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they shove all their “special” cookies up your computer’s ass and it gets super stoned and forgets it’s not supposed to tell you about how they’ve already taken over the world.

legally as mentioned elsewhere, it’s supposed to treat it as a rejection, except for “necessary” cookies. but, eh… I’m not sure I would trust that. if there’s a website you’re concerned pushing cookies, use firefox’s private window mode. (I wouldn’t trust chrome to not just pretend like incognito actually did something. while it really does nothing.) all cookies are sandboxed, and deleted after you close the browser.

This is exactly what people need. An official cryptid.

Close enough, I imagine. See, for example, German elections where AFD took second, in a record-setting upset in Germany’s elections this week. (they came second only to the conservative party; the good news is that they’re unlikely to be part of a coalition because else in Germany hates nazis.)

He does beer.

For science. Yes.

Please report back.

Technically, satan is a prosecutor, god is the judge and Jesus the defense attorney.

But, eh, it’s all just cosplay and your fucked.

Sex is basically inevitable.

So.

A given gpu is purchased by whomever and slapped onto the card. 5070ti is the gpu, but there’s other things like graphics memory, cooling, power management stuffs. The excessive rbg LEDs…. Etc.

Those things are all different.

It’s…. Not illegal.

You fuck up your boarloader you brick your phone. That’s not that dangerous, plenty of ways to do it safely.

When I talk about “risky” I mean that your bootloader is now cracked and any one wanting to suck off your data has had 90% of the work done for them.

You can install custom roms to your phone.

Most device manufacturers put up roadblocks, and carriers will try to talk you out of it, but you can.

The first step is cracking the bootloader (which is a mobile version of the bios.)

This step is a usually one-way step, and leaves your device vulnerable. The exception are google pixles, which are designed to allow you to re-lock it. Which is why graphene is only available for pixels.

I agree that graphene is the hands down best. But for people who have a device and want to switch, and that device is not a google pixel, well that severely limits your options.

That superiority enables leaders to be assholes. It was an intentional effect of the propaganda, and is a standard part of the Asshole-Authoritatian™️ playbook!

But, eh, America is truly exceptional- in how fucked up it is.

An open source phone from top to bottom would be my dream, but Android is about as far removed from that as an iphone. Google took Linux and made it into a Frankenstein nightmare that is wholly dependent on them.

have you considered flashing custom roms on it? e/OS, LineageOS and GrapheneOS (restricted to google pixel for hardware+privacy/security reasons) are all opensource.

unless you’re going to crack your android and install a custom rom (which, with limited exceptions, is extremely risky to do,) your choice is to either use an apple product, or a google-based OS.

Apple has a slick design, and while android (and many of he devices it runs on) aren’t awful, it’s hard to change. and virtually every mainstream mobile device manufacturer is using some some form of android os with a custom UI, including Huawei (which no officially a fork, because of sanctions.)

everything that’s not android or apple is pretty much going to have to be installed custom. (there’s a few linux-based things that aren’t android, mobian, for example is a mobile-version of debian.)

I’ll leave it to the other to rant about why apple might be better than android for privacy and useability, given the caveat of not hacking a custom rom.

Somebody else dropped that elsewhere and the trailer for it, made me think of like a very dark version of the Dead Poets Society.

A, uh. Very dark version. Gonna have to watch it soon.

I’m not saying it’s not a problem. I’m saying that stupid people exist everywhere, and yes, you’re right about education being intentionally dismantled to enable all the propaganda to take hold.

But that can happen literally everywhere. and like falling prey to scam artists (which is really what this is,) if you believe yourself immune, you’re the easiest mark.

America isn’t the only place with stupid people.

And, Americans are some of the most heavily propagandized people in the world. it’s subtle, but it doesn’t have to be subtle for it to be effective. It just has to be pervasive.

Is there a problem with poor education? absolutely. Are stupid people voting for trump? absolutely.

This isn’t saying Americans aren’t stupid. we are.
This is a warning.

it can happen anywhere. And it will happen everywhere people believe it can’t happen.

edit: to add, it’s really only a relatively large handful of americans that are shocked by this. Most of the people being surprised wanted to hurt people- and are really just being surprised he’s also hurting them. they thought they were “special” and that “he loved them” or something. stupidity and bigotry go hand in hand. Others knew it would maybe make things worse, but it was some how “worth it”. Others are in a christian fundamentalist cult and convinced to vote that way because some asshole preacher told them they’d go to hell if they didn’t. Others- the rich fucks- all want this to happen.

wet dreams typically just happen.

but, eh, you might also be rubbing it out if you’re not quite fully asleep. a lot of weird stuff can happen between waking and sleep.

we’re in the end stages of a campaign by assholes to overthrow our deomocracy.

It’s been getting waged for decades. they’ve been doing this shit for years, behind closed doors and they now feel comfortable with being nazis in public.

I believe the pejorative is “creep” or “pervert” with the beginning called catfishing.

I’d suggest you let the cops know. He’s being that creepy.