My first reaction on seeing 23andMe and its workalikes was "why the flying fuck would I want to give my DNA information to a corporate entity in this world of ubiquitous corporate surveillance!?"
It's nice to have cynicism vindicated. Again.
Work with me here. Picture something like this as the general aesthetic of the car.
It's OK. He's going to save humanity and settle the stars by ... ah ... killing hundreds of idiots who think he can actually get them to Mars.
Wait, you mean Apartheid Edgelord might be anti-Jewish as well as anti-woman, anti-black, anti-...?! NO, SIRRAH! I WILL NOT HEAR THIS!
In 2001, when I left Canada, I had fond memories of Tim Horton's donuts and other confections. In 2016 when I went back for some paperwork and stayed a month I was absolutely shocked at just how crap Tim Horton's donuts had become: stale, lifeless, and oversugared/underflavoured. (I'd never liked the coffee so I didn't try it.)
Something big was lost in that decade and a half.
Fucking capitalists.
Every time you think Apartheid Edgelord can't get any more cringeworthy, he gets you to hold his beer.
It is definitely blocked.
Source: I'm in Mainland China.
I'd happily pay for a service if I could have a guarantee, with legal teeth (like a service level agreement with truly massive penalties for breach), that the service won't ever do any of the following:
I used to pay for some services to get the "ad-free" version, but almost invariably this chain got subsequently followed: ad-free → opt-in "curated" ads → opt-out "curated" ads → "curated" ads → dropping all pretense of there being any advantage to paying as the site becomes ad-o-rama.
So I won't pay for sites. I just block their ads.
It's evidence that his money is fuckable, not him.
(And what caused this)
Prediction: bad database programming. ;)
Mastodon has limits for number of pictures. Pixelfed has higher limits out of the box. Pixelfed has image filters available. Mastodon doesn't seem to. Pixelfed's UX is oriented toward picture management. Mastodon's is oriented toward the textual experience.
They're different products that happen to share a protocol.
Mass shooting in _________, USA kills ___
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