They probably won’t repent and will simply continue to use bullshit rhetoric for when they get out of jail. I recall watching a documentary about one of these cults, don’t remember the name, but it got some pretty rich women in it and the cult leader was abusing all of them.

After being jailed and everything being exposed, a small handful of people who were into it still wanted to defend the leader

I suspect that piece of the bible is carefully ignored in the greediest churches. It’s not like the faithful read the fucking thing anyway

Can’t be worse than the shitshow he’s doing

He’s afraid he’ll have to open his golden parachute before he can finish setting up his yacht flotilla

Like, why should we have to change when it’s society that sucks, not us?

I’m not really interested in “becoming a full-time normie”, but I would be lying if I said I wouldn’t want to experience that life for like a day, maybe up to a week, tops, to get a better understanding of both sides

Yummy champignons

I get a lot more talkative, like stupid chatty drunk, but my faulty social filters end up failing more often, so I don’t think that could be considered a “normie experience”. If I go a bit overboard with alcohol, I get super depressed.

“Well, scientists now know a lot of phone numbers,” the responsible parties might have thought, “So what?” (…) a surprising amount can be read from the data, and for some users, it can be life-threatening. (…)
And then there are several classes of data that can be uncomfortable to life-threatening for users

From further down in the article:

Approximately 30 percent of users have entered something in the “Info” field of their profile, and some reveal a lot: political views, sexual or religious orientation, confessions of drug abuse are found there, as are drug dealers who advertise their product range in this very field.

The easy accessibility of the photos would therefore have allowed the compilation of a database that, through facial recognition, often leads to the phone number and vice versa.

That isn’t dystopic at all

Meta classifies the researchers’ approach as “scraping” (…) We had already been working on industry-leading anti-scraping systems

Oh, the irony

• is free to play
• runs on potato computers
• runs on potato phones
• easy to play with friends
• has new games experiences every day

I think the 2 last points are what really end up making it such a success with kids - low attrition to start and lots of different games in one place. It takes 2 clicks to go from a parkour race to a pet care sim.

When you’re targeting kids, your graphics should be easy to understand. Bright colors, simple shapes, it’s enough. If you think about it, those graphics wouldn’t be too different from what a kid can usually draw.

Pretty sure Club Penguin only let you choose from a predetermined list of ready phrases, it worked well afaik. Roblox could do that, but something something engagement

I hope those improved graphics don’t balloon the game’s install size to something ludicrous like 70GB, since the original was roughly 4GB

France is still exploiting former colonies

https://jacobin.com/2023/12/france-africa-empire-neocolonialism-domestic-far-right-repression-elites

https://academic.oup.com/ehr/article/139/596/193/7630506

Whenever something bad happens to France, I remember how they managed to fuck up Haiti after they got their independence, then I stop feeling any sympathy for the french

It never ceases to amaze me how many people operate entirely on a “I got mine, fuck you, freeloader” mentality

That was good and dark 👏

He should give MenuetOS or KolibriOS a try instead of Tiny Core - could probably run with only 64MB of RAM instead of 128

Yeah, nothing says “this person will repay their loans” like looking at their face and nothing fucking else.

I love how you can just call it capetalismo in portuguese, capeta = devil

I’ll never cease to be amazed by how easily we can create impromptu chemical weapons just by trying to clean our homes with bleach

What’s that fabuloso?

As much as I love SMB3’s powerups (hammer bro 4 life), I’d go with World because you can replay levels and even castles with L+R. Fuck Tubular, tho