Because if a website doesn’t work in your browser, but it works in everyone else’s, no one will say “oh that website’s badly written”, instead they say “what a shitty browser”.

So you have a huge web standard you have to respect, and then all the websites with non standard code you have to make work anyway.

Accelerated Firefox timeline.

That used to have a picture of an actual Phoenix and then a red panda before it got streamlined.

If ladybird keep going at this rate, everyone will be trying to cancel them by the middle of next week

It was a horrific story. Fortunately, it’s not actually true.

Researchers have since uncovered major inaccuracies in the Times article, and police interviews revealed that some witnesses had attempted to contact authorities. In 1964, reporters at a competing news organization discovered that the Times article was inconsistent with the facts, but they were unwilling at the time to challenge Times editor Abe Rosenthal. In 2007, an article in the American Psychologist found “no evidence for the presence of 38 witnesses, or that witnesses observed the murder, or that witnesses remained inactive”.[7] In 2016, the Times called its own reporting “flawed”, stating that the original story “grossly exaggerated the number of witnesses and what they had perceived”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese

It’s really progressive of them to show a Jesus with Down syndrome.

It’s been banned in Europe for 30 years. Can’t let cancer get in the way of profits.

This was real until very recently.

Compensation for the wrongly convicted could be reduced by the savings on room and board you get for being locked up. Given how much money people spend on rent in the UK, this could massively reduce the compensation received.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66417103

The other great ambiguity is hug/jazz hands. 🤗

I’m sorry your mom just died. *jazz hands*

1. Fuck those things.
2. The main problem with them is not just the software, which is awful, but that it means you’re working at Amazon.

Privacy badger does this.

Every embedded link to Twitter requires you to click to enable them.

It’s not really legal in the UK. It’s unenforceable on claims under 5k and for claims over 5k the courts will make a case by case decision if arbitration is appropriate.

https://www.herbertsmithfreehills.com/insights/reports/inside-arbitration/click-to-agree-technology-and-consumer-arbitration

However, lots of companies still add these bullshit clauses as a way to bully people out of seeing a lawyer.

Both. It’s satire.

The “benefit” of world hunger is that it keeps people locked in their place and entrenches the status quo. This is actually true, and the author believes it, but he doesn’t like it.

Many people benefit from world hunger though, and every time you hear that poverty is a hard problem to solve you should ask yourself, how much of that is actual problems and how much is the status quo resisting change?

Slack supports self-hosting. https://api.slack.com/distribution/hosting

If you hate billionaires but like steak, have you tried eating the rich?

“Get out to vote” is a direct instruction. It means you personally should go and vote.

“Get out the vote” means you should get everyone else out to vote. “Vote” is being used as a mass noun that you want to make as large as possible -by getting it out and making sure people turn up.

I’m still hoping this happens and leads to a WWE style outcome.

Elon has a heart attack on the ring and falls on top of Zuck pinning and smothering him. Zuck is forced to tap and Elon is stretchered out the ring

You might want to look at Wittgenstein.

In his early work he went hard on this approach, and insisted that “hey philosophy is dumb”, just agree on the definitions and then chase through the implications.

In his later work he realised that this is impossible. Words have contextual meaning that is revealed by their usage and you can’t nail down full and complete definitions in advance.

What you’re talking about absolutely can and will never work. We have tried it and seen it fail.

To be clear they’re both shit from a privacy perspective.

Telegram has effectively no security by default. WhatsApp has better security on paper with meaningful end to end encryption. But Facebook still get your meta data and they scan images in the chat to check for illegal data.

That said I basically agree with you for insecure conversations. Telegram might have access to more of my data in a chat but they don’t connect it up with all of the data Facebook has tracking me across the internet.

The way these big firms work is they make a bunch of almost contradictory arguments and you have to show they’re all false in order to win the law suit.

So it’ll look like:

1. I didn’t do it.
2. Even if I did do it you can’t prove it was me.
3. Even if you can prove it was me I wouldn’t be liable.
4. Even if I was liable this has to be settled by arbitration.

So you have to get through arguments 4 and 3 first, to show that it’s worth the court trying to find out what happened. Then they’ll fight you tooth and nail on points 1 and 2 later.

And that common enemy is normally another European country.

It does. The UK sucks too because it doesn’t have proportional representation. But that’s a whole separate problem.

What basically makes it suck a little less than the US is each seat only receives tens of thousands of votes, so it’s possible for local interests to do well in particular seats and get a little bit more diversity.