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Subscriptions Are Ruining Our Lives. Here's Why They're Everywhere Now. | You'll own nothing and you'll be happy! in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You buy a pair of shoes, the maker is paid. Why do you have to pay the bastard every month?

Passport-less clearance fully available at Changi Airport, average clearance time of 10 seconds: ICA in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

True. But if that happened to you involuntary data violations would be the least of your problems.

Passport-less clearance fully available at Changi Airport, average clearance time of 10 seconds: ICA in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Unfortunately this has always been the case with other country's rules. I'm not a fan of US gun culture, but I'm not American, so I don't get a vote.

Nobody is forcing you to visit either Singapore or North Korea.

The internet archive may have just suffered a security breach in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago (12 children)

Why do we have to sign up to every fucking thing and it's brother? Everything gets hacked eventually. Why don't we just hand over our data to the hackers and cut out the middle man?

What’s the craziest or most outrageous (maybe even NSFW) incident that led to someone being fired from your workplace? in c/[email protected]

TIL Samuel Little is the most prolific serial killer in America with a confirmed 60 kills and 38 admitted to. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I feel like he is stepping on a classic white dude's crime. Way to break the glass ceiling!

Ukrainian drones now spray 4,000° F thermite streams right into Russian trenches in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

No acknowledged historian believes that the strategic bombing of Germany shortened the war to any significant degree. The Nazi leaders didn't care and the civilians endured.

The Londoners didn't overthrow their government during their blitz, nor did the Germans during theirs.

Ukrainian drones now spray 4,000° F thermite streams right into Russian trenches in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

Exactly, I hate what the Russians are doing, but as a former grunt, I'll never rejoice in killing.

TIL there's a known massive oil reserve in antarctica discovered only earlier this year (2024) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Uh-oh!

What is the best biographical book that you have read? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

American Caesar.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Caesar

Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I deleted 12 plus years worth and they are still gone.