Being denied medical insurance because you have a genetic predisposition for certain diseases.

New government comes into power, decides homosexuality is illegal. Digs into your post history, finds your comments supporting homosexuality, you go to prison.

Someone takes a bunch of photos of you, uses AI to create a lifelike video of you doing a lewd sex act, and then blackmails you with it.

Identity theft cases go through the roof.

Employers refuse to hire you because of an argument you had on facebook when you were 14.

You’re really REALLY craving ice cream. Predictive algorithms knew you would be craving ice cream right now. So your personal price for ice cream at every store is now 3x what it usually is.

You call in sick to work, but actually go to visit a sick friend. Your car reports your location to your boss, and you’re fired.

Every year, hundreds of children of every gender, ethnicity and religious background are married

I find it hard to believe this is just homogenously distributed across all societies and religions.

This whole “meh I don’t care about privacy, take my data” attitude among younger generations is going to cause us SO MANY PROBLEMS in 20 years.

Patriarchy didn’t teach men that they’re disgusting, wtf

That’s like the opposite of the patriarchy

This is the shit feminists do that piss me off. Literally anything bad? Patriarchy. Literally anything good? Feminism. Even if it makes no goddamn sense.

Go to a gay bar. Not even joking. Gay men are the single best thing for any man’s confidence. And sense of male self-worth.

Likewise, the best nudes that women send me (a man) are just “boom, here’s my tits”. The ones with sexy poses or outfits and fancy lighting and stuff…come on. That’s the kind of picture YOU would like. You didn’t take that for me.

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Still not over it, I see

Hillary is gone, dude, we’re not constantly bringing up the glory days of what could have been.

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Just give up

I heard people use it on lemmy to refer to communities

Because they came from reddit and call them subreddits

Just take the L dude

sub is used as a noun countless times.

As shorthand for “subreddit” rofl

Holy fuck that’s a level of disingenuous worthy of Trump himself. You’re comparing absolute numbers instead of percentages? Oldest bullshitting trick in the book.

If Texas were a country, it would be the 10th biggest by GDP and the 4th largest petrostate. It’s twice as large as Germany. This isn’t hyper-local news.

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You want to share news from another country, post it. No one is stopping you.

Ok if it’s not subreddit

A) what does it stand for, and

B) where did you hear it from?

Not the majority, but definitely the controlling faction of its state government.

I mean, to get hyper technical, they have associated this general type of cruelty with moral righteousness and fiscal responsibility.

So they are doing things that are cruel. Those of us not caught up in their cult can see that they’re doing it because of greed, tribalism, and religious indoctrination. The cruelty is the point, but they’re not doing it just because they like being cruel. They’re doing it because being cruel is virtuous, makes them feel superior, and makes them money (note, not all of these apply to everyone; these are 3 different motivations for 3 different groups). This type of cruelty, for one or more of those reasons, is seen as a GOOD thing.

So yes. The cruelty is the point. It’s not incidental, it’s not an unfortunate byproduct of some other goal. It is cruel and they are intentionally trying to be cruel.

It evaporates. A lot of datacenters use evaporative cooling. They take water from a useable source like a river, and make it into unuseable water vapor.