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to be fair, that's a pretty valuable lesson to learn out here. it would be neat if we had a system we could rely on.

Feeld = field

"Playing the field" means dating around.

They get money from google (that's why google is the default setting on FF), so they'd probably lose that funding if they tried.

By that logic i can stalk you everywhere you go, and it's perfectly cool, right?

roblox has the most under 18 users of anyone out there.

I had to step away for mental health reasons, I found myself just outraged all the time and helpless to do anything, even curating the feed by unfollowing a bunch of people didn't eliminate the issue, so staying away seems to be the best bet.

The billionaires are famously anti coal, anti fishing, and anti petroleum, in fact they've divested completely from these things, it's the darn 8 billion regular people who control the biggest industries, and its their fault, its ridiculous to even complain that the wealthiest few are dumping huge amounts of resources in to space vacations for other wealthy people.

It was definitely the non wealthy who innovated resource collection to unsustainable self destructive levels, so let's give the billionaires a break, already!

You're right, I forgot about the 3 holes you need to drill. Thanks for the correction.

You can finish an 80% Glock kit with a pair of snips, file, and something sturdy to hammer the 3 pins in. After you have your 80% lower done, the rest of the parts are unregulated, and can be freely purchased either online or locally.

3D print a base plate for which designs are easily found online, file down a piece of thin sheet metal to the correct dimensions, and you have a fully automatic glock.

Everything up until the custom baseplate is legal to do, turning your 80% Glock in to a fully auto firearm is the only step that's against the law. (Assuming you don't have any felonies or domestic violence charges that bar you from owning a firearm in the first place)

An AR-15 80% is a little more involved, but with a jig and a router/drill you can do one in a hour and a half in your garage, the hardest part is cleaning up the absolute metric crap ton of aluminum shavings/chips the process produces.

Problem: Felons are ignoring the law.

Solution: write another law.

Result: politicians pat themselves on the back for doing something, non-felons can no longer build DIY firearms, felons continue to ignore the law.

Sigh.

With the amount of uppers that are in the wild, and the fact that a lower can be made from either an 80% part, or 3D printed from scratch by pretty much anyone with two working hands means trying to stop this is like pissing in to a hurricane.

Google FGC-9. Even the barrel can be made at home, rifling and everything, ivanthetroll has videos/files online documenting the process. If Henry Colt could produce a firearm using 100 year old tools and technologies, it's comical to think you can stop people doing the same using 2021 technology.

Perhaps it's time to consider bringing up the poorest members of society out of the abject poverty, that will do a whole lot more to reduce gun violence than passing even more ineffective gun control laws.

Microsoft continues the trend of "oh, you thought this was your machine? Nah, it's our machine"

For all the claims of worker shortages, it still feels like every online application and personality quiz I fill out goes directly in to the /dev/null

Material composition of whatever sonar absorbing paint they use to emulate it, the shape of the propeller to figure out it's sound signature, specs of the sonar system so opposing subs can evade it better, there's definitely good intel to be had.

Not an expert, but that's what comes to mind.

I think sometimes it might be necessary to create a bit of a buffer between the truama and "dealing with it." When it's still fresh it can be hard to regulate one's emotional state, and it's nigh impossible to "deal" when the thoughts of the situation/event send you in to a really bad emotional state of panic and endless rumination because you either lack the tools for emotional regulation, or utilizing them doesn't even come to mind in the first place. A mind under psychological distress is a messy dark place, and only after the fact do you look back on things and wonder why you spent such a long time suffering instead of working yourself out of it.

Minimum wage where I am is $13.69, and there isn't a property within 50 miles of me for less than $200,000. There's empty plots of land for that much, but nothing with a structure that's livable.

But I take it your retort will be "just move somewhere else."

Just because you managed it where you are, doesn't mean anyone can do it, anywhere.

When your rent is 70% of your income it's a touch hard to save for a down payment/maintain good credit/pay for schooling to upskill. That's the reality some of us live in.

Glad to hear it, but here on the poor end of the spectrum my rent is being raised 17%.

Clearview AI has my grocery store as it's client. (Albertsons/Safeway)

So, I'm sticking with a mask for as long as it's still socially acceptable.

And before anyone suggests they're tracking my phone, well, I leave that either at home or in the car for grocery runs.

It's futile, but it gives me the illusion of having a tiny bit of control in this strange hell we created for ourselves.

Monetizing something that never needed monetizing.

Between this and 1.5 billion fb users data being scrapped and sold...not a good day for the illusion of privacy today.

I'm in a 10 year relationship. Neither of us really wants to "get married," as we both find the institution very strange. How is it the states business to define our relationship.

Happily contributing to this "problem."

We will use the justice system to punish the ... justice system... You know, I'm not going to hold my breath.

Huh, I guess I know why my bees died now. But in my defense, I'm a very private person.

I don't want to be priced out of the water market the same way I got priced out of the housing market.

But then again, sacrifices must be made to the profit gods, it is the way.

Sigh.

I can't use the internet without an ad blocker. Literally an overwhelming experience that makes it impossible to focus.

I'm starting to suspect fb has people here to downvote critique. Or the vast majority have drank the Kool aid.

I really hope it's the former, instead of the latter.

Whatsapp is a non starter for me because the company that owns and operates it is not trust worthy. Very profitable, and probably making some of the people here great returns on their investments...but it's not trust worthy, nor ethical.

After a thorough investigation in to ourselves, we found ourselves to be the bees knees, now return to the feed, and feed on all these positive stories [1]

[1] https://www.thewrap.com/facebook-is-using-news-feed-to-promo...

Who do you owe taxes too out of your paycheck?

This comment took a few calories to write.

You can read it for free, but by your logic, perhaps I should charge you a monthly service fee, or start each comment with a ad spot...

Technically this comment is costing me money to make, internet isn't free, neither is the food I eat to sustain myself.

Logically coexisting none the less.

The internet at the turn of the century was something special.

What we have now, I don't know, feels inauthentic.