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  • Absaroka@lemmy.worldtoA Boring Dystopia@lemmy.worldThis is real
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    4 days ago

    Let’s do some fact checking.

    THEY said he was wrongly deported. Repeatedly. And refused to do anything about it.

    Our jackass Attorney General shared a link recently that said he had “no criminal background” and there’s been no actual evidence that shows he was in MS-13.

    And while I’m not sure of his technical, official status, I would say somebody who was allowed to stay in the United States by a judge because of dangers back home, isn’t consider an illegal alien any more, but a political refugee who has asylum in our country.

    You have to wonder if this whole thing is just a petty attempt at retribution by Trump, because this guy was allowed to stay in the country the first time.



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    Childish and petty? Or “winning”?

    I feel like a corner piece of the puzzle of MAGA is feeling like some how sending a brown Maryland father to El Salvador makes them feel better about their shitty lives. It’s a superiority thing.

    And some how Trump and Fox News have convinced them that they share in the victories of guys like Mush and Trump enriching themselves.

    My mom said something completely asinine (and factually false) once.

    “I’m way too successful to be a Democrat.”






  • I hear you. One of those ‘you shouldn’t have to pay for a service like this’ moments.

    In a moment of weakness, I signed up for Incogni. I was getting 3/4 phone calls a day that weren’t leaving messages and it was getting overwhelming.

    I will say, somewhat anecdotally because I’m too busy to crunch the numbers, but it doesn’t seem like the spam email, phone calls and text messages I get have dropped dramatically. My wife too.




  • Late this fall, after all of the nonsense on Reddit, Facebook, and Instagram I asked myself a very simple question.

    “Is the reason I joined these sites still valid? What do I actually enjoy about social media these days?”

    The answer was basically “rose colored glasses.”

    I joined **Reddit **after the ‘deaths’ of Slashdot and Digg. It became my source to get new and interesting content I probably wouldn’t have found otherwise. Now it’s bots arguing with bots and 75+% of the content is just recycled shit by people trying to make money. Much of the rest is from people trying to manipulate you.

    Delete.

    I joined Facebook to keep in touch with my friends and family - especially those I don’t see often. Over time, the amount of good content from people I knew dropped to maybe 25% of my feed. Most of it now is AI-generated bullshit or more of the same recycled content you see on Reddit.

    Delete.

    I joined Instagram to share some of my landscape photos and view some of the great photos some close friends were sharing. Over time that became less and less. Queue the recycled and AI-bullshit content.

    Delete.

    So, I challenge everybody to ask themselves do they actually enjoy social media? Do these sites actually add value to your life and in any way remain true to their promise when you joined them so many moons ago. Are you actually making any connections with people? The ‘social’ in ‘social’ media? Or just watching people talk at each other, not to each other.

    After answering those questions, the answer about whether to stick around is pretty clear.








  • If you’re looking for a VPN, check out Mullvad.

    It’s just €5 / $5.25 / £4.15 a month. They haven’t changed that price since launching in 2009. So they’ve also been around a while. Does everything you need a VPN to do. And they’re based in Sweden, which seems to have some good privacy rules. They also don’t keep logs.




  • I enjoy that they’re focusing on ‘promoting pirated software and game cheats’ before talking about malware first.

    Cybersecurity ethusiast Karol Paciorek who spotted the playlist said, “cybercriminals exploit Spotify for malware distribution. Why? Spotify has a strong reputation and its pages are easily indexed by search engines, making it an effective platform to promote malicious links.”

    That’s a very different, more helpful story. “Watch out, Spotify links are being used to distribute malware to your computer.”

    When abusing platforms, spammers and scammers leave no stone unturned to promote their agenda.

    Money. They aren’t doing this as part of a ‘peons of the world unite to steal software’ scheme. They’re doing it to generate traffic so they make more ad revenue.