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Loving-kindness meditation is a practice that encourages you to extend compassion to yourself and then train it like a muscle to be extended further and further out.
Patriotism is love at the national level, but it doesn’t ask you to stop at the border (that’s nationalism).
People should be encouraged to love at the level they can sustain: self > friends & family > community > region > country (patriotism is here) > neighboring countries, etc > world.
“They’ve already got my data”
From our site: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/gotmydata.html
The main retort to this is
“No they don’t - they need to continually replenish their profile on you for it to be useful. If you cut off the supply now, then their power fades.” That’s why their data harvesting is so aggressive. It needs to be, otherwise their promise to advertisers of being able to predict what you’ll want, and when you’ll want it, cannot be fulfilled.
You just need to step off the playing field and their game comes grinding to a halt!
I already “get it” and I don’t find this argument too convincing.
If you’re 25 years old and cut them off, they still have :
(Yes, I get that it’s different if everyone cuts off data harvesting at the same time, but this is about convincing one person.)
Alt text is like putting Braille next to a sign; it’s a tool for the blind (who use screen readers to access alt text).
It’s also a backup when the image fails to load, but it’s not a substitute for making sure the image is legible for people who can see.
If you add a transcription in the body of the post, that should cover your remaining bases.
Can you carry over the posts and comments to the new community?
If the community has to start over from zero, that can be a huge loss.
Good(?) news: they confirmed that they’re partnering with a different OEM ever since Google’s shenanigans with AOSP.
LTT beat you to the joke.
Maybe This Phone ISN’T Just for Criminals - Trying Graphene OS for a Month.
It’s just not the same, even if they both have “ant” in the name.
SimAnt is a sim where you writhe in burning agony while the spider’s deadly venom flows through your body.
Microsoft Ants was a sweaty online PvP RTS for six year olds two years before StarCraft.
The games :
No Microsoft Ants, though. :(
Whoever came up with the idea of sharing them as a gmail-clone is a genius.
That doesn’t address the other two bullet points.
It’s like tracking an animal moving in tall grass. You don’t need to be able to see the animal directly to tell where it is.
If I can’t disappear completely, there’s enough data points around me that a useful silhouette can be reconstructed from all the surrounding data.
What’s the point?