scourge of autism or something? Those people shouldn’t be parents.

I remember it used to be girls getting this shit. Did we manage to protect them and leave the boys behind? Awful awful awful people out there.

I’m pretty sure Alberta would be its own state. But the rest of Canada is way too liberal for him to give us separate representation.

Are they allowed to talk to him? He’s probably too busy chewing his apples.