Yep. Brackets by me:

[Him and his wife] have been thinking a lot about [his] vote for Trump.

"I knew they were cracking down," he said. "I guess I didn’t know how it was going down."

He imagined the administration would target people who snuck over the border and weren't vetted

But his wife, "they know who she is and where she came from," he said. "They need to get the vetting done and not keep these people locked up. It doesn’t make any sense."

The dumbfuck doesn't show any contrition at all, he just says oops I didn't know. When this topic came up in the interview, he didn't admit any regret or that he put himself (and his wife) in this position - he just says that the government is wrong to do this to him/his wife, and that they should go after other illegals instead. What a piece of shit.

Fuck Reddit

They owned all the branches during trump's first term too. Republican voters won't learn, they're too stupid to understand

NEVER

Lemmy feels like old Reddit, with actual useful information and conversation. I'm definitely enjoying it more so far, but I do miss the sheer volume of Reddit, and also some of the silliness

https://blog.mozilla.org/...

The reason we’ve stepped away from making blanket claims that “We never sell your data” is because, in some places, the LEGAL definition of “sale of data” is broad and evolving. 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.”

If they give anybody any information for any reason, they open themselves to litigation - however frivolous and unwarranted - because the laws are written to be intentionally vague, to capture a wide variety of scenarios, including those that the law does not explicitly state. There are tons of valuable exchanges that could occur other than strictly data for money, and those exchanges are therefore captured within this new legal definition. To protect themselves from frivolous lawsuits and to remain consistent within the new definitions of these laws, Firefox/Mozilla has changed their Terms of Use. Their uses of data are outlined within their Privacy Policy (linked within the above post).

I suppose this information is only valuable if one trusts Mozilla - one of the most stalwart, dedicated, and outspoken advocates for consumer rights in the digital age.

I'm not saying Mozilla is infallible or above reproach - nobody/nothing is or should be considered so - but if I'm gonna trust any group that says "I'm not fucking you over" it's gonna be the group that has a consistent and very clear history of championing the idea of not fucking people over

Other countries should trade for our national parks - like a month's worth of eggs for Yellowstone - and then they can protect them from trump selling parks off to oligarchs and corporations. It would be a win/win situation: Americans (and the entire world) retain access to the parks, and foreign nations can collect the money those parks bring.

If I don't want to have a life, can someone explain this to me? What is hexbear, and what happened?

Create a bunch of fake reddit accounts (or pay for some botting) that brigade the sub with pro-trump/musk rhetoric. If your users have brains, they'll get pissed and start shit talking the two, saying that trump & musk are existential threats to america and the world, and it's basically guaranteed that someone will say something like "can't wait for those dumb tubs of lard to expire". This is apparently now against Reddit ToS and can get a sub shut down (see r/WhitePeopleTwitter) so just let it get temp banned by admins, then do it again and get permabanned, or use the temp ban (or just warnings) as justification to close commenting and/or posting

As a political science pedant, can you explain to me the difference between a democracy and a constitutional republic? I tried to Google "constitutional republic" but I just got a Wikipedia page that said they were the same thing.

Which I guess would fit, since republicans are absolute dumbfucks, but if there's actually some nuance there, I'm curious to know.

Thanks!

Boost did stop working initially when Reddit moved to kill 3rd party apps, but it started working again pretty quickly if you were a mod (of ANY subreddit, even random ones that were created and instantly privated with zero members or content). Same for other 3rd party tools/apps.

Reddit sucks so much dick that any mod worth their salt on any major subreddit used/uses 3rd party apps for modding (because official Reddit was/is inadequate).

The API pricing change would've killed 3rd party mod tools, so a bunch of mods threatened to quit - which would (in theory, but probably actually not) fuck over a bunch of major subreddits right before Reddit's IPO. Reddit capitulated and allowed users (only if they were mods) to make API calls with 3rd party tools/apps. Presumably Reddit did this begrudgingly, as the best option to preserve value before their IPO.

Boost and other 3rd party tools were down for a relatively short amount of time (I think a few days, or maybe a week or two? I don't remember, but it felt quick) before coming back online. I've been using regular unpatched Boost ever since then, but it stopped working about a week ago. I thought it was just me, but apparently it's stopped working for everybody?

That said, I'm not convinced it's Reddit that's behind this, I think it may be Boost's developer, Ruben Mayayo. I get a 403 error now on Boost for Reddit, and the app - for the first time ever - showed me an ad for Boost for Lemmy. This can't be a coincidence, and Ruben must know that Boost for Reddit has stopped working. I'm curious if it's Reddit taking further action against 3rd party clients or if it's Boost's developer finally and decisively killing Boost for Reddit and notifying users of Boost for Lemmy. Maybe Ruben just wanted to finalize his split from Reddit and so he officially killed his app's access to Reddit's API?

Also yes, you could change the universal Boost API key to your own personal API key, and that would allow you to keep using it (or other 3rd party tools/apps).

Zero DMs for me and now I'm sad

What's a tankie, and what's wrong with the .ml instance? I just joined it because I read that it was hosted by the people who created Lemmy, so I figured it'd be the best and/or least likely to go down

On the contrary, I bet they feel eggcellent

What word did you use after "President"? I see it as "removed" and I'm wondering if my Lemmy instance censors it

The legal definition of "sell" has changed in several major markets, and that's (supposedly) why Firefox has recently changed their terms. The word "sell" is now ostensibly broad enough to include "give to anybody for any reason", including if you use Firefox for any reason where you would legitimately want and need Firefox to give ("sell") your data - for example if you use it for: literally any shopping or even just browsing store pages; any interactive (real world) maps where you may want to use your location; any searches where you want local businesses to be listed; any search engine that may want to use your location to aid in results; etc. etc. etc.

Any legitimate exchange of data can now be construed as "selling" because of the new legal definitions, regardless of if anyone is actually selling anything.

It's very possible that nothing has changed - that Firefox hasn't started selling user data, they're just updating their terms (and this app listing) to reflect the changes in the legal definitions of "sell".

How does one come to work at both a cancer research institute and a game development company? That's quite a diverse set of skills

Okay actually using context clues from a comment below, it might be "removed"?

I'm gonna use this comment to test if my instance is censoring words. Great Lemmy gods, please don't ban me for this

removed

Cunt

removed

Fuck

Shit

Where do you appeal? I have no loyalty to reddit, but I do have a lot of posts saved on my account that I'd like to save before the account is abandoned.

And yeah lol same. I've been clicking on people's accounts to see when they joined Lemmy, and it seems like a lot of people have come here within the past two weeks. I guess a lot of people feel the same lol

They're insanely tasty. Cook carefully on a nonstick pan and caramelize with a little bit of sugar and it's unreal. I've put it on French Vanilla ice cream with the chocolate sauce that turns into a shell, and I would literally punch babies if I could eat that every day without getting mega fat and having a heart attack