And those not doing nicotine are probably doing THC instead. There is a measurable negative impact of legalizing marijuana on alcohol sales
A Reddit Refugee. Zero ragrets.
Engineer, permanent pirate, lover of all things mechanical and on wheels
moved here from lemmy.one because there are no active admins on that instance.
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Technology@lemmy.world•XCancel also served cease and desist letter from XitterEnglish
1325·13 days agoLeave. It sucks since so much info and live news is often stuck there but people need to realize ot is a dying platform, the less traction any of its content gets, the better.
“Modern education systems are definitely not traumatically abusive and most certainly are not creating PTSD-riddled students who struggle to function in society.”
The students in question 3 nights a week:
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Technology@lemmy.world•Harvard Is Selling a $699 Course Taught by A.I. Clones of Its FacultyEnglish
8·14 days agoI guarantee they weren’t given a choice. Or possibly were never even told.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunchEnglish
5·15 days agoCan’t get manufacturing sites. They are all parts bin contract manufactured from lowest bidder garbage in China as cheap as possible. Warehousing tho
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Technology@lemmy.world•Comcast turns your Xfinity WiFi into a home motion detectorEnglish
16·15 days agoXfinity is absolutely collecting (and probably selling) data on the traffic of every device on your network.
They’re doing that anyway via the modem. Unless you are tunnelling everything your ISP sees every byte you send.
Chevy v8’s can be rebuilt and engine swapped to the end of time… They only built ten million of them a year.
Theyve been losing money on the food court for decades. Their entire profit model is driven almost exclusively by membership fees.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Spotify threatens industry with ad-skipping tool: "Skip Ahead" is available for Premium users in selected markets, and enables them to skip entire ad breaks, intros, sponsorship messages.English
801·28 days agoI have Spotify premium (the one single subscription habit I allow myself) and haven’t heard an ad for years. But that is for music.
They are talking about when Spotify is used for podcasts and long form content, where creators often insert sponsored sections by themselves.
but there’s vanishingly little on the platform worth watching.
Incorrect. YouTube has a massive library of special interest videos and very high value channels- but like every other platform their algorithm just fucking sucks at promoting them over other mindless bait videos.
lay off the salvia girl
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Technology@lemmy.world•If you live in California you can now tell data brokers to delete your personal information. Here’s how to do itEnglish
19·1 month agoAnd they will definitely actually totally for sure do it!

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Technology@lemmy.world•Wikimedia Foundation refuses voluntary union recognition, hires union-busting law firmEnglish
41·1 month agoAaand bye bye any intent I ever had to donate again. Fuckers.
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Technology@lemmy.world•As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI OverviewsEnglish
17·1 month agoTbf maybe people aren’t visiting reddit as much because they can’t open or view anything from the search engine without an account? And if you make an account you’re gonna get randomly banned sitewide a week later for existing wrong?
There’s a drought on, watering grass is a total waste
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Technology@lemmy.world•Several US schools to install pepper-spraying drones to respond to school shootingsEnglish
25·1 month agoSomething tells me thry won’t be using them specifically for school shootings.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Meet Flock's Alpha Drone – It Reads License Plates from 2,000 FeetEnglish
4·2 months agoIf the drone falls out of the sky and hits someone, that sounds like the fault of the person choosing to fly it in a densely populated area. Drones have hardware failures all the time.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Your Garbage Truck Is About to Start Spying on You. Your Car Already Did, and Got Fined for It.English
1·2 months agothere is no law against either removing or covering up your car’s plate(s) as long as you’re parked on your own private property.
Not inherently true- most places ban having “unregistered” vehicles on residential areas, and if they can’t see a plate when they’re looking to cause problems, they’re going to claim it’s unregistered and make it your problem.















chicken tax 2.0
you will buy your 90% markup unrepairable slop cars and learn to like it