Quetzalcutlass

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[–] Quetzalcutlass 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Mozilla runs a project to rate the privacy policies of major products and brands.

Car manufacturers absolutely dominate the bottom of the list. They hoover up absurd amounts of deeply personal information and grant themselves the right to do basically anything they want with it.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

The lawyers also said [...] that Maxwell was immune under a 2007 non-prosecution agreement between Epstein and federal prosecutors in Florida.

Oh yes, please bring the fucked up details of that agreement back under public scrutiny. Please.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 4 points 11 months ago

No, it's actually quite brilliant. Google results return mainly AI posts, and Reddit is now 90% AI regurgitated crap. It's a match made in hell.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Not to mention people would arrive at their 10 minute appointment with a list of 5 completely separate medical issues that they'd been saving up for months. So either you do a full history, examination, diagnosis and treatment plan +/- prescription in 2 minutes for each problem, or the 10 minute appointment just becomes a 20 minute appointment. And then you document everything in your lunch break or after you're supposed to have gone home 🙃

Here in the US, the last time I went to a doctor's office they had signs posted saying that those under free healthcare could only discuss a single issue per billed visit. Which sure, saves the medical staff a ton of time and scheduling problems, but also means the most vulnerable (and least able to take time off to visit the doctor) have to prioritize health issues and let minor ones go untreated/undiagnosed until they become major ones.

Healthcare is a mess.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Two groups join lemmy.ml: those who know it's the instance run by the core Lemmy developers and join hoping for a stable experience, and those who join because of the devs' political beliefs. This leads to a weird mix of actual quality content and tankie propaganda.

I wish it was all the latter so I could block the instance without losing the former.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

alien.top is an instance that scrapes Reddit and mirrors posts and comments, creating bot accounts with the same username as the original poster. The intent was to make it easy for users to migrate away from Reddit (just claim the bot account with your username), but everyone pointed out the obvious ethical problems of mass plagiarizing and how nobody on Reddit can see any replies you make. It was also super spammy and 99℅ of the comments are from those scraper bots, so most instances defederated from them.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Hey, give them a break. They're a persecuted minority!

Or they persecute minorities. One of the two.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

That episode had some of the best jokes in the entire series. "That just raises further questions!"

[–] Quetzalcutlass 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wish the API would at least return an upvote/downvote ratio for the user, like it does for posts. It'd make it easy to spot trolls without creating the incentive for karma whoring.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 34 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Now all that's left is to try a pickle smoothie to confirm your theory.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 40 points 11 months ago

Go to https://lemmy.world/settings and turn off "Bot account".

[–] Quetzalcutlass 3 points 11 months ago

Monster Hunter was on to something with its Gunlances.

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