SootyChimney

This is so upsettingly uncannily a Simpsons bit - Rich guy eats fish contaminated by radioactive nuclear plant waste water discharged into natural sources to prove it's safe?

Let's be clear, in the UK, parents can almost always leave behind over a million pounds worth before any tax starts kicking in. Not to mention the thousands of easy loopholes.

A pact that was a necessity when all the Allies rebuffed the USSR, but also a pact that documents show the USSR never even intended to honour from day one.

I suspect pissing about copying a mass of text into an AI to have a 70% chance of getting an actually correct answer is probably harder than pressing Ctrl+F

One always has to question the genuineness of that kind of criticism, it seems to just be bad faith or plain stupidity. How is working for the government any more slavery-like than working for a big company?

We're mainly waiting for you to say "Yes, I was wrong, Hexbear doesn't shill for Russia/China/DPRK and call them communist utopias, and I guess tankies is kind of a meaningless term.". I think that was the point.

ublock obviously should be installed on Firefox by default. But I seem to have a host of privacy add-ons that break few-to-no websites.

• Privacy Possum , which blocks certain tracking headers/js. Privacy Badger by the EFF is an acceptable alternative but I've personally found it doesn't block quite as much.
• NoScript Honestly my favourite addon of all time. You can operate in block-everything mode and just allow javascript/HTML5 from sites you trust, or if you're lazy then just operate in allow-everything mode and every now and then set crummy sites to untrusted (looking at you google tag manager). In block-everything-by-default mode, this add-on will break some sites, but the UI is so easy it's a couple of clicks to trust all the sites in a tab and auto-refresh.

Be warned - If you're not privacy conscious, you might cry from seeing the hundreds of sites that are running javascript on your machine without asking.

• User-Agent Switcher Really easy add-on to just leave on and misdirect sites. Never caused me a single problem, and in fact is useful when sites (looking at you Microsoft Teams) claim they don't work in Firefox and refuse to load but actually work fine if you use this addon and pretend to be Chrome.
• Sponsorblock kicks ass. 30 hours of ads skipped in half a year.

And my personal silly couple ones:

• Wikipedia Vector Skin because I'm an old fuddy duddy and I like old Wikipedia.
• Cat-In-Tab because I'm also an old fuddy-duddy that likes whimsy sometimes. This is just silly but I like it.

More and more I find myself becoming the old man criticising 'kids these days' for thinking they invented everything As I reminisce on the old days where all we had was some ASCII characters, a few special colour and formatting tags, and a /me to top it all off.

:nukebear: when?

I appreciate basically all those believers are being dumbdumb, listening to misinformation, and the vaccine is incredibly, incredibly safe (get vaccinated, vaccines are amazing). But to be honest, 'thousands of sudden deaths in otherwise healthy people' is not a very high bar for a vaccine distributed to billions.

The AZ vaccine is incredibly safe, get vaccinated, but it has roughly 10 serious, frequently life-ending, clots per million doses, more commonly in healthy young people. No hard numbers I can find about consequent deaths, but if 1 billion people have had the AZ vaccine, then 10,000 people will have suffered that. Roughly 13.5bn doses administered worldwide, so even if vaccines in general are 4x safer than the AZ vaccine, and only 1 in 4 of those people actually die, and only 1 in 4 of those deaths is a person that was otherwise healthy, it is plausible that the claim 'thousands of otherwise healthy people have died suddenly from the vaccine' is true.

The risk of death or lifelong injury from COVID is significantly higher, get vaccinated. COVID bad, fuck antivaxxers, get fucking vaccinated for your own and others' sakes - but the number do add up in a silly way. I suspect the sentence is actually true.

If an imitation parmesan is so perfect that it can only be differentiated by ultra-minituarised complex circuitry, then maybe it's time to just admit that, at least in that specific instance, parmesan is okay

It's clear Jessica Ashooh has connections with powerful people and obviously works with/for government agencies, but the assertion she's directly a CIA plant is hard to prove. It doesn't really matter, it's clearly shady and fucked, so it seems a silly assertion to make.