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  • Recently, YouTube started adding a tracking parameter to their share URLs, when using the "share" button on a video. With this, they can track who is sharing videos with who, and under some circumstances even how they are shared. The tracker starts with the question mark in the link you posted and the link works perfectly fine without that part.

  • Texas Democrat leaves Republicans speechless when he uses the Bible against them
  • Just so you and everyone else is aware. In the link you posted, everything after the question mark is a tracking id, using the link without that part of the link works perfectly fine and reduces traceability.

  • The fact that drug tests are normalized for jobs is fucking insane
  • This is pretty much how it is in the US. If an employee's drug use is a potential serious liability, most insurance companies require drug testing for them to insure you (generally, I can't imagine companies want to drug test because it is actually quite expensive). Like in the construction industry, a lot of companies drug test because you really shouldn't have someone on drugs operating heavy machinery and you sure as shit won't get insured if you dont. I can't speak to the companies that do it regardless of liability concerns but I work in an engineering position for a large company and no one is drug tested. In fact, no company I have worked for has drug tested.

  • Seriously spends $80 to drive 20km..
  • This shit happens in the parking garage I use too and it amazes me. I drive a small sedan and I refuse to park in those spots bc I'm terrified some idiot will sideswipe me (I have actually seen this happen to other vehicles). I can only imagine it's some sort of flex bc people have to avoid their oversized tiny-penismobile.

  • Jesse is smarter than what we give him credit for.
  • Sure you can, just not by months, you would need to use weeks instead to retain integer values. A half year would be 26 weeks and a quarter year would just be 13 weeks. Of course this fails if you wish to divide further, but at that point you could just say 2 months and people would know for certain you are saying 8 weeks.

  • Jesse is smarter than what we give him credit for.
  • Yeah, but that only matters for months. We could instead just use weeks since there are 52 weeks per year, so a quarter would be 13 weeks instead of 3 months. It would be easier to determine how many weeks there are in a span of a couple months because it's not variable, or any number of months because they're just multiples of 4. I know a lot of people would be turned off by the system because the number 13 comes up so often and people are superstitious but it really would make things easier imo.

  • apple users in a nutshell
  • Except I've experienced the exact opposite. The iPhone users are the ones who complain about android users messing up their iMessage chats while simultaneously being too fucking stupid to realize it's Apple who is screwing them.

  • 8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests
  • At least 4GB, my previous employer was a young guy that was an Apple simp. He bought a bunch of Mac minis as desktop computers and they only had 4GB of RAM. They were the most garbage piece of shit computer I have ever had the displeasure of being forced to use. It really wasn't even usable, it would lock up just trying to open any web browser or even the file explorer (or whatever Apple calls it). It really amazes me how Apple continues to shit in their customers mouths, tell them it's chocolate ice cream and they believe them

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  • It's working less and less though. You can't do this on websites like Wall Street Journal or Bloomberg because the article doesn't actually load more than the first paragraph without being subscribed.

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  • Use a VPN like Mullvad that has an ad block built in. It doesn't allow ads to load in any apps, it's really nice. I'm sure they can still collect all kinds of data but at least the ads are taken care of.

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  • I was trying to read an article the other day and they had a reject all cookies button. When this is an option I always use it but this one redirected me to a page that told me they won't let me view their articles if I don't let them track me. It went on to talk about some bullshit sob story about how it's the only way they can be profitable and that they pinky promise to be responsible with the data collected.

  • I used the poor to defeat the poor
  • Credit cards are definitely better than debit cards if you can manage your spending well. The biggest reason for me is that credit cards offer better fraud protection. Say your debit card gets stolen, they can clean out your entire bank account and suddenly you have no money. It will take time for the bank to reverse these charges, meanwhile you have no way to buy necessities. With credit it's not your money and the credit card companies are insured and deal with this stuff daily. You also still have money in your bank account for necessities.

    You absolutely have to be careful with credit though, especially if you aren't good at budgeting. It's not free money and will charge interest if not paid off each month, but if you can use it responsibly you can take advantage of the perks, like cash back, points and whatever else they offer.

    What I personally do is only use credit cards, I have certain ones that offer the best perks for certain purchases and pay them off in full every month at minimum. You can set them up to be very similar to a debit card and monitor your spending so you don't build up too much debt. It boils down to whether or not you can trust yourself to be vigilant in sticking to a budget.

  • I used the poor to defeat the poor
  • While I agree with you on the second point, I don't believe debit cards are better than credit cards for several reasons. The main one is that credit cards offer better fraud protection. Say your debit card gets stolen, they can clean out your entire bank account and suddenly you have no money. It will take time for the bank to reverse these charges, meanwhile you have no way to buy necessities. With credit it's not your money and the credit card companies are insured and deal with this stuff daily. You also still have money in your bank account.

    You absolutely have to be careful with credit though, especially if you aren't good at budgeting. It's not free money, but if you can use it responsibly you can take advantage of the credit card perks, like cash back.

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