Being a Lemmy person isn’t a great point of connection but it would be nice to see how they interact with other users in other Lemmy communities.

Social media is raising expectations to unrealistic levels. As if Hollywood wasn’t bad enough for past generations.

THX-1138 (George Lucas’ first movie).

Am surprised it is popular 54 years on.

They were leaked, not guessed.

Lobotomy is a bit extreme. Try Trepanning first.

Trepanning was sometimes performed on people who were behaving in a manner that was considered abnormal. In some ancient societies it was believed this released the evil spirits that were to blame.

Depressed ever since puberty when I realised that Hollywood isn’t real life.

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In Australia it was proposed by the Labor government and it was the Greens who passed the Digital ID bill. (Labor needed either the Greens or Conservatives on board).

It was the conservatives who opposed it (similar to when Conservatives opposed the Australia Card in the 80’s).

Go figure.

Unless readers want street cred reading only books from publishers who observe the request. There will be a market for “authentic” publishers along with the more liberal slop-friendly ones.

Edit: Huh. Lemmy automatically changed my three fulls stops to the Unicode character.

Not on my phone it didn’t. It looks as you intended it.

Shouldn’t the burner be the whiter one?

I have been flagged three times by teamviewer. Appealing requires writing an email and waiting weeks. This last time my use was consistent and only ever connected to my home computer due about 10 minutes tops.

They just don’t want free users who don’t upgrade to a monthly subscription but will never say that.

Sometimes I want to buy juice that doesn’t have a shitload of sugar in it

You haven’t researched as well as you think you have. Even freshly squeezed juice is unhealthy. You need the pulp too in order to slow the sugar metabolism, in which case you may as well just eat fruit.

Check Robert Lustig re sugars.

What makes even more sense is that they now might be secretly forced to hack for the government in exchange for bread and water and staying out of prison.

Thanks, yeah someone else said similar here.

OK, thanks but then that raises another question: Doesn’t expanding the money supply devalue the dollar?

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Am no expert but didn’t the money come from the banks virtual reserves? In which case the total money in the economy hasn’t changed.

Before the house purchase it would have been in other investments, no?

Not so sure about Iran. I have looked for unambiguous quotes from them but can only find kooky religious stuff about Mahdism which is kind of like extremist Christians with their second coming madness.

Well educated Iranians seem to be Atheist whereas even intellectuals in Israel can be right wing religious nuts.

Certainly Iranian proxy groups like Hamas have unambiguously calked for a global caliphate

“Hamas, which is widely recognized as an Iranian proxy, has leaders and official rhetoric that go beyond the goal of liberating Palestine and at times explicitly reference the ambition of establishing a global Islamic caliphate.“

“On December 1, 2023, senior Hamas official Fathi Hammad declared on Al-Aqsa TV that the Palestinians are preparing to establish an Islamic caliphate with Jerusalem as its capital. He and other Hamas leaders have repeatedly stated that the liberation of Palestine is just a prelude to bringing all Islamic countries—and eventually the entire world—under Islamic rule, referencing the conquest of Rome and America as future goals”

https://www.memri.org/reports/hamas-leaders-our-goal-establishment-global-islamic-caliphate-not-just-liberation-palestine

For the record, my housemate of two years in Australia is Iranian. I also make music with an Iranian in Mashhad via the Internet (we jam electronic music). He is an extreme loner but tells me what society is like there.

Thanks.

And I didn’t know Signal had spam filters. It makes sense to not make that open source.

In my circle of 20 there has only been one instance of spam over several years. 3 of us got the same message.