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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The original Bloomberg article is quite informative.

    California was the only state in Bloomberg’s review that did not use advertising trackers, having removed them last year after being informed of the security risk by nonprofit news organizations CalMatters and The Markup. A separate Markup analysis of 19 state sites last year also flagged data exposures in several states that later changed some of their settings.

    According to Edwards, one reason so many websites continue to share sensitive user data is that website operators deploy tracking tools without fully understanding how they work. “The onus is on them to do it safely,” he said. “You can’t protect something that you don’t understand.”

    If anyone has looked into Google ads at all, the first thing they try to get you to do is install a bunch of trackers on your website. In order to do that you have to check a box that says you have a privacy policy which discloses certain information. If you try to tell them you do not have that and do not want to do tracking they will outright lie about what they are getting you to do. They tell you to just check the box and that it doesn’t matter and then will tell you that it doesn’t track anything. One would hope that the people doing these sites for the government would know better, but they may also just not care. They may just be using a standard SEO suite and no one bothered to mention that maybe they shouldn’t on either the government side or the company side.



  • Not being happy about it doesn’t mean he did anything to at least lessen harm. He admits to engaging in “pranks” where they cut open all of the watermelons of someone who was on their way to sell them. That’s just stealing. He stole someone’s livelihood, which also happened to be food in a place actively being denied food.

    I’m glad he didn’t do it giddily, but that probably makes no difference to the person who was driving. I’m glad he sees that he was a pawn, but there is no apparent understanding of the real harm he caused. He seems more focused on how it affected him and not how he affected others. I don’t see him talking about how bad the IDF is openly, and he’s vague posting about how he’s actually just misunderstood. If people watch the boys or not I don’t really care, but this guy is an asshole.


  • To a certain extent, I understand where you’re coming from, and it doesn’t surprise me we had a black president before a female president, but Hillary won the popular vote. I think if Hillary didn’t have an already well established hate campaign against her and was not carrying the Bill Clinton baggage, she would’ve won. I think Elizabeth Warren would have done well had she not had to contend with the more progressive Bernie.

    I think people forgot what Trump was like and people were suffering economically under Biden and there wasn’t enough acknowledgment of that. I think had Warren been the pick instead of Biden the first time she would have won. Biden was a filler episode as a president and people wanted someone willing to do something, or at least give them the appearance of having done something. Trump does a great job of that.


  • Anyone can cherry pick reasons one way or the other.

    Trump was impeached.

    He was found guilty of sexual misconduct (rape).

    He was besties with a pedo and there’s plenty of evidence he himself is one.

    He attempted to impede a peaceful transfer of power.

    She lost to convicted felon and sex pest who was already impeached. It’s the fault of the American people as much as her own, but that’s embarrassing regardless.


  • Though this doesn’t seem like a valid application of TAS, I’ll bite.

    A calculator can do your math homework for you, but that doesn’t mean the homework is useless. It means that if you don’t follow the rules the work is useless. Just because something with no understanding can complete a task doesn’t mean a human with no understanding can. It is built to test a human, not a computer, and it generally does so well enough provided the human is the one doing the work.