do you want all the decent cops to quit?

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Doctors With Some Borders

motorsport

Forza 3 was peak racing in my world. Forza 4 killed my interest in the genre.

but, why? is there some problem with the way we prove ownership of things now? as far as i know there isn’t an epidemic of car titles or house deeds getting hacked.

The whole point of cryptocurrency is decentralized ownership. That’s the big breakthrough in technology, it’s the whole point of it, I can try to ELI5 how that works if you want to, but for the moment I’m just going to assume you accept that cryptocurrency can demonstrate ownership.

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How does ownership of those tokens transfers to ownership of something else? Well, that’s an excellent question, and the answer is that it happens in the same way that a piece of paper grants ownership of a house. There’s no innovative technology behind that piece of paper, but still everyone would agree that it grants ownership, and the reason is that the authority that enforces that chose to respect that piece of paper.

So NFTs are not inherently proof of ownership as the person above said. The general concept of owning crypto (which no one is questioning here) is a very different topic than using NFTs as proof of ownership of literally anything else.

exactly, and also saying our houses use more energy than crypto as a justification is just relative privation. yes our houses use energy because we need to survive. that doesn’t mean we should just give a blank energy check to whatever inefficient new technology comes along.

100% agreed with everything you’ve said here.

I know you like to blame Putin for all America’s problems

uh no one does that.

Harris is an establishment democrat, nothing will change in Gaza or Ukraine and she will continue to provoke wars and destabilisations efforts in places that won’t bend over for 'murica’s geopolitical ambitions.

when have democrats recently provoked any wars or destabilization? Last time that happened was under Trump in Venezuela.

So in a couple of months Americans, who between them have some great minds and incredible talent, get to choose between a bunch of war hawks and a gibbering idiot.

correction: “a bunch of milquetoast diplomats” and “a gibbering idiot warhawk who is an even bigger zionist fanatic than the milquetoasts”.

So go on, down vote me. It will make you feel better but it won’t change anything.

thank you sir/maam for the constructive criticism.

Well Donald Trump sure as fuck won’t be.

i think ice cream shops in general keep their ice cream at higher temperatures than a typical residential freezer. our freezers at home are super cold for maximum preservation, but ice cream shops are more concerned about optimum ice cream consistency for single servings.

yes I think the bigger problem here is right wing propagandists masquerading as lefties.

if only we could defederate them from the USA.

apparently freetube automatically uses a new invidious instance every time it starts up.

This would be a major issue, because DDG specifically claims it does not store any identifying information about you.

https://duckduckgo.com/privacy

I had a search saved from some months ago, went to check it for some references and got new hits involving local organizations that had nothing to do with the search. Opening up a private browser I see that the searches aren’t 100% matching up either.

my guess is this is just variation in the search algorithms over time. excerpt from their privacy policy above which I think can explain most of the variability you mentioned:

“For example, we may know that we got a lot of searches for “cute cat pictures” today, but we don’t know who actually performed those searches. That is, viewing search results on DuckDuckGo is anonymous. And we only save these anonymous search queries — completely disconnected from any unique identifiers like IP addresses — for just enough time to analyze anonymous trends like popular searches, so that we can better serve you. For local search results in particular, we’ve further engineered a solution to shield your precise location from us and our content providers that sends us a random location nearish to you, which we also never log to disk.”

So they do use your geo IP and popular searches to weigh results which can change over time.

i think you misunderstood OP.

i think they did need to unify the design and branding but i also agree they went too far with it. if they had only chosen 1-2 colors for each app icon that would have helped a lot.

gmail - red

drive - yellow

maps - green

meet - blue

calendar - lighter blue

problem solved

I get that the beverage, camera, and eyeglasses are all a bit exaggerated from stuff that actually happens, but I’ve been playing guitar for over 20 years and have literally never heard of anyone passing a guitar by holding its strings. That makes no sense even if you’re just being lazy, the neck is a much easier place to handle a guitar from.

maybe we need to mandate a minimum 15 pieces of flair. let’s see who the whackos really are. looking at you, Brian.