That’s what they call the Krusty partially gelatinated non-dairy gum-based beverage with chili dog garnish in your town?

Pff. “Glizzard”. Don’t know what you’re getting.

Kinda hope people find out after fucking around so much

I guess I’ll keep trying to get out of the house, despite my anxiety about that now. That way, the folks in my community will be able to say they personally know (of) at least one trans person, which will hopefully inspire them to oppose any anti-trans policies that come up.

I also want to be a role model for all the eggs out there who might otherwise be too scared to come out.

I don’t think so.

But if it’s like any other norm-breaking violation we’ve seen him make, he will do it anyway, there will be legal challenges, they will ultimately be fruitless, he will suffer no consequences, and everyone will go along with it.

Savor these headlines now. We probably won’t see any more like them for a long time.

Some of the companies involved that are mentioned in the article:

• Service providers (Comcast, Charter, Cox)
• Entertainment (Disney, AMC, Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery
• Those connected to advertising (Google, Netflix, Amazon, Meta, Vizio, the NFL)
• Home security (ADT)

As another comment said, I also dropped everything and read the article. So yeah I guess that’d mean Streisand effect is coming into play.

Regarding the topic at hand: I don’t care what these companies say at this point. The fact is that in the past, I have used their services, clicked the “free” button, did some things, and then ended up having to pay them money.

Until the day comes that I get a letter in the mail from the government saying, “Here’s how much you paid in taxes, if you’re cool with that then please disregard”, I will not be satisfied.

And then you go to Settings / Privacy / Data and all you find is a link to the privacy policy and terms of service.

So you search online and find several relevant posts on a support forum, such as:

• I cannot find this setting
• The “on” option is grayed out
• I tried to set this to “on” but I got a cryptic error message saying to contact my system administrator

All of them have been open for at least a year, hundreds of users clicked the “I also have this issue” button, and none of them have any useful replies.

Klan.

I don’t care the intent or the season or the laws or the lulz. You wear a white fucking sheet to a polling place in a southern state, it looks like the fucking Klan. Fuck them.

I really do wonder if the first thought to cross my mind after witnessing the beginning of an irl avengers-level threat will be “wellp at least I don’t have to go into work”.

Sphygmomanometer

I’m just guessing here, but I imagine it’s for “marketing purposes”. People sometimes (perhaps often) move around without changing their phone number, so area code alone wouldn’t be enough to pinpoint where you live.

Knowing where you live probably helps with micro-targeting ads.

The warriors of the resistance to the AI-pocalypse will wear red sneakers and wisecrack like it’s 1994.

& Knuckles

Red Bull commercials confused me so much in my younger years. Obviously it can’t make you fly, so what does it do?

Even into my adult years, I’ve found myself avoiding energy drinks, not just because they usually taste awful, but also because they trigger this subconscious feeling that they’re trying to scam me.

Ah yes, that thing that sites mention on those annoying popups before making us sign away our privacy anyway.

Just logged in, just found it, just opted out. Thanks for the heads-up OP.

But fucking fuck. Can we put a stop to this? Legally? We could call it sometime like… The National Opt-out Policy Elimination (NOPE) Act or something.

That’s an oof and a half right there.

I hate to post because I have loved and trusted Wikipedia for years, but the fact that there are folks out there who equally trust what AI tools generate just baffles me.

I’d say stage 4 is being the keystone attendee: if you don’t go, the whole thing falls apart. Even if you somehow manage to get out of the meeting, it has to get rescheduled because it “needs” your input. The meeting thus becomes inescapable.

Stage 5 is when everyone else realizes you’re in stage 4 and begins to cater to your availability and preferences. Obviously this is mostly theoretical.