This will be like all those times tech companies promised us they aren’t harvesting our data only to find out they were harvesting our data. Years from now we will find out the AI was lurking in the background watching us, learning from us the whole time.

I live in New York and new yorkers swear like drunken sailors. F-bombs every other word and the n-word gets slung around in every sentence, especially by black people. It’s baffling to me that this should be a problem in a country that supposedly respects free speech. People act like they have the right to not be offended and they don’t. There is no safe space in the Constitution, and yes our free speech applies online.

I’ve seen some people claim that free speech doesn’t apply on servers like reddit because they are privately owned. So Constitutional rights don’t extend to private property? Does that mean I can own slaves as long as I shackle them inside my house and can never escape? Because the 13th amendment wouldn’t apply inside my house? The bill of rights applies everywhere, including privately owned servers. No one has the right to be protected from offensive speech.

at least it was a temp ban. I don’t think a 3 day ban is too heavy handed.

I got a site-wide permaban almost 2 years ago for a joke in r/losercity that was taken the wrong way and I got dogpiled by virtue-signalling furries. I’ve appealed my ban almost 10 times now and they reject it every time.

I don’t get it. They could have just given me a ban from the r/losercity subreddit instead. They didn’t need to ban me from the entire site. I haven’t caused any problems on other subs. I had over 30,000 karma on my account and it took me years to build it all up. I got along great with people in r/vtubers and r/votv and had a lot of fun there.

It’s so bizarre that one f-up gets a sudden permaban from the entire site. All I can think of is that one of the left-wingers in losercity is in with the admins and they called in a favor. It has to be a nepotism thing.

It’s the same on Lemmy

This is fascists using “think of the children” to violate everyone’s online privacy and spy on everyone worldwide.

They use a combination of things to perma-ban people. They can do an IP ban, meaning any account you log into from your IP will get banned. They will use meta-data to ban people, so if you log into an account at reddit and are also logged into say, a google account that is associated with a banned reddit account, they will ban your reddit account because they can see it’s being used by a banned user by looking at your cookies and browser history. Now I don’t know how much access they have to meta-data or exactly how it works, but you leave fingerprints everywhere you go on the net and a lot of what you do is shared with third parties. So they are able to tell who you are if you’re logged into something else on another tab.

They also use AI to scan messages and detect similarities in how users post. So even if you do everything right and create a new account at reddit from a new IP, and use a clean browser with no cookies or meta-data from other sites, but you still join all the same subs and post the same way you did before, they will still be able to tell it’s you. “Oh it’s that guy who is part of the same 5 subreddits and posts about the same things that we banned ten times before”

It’s a rotten website and they don’t want free speech they want a crowd of lemmings posting echoes in their echo chamber. My advice is to leave it.

I have to wear slacks and a button-up shirt to work.

Nearly every phone made in China comes with backdoors. They’ve also been found to actively send data back to servers in China. I wouldn’t want my devices made in China you have no idea what chips they are attaching to the board.

I don’t mind if the phone is a bit thick. Current phones are too tall to fit in my pocket.

How did Google make the Pixel 8a larger than the Pixel 8? The whole reason of the “a” series is for it to be smaller! Did Google outsource the design of the 8a to Somalia, or is this just how incompetent their engineering team is?

I swear to god most people are NPC’s and they spawn into reality with a phone in their hand. These 6.5" and 7" phones don’t fit in pants pockets. Yet I don’t see any guys out there wearing fanny packs or carrying purses around with them like women. Where do they stick them? Are they all sticking their phones up their butts?

No. They have to not be real. I am surrounded by millions of NPC’s. There can’t be that many people sticking their phones up their butts.

You can downvote me, NPC’s. But I know what you are. You don’t exist in reality when I can’t see you. Like Agent Smith computer programs, you only exist in cyberspace when I’m not immediately nearby.

I’ve spent hours using the phone finder at gsmarena and not being happy with the less than 20 results I get.

Closest is maybe the Samsung S25 but it’s still too big. Also I don’t want to drop $500 on a phone. Anything over $200 is too much.

This is just miserable.

Canada has it pretty bad if they’re worse off than Somalia or North Korea. Canada should really consider joining the USA so we can improve their quality of life.

More like the Pentagon wants to shoot Americans, and Trump is their “yes man”

You won’t convince me Trump is actually in charge. Not unless DOGE investigates the Pentagon, and the reason Musk cut ties is so that he wouldn’t be assassinated for that investigation.

The Pentagon has failed every annual audit since they started auditing it 7 years ago.

The day before 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech about how the Pentagon lost over 2 trillion dollars that it couldn’t account for. 9/11 was the distraction the Pentagon needed to prevent an audit, and they got 20 years if increased military spending thanks to the “war on terror”

The Pentagon will kill anyone who tries to hold it accountable. They will steal any amount of money, including trillions and trillions of dollars. They answer to no one.

Right there. That’s the real enemy to our Republic.

I had a blue diamond frying pan that claimed to be non-stick and much tougher than teflon. It claimed to have a “ceramic” coating, but I looked into it and it was just some kind of resin. Stuff stuck to it and it chipped and peeled just like teflon. It might have been a little tougher, but you sure as hell couldn’t use stainless steel utensils on it like it claimed on the packaging.

The only cookware I’ll use from now on is stainless steel or triply. Easy to clean, can use any utensils on it, and it’s non-stick enough if you grease it. Plus you can cook at any temperature! Which is the whole point of a frying pan!

How did teflon frying pans even come into existence in the first place? Frying is done at high temperature, and teflon peels at high temperature! It defeats the entire purpose! Every teflon pan I’ve ever used has peeled and left awful cancer-causing debris in my food. Every other person I’ve ever seen using a teflon pan has had the same problem. It’s like big cancer has a monopoly on teflon pans and has brainwashed the public into wanting to buy the damn things.

IDK connecting a electronic masturbation device to a chatbot so it can robotically tell you how its raping you and you deserve it because you’re a worthless human is kinda hot.

I am doomed. DOOOMED!!!

I uploaded a new pic without the IP.

My boomer parents think less of Trump after this spat. They agree the 3.8 trillion spending bill is ridiculous, and they also think DOGE was doing good by cleaning out fraud and corruption. We all think that there’s something ill about Trump’s second term. Like he realizes he can’t have a third term, so he doesn’t need to act conservative anymore.