Yep. Your data is stolen and it’s never going to be used in a way that benefits you unless you’re really fucking important.

Her mom was a horrible person.

Yes, and it’s literally based on a true story that has happened a hundred times over and the film portrays this as a horrible thing.

Like the story is repellent and horrible because it is supposed to be. This is like a criticism of Schindler’s List because it portrays a genocide.

It’s funny because there is plenty of horrifying and deliberately salacious shit that they did with Shields that would merit more criticism. How about her fully nude appearance in Playboy at ten?

To be clear, the film treats this as the atrocity that it is and is based on a true story.

You probably wouldn’t describe this relationship as “falling in love” if you saw it as an adult. Nothing about this relationship is portrayed as healthy.

They are desperate to make it look like the google cameras aren’t recording and saving data 24/7 regardless of whether you have an account or not.

Sure, except that Discord was accessible when these were set up. There is nothing stopping Reddit from doing the exact same thing next year.

Deliberate in the sense that someone built a hotel on land that was cheap for reason?

Do you think that the city should engage a billion dollar civil engineering project to build a pedestrian bridge over a navigable canal so that it can serve whoever was dumb enough to build a hotel here?

To be clear, there are like a hundred hotels that you CAN walk to this stadium from, just not this one.

The canal was there before the hotel, so that’s probably a question for whoever built a hotel in a place that doesn’t make any sense.

Stop a calling this “age.verification” and start calling it what it is, “identity harvesting”.

Yep. It’s why trumpers are such a lucrative scam target. It’s a self selected group of easily deceived victims.

Reddits stock performance since that decision isn’t likely anything that anyone would want to emulate.

This stupid spectacle is deliberate because the US is so fucking important, and stupid.

Or at least a product worth paying for.

Old carbon X1 still going strong. Bought it refurbished six years ago for a couple hundred bucks, still going strong.

That was the one that promised AGI without any explanation of what or how or anything except a demand for people to give them money and their personal information.

Why doesn’t twitter have to do this?

It tells me that they have run out of things to spend their money on to make the products better and that they just need people to start paying them for what they currently have. It signals the end of active development and that we cannot expect any significant improvements from this point forward.

Whatever LLMs have to offer, we are seeing it now.

None of the companies pulling this shit are offering a good enough product to be worth it.

Same with those automated “Amazon go” stores that turned out to just be run by Indians in a data center.

Its been a long time since you could build relationships with other users in places like Reddit. The usernames don’t matter anymore so you may as well just use randoms. Your just going to get banned and make a new one anyways.