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> nor is it collecting any PII that would be subject to GDPR Yeah that's not how that works. Reddit is a free text input interface. I'm free to put PII in any post or comment I wan…

Not handy, and I'm not going to spend my evening digging. It may've also been one of the NGOs ideologically aligned with him that credited him for the data + assistance

> Pushshift.io Reddit corpus Pushshift is a single person with some very strong political opinions who has specifically used his datasets to attack political opponents. Frankly I w…

If you want to let the ACLU "speak for themselves" here they are arguing against vaccine mandates while Trump was President: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/coronaviru…

It's also "only in the US" where we have the most permissive free speech laws on the planet. Forgive me for expecting a little more from the former top-tier First Amendment defende…

I didn't downvote but streaming services could argue that they're paying for on-demand capacity that has to be available for all paying customers who could decide to stream at any …

So you don't have any issues with the ACLU's heel turn into partisan activism over the past few years? Like reversing position on vaccine mandates, fighting for mask mandates in sc…

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Next it won't be a crime to assault white people or take their property

A Brahmin Indian immigrant like Sojwal is a pretty good contender for least-oppressed group in America. Top of the charts in income by ethnicity, college admissions, low crime rate…

> you'd expect there'd be no glass bottles of anything (beer, mustard, maple syrup) if that was the case That's completely different - you're confusing recycling with reuse. The bo…

Maybe the reason is because of stronger food safety laws and tort law. If some guy used his bottle as a hammer for several months before turning it in for recycling, then someone c…

Hub was created by Chris Wanstrath, one of the original GitHub founders, so it's not surprising there's no reference to it. There's a damnatio memoriae of GitHub's founders and fou…

I remember a time when Reddit puns weren't rewarded on here

Wow that is very interesting! That would be a worthwhile experiment to test out for sure.

ONTs typically terminate to Ethernet at the customer premises so it's effectively the exact same thing as a cable modem. So not any more secure than having cable and using the cabl…

If you have fiber you're probably plugging your SFP into an ONT which is already acting like a modem anyway. > With cable this becomes a lot harder or even impossible due to all ki…

Industrial plant agriculture kills and displaces untold numbers of small ground mammals. Thus the urban vegan doesn't get to pretend they have clean hands. A pasture-fed cow kills …

> To be honest I don’t feel bad for some of these people in the article. They are opposed to the word co-op. I am assuming it’s too liberal for them. You might want to talk to some…

If you prefer a low effort / high noise comment environment that rewards puns, there's always Reddit

It's okay to call yourself a feminist if you're not okay with biological males demolishing female sports records. It's okay to not go down the infinite intersectional/deconstructio…

Those grapes were sour, anyway. :P Canada is a great country and by 2031 wholly one-third of its population will be a visible minority whose mother tongue is neither English nor Fr…