[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 71 points 8 months ago

omg

I wonder if somebody shot the guy?

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 74 points 9 months ago

Nice try, but you can't fool me!

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[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 80 points 9 months ago

(1) ngl that is amazing, a heart-warming story

(2) still fuck Elon Musk

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 85 points 9 months ago

"I speak alternative facts, making others do the work of figuring out what I meant."

vs.

"I have researched in-depth and know what I am talking about and why."

Tbf there are probably far-right people who are more like the latter. Just b/c I do not recall ever hearing those arguments does not mean that they don't exist!

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 81 points 9 months ago

In contrast to the others, Reddit decided to kill itself off before most Boomers have even heard of it:-).

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 79 points 9 months ago

It is like arguing with a toddler - they KNOW, they are just trying to see if they can get away with it.

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 78 points 9 months ago

Can I just appreciate for a minute how this background is in dark mode rather than blindingly bright white? I cannot say how happy that makes me...

Well, I can try though:

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[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 80 points 9 months ago

Their corporate website mentions that they use the data for marketing purposes. Whatever type of face they see - e.g. male or female, large or skinny, etc. - gets correlated with what was purchased, and then they sell that data for marketing purposes. Exactly like Google selling your search history, except with likely fewer restrictions in place.

Their website doesn't mention how often they get hacked to give away that data for free - to be clear, that data meaning A PICTURE OF YOUR ACTUAL FUCKING FACE. I don't know what resolution, or even what someone would do with it later, I am focusing here on the fact that the picture taking seems nonconsensual, especially for it to be stored in a database rather than simply used in the moment.

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 83 points 10 months ago

I don't pay anything to side load apps on my phone.

Probably bc I switched to Android.:-)

And I am never ever going back!

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 83 points 11 months ago

duh

It is what they said they would do, now they are doing it, later they will brag about having done it, rinse & repeat with the next item on their agenda.

Liberals gonna liberate, while conservatives gonna ~~conserve~~ radically overthrow everything that has come before. It is no accident, it was the point all along.

Maybe RBG could have helped by stepping down, at her advanced age, rather than rolled the dice. Now surely Biden, in his own advanced age, will learn from that? Or, you know, we can roll the dice again I guess...

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 84 points 11 months ago

It does make you work harder... at finding some other job:-P.

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