Even for the internet, this is stupid.

Jack Dorsey is not part of Bluesky, maybe you don’t get things because you don’t pay attention.

I just got a prescription yesterday and that didn’t happen so hopefully they don’t roll it out everywhere. I would find a different pharmacy.

Fuck the very idea of buying anything at CVS other than a prescription. Their prices are predatory high.

And I wouldn’t install their fucking app on Bea Arthur’s phone.

Nuke it from orbit.

That’s a hard pass for me. I’d imagine the person who makes the decision about hiring you won’t even know if you’ve opted out because the data is gathered at the corporate level. But that’s just my guess.

Like so many others, you’ve mixed up general society with law enforcement. We defend the right for the Nazis to say their piece without being imprisoned. Running a business profiting from letting Nazis publish their speech is a choice, and not a necessary one. Using and supporting the social relevance of a social network that voluntarily publishes hate speech for profit is a choice, and not a necessary one.

It’s more about keeping the downloads code independent from the cache code. Once one depends on the other, you can’t change either one without considering the other. Minimizing dependencies is a way of reducing complexity.

That’s right, I was referring to the browser/client developer. The browser cache is treated as ephemeral storage so it’s not a safe assumption that a previously downloaded file is still there.

It’s simpler code to re-download the file than retrieve what cached version may or may not exist in memory or on disk. Developers often like to keep code simple at the expense of some kinds of efficiency, like this.

An image is usually small enough to be downloaded in no time on a fast connection, which is what developers usually have and don’t stop to think that others might not have.

A video is probably being streamed so earlier segments may no longer be present locally.

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10 or more years ago I would have said yes. But in this current version of capitalism, any powerful new technology will be used to benefit the very rich only, at the expense of the rest of us. It will hurt us more than help us at this moment.

Yes, there’s supposed to be a higher legal standard for the state sending you to prison than a private party banning you from their forum.

Thanks to all who answered, I will go for it because my body is mostly microplastics at this point anyway.

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Bunch of mediocre people really sweating right now.

It’s not a coherent argument, people just don’t like paying rent so they lash out in frustration. If you can’t own you have to rent, if you have to rent you have to rent from someone. It’s just a fact of life. Just like food is also a requirement to live and you need to pay someone for that too if you’re not self sufficient. There’s good people selling food and bad people selling food. It would be dumb to consider all food merchants evil in principle just as it’s dumb to consider all landlords evil in principle.

Google sucks, but Apple sucks too. And if you hate them both, Android is the better choice for a smartphone because you can use it with minimal interaction with Google whereas any Apple device firmly has you in the Apple ecosystem.

If you’re one color and you’re living in a culture where you’re surrounded by a majority of people of a different color who don’t treat you as one of them, then you’re going to identify more with the community of your own color.

Good thing you’re not judging. If it was the passive aggressive criticism it looks like on the surface, it might contribute to this very topic of people feeling safer keeping to themselves than speaking freely and saying the wrong words.