But this is not the only aspect of Google’s autocratization; Apps who’s developers have enabled the Google Play Integrity APIs will not run on custom roms.

So you can’t use banking apps, or you mean like you cant even use F-Droid FOSS apps at all?

Purism is sketchy btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKegmu0V75s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IjUryQOlgk

(Louis Rossman videos explaining how a customer was denied a refund for a “pre-order” and then they tried to coerce Louis to take down the video.)

Edit: typo

Might have use the wrong term, but I’m talking about when the feds promises immunity to a snitch working in an organized crime organization in exchange for their testimony.

But think of how many deadly weapons systems we can buy if we defund public defenders! /s

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forgot the italics lmao 😁

This you?

Just make primaries mandatory.

Democrats did technically held a primary (abeit it’s de facto for show only) in 2024, so that legal requirement wouldn’t have mattered.

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t care.

Its human nature, its encoded in our dna, in the past, social ostrization means death, so that feeling of “not wanting to get socially ostricized” persisted to modern day.

Btw you can actually see who downvoted you with https://lemvotes.org/, to see if they are actually real users or just bots/trolls.

I usually just assume any amount of downvotes between 1-5 to be bots/trolls. For upvotes, not getting upvotes doesn’t matter as long as I don’t get downvoted. I try to ignore votes, but like, my monkey brain just can’t stop being curious about the score. 🤷‍♂️

There’s also that fear of weirdos start trying to dox you if they didn’t like something you said. Like “I dislike Linux” for example (not my actual opinion, but like imagine if someone said that, they’d get fucking downvoted to hell and stalked around the fediverse)

As for other user’s scores: Seeing upvotes/downvotes on other user’s posts/comments does not really change my agreement/disagreement of their statements

Perhaps its something embarassing or potentially very political which they don’t want to remain on the internet forever.

I guess we can add a rule stating that “By participating in this community, you agree to give permission that all your posts/comments can be archived” like under Creative Commons rules. And have a bot automatically archive it.

But then again, there’s an argument that this violates privacy.

Say what you will about Donald (and I don’t like him either), but he wasn’t so weak that he had to forego the primaries)

That’s because their base is already in the cult and bought into proaganda, they already knew the conclusion, the primary is a de facto sham election to show off trumps popularity.

POV: When you attempt sarcasm without the tag: ⬆️

Consecutive terms should be eliminated.

If there is no “incumbency advantage”, there will be no excuses to “we cant hold a primary because we ‘lose the advantage’” bullshit.

I think he was going for a prosecutorial immunity / vance pardon thing. I doubt he cares about his public image at this point

For contacts I kinda get it.

You could have eye conditions that make you unsuitable to use contacts.

For glasses, its absolute bullshit.

An “incorrect” lens placed on the exterior of your face will not harm you (other than making you a bit dizzy).

When you are reading a text post/comment your request goes from:

Your Device --> eviltoast.org (your instance) send you the text --> You receive [eviltoast.org]'s copy of the text

When you see an image that goes from

Your Device --> eviltoast.org gives you the link to image --> Your Device receives the link, then sends a request to retreive image --> OP’s instance, OP’s instance then send back the image --> Your device receives the image and you see the image

Most instances do not keep a local copy of the image. I don’t think I know any instance that makes a local copy. Your instance certainly does not.

You can just go online and buy them, they don’t care about “expired” prescriptions, they only need the numbers.

Okay so I found an older comment which I deleted the image, take a look: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/18929187

If you click “view source” button below the comment, you’ll see the url, but if you open anothet tab to try to see it, it will show an error.

That’s what images will look like if an instance shuts down.

Hmm that’s weird. I deleted the image and I can still see it. Maybe bookmark the comment check back later, I don’t think the “delete” action is instantaneous.

Anyways, if you open the image, you’ll see that its hosted on sh.itjust.works, which means your instance does not keep a copy of it.

So I want you to think: What do you think happens to the image if, hypothetically, my instance sh.itjust.works shuts down?

When you open the image, your webpage is still gonna attempt to find the image from the url, and since sh.itjust.works is gone, there is no way for there to be an image.

But anyways you can check later and perhaps the delete action finishes.

The post will remain, but the image would be gone.

Let me give you an example. I’m gonna attach an image in this comment, I want you to see this comment, acknowledge seeing it, then I’ll go to my profile and delete the image without deleting this comment, and you can check what happens when I delete the image.