[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 113 points 3 weeks ago

The meme is usually disapproval of something followed by approval of something that basically the same thing. The approval is of a CEO being murdered, but advocating violence is against the rules so the "approval" has been removed by moderators.

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 113 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Lol @ the Gearbox CEO defending the DLC

My favorite artists, performers, and entertainers have all made things I didn’t like so much. It’s cool. When artists have a miss, that’s when they need fans the most to root them on so they are motivated to keep creating. I don’t know if I will ever make anything again that you like, but wouldn’t it be better for you to have that chance to decide than for artists to never create again after a marketplace miss?

This isn't his game. He bought a game other people created and then made a shitty DLC, probably in an effort to cash in on the name and success of the original. That's not what artists do, that's what out of touch CEOs do.

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 108 points 4 months ago

A lady died after having an allergic reaction eating at a restaurant at Disneyland. Her husband sued Disney and their lawyers are arguing that her husband has no grounds to sue because he once signed up for a free trial of Disney+ and the TOS says you forfeit your right to sue Disney and must use binding arbitration instead.

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 114 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

owned the name's trademark

People really don't understand trademark despite it being in the name. It's a trade mark. It's a mark on something you trade. It only applies to commercial products. Unless Warner Brothers sells children there's no trademark violation.

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 108 points 5 months ago

I bless the rains down in Mexico! 🎶

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 111 points 5 months ago

WannaCry? No, WannaCum.

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 113 points 7 months ago

Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of men masturbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW.

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 109 points 8 months ago

I know nothing of childhood development, but considering the sound a cow makes is different depending on the language of the speaker, I'd assume it's less about teaching children the sound a cow makes and more about teaching the sounds that exist in your language.

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 104 points 11 months ago

Casinos tend to make a lot of money.

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 112 points 1 year ago

People don't realize how much data is collected, how it's analyzed to determine things about you, and how it's given out to nearly anyone. Here are some concerning examples that hopefully speak for themselves.

Data from fitness app Strava was used to locate secret US military bases in Afghanistan and Iraq by some random guy on Twitter. He did this by pointing out people running in squares in the middle of the desert. Imagine what America's enemies could do with this information that this company will sell to anyone.

Ad company Xandr allows you to target audiences with labels like "Recently purchased a pregnancy test", "Has a large gambling debt", and "Has depression". Once again, this is freely available for anyone to purchase. These tracking companies find out things that are very personal to you and then sell that info to people who might not have your best interests in mind.

Last but not least. Governments and law enforcement can access this information at any time for any purpose. Do you really want the government and police agencies to have a database of people grouped by their religious and political beliefs or their sexual orientation?

Hopefully you can see why the information being collected and given out to anyone is concerning. As to how to avoid it, I'm not sure there is any way besides government regulation. Maybe someone else has some answers!

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 113 points 1 year ago

I once had a chemistry professor who used to work as a senior drug researcher at a major pharmaceutical company. He often joked about how the company treated the monkeys used for testing far better than the PhDs. If a monkey suffered a negative reaction there was a major investigation. I'm incredibly surprised Musk can be killing monkeys left and right and hasn't been thrown in jail.

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