“Hey, citizens, we’re out of money thanks to our ruinous, idiotic, 4-year-long invasion of Ukraine. Instead of holding our military and executive to account for our stupid, fascistic foreign wars (oops, I mean foreign military exercises!), we’re going to create laws that put extra scrutiny on your transactions. Hope you don’t mind!”
Ok, but it’s providing information to advertisers about your activity, right? When I click on something, Firefox sells that information. Whether you consider it “personal data” is irrelevant; it is data about me: my actions.
You seem to be pretty hell-bent on defending Mozilla here. You work for them or something? It really is very simple. They started out more idealistic, but then they realized that things are expensive and there’s money to be made, so they sold out a little. It happens.
This counts as a “sale” even though no actual identifying information about you was exchanged. They mention this in the paragraphs I attached, when they talk about data sent via OHTTP.
I mean… it should count as a sale, because it’s a sale. They are selling information about browsing habits for money. Regardless of whether they include identifying information, it is still personal data that they are selling. They removed that line from their FAQs because they changed their minds about selling personal data. It has fuck all to do with weird legal definitions. They promised they wouldn’t ever sell personal data, and then they were like “wellll…”
As an example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) defines “sale” as the “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by [a] business to another business or a third party” in exchange for “monetary” or “other valuable consideration.”
Yes. That is selling. If you exchange customer data for money or other valuables, that is the definition of “selling”.
So wait… does he still think Ukraine started the war? I’m so confused. Did Putin turn him down for a loan or something?
As evidenced by the fact that you described your girlfriend as a leftist? Seems like an incredibly small sample size to make that judgment on, but you do you, boo boo.
Way better shape. The police actually arrested the traitors on the day they did the treason. What a novel fucking concept.
It’s like saying that H. H. Holmes has without doubt broken some laws.
It’s the ‘ick’ factor, plain and simple. The “culture war” is all about giving idiots a group of people to hate so you can win their votes by oppressing that group. Most of the world is cis, and most cis people never spend a second of their lives thinking about how their experience isn’t universal. So when they see a trans person just living their lives, they’re more apt to be judgmental than curious: “Obviously, if that person’s lived experience is different from mine, there’s something wrong with them.”
Trans people are easy to scapegoat because they’re a minority and their very existence challenges the narrow worldview that most cis people possess. They’re a godsend for evil people looking to oppress people for power.
Well, at least you picked an appropriate username.
What I really don’t get is the absolute fucking hubris that pricks like you have that you think you know what’s going on in someone’s brain better than they do. Despite the mountains of evidence that gender isn’t a binary (including first-hand accounts of millions of people), y’all are like: “yeah, I don’t see it.”
The unmitigated gall to believe that your narrow-ass view of the world is the correct one really gasts my flabbers.
But to actually answer your question: yes. There are places that will allow you to “criticize transgenderism”. Most of those are instances run by nazis. You are welcome and encouraged to leave this place and seek those others where people who enshrine your worldview hold court. Do, please, try to avoid letting the door hit you on the way out. We’d rather not have to disinfect it.
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The last time I came through American customs, it was when I was returning from a conference in Spain, and a colleague of mine got detained for 3 hours because he “looked suspicious”. Man’s a fucking engineer, with credentials out the wazoo, but apparently he fidgeted in line or something. Sitting there in the little space available just anxiously waiting for them to release him was harrowing, but I can’t even imagine what he went through. Nobody would tell me shit; in fact, the more I asked about him, the more it felt like they were treating me like a suspect. If they’d ended up deciding that he didn’t pass the sniff test, they could have taken him anywhere, and nobody would know a fucking thing about it for God knows how long.
Man, I’m getting sweaty just reliving that. Fuck I hate this country sometimes.
I haven’t done any international travel for the last few years, but I used to do it a decent amount for work, and lemme tell you: the worst part of those trips wasn’t the long / cramped plane flights; it was going through US customs.
I’m a US citizen, but every time I went through those lines, it felt like I was passing through a military checkpoint into occupied territory. Every time I went through that experience, it made me hate what our country has become just that little bit more.
Makes me wonder about the connotations behind Emily Dickinson’s family name…
Yeah, I figured they’d already had contingency plans in place in case the US did the dumbest thing possible in the 2024 elections. I mean, last time this traitor was president, he sent lists of the names and locations of US spies to Russia, and then in a completely unrelated series of accidents that followed, several of them died.
Any intelligence agency worth its salt should know by now that any secrets they share with the US will also be shared with Russia. Or anybody who pays a million dollars to go to a party at Mar a Lago so they can flatter Trump in person.
Every world intelligence agency should consider the US to be completely compromised at this point.
ACAB means ACAB.
I’m a bit puzzled by the logistics behind the “I’ll shoot you, then you shoot me” plan. Gonna chalk it up to raccoon logic.
Well… that is entirely a you problem. You should do a little soul searching to figure out why it is so difficult for you to pay someone dear to someone you call a friend the bare minimum amount of respect.
Would you be upset if your friends constantly misgendered you, then acted like you were the asshole because you took issue with it?
I love the smell of barbecued xenos in the morning. It smells like… glory to the emperor!