adespoton

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago

Yeah; my reaction to the headline was “…and good riddance?”

I never signed up for Facebook in the first place because I knew some of the people involved in the original Facebook. I didn’t want them getting their hands on my personal info because I knew what they’d do with it… and they did.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Their fries are definitely different; probably designed to minimize steps.

It suggests that Trump may have practiced making fries sometime though; just not in a McDonald’s.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Over half will. Of those, some will overlook it focusing instead on the perceived intent (“he’s trying to be like one of us”). The rest will vote for someone else.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

MUCH earlier. That was his role in the 1980s.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

Only by the Conservatives. They’re already reaching out to see what it would take to get the Greens to form government with them.

Hopefully the answer will be “You do know your policies are precisely what we’re campaigning against, right?” BUT one of the Green seats is West Van, so anything is possible.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

I find it interesting that for decades, I heard people saying “gotta vote liberal/conservative to keep the conservatives/liberals from getting in. NDP? They have no experience governing and look at the debt the SoCreds got us into.”

And now that they’ve finally had a chance, they’ve shown us they can do a pretty good job without the corruption of the Liberals or the “burn everything down and revert to the 1950s” of the Conservatives.

What they haven’t figured out yet, because they’re actually about governing the people and not about gaining advantage for a minority group, is how to market themselves and distract people with single issue causes.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Ah; that makes sense.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Tor is indeed about providing cover. US Military and US and German covert operations use it, and hide in the noise. But in those situations, it’s a win/win, as they provide funding and everyone gets to have a somewhat secure channel.

I’d argue though that in any case where you don’t control the exit node, you have no expectation of real privacy. So it becomes a question of how much you’re willing to trade.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

China has been focusing on influencing local elections for over a decade. What’s changing is that we’re starting to notice.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He nop’d on an interview targeting young black voters. That will probably excite his supporters and cement their desire to vote for him.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 days ago (4 children)

The irony is that even the ones filmed before a live studio audience dubbed in laugh tracks.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How do they know your phone number? Only a cryptographic hash of it is sent to their servers.

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