isles

joined 1 year ago
[–] isles 18 points 10 months ago

Capitalists only espouse the free market when discussing labor. Otherwise, they love regulatory capture.

[–] isles 1 points 10 months ago

Unity board: "We need some new bag-holders, stat!"

[–] isles 8 points 10 months ago

If you're in need, check out PCsForPeople, they offer subsidized unlimited 4G hotspots. They're well suited for low-bandwidth uses and was my primary home internet for a few years. I used Wifi bridge routers to help connect ethernet / more devices / better range.

There's also still the Lifeline program, which is a much smaller discount, but can still help.

[–] isles 3 points 10 months ago

If my understanding of osmosis is correct, just sandwich your head between the pages of a book and the extra knowledge will diffuse out.

I'll bill you for the headache cure.

[–] isles 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The only good joke is a fully explained joke!

[–] isles 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is why I always try "Jenny's Number" for loyalty programs when I can enter an phone number (Local area code +8675309). A Safeway near me used to offer fuel points with grocery purchases up to $1 discount per gallon. I saved a lot of money in gas for a while, then it seemed Safeway got wise and deactivated those numbers.

[–] isles 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

By the content of the post, I'd imagine.

People don't use hashtags on a lot of sensitive topics, because they already fear suppression within Tiktok. The US based operation is already partially owned by Oracle (and all of Larry Ellison's shenanigans) and Walmart as of 2020. For example, since October, Tiktok creators went to extreme lengths to mask the content of pro-Palestinian news, including using hand written note cards or other things that are difficult for automated filters to flag. Anti-establishment messages were already suppressed and widely brigaded by Zionists.

#Thispostisaboutfruit

[–] isles 1 points 10 months ago

Most assuredly, the licensing of the spectrum comes with requirements and strings, so those broadcasters are regulated. They must follow the rules or risk their license.

However, radio licensing came about to avoid broadcast "collisions" for amateur radio operators in ~1912. Regulations came later under the FCC in 1934.

These same collisions are not applicable to the internet (or rather, we've already used methods to avoid them, like DNS).

[–] isles 2 points 10 months ago

The ocean is only marginally explored.

[–] isles 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I learned how to garden, grow food, ferment food, and some plant identification. I have a working knowledge of sewing. I've watched volcanoes erupt. I saw deep space imagery from JWST and followed along the Voyager 1 communications issues. I get a stream of physicists and physicians sharing about the latest in their field.

It helped me realize many limiting beliefs I've had about myself and I love myself more than I ever have.

I could have done those things elsewhere, too. But just like Pandora / Spotify are a tool to discover things you like that you didn't know before, so is algorithmic video delivery.

Is everything on any social media good? I'm sure there are corners of Tiktok that are as deplorable as anywhere else.

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