It would be par for the course if they just ignored the settings changes when it comes to training their AI on your data, and you’re just turning off your access to the AI features instead.

Thanks for making it easy, friend. It takes a lot of clicking to turn this stuff off lol.

Why the fuck would a McDonald’s app care?

Apparently 96% of elementary school children now have laptops they take home from school? I’m glad I grew up in an era when we all had our own computers not owned by the government. 😂 It seems like absolute hell to be a kid these days. Constantly monitored and tracked by adults who want you to remain pure and innocent forever, not allowed to grow or explore anything on your own. And they wonder why kids aren’t independent and don’t want to learn anything.

This is what they are looking for. They want to squeeze people so that they will snap. They will use any ensuing violence as an excuse to remove more of our freedoms.

I’ve been using Linux exclusively for more than ten years. You’ve made the right choice. As if you needed anyone to tell you 😆

“This will surely fuck me over in some way I can’t predict.”

Therapists notes are stored on computers too, you know…

Not to mention the fact that you could get a mandatory visit to a padded room if you tell them the wrong thing, sometimes at your own expense.

It would be nice to have my own privately hosted therapist trained on all the mental health knowledge known to mankind.

💯 It’s my experience that humans just don’t want to hear it or deal with it. And for people who don’t trust the mental health industry (many for good reason incl. prior abuse), it’s the only option left other than reading self-help books, websites, etc.

Good. Those things are such a waste of resources and leave behind too much trash.

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This shit happens to me all the time. Sometimes in inappropriate situations, and people think I’m laughing my ass off at them.

I agree, you’re right. I’m kind of sick of this firehose of bullshit raining down from on high. Freedom is dying in so many different contexts all at the same time.

Time to switch back to text-only browsers.

I don’t live in Germany though, so I don’t have to worry about this legislation or do anything about it 😂

There are lots of biased meta-analyses that have gained sway in popular news articles recently. There is also a neo-temperance movement that some scientists who participated in these studies are a part of. Science isn’t as unbiased or objective as many people think it is, but people who think they’re smart for “listening to the scientists” are easily deceived, because they don’t bother critically examining claims that are apparently scientific.

It’s a case of mutually assured destruction: to charge someone with impersonation, they would have to admit that they saved data that was supposed to be only for age verification and then deleted.

Agree… I’ve watched some ChatGPT interviews on YouTube, and they’ve all been more polite than any person I’ve interviewed with at any job.

I have known about amateur radio for a long time, but never really looked into it. Thanks for the tip. It actually seems really interesting.