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MisterFrog

@ MisterFrog @lemmy.world

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  • Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses

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  • No, it's not my video, and it's not like I chose the thumbnail.

    I'll just say folks, this has left me with a "people just like to complain" vibes.

    The video is excellent, and exposing how the internet is the wild west of companies lying, cheating and stealing.

    Maybe you could engage with that, rather than the creator having to make a stupid thumbnail to keep the algorithm happy.

  • Loud Exhaust

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  • I wonder how much specifically traffic noise contributes to premature deaths compared to noise pollution in general.

    I'm betting it's most of it haha

  • LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash

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  • Literally any device plugged into a dumb screen is better than a smart TV.

    The hardware on a smart TV is typically absolute trash. It's why they're so slow.

    Edit: This includes laptops, which is what I'd use, why do people even consider extra devices?

  • Dazzling!

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  • I personally think I use vertical stripes look the most fat

  • Living language

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  • My pet example is Americans and "ironically/unironically".

    Please don't do this to me

  • Upwards mobility

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  • It's almost like the "meritocracy" under capitalism is a bald faced lie.

  • Photo enforcement cameras

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  • Yeah, love this guy's videos

  • Photo enforcement cameras

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  • Hence my carve out. I don't support the privacy nightmare the US has.

    I do support road safety cameras in general, if managed properly.

    People don't have the right to have no consequences for their dangerous behaviour.

  • Photo enforcement cameras

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  • Sounds like a police/privacy problem, not the idea of having cameras at all.

    Police should need a warrant to access the videos.

    The software should not log licence plates of every single car that comes past.

    The software should be open source and developed by the public sector.

    I agree what's in place in the US is a privacy nightmare, but the idea of having cameras in general isn't fundamentally bad.

    Skill issue USA, git gud.

  • Photo enforcement cameras

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  • I don't want the government or private companies tracking my every move

    This is an issue with how the cameras are operated. I'm taking issue with people complaining that these cameras exist at all.

    People claiming no system could ever be privacy-preserving aren't being very imaginative.

    I agree the surveillance state is bad, but taking a picture of someone running a red light and sending them a fine is a good thing, sorry.

    What's bad is allowing cameras to passively record every single licence plate at all times and store that information. A speed or red light camera should only take a photo/video when it detects someone speeding/running a red light, and no other information should be stored.

  • Photo enforcement cameras

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  • Gonna be downvoted, because apparently this is car brain central, but the amount of mental gymnastics people will do to make red light camera enforcement "bad" is crazy.

    The US' private company control over these cameras notwithstanding.

    Fuck me, so many people die on on roads, and especially at intersections.

  • Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking

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  • Personally I'd make an exception to my moral stance that work as punishment is slavery, and would prefer to keep him around forcing him to work 70 hours a week, in addition to doing all the other chores required so that he can live - in prison - for the rest of his life.

    Maybe we'll make it 84 hours a week just for good measure, can't be giving him a day off.

    Seems more poetic

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  • An academic disagreement

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  • Ooooh, many thanks haha

  • An academic disagreement

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  • This is the first useful example of fahrenheit I've ever heard.

    Doesn't really beat 0°C being freezing (great for weather), in my opinion, but still nice!

    Thanks

  • An academic disagreement

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  • Care to explain?

    I thought you might mean -40°C = -40°F

  • An academic disagreement

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  • Does this mean the big bang happened in -273.15 BC?

  • Trump Administration Decides Endangered Species Act Will No Longer Be Followed

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  • As much as not protecting endangered species sucks and is stupid, what you're talking about is the MUCH more concerning part.

    Annoucement by annoucement, the US accepts rule by decree.

    How, in the ever-loving-fuck, are people not marching in the streets (I am aware people are, but as a percentage of the population it's really not enough given what's happening)

  • 'Rebellion!' Stephen Miller flips out after Dems tell troops to 'refuse illegal orders'

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  • "I never thought they'd eat MY face!"

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  • In fairness. First past the post necessarily leads to a two party state.

    I'm sorry, but the only option is to single-mindedly campaign for pretentitial voting.

    Voting for another party that protects his views is cute, but totally incompatible with the voting system in place in the US.

    *Disclaimer that I feel entitled to comment on US politics as a citizen of the provinces (Australia)