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I don't know, the only thing stopping me from getting 150 billion is the threat of having to pay an 800 million fine on it.

If it weren't for that

I was going to say, it's starting to sound more like the EU is just taking kickbacks in a circuitous legal manner rather than via a shady under the table deal with men and trench coats exchanging packages of unmarked bills.

I mean, in the last 5 months how many times has the EU fined meta or google?

If you really want to make a message that sticks, you ban the danger sites from operating in your collective and then fine them for their past misdeeds.

If you want to be seen as lenient, you then set down a list of objectives that the site must adhere to in order to be reinstated in the collective.

Anything short of that is just lining your pockets. I mean, what is the money being used for?

Remember, the rule is "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish".

Threads is doing this. Kicking them to the curb regardless of the cost is the only solution.

I don't know what normal people do but people like me don't see ads because they use the appropriate protections from the invasiveness of the internet.

Pihole. Firefox. ublock origin, privacy badger, decentraleyes...

It also helps if you don't participate in systems that attempt to intrusively shove ads down your throat, but you do you.

The dark Lord gimp demands a sacrifice. I don't make the rules

Sorry, work got in the way.

To do this, select the text layer.

Right click, click Alpha to selection.

Voila, you have a text shaped selection mask.

You can easily add an outline around text in gimp once you learn the process.

Give me a minutes, I'll type it out.

I have both gimp and Photoshop and for the grand majority of things that I need to do minor photo editing, gimp is my preferred choice.

Sure, the interface is simplistic, but it works really well once you learn how to make it work, at least for my specific needs.

I will follow that up by saying that I am not a graphic designer and nothing that I make is published to the public, but despite that I actually enjoy using gimp.

I'm with you. I make mid-100s myself and as a single homeowner with no children I still can't afford to go on funky vacations.

My take home after 401k and taxes is like $7,600 a month and my mortgage, heloc, car and student loans eat about $5,000 of that.

But, car will be paid off in the next few months, student loans should be done about 2 years after that, he lock will be done about 2 years after that so 5 years from now it's only going to cost me like $2,500 a month to keep my home.

I have been told that I fit into the Henry class, "high earning, not rich yet".

I just wonder if I can keep going for 5 years to accomplish that or if I should just finish up the house and sell it and pocket the 200k in value it's accrued, pay off any other outstanding debt, and then go find an apartment or something or go travel.

I used it for a while. It honestly was a really good browser for a long time but since everything started going this shit it quickly fell from my good graces.

The only time I even think of missing it is when I have to open a page that is optimized against Firefox on purpose because the developers decided to use some janky Javascript plugin and didn't test.

Originally it was used as a hex to dispel demons.

Using it on a person is telling that person that you believe they are a demon that needs to be cast back into hell.

So how offensive it is honestly depends on who's doing it.

The tatted out meth head with four teeth? Not offensive at all.

Kindly old church lady with a heart of gold and an apple pie in every pocket? 100,000 out of 5 offensive

I see where you're coming from but look at semiconductors. Right now Nvidia has dethroned Intel, and nvidia's own insiders have stated that they are designing chips based on AI which they are then using to power the AI which design the next round of chips.

Maybe the stuff that you and I have access to will never cross the border into AGI territory to some sort of AGI scenario, but that doesn't mean that there are not systems and processes in play that can.