This is not new. Over 20 years ago, Marines with chronic razor bumps would have to head to the medic to get a waiver for inspections. A couple of them had such a bad case, their waver would allow them to keep a very tightly trimmed beard for their entire time.

It’s going to refine it’s capability until it just starts calling everyone “pedoguy” and stating they are in the Epstein files regardless of the question posed to it.

In answer to your question, if I’m understanding it correctly, you are still being tracked as long as you use the web. Meta has profiles for people that have never logged into facebook, used their site in a browser or used an app they control.

The profile might not have a name attached but Facebook provides a ton of websites with FB-related statistics, social widgets and more. Each of those services place FB code on the page that phones home with unique visitor information. That gets compiled into profiles that they can eventually tie to an identity when more information is compiled (as an example, your highschool friend from 15 years ago installs a Meta app like instagram and clicks ok on allowing it to dig through their contacts).

Apps and extensions like Privacy Badger, uBlockO and Ghostery help with the tracking code but I’ve no doubt that Meta spends a lot of time finding workarounds for the blocks.

The issue with that in his situation is 911 does not take kindly to “Hey, can you call my dad and tell him I ran out of gas?”

If it’s not a true emergency that they are expected to handle, emergency services frown on calling them.

His father’s argument is legitimate regarding needing a cellular carrier unless the poster would never unexpectedly need to contact family for help.

I found this on a Reddit thread, hopefully this gets you on the right track:

“I think checking for the GOG sp. z o.o signature is good enough but checking with AV can also be good. If the exe file has been tampered with, then the digital signature would be invalidated. If the bin files have been tampered with, then running the untampered exe will give the error: https://imgur.com/a/9e5lIZ7. They should be legit as long as it has the legit GOG digital signature. GOG has different signatures for older and newer games btw. You can use https://github.com/hippie68/gogcheck to check the games.”

The manufacturers make what’s needed to meet demand. If demand is smaller, they make less.

At this rate, he’s going to be broke in just a couple of hundred years.

“I didn’t say protesting was dumb, I said protesting this was dumb”.

Got it.

What a great advertisement.

Your argument is “protesting is dumb because it’s going to happen anyway” which, historically, has been a bad position to hold.

I don’t know the nuances in the situation but if AI were learning on artists work then putting those artists out of business, I can understand why they might want some regulation or restriction in place.

Reels can be blocked with FB Purity addon, if anyone wants the capability.

I’m sorry but due to lack of formatting and verbosity, it’s hard to tell. Was there a question? Is it just “how to stop wanting physical touch?”

I see. If they don’t answer(unless they’re just terribly overrun with contact), I would say it leans toward removing something that doesn’t fit their agenda.

Perhaps you should ask them.

Markdown is super useful, but this aspect of it is not intuitive at all.

Thank you very much for the tip, I’ve grown accustomed to the cut/paste of piefed and keep forgetting to check the formatting on the lemmy side.

I miss his hats.

I know it’s very popular for the doomsayers to propose but time will tell and I’m guessing we’ll have another election or two. Perhaps even three.

Four’s not out of the question.

I guess the meme creator had problems estimating the cost of a local protest attendee waking up, grabbing a cardboard protest sign they made from an old Amazon shipping box, heading downtown for a couple hours then going home to eat dinner.

I suspect you’re going to get mostly sarcasm and mockery tropes but there have always been countries that have allied themselves with American interests. When you say “when help when needed”, if you’re thinking of an actual war on home turf, invasion or something similar, that’s unlikely to ever happen due to our geographical position. If you mean financial help, we take loans from a lot of different countries. If you’re asking about assistance when we engage in war elsewhere, again, that would be all the allied nations.

Militarily speaking, the US is still one of the superpowers just because of the mind-boggling amount of money we spend on it. There’s not many countries that can compete with just the sheer number of US things that are designed to go boom.

Things like goodwill and assistance are currently in a downward transitional trend due to the current administration. It seems a lot of countries feel ostracized by the US due to Trump’s constant foolish and often hostile actions towards them but these types of things follow an ebb and flow, the next administration to reside in office will begin the process of patching things up and relationships will improve.

Is carrying a second phone logged into a junk account an option for you?