Isn’t the enforcer…Pam Bondi?

What’s pernicious about this is the assumption that money is more important than people’s lives. Hey, if the economy’s doing great, who cares about some child molesters???

Opus @ 160 kbps is like MP3 at 320 kbps IIRC.

Lossy at what bitrate?

The stuff on YouTube is already lossy and it becomes more lossy when you transcode it.

Stoat seems pretty good, but it’s still a bit buggy. It kept disconnecting and reconnecting, but I logged out and then back in again and that fixed it.

When I think of sideloading, it’s installing software without using an app store, because that’s the name of the command in adb. You plug your phone into your computer, open a terminal, and do adb sideload path/to/my/app.

The release of the Epstein files wasn’t about Trump. It was about getting closure for the victims.

There’s freeCodeCamp which is (wait for it)…free.

Do you honestly think that they don’t boost right-wing stuff? They can and they do. I’ll give you an example. After Trump got elected and Zuckerberg was genuflecting at him, I suddenly started seeing Trump shit in my Facebook feed. This is even with an adblocker and FBP, which normally lets me block sponsored shit. Another example: At X, Musk has ideas like “white genocide” baked into the platform’s AI chatbot. You can’t reform a system like that. You have to abandon it.

The left cannot win anything going forward unless they beat the fuck out of the reich on these platforms. There is no protest that can succeed if we don’t have a good presence on the platforms that people get their opinions from.

Reality is we all should be there now, building groups and putting their ideas against the ropes.

Right. The left is only going to win by…arguing with CHUDs on X? What an obvious waste of time. Yes, organize, but you don’t need to organize at the Nazi bar. In fact, organizing at the Nazi bar is pretty clearly a bad idea. They control the platform. They have your personal and private data. What do you think that they’re going to do if you start winning? Come on.

Also, if “we should all be there now”, why are you here? Why aren’t you arguing with Nazis on X? Sounds like you’ve got a lot of work to do!

The right owns those platforms and most of the leftists are still there regardless.

What do you mean?

An impressive grift

Well, that’s how journalism has always functioned. People call it “clickbait” as if it’s something new, but headlines have always been designed to grab your attention and get you to read.

I think the idea is anonymous querying.

If you want kids at that age, the solution is simple: adopt. Adopting is just a good idea in general, though. There are already too many people. There’s no good reason to make more.

I think our idea of “adult” is wrong. The age that your brain finishes maturing is 25, not 18.

Most Democrats disapprove of what’s happening in Gaza, but I haven’t met a single one who’s left the party over it. This isn’t unique to Republicans.

Yes, that’s worth pointing out. Human trafficking is illegal no matter what age the victim is. What Epstein did would’ve still been wrong (and criminal) even if none of the women had been minors.

Yeah, Stallman needs to educate himself on human brain development. The decision-making centers of the brain don’t stop developing at 17 or 18 but 25. So, a lot of people are wrong on this, unfortunately.