It's about neocolonialism, zionism are the curtains they hide behind. Even back during WWII, Zionists literally signed the Havaara Agreement with literal Nazi Germany, and even though it was far more of a religious movement back then, it was already fairly neocolonial. As a Jew, you either agreed to basically go along with Zionists and their take on things to save some of your wealth, or you would end up losing it all, the writing on the wall was there for all to see before the war.
Right now, religion is still a factor, but they don't mind shitting on Orthodox Jews a lot more, and there's a lot more involvement from evangelical "Christian" US groups. It's basically a neocolonial front using religion as an exercise in gaslighting, involving a lot of rich private interests specially from the US that use the private sector and geopolitics to survive across administrations.
Debt, global economy, trying to recolonize colonized land to supplant it with more malleable economic interests, it's been this for a while.
Best way to keep yourself warm is to wear a mask and keep the moisture leaking the warmth trapped. It's funny how many people who lived through the pandemic seem to have forgotten this. They might as well be this guy in regards to getting colds.
They also have the best of both worlds shoved together, when used in an ideal general case situation. Zero emissions for urban use, emissions limited only on the very occasional when needed, and even then if it has enough stops to call EVs viable, you are going to get a significant reduction in emissions if you plug along the way.
Plugable hybrids are a good compromise, when people remember to actually plug them in and run on electric when they don't need to travel long distances.
They also use browser fingerprinting, session information, and geolocation, powered by generative AI. IP can easily be cycled in most ISPs, so they'd end up hurting themselves if they just used that.
The only true alternative is to just have more alts, one for specific interests where each each individual one is not enough to ban you. Platforms that clearly have thrived off of them should facilitate people using them instead of using it as an excuse to ban people when they want to.
It also doesn't help when those platforms are deliberately trying to harvest as much personal data they can off of their users and often have engagement bait posts to get their users to get them to identify increasingly personal data about themselves that is otherwise nothing anyone would care about.
I'm not really surprised, in a lot of ways Lemmy and its fediverse is even more susceptible, although you don't need bots when a lot of people are as braindead as many of them, you just need to filter out susceptible users into cults-on-demand and brainwash them into acting like them.
Disable your laptop webcam and microphone, use headset instead. I'll be looking to see if I can switch to Teams web.
I remember how a subcontractor's company called me with a lot of private information I assume the subcontractor had spoken to them about. The subcontractor had no clue about it, which completely changed how I had been perceiving the situation. The problem is companies are using the excuse of keeping tabs on their workers to perform outright continuous surveillance on them and try to see how they can exploit any and all information they can salvage for their benefit, which becomes a problem when there is no clear division between personal and professional space.
I don't take any particular downvote personally, I just have a problem with the whole unregulated concept of downvoting is, and I think there's a reason why the same networks that brought it into popularity over the predecessors that didn't have are also the ones rampant today toxicity, cult-on-demand bubbles, circlejerks, and the like. Lemmy is the one platform where downvoting really isn't worth anything - well, at least unless the piefed guys have a say in it, from my understanding. If it ever became popular to try to act like the upvote/downvote ratio means something in Lemmy, it would be far easier to manipulate and take advantage in contrast to non-federated platforms, and I already commonly see accounts with almost no comment or post participation since a few months just being used to slap upvotes and downvotes on an hourly basis.
It would just be so simple to improve, but people just keep trying to clone the same flawed systems that made them leave other platforms.
That's the beauty of downvotes: no f-ing context on why people disagree with you or if they even do and are just holding a vendetta from somewhere else, since they aren't forced to indicate why.
The account enjoys making a lot of very questionably inconsistent downvotes over their far fewer upvotes and even comments their own suggestion on how to sabotage Flock surveillance cameras in the thread yet doesn't seem to be an edgelord in their own comments, so who knows. Unlike upvoting, where you presumably agree with a comment, downvoting provides no context as you have no clue why or how much they disagreed with something. Presumably the statement was too simplistic to resonate with their refined tastes, which to avoid the downvote should presumably have been stated with the collection of words they would favor as an argument, if they ever bothered to make it.
That's the culture in the US, money has always been able to influence and coordinate over ideology. It has become clear that patriotism in the US is so obsessed with the romanticized past to make up any actual ideological conviction in the present. Otherwise, we would see a lot of states begin trying to coordinate with each other against a clearly unconstitutional federal government.
There's a couple of nice safeguards you can buy for your 12VHPWR connection now. There's even load balancers. I just wouldn't leave my PC on and unattended with one of the new cards.
You'd be paying even less with a plug-in electric hybrid.