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I don't mean to downplay the environment, but I think we'll have a long list of worries... 🫨

I like the recent estimates of his appearance. This artist renders him even less good looking than probably most imagined when they think of someone from that region of the world, which makes me believe it's closer to appropriate.

Jesus wasn't a rock star. In Christianity and the new testament, God didn't portray himself in any way other than meager and a bit of a communist. That's the beauty of part of the story.

Edit, I think Jesus would have been easy to put on the no fly list, or walk by without a second thought, which is a challenge to our ways of thinking.

I dislike Facebook / meta so much, I can't think objectively about the implications here.

I wonder how many people will just consent?

Why is this not an acceptable option?

It annoys me that we've given so much power to a single social media company by thinking the thing is so important that we have to have it.

Why can't we just stop using it? That's the only way to take back power.

Further than ad blockers, if the page doesn't work with reader mode or simple view, I don't read it, just swipe back.

Between insane ad intrusiveness, the ridiculous notifications about cookies, and the general terrible usability and lack of concern for a clean, user focused design of most sites now, I can't use most of the Internet these days.

We need a new model. Free isn't free anymore, it's more taxing than fees

I haven't seen any suggestions on this age verification movement that anonymizes users. The obvious big concern for privacy, tracking, etc.

If a site redirected a user to a trusted government PKI or identity system like their BMV, and the only answer the website being visited got was 'over 18 = true', I suspect it would be less intrusive.

There's still the problem of the government systems extended to do this. Will they be secure? Will politicians try to collect that data? Will they sell it?

I personally in no way trust websites with personal data beyond what we are forced to just deal with or not function in life: banks, cellular carrier, utilities, online shopping, etc. It's an enormous list.

I would support a single government identity service if they handled personal details and allowed removing all that from individual websites and stores, but that's basically what a social security number is.

This whole thing is extremely complex and has the ability to go very wrong.

This story, like most corporate stories these days, frustrates me.

This is a tale as old as time...the time when American corporations went to shit as our elected officials ensured there was no liability and realistic legal consequences to executes or MBA decision making.

I'm not a business scholar obviously. I've always been led to believe that in order for the world to turn and air to be breathable, corporations and businesses need liability protection for those who run it. Why?

If I kill someone with my car, even if it was completely an accident, I'm still liable right? Should I account for the death of that person, child, etc?

How would things not be better if, instead of the bottom line and stock price being the ultimate concern of CEOs, it was them not going to court to face charges because they allowed their company to kill people with its negligence? I know there's some nuance here, but ultimately, I feel like everything sucks because there's no incentive to care about anything but investors and greed.

If industry, aerospace or other, was run by people who cared about not killing people and going to jail, would they in turn ensure their design and production met the quality and ambition of the type of people here, discussing their accounts of cutting corners or experienced personnel just to save money?

Don't do this.

Downloading an exe from some random place is a huge red flag.

Windows lets you pause updates.

Might download some of these on an analysis workstation and run them through virus total and sandboxes. This could be fun.

I know businesses like to skip on spending money for upgrades, but still using 2010 is pretty far out. These just mom and pops that have no idea, or these just businesses that don't care?

I part of why I posted this was awareness, and partly because it frustrates me.

I don't know how you feel about traffic enforcement, but this is one of my least favorite ways law enforcement 'serves us'. At the same time, I also recognize that there's probably enough stories that justify it. If you or your family member were almost killed by some clown driving crazy on the interstate, you might be all for drivers getting stopped for 25 over speed limit.

So, most of me supports law and order, but I am also super irritated that the speed limit of 465 is so low. I feel like they want everyone to speed and get tickets. This isn't a very mature attitude, but I cannot find any proper documentation to justify the super low speeds. Did you see the speed stats Copilot cited from one of those sources? Literally everyone goes faster on the beltway, and my opinion is that's because 55 is too slow. I know the sayings 'speed kills' and stuff about faster moving cars don't alleviate congestion, I still don't think 55 is right.

There's some pretty terrible design flaws of the beltway, like the transition from the Northside to the Northwest side (865 split) which constrains traffic and is backed up for a mile+ most days.

Am I the only one who's frustrated about a lack of mobility, on top of the majority of the central population not being served by public transportation? It's not like you can park at a metro stop in one of the suburbs and take a train into anything inside the beltway. Even if you took the bus, it would be an hour+ right?

I guess since this is based on a state law, the population would have to press their legislative reps to change the law. I can't imagine there's any realistic fix for all the suburban commuter traffic that still has to drive in/out of the beltway area and downtown. Good thing all the corps are continuing to push RTO to keep that boot on our necks...

I spent Wednesday tracking down what was transferring too much data. It was domain controllers. The team didn't figure out why though. I'm waiting in anticipation. I also can't call people names without knowing/JK

This isn't necessarily the case anymore. They realized they could charge more money after all this parts pairing and proprietary stuff started.

Dealerships can make more money from repairs than selling. Especially if sales margin is lower due to online competitors selling cars cheaper.

This bill attacks one of the things preventing cheaper repairs and shops from helping .

Seems like meta views fediverse as a threat to monopoly.

I also wouldn't say fediverse needs to embrace meta. It can continue being what is wants and meta has to account for it. Fediverse doesn't have to be mainstream. Aside from Dev support, it's probably better to stay niche.