I just hate these soft-language bait headlines when reporting on scientific studies. If the article was “going from shitty fast food diet to plant-based shitty fast food diet results in statistically healthier outcomes”, that would be interesting and newsworthy. But the whole “doing this thing may affect other thing” allows the reader to apply their biases to whatever they’re reading.

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Oh I certainly don’t dismiss those at all. Of course environmental toxins and other hazards harm our health. RFK is basically at the point of “humours” and blood-letting and leeches. Even if he says that environmental harms exist, he is still citing long-debunked pseudoscience. I’m sure he thinks it’s nothing a little beef tallow won’t solve, though.

Ok, but the guy flat-out rejects absolute and established truth.

Nest is so tragic. Great independent company who made a sleek, high-end, innovative product. Bought by the most evil company* and completely enshittified. I don’t want to create more e-waste, so I still have mine and capitulated to their account demands. I almost look forward to them killing what I have now so that I can support a competitor.

*two-way tie with Meta for most evil

Facebook is acutely aware of the scams and actively encourages it.

It wouldn’t surprise me to see them move to another country. They just opened their first office in Belgrade.

There’s a reason it’s the cheapest. You pay with your privacy.

be in a community dedicated to getting rid of Google

Google does Google shit, locking down android even more

people in this thread: shockedpikachu.jpg

Apple Maps is starting to replace yelp ratings with their own. Usually some decent info in well-populated areas.

https://tinylist.app/

ackshually

Spotify to tidal then deezer and finally landed on qobuz

Steps out of Time Machine from 15 years ago

WTF

In Europe, Apple has been forced to allow sideloading. So you could have an iPhone without any Google apps on it, and sideload stuff like that. In the US, not so much.

As an aside, I use an iPhone without any Google apps, which is technically “degoogled”. Doesn’t stop people in this community from claiming I fail their purity tests though.

I think your whole post supported my point….

Well pick it back up and take it with you, because this issue has nothing to do with privacy. All major vendors take advantage of evil shit to produce their goods.

Agreed; unfortunately, this will always happen as long as money is allowed in politics.

As predicted, here come all the purity tests.

I know there’s no way to definitively prove it, but in my mind Apple is the safer alternative vs. anything Google. I know you can do custom roms and all that, but let’s face it: It’s a huge pain in the ass. I know, I know, “It’s not really”… I beg to differ. I went through my purity phase with degoogled roms and all that. Due to driver inconsistencies, updates breaking things (even the phone part), and the inability to use a lot of “normal” apps, I gave up and went with an iPhone. Apple’s business model is to sell you the thing at a higher price, thus reducing the incentive to sell your data or enshittify. Yes, that will degrade over time and I’ll reach a threshold at which I’ll reevaluate my options. Given the two major choices, I choose the less terrible ecosystem of the two.

I refuse to have any Google or Meta products on my iPhone. I know that makes me lame here, but we should also understand that any normie would never go to all the trouble of OS tinkering. The are a lot more people who want to degoogle vs. the people who understand how to do rom flashing. Criticizing a person’s degoogle effort as “not good enough” does nothing but drive people directly into the arms of the very evil we wish to diminish. This is a community to banish Google, not everything backed by a for-profit corporation.

When you implement OOP the right way, it can have decent privacy. Up to the coder, really.

I think that’s viewing it from the current lens. At the time, the big promise was that you could pay for things without involving all of those pesky big companies. Naive, yes, but the idea of a secure financial transaction is similar in nature to the current tap/wallet methods. But yes, it was commandeered by crooks almost immediately.