KeePassXC, my beloved.

How would this branch be structured? How would it interface with the other branches? How would its members be appointed? What does “Infrastructure and Public Welfare” entail? Why are “Infrastructure” and “Public Welfare” grouped together? What powers would it have to carry out its job, and what specifically is that job? Based on those previous answers, how would it solve any existing or foreseeable issues? Why would it be better positioned to solve those issues than a change made within the existing three-branch framework?

Heheheh, squirm all you want, plebian worms of the 199th percentile and below, knowing you’ll never see the hippo. Now if you’ll excuse me I have to go accept my 52nd PhD in hippopotamology from Cornellvard.

Am I allowed to steal “lol and behold”? I want this to become a thing.

The way this kind of animal murder is normalized for drivers is beyond disturbing. Imagine a cyclist who came upon some birds blocking the cycle path, pulled out a pocket knife, and started stabbing them so they could get through 20 seconds faster.

It’s the same psychopathic “might makes right” mentality that makes people turn a blind eye to the needless, systemic, unfathomable horrors of animal agriculture.

Not just a pedophile: a pedophile who’s acted on that urge – a child rapist.

This is technically true but extremely deceptive if you don’t know the history. From “Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America” (Lauer, 2017; Columbia University Press):

Chapter 3: “By the late 1890s systems for evaluating the credit risk of individual consumers existed in metropolitan centers throughout the United States.”

Chapter 4: “During the early twentieth century millions of Americans came under the watchful gaze of newly formed credit bureaus. But these bureaus were only one arm of the emergent consumer credit apparatus. Their counterpart was the credit department of individual stores, where credit managers interviewed, documented, and tracked customers for their own benefit and that of the local bureau.”

Credit reporting has existed for a very long time in the US. So while a computerized score wasn’t there until the late 1950s (basically as soon as such a computerized score could exist, underscoring how eager banks were to implement it), your comment being technically true has no real impact on the argument of the merits of credit scoring.

It’s reasonably common in the developed world. And it’s a good idea that lenders be able to easily know how responsible borrowers are with repayment. That the US’ implementation of credit scores is problematic in some areas shouldn’t be used as a blanket dismissal of a credit scoring system.

I don’t think most kids would pick up on that kind of nuance (or even most adults), but I agree there’s a valid interpretation that you’re pledging allegience to the Constitution – the Republic – and thus “indivisibility, liberty, and justice”. That is: you remain allegiant to the Constitution. But the current pledge has so much wrong with it that it’s cult-like.

• Obviously get “under God” the hell out of there. Cold War-era reactionary trash.
• There’s no reason to assume from the literal text that what I said is true. Why not just focus on the principles?
• It’s a waste of time for kids to recite a dumb pledge they barely understand; granted they can’t force you and a lot of schools IIRC don’t do that anymore.
• Even if the interpretation is true, why should this specific system of government be so glorified?
• Get it the fuck out of there. It was introduced 100 years after the formation of the US by a Civil War officer as propaganda for children – probably paranoid out of his fucking mind after the South seceded. There’s no reason kids can’t learn to think for themselves when they’re ready to actually understand these ideas.

That’s a hell of a lot of words for “Switch to DuckDuckGo and turn off the LLM in the Settings menu.”

It’s so famous in fact that it’s frequently heavily exaggerated and distorted via telephone game from people who’ve never even minimally researched this case but decide to cite it for this claim anyway.

@grue@lemmy.world So far this user’s entire activity on Lemmy has been (seemingly targeted) racism against Indian people (here and previous comment), whining about immigrants to Europe (first comment; in this community), and calling themselves “apolitical” despite doing nothing but politics here. Can they be given the boot?

“From time to time” is an extremely disingenuous assessment of the NYT’s record for fact-checking and investigating. But yes, it cannot always be correct; you do need to be mindful if you ever start reading any source entirely uncritically.

Yeah, this post feels like classic splitting. I think Gell-Mann amnesia is a real thing that more people need to be conscientious of, but that just means you should be critical of what you’re reading. There are few major newspapers I would seriously blanket consider “untrustworthy”, and the NYT is categorically not one of them. Sowing black-and-white distrust in generally reliable press is exactly the bullshit the far-right and disinformation farms (whatever the difference even is now) want.

The “secret messages” part cleanly gives it away.

I’m going to go brutally murder and deep-fry my dog just to cancel out whatever grass you ate today, you extremist vegoon! something something lions something desert island grumble grumble muh canines

Hope that serves as a warning the next time you feel like expressing an opinion that differs from mine being preachy.

“Finally, my time has come.” —the model train nerds

Theoretically, cutting and pasting a file into your browser will just act like copy–pasting, but that’s still a dumb way to phrase it.

A friend brought up Greenland nuking somebody as a joke. And I imagined how disproportionate a retaliatory strike could be, quickly remembering though that the current population is less than 60,000 and that I’m almost certain I’ve seen figures of more than 60,000 nukes during the Cold War, so I imagined a retaliatory strike where literally every person in Greenland had a personalized nuke.

The research was done make sure I wasn’t misremembering, that Greenland didn’t at any point exceed 60,000 (thus necessitating a closer comparison), and that I’m not Senator Armstrong-ing this.