Okay, being specifically a labor leader is the exception that proves the rule, because that’s a role in opposition to the establishment, not part of it.

“Redneck” implies working class (because it’s traditionally caused by getting sunburned from working out in a field) in a way that “good ol’ boy” does not.

The idea of a redneck community leader is an oxymoron.

Like I said, fucked up. Especially the “feed you ads” part, but even just the “take you out to the Internet” part is wrongheaded when you’re purposefully searching on the start menu instead of in a web browser.

It’s fucked up that search on the start menu even requires anything ‘server-side’ to begin with.

Shifter and Oh the Urbanity! are on https://video.canadiancivil.com/ . They are both fairly well-known Canadian Youtubers making videos about biking and urbanism.

At least while we’re still able to sideload install normally… 😔

FTFY. Being restricted to a manufacturer’s ‘approved’ list of apps is not normal, and should be called “cuckinstalling” or something similarly pathetic and offensive.

Nah, too small to make a good target.

(Edit: for punching, at least)

No, apparently 1 in 5 boys know someone their age who delusionally thinks they’re in a relationship with an AI Chatbot.

0 in 5 know someone who actually is in such a relationship, because that’s impossible.

I don’t like hearing people say stuff like that either, but then I remember what I’ve said about Russians under Putin, and…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qUKt2BTWRI

What regulatory capture of the FTC does to MFer.

All this shit should be considered false advertising, at the very least.

Some companies self insure.

I would especially expect that of a company like Amazon that’s bigger than the insurers (and re-insurers) themselves.

Why would they not close the ticket as “WONTFIX” or something in that situation?

Presumably, from their perspective, Israel doesn’t count as a nation so it’s true on a technicality.

Sounds very accurate (and a fuckton more rational than anything US “leadership” has said in the last year), except for two parts:

the United States has concentrated the largest number of its forces, bases, and military capabilities around Iran

And

the imposition of the longest and most comprehensive sanctions in modern history

I could be wrong, but I’m not sure the US considers Iran to be as special as they imagine themselves to be. All those military bases are hardly aimed solely at them, and I would’ve thought the sanctions against Cuba were longer and more comprehensive.

Just some minor quibbles about the writer’s hyperbole.

Yeah, sorry, I wasn’t as precise as I could’ve been. I was really just trying to convey the motivations (i.e. that it was due to being mistaken for foreign as opposed to being targeted for using a VPN), not go into the details of exactly which aspect of the VPN (the entrance IP geolocation, the exit IP geolocation, or the company HQ location) would actually trigger the “foreign-ness.”

Due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, both affected regions have experienced physical impacts to infrastructure as a result of drone strikes. In the UAE, two of our facilities were directly struck, while in Bahrain, a drone strike in close proximity to one of our facilities caused physical impacts to our infrastructure. These strikes have caused structural damage, disrupted power delivery to our infrastructure, and in some cases required fire suppression activities that resulted in additional water damage.

Translation: servers got turned into charred scrap.

Those are the ones that would cause them to surveil you.

The issue isn’t necessarily “the government will target you for using a VPN;” the issue is “if your IP makes you look like you’re outside the US because that’s where your traffic exits the VPN, the laws against domestic spying won’t protect you properly because you’ll look like a foreigner.”

Frankly, the headline is heavily spinning it to be anti-VPN fearmongering.

guess I need to look at bit for “how to stuff a huge graphics card into a mini box”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X2Y62JGDCo

(That’s only the latest in a whole series of videos of his on that topic.)

^{chirp chirp}

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination