In my case, I’d be suspicious even with a phone since I use a grapheneOS pixel, don’t have any social media outside this (which, by the way was created with a burner email) and rarely take pictures of anything (i have a polaroid for that). My phone would look suspicious AF just because how barebones it is so at that point, if I absolutely had to go there, I wouldn’t bring it with me and take my chances.

I can’t be 100% sure because the company I work for has now some ties to the US so there is a very remote possibility that one day I’ll have to go there for work, but yeah, that would be the only way I’d go there.

To be fair, he said “you’ll get tired of winning”. What he didn’t specify is who were included in that “you”.

They don’t care. They think (and hope) people will buy the new ps6 at whatever price and will accept digital because what choice they have? Get a switch 2? Or an xbox (can you even buy them?). Nah, the guy playing fc, or cod, or nfl or gta will buy one. And let’s be honest, that casual gamer who gets the same titles every year and eventually buys something else (still mainstream) is the biggest part of their playerbase.

Some people will switch to pc but the majority will silently buy a ps6 only digital because let’s be honest, they don’t care if FC26 becomes unplayble in 2030, by that time, they’ll be playing FC30.

Long story short:

A snowflake created a frontend for lemmy in which they added a hidden blacklist of communities, people and even words that were shadowbanned for everyone using it without informing first, so if you used it, you’d be seeing a censored version of the fediverse based solely on one person’s opinion about what you should be seeing there.

Some smart people discovered this and the community didn’t take it too well for how it was made (in particular, how it was not optional but forced on the user).

The dev of the frontend wasn’t happy about it and ragequitted with a letter in which they basically say that we are all mad here (except them) and that the fediverse can’t be saved because we are all pissed about this (as if they were our one and only saviour or some crap).

Edit: forgot to add: of course, the people and communities targeted on the ban were, coincidentally, lgbtq or allies and you know, anything that would piss a fascist.

See? In their logic, to be white, you can’t be autistic, so it’s one or the other, but not both. Choose, you want to be white? Or autistic?

Wait… so now I don’t have a soul? I mean, I’m kinda fine with that since I can’t logically accept the existence of a sky guy and its idea of “soul”, but I’d love to hear the reasoning behind it.

I mean, it’s kinda true-ish? What if someone develops a vaccine in 200 years that actually causes autism because the world has realized that autism is a desirable trait because makes people better at what is needed in the future? We can’t know if that vaccine will cause autism so we can’t know if “vaccines” as EVERY VACCINE EVER CREATED will cause autism.

Checkmate, jabbed people and science “believers”!!

/s

Lol, lmao even. Unless I’m gettingt paid overtime, I’m not doing to any “team happy hour” or other kind of forced work socialization. No company is going to decide how I spend my free time. Thank fuck I live in a country with decent enforceable work laws that protect us.

IF (extremely huge “if”) I ever go to the US, it will be without a phone. I’ll just bring a meshcore device for me and whoever accompanies me and a digital camera (thoroughly wiped before going there). I’ll add some laptop or handheld (a wiped steam deck could be perfect) just in case I need internet access for something like my bank, but in absolutely no way I’m travelling there with my phone or any kind of personal device that has the slightest portion of my personal data for an asshole to try and find it.

The headline is wrong.

Fascist regime fucks over people’s constitutional rights and could send a man to prison for protecting his own privacy.

There, fixed.

Wait, so now we’re following the constitution?

Hey, who said I hate it? It’s a great list of users worth following and knowing.

Just think of what would piss a pedohitler hooligan and be it publicly. Try to state it often so they can notice you eventually. It’s considered a bonus if you make it to the regex user list because it means they want you silenced even if you try to bounce instance.

Good luck!

So… like autistics do (and wish others did)?

“I, a man, publicly say here that I am one most dirty and unmannered being who will use public restrooms and leave them in such an awful state that I’ll never make my daughter use them.”

This man.

I got regex-ed. The idiot is making sure I am not seen on their shitty app even if I jump instance, I guess I have pissed them enough. Checking the list of banned words I probably called the orange turd a bunch of them and said the rest frequently.

I suppose this means the guy in question prefers velociraptors over people, otherwise I can’t explain why am I on the list.

Until 2028? Oh sweetie, 2028 will be just another fascist year at this rate. Seeing things from the outside looks like you are already in a dictatorship but still don’t realize. The results of 2026 will tell the world if there will be elections or “elections” in 2028.

Nintendo is not your friend. It has no interest in passing any of its potential savings onto you, and the only reason it’s ever interested in your bank account is when it’s thinking about how much money it can get out of it.

Some (too many) people fail to understand this extremely basic concept.