Will be good for the quality.
You speak as if there was quality left to lose.
Will be good for the quality.
You speak as if there was quality left to lose.
Decades after the deed is done and left thousands of victims dealing with lifelong psychological consequences, everybody is perfectly aware of the scandals surrounding the Catholic church and - presumably - no priest today is stupid enough to fondle little boys anymore with all that publicity…
Talk about kicking down open doors… Would that he had said that 20, 30, 50 years ago when the sexual abuses were ongoing: then I would have been impressed by his courage. Today, this is just cheap ineffectual PR.
I think it was worse befor
I didn’t say it was a new thing. Every time I read the news or open a hisoty book, I’m hit by a wave of nausea, How can a species this evolved be this terrible?
And the shame is, while I try to be a decent person, I’m still one of them.
I am ashamed to be part of the humane race.
What really boggles the mind is how anybody listens to Trump’s crazy BS and decides to do something about it rather than shake their head in disbelief and reach for another beer.
If those Russian teens wanted to make a ton of money blowing shit up, all they had to do was enlist in the military.
There is a difference though: if Puttin declares Russia at war with NATO countries, it’s only one word away from nuclear war. And if you think crazy Ivan isn’t crazy enough, wait until his conventional weapons supplies and troops are stretch to too thin…
Ecocide implies a criminal, and the ecocidal criminals in this case are rich countries that pretty much wipe their ass with the Rome Statute.
So good luck with that.
No, he’s not qualified either.
So the guy who wasted 44 billion dollars on a stupid website will audit the entire federal government? I can see how he’s totally qualified to call unnecessary spendings when he sees them.
Someone is making money off of the surveillance and that someone knows someone else in the board of education. That’s why it exists. It has nothing to do with sudent safety.
“In the West Bank” is the key to understanding this story.
Had he been shot anywhere else, it would have been a different story.
There is something I don’t understand with people who rant about Reddit: if you hate it so much, why do you stay there?
I had a Reddit account myself. I wasted it and moved on. I certainly don’t torture myself with it anymore: the communities here on Lemmy are smaller but they’re a lot nicer to be a part of, so it’s a no-brainer.
tl;dr: your money does not go to Google and the ppl you get it from would have purchased it anyway. The device just ends up in your hands instead of the land fill or being recycled
It all depends on how you look at it. You choose to see it as your money saving an object from the landfill, and I choose to follow the trail of my money going all the way to Google’s pocket ultimately.
But those two outlooks are not incompatible: they both hold true. You just choose to disregard the latter while I can’t get past it.
Really?
Say I buy a pack of gum at the supermarket. The supermarket got my $2. Then I resell the pack of gum to my neighbor for $1.50. Who do you think has my neighbor’s $1.50 in his pocket? Me or the supermarket?
Hint: it’s not me. I’m still down $0.50 from the moment before I bought the pack of gum. And even if I had sold it to my neighbor full price because it’s new and unopened, it’d like I never bought it in the first place and my neighbor did.
Nobody talked about Calyx
I did, and you replied to me 🙂
I think GrapheneOS should come with a no-compromise-security branch that only supports Google Pixel phones and an “ordinary security” branch that supports a wide variety of less-secure but non-Google hardware for people who can’t stomach the idea of buying a Google phone.
GrapheneOS would reach a much wider audience, and not everybody needs perfect security. I for instance am a low-value target and I have no need for GrapheneOS-level security.
If you buy second-hand, you give money to Google.
Someone bought the phone the first time and gave their money to Google, and you reimbursed part of that money to that buyer. In the end, Google gets your money. Maybe not full brand-new retail price, but what you paid for your second-hand phone goes indirectly into Google’s coffers.
Buying anything Google, second-hand or not, supports Google’s business. Given the choice, I refuse to support Google in any way, shape or form.
Example Fairphone, which has horrible update schedules
Fairphone’s release schedule and Calix’ release schedules are two different things. CalyxOS is updated less often than GrapheneOS for sure, but it’s updated a lot more often than Fairphone OS.
Captchas were never about keeping bots out: they’ve always been an excuse to turn ordinary internet visitors into mechanical turks to tag photos to train AI systems without paying the workforce.
Think about it: how many hours total did you spend in your life tagging photos for Google and Google never paid you for your work?