fanfic insert posted:

so theres not really that much stopping a bunch of individuals from just buying the gps data of [demographic] and then de-anonymize and release day by day goings of said demographic?

sounds like a project

Oxxidation posted:

you ever think about how our entire civilization is constructed of sinister black ooze that poisons whatever it touches

Mola Yam posted:

anyway between the app developers, the hardware manufacturers, and the intelligence agencies with chip-level backdoors, anything connected to the internet is absolutely spying on you all the time. the "good" news is that 99.99% of it is just being done to sell you poo poo more effectively.

Rutibex posted:

I thought oil pipeline were underground or elevated or something.

Pryor on Fire posted:

The "good" news is the best case scenario, it's usually much worse in reality. Some companies make far more money off of selling your data than they do off you buying things from them. The problem is you never know who it has been sold to and what was sold and when.

An example would be discord, which has one of the most extreme and abusive terms of service out there. They explicitly say they own 100% of everything you type or say in any discord channel, and reserve the right to save that forever, sell all that data, all your personal data, and any 3rd party data they collect on you as well to anyone, forever.

Once discord got away with this and became wildly successful anyway other companies have been copying and really pushing this. Nobody in the media writes about terms of service anymore, they haven't for years.

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Delta-Wye posted:

https://twitter.com/SDonziger/status/1487555683390218240

cool

Delta-Wye posted:

https://twitter.com/AFrontlines/status/1487553682212282371

the solution to pollution is dilution, so this is good actually

Delta-Wye posted:

https://twitter.com/SDonziger/status/1487555683390218240

cool

Shima Honnou posted:

ocp stands for one contaminated planet

coke posted:

i say swears online posted:

what happens to oil right out of the ground like that, flowing over several thousand miles of slow-moving water? would it end up as an algae bloom before it hit the ocean?

unwantedplatypus posted:

Actually, toxic black sludge spewing everywhere is good for the environment

BIG HEADLINE posted:

There are only a handful of bacteria that can snack on hydrocarbons. I think it kills everything else.

unwantedplatypus posted:

Actually, toxic black sludge spewing everywhere is good for the environment

Basic Poster posted:

Everyone I see this on a truck, all I can think of is, yep...they got us there. They certainly did.

Like how is this still a piece of marketing collateral?

Make it black.

mawarannahr posted:

I looked this up and am really surprised to find out this doesn’t seem to have anything to go with the socialist workers party. maybe a front org??

Basic Poster posted:

All I know of is arm and hammer.

Is Sherwin Williams good? This logo pissed me off since I was like 8.

Basic Poster posted:

All I know of is arm and hammer.

Is Sherwin Williams good? This logo pissed me off since I was like 8.

Basic Poster posted:

All I know of is arm and hammer.

Is Sherwin Williams good? This logo pissed me off since I was like 8.

Cloks posted:

Sherwin Williams rules

The Wisest Moron posted:

Are the kids annoying?

Alobar posted:

hey everyone

what's up?

just checkin in after a few days

anyone come up with any solutions to this problem we're having or are we still totally and irreparably hosed?

wolfs posted:

hey I checked out for 200 pages what’s up climate changed thread

wolfs posted:

hey I checked out for 200 pages what’s up climate changed thread

wolfs posted:

hey I checked out for 200 pages what’s up climate changed thread