SnoopSqueak

I refer to my father as “John, like the toilet”

Sure. But don’t forget to take steps to prevent Google from harvesting your non-school data anyway. If using an official Gmail app, you’re probably screwed; they get your location, wifi, device info, why not?

If using a web browser, be sure it’s a privacy-focused one, don’t sign into anything but Gmail, and sign out and close the browser completely every time to clear cached data. And Google will still scan every email with automated scrapers, potentially training their AI on your carefully written essays, etc.

That diagram is making me stupider.

Presumably, privacy. Google is actively weaponizing and selling all data we give them.

It’s just… “I’M OKAY!” suggests the opposite.

You act like I’m supposed to be off guarded or somehow surprised by this comment lolol

This is the defensiveness I was referring to. I guess my overall point is that a calmer tone might connect with more people.

I’m no expert, but it almost seems like you’re in fight-or-flight mode. Some of your comments come across as agitated or even hostile. A conversation might be more productive than a fight.

Would you say you have many different thoughts very rapidly? Is it noisy in your head?

You’re never gonna silence folks. The Internet is forever.

Who is trying to silence you?

Your complaint was about a lack of prompt news posts, and the obvious solution is to post the news yourself instead of complaining that no one else is doing it for you.

You seem very defensive in these comments. I hope you’re okay.

Well, yeah… As ICE, the masks protect THEM, not other people. That’s all they care about.

Not always. Sometimes people who choose not to get vaccinated infect people who can’t get vaccinated, so innocent people die for the selfish choices of others.

"No, no, it’s not like that!

We’re studying them.

What? Why do you have handcuffs-"

Right, I agree with you. I was responding to gjoel’s comments.

If you have a termite infestation, you might say that they’re invasive to the house and it’s not their natural element. However you might also say that they live there, which is equally true.

But the post is about sharks in the ocean. It is their natural habitat, they live there, but because they’re sometimes inconvenient to humans, humans sometimes use the phrase “shark-infested waters”, which can be damaging because it frames disrupting the ecosystem as some kind of defensive act.

It’s not that they came from nowhere, but rather that they aren’t pests. Invaders slaughtered them and colonized the country, and in modern times are actively destroying ecosystems and the environment.

No, the point is that indigenous populations are not infesting their own natural habitats.

For example, “Native Americans” did not “infest” the United States. White people did.

I also like how Jesus has two different lineages depending on which gospel you read. Apologists try to say one of them is about Mary’s parents and not Joseph’s, but the text is explicit.

Matthew 1: “Jacob begot Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus…”

Luke 3: “Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph, the son of Heli.”

So was Joseph’s father Jacob, or Heli?

There are many more. The bible is literally unbelievable. Chapter 2 lists a different creation order from chapter 1. Anyone claiming it contains no contradictions is drinking the kool-aid. It would be funny if people weren’t dying for it.

“Just give us your name, address, and more, and we’ll stop violating your privacy (on the surface). Training AI? Well, obviously. Selling to data brokers? I mean, why wouldn’t we? We’ll delete the document after we’ve stored all the details in our database, of course.”

“Google says the document is deleted after 60 days.”

Lol. They absolutely keep all of the data.

Do the original devs get any credit? Or just the ones who stole their work to train on? Seems unfair.

How do you know the canonical catholic interpretation is correct? Because some guy said so? Even if some guy was “officially” entrusted with that task, how do we know he didn’t make mistakes?

How do we verify any of it?

How do you know islam is false? Some guy said it’s true. That’s not enough for you anymore?

What about mormonism? That guy had magic rocks. Is that any more or less ridiculous than a talking bush?

Why does omnipotent god need to test anything?

We do. And they all interpret it differently. How do you know which one is correct?