But they were restoring all my posts and comments for weeks after I deleted them.

It's not just men. My mother was pushed down the FaceTube YouBook weaponized disinformation rabbit hole.

It's outrage porn... They LOVE being angry at 'the system' or 'corporations' or 'the WHO' etc. etc.

Yes, there's a lot of stupid corrupt shit going on, but posting on social media is the most impotent thing a person could do to make a difference. (Yes, I appreciate the irony.)

I work in IT. Most systems have laughable security. Passwords are often saved in plain text in scripts or config files. I went to a site to help out a very large provincial governmental organization move some data out of one system and into another. They sat me down with a loaner laptop and the guy logged me into his user account on the server. When I asked for escalated privileges, he told me he'd go get someone who knew the service account passwords.

After a few minutes, I started poking around on my own... And had administrative access within an hour. I could read the database (raw data), access documents, start and stop the software, plus, figured out how to get into the upstream system that fed data to this server... I was working on figuring out the software's admin password when the guy came back. I'm sure that given some more time, I could have rooted the box because the OS hadn't been updated in years.

Funny, I don't even live in the USA, and I know about Tulsa, who the people that died were, and whose homes and businesses were burned to the ground... How is it that someone who lives where it happened doesn't know?

That's some serious weapons-grade ignorance there.

"You don't pay me enough to tell me what to do when I'm not at work" seems like the best response.

Dude doesn't sound like the kind of guy who has $200 million. Or could ever earn it in a lifetime.

If it's less painful to pay the tax than to do the right thing, then the tax isn't high enough. Keep doubling it until it works, and in the meantime, use the tax revenue for the city to use as low-income housing.

I'm going to test blocking YouTube for having unskippable ads. :)

One more time for the people at the back: POLLS ARE VOTER MANIPULATION

Polls and their news coverage gives people the impression that the outcome has been decided and demoralize / frustrate voters. It's why Thug Ford won a majority in Ontario with just 17% of eligible voters.

SHOW THE FUCK UP TO VOTE, AND BRING THREE FRIENDS.

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

And now Meta knows when she's having her period, the phone number of her gynecologist, and what period products she buys... thanks to the app spying on her health and fitness, contact, and shopping data.

#WTF

He wasn't afraid of fucking around in downtown Ottawa for 3 weeks... but the finding out... THAT part he's afraid of.

Can we just sentence him to get a university-level education? It will effectively keep him out of society for the rest of his life.

In other news, water is wet. Heat... hot!

Spez thinks that redditors are junkies who are hooked and can't leave. It was easier than I thought it would be to leave. I only log in once a week for 5 minutes to delete any posts or comments they've restored against my will.

As a consultant, my superpower is having read all the READMEs that come out for the software I specialize in, and re-reading them each time a customer calls and complains about a specific bug on an old version of the software.

I'm truly surprised there hasn't been a successful YouTube competitor in the last decade or so.

I suspect the problem is that people wouldn't even pay a penny per video to content creators. From what I've seen of other competing video sites, there's a really serious moderation issue stopping them from wide adoption... So many of the competing sites are full of flat earth / anti-vax / pro-fascism content...

These people are literally a herd of cats in a room with a laser pointer pointed at a disco globe.

My mother is a conspiracy theory sucker. Being isolated during the pandemic with her idiot boyfriend literally spun her around from being a compassionate intelligent woman who ran her own successful business for over a decade to literally being afraid of everything and everyone.

Remember that most regulations are written in blood... People die when companies operate without oversight.

Maybe they shouldn't sell tickets to seats on planes that don't exist or aren't in service.

That aside, many companies are now trying out the latest management craze... 'Run to fail'... That is, running equipment until it fails (and fucks everything up) is cheaper than doing regular maintenance. They don't care about the pressure and stress it puts on employees or customers, they just care that it saves a couple bucks.

Yeah, when the convoy crew ended up in court, they kept talking about their 'amendment rights', and the judges had to ask what they were talking about. These people are so dense that black holes are jealous. It's more proof that they're being purposely misled and manipulated in order to sow anger, disharmony, and fight against ourselves instead of the real sources of our problems.

"It's a dry heat" isn't just a cliche.