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As a major shipping artery, Panama makes far more sense than Greenland. What are you talking about?

In a way that he has ulterior motives he’s not telling the public, I’d agree with that. It turns out that he’s the most politician-y politician.

I don’t know how much weight I put into this piece, given that we’re talking about Trump, but I appreciate the perspective. From my understanding, the US has always had a good relationship with Greenland and could have easily worked with them to increase defenses and security. There could certainly be another objective like mining natural resources or, I dunno, building crypto mining facilities. The whole thing should be offensive to all Americans, especially conservatives.

You’re right. This is what’s being described as humiliation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWZU4zrOoLE

The headline is riding the popular sentiment regarding this particular clip without discussing it much at all.

I’ve read variations of this click bait headline from dozens of sources.

One would have to have a sense of humility in order to be humiliated.

The headline should read: Unsurprisingly, Trump rejects the truth in favor of the lies that keep him in power.

I think we’re well past people becoming apathetic to privacy concerns. Either they’re ignorant or they prefer the advantages.

You, along with everyone else sharing this soapbox, aren’t convincing anyone that their data privacy is a concern. Your example about using private communications against someone is becoming increasingly valid but the vast majority of people are going to ignore this until it’s too late. Maybe not even then.

If you haven’t heard about human beings before, they’re a species that rarely shows concern for their immediate future (never mind long term). If and when they do, they point at and blame the people whom they’ve elected to ensure pending catastrophic events don’t impede upon their freedom to be stupid.

Our reality is the frog in the pot of water. Things are happening at such a slow pace that we accept the incremental changes despite their known ramifications. Before you know it, the water is at a rolling boil but we’ve already subscribed to boil-proof clothing so we can enjoy the pleasure of the sauna.

Because, contrary to what you may think you’ve observed over the past ten+ years, copying and republishing anyone’s content without their permission is a US copyright infringement.

So yeah; if you want to get their permission, ensure all their links and such are migrated over, and do all the work for them to mirror content they’ve created without the benefit of making any money on it, have at it.

Why install an app when you can just use the bank’s website?

Apple released a more user friendly version of this in 2021 https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Your_Data.pdf

I think it’s safe to say that, at this point, most people know that their information is being sucked up. But very few care at all. Some of the people I’ve spoken with are actually in favor of being tracked because they find it beneficial and they want better ads. I don’t know if this is a real desire for them or if they’ve been brainwashed.

The chance of your personal data being used against you is increasing every day. Leaks are happening all the time; largely from databases presumed to be more secure than an app on your phone. Still, relatively few people are really affected by this.

Please tell me otherwise but it seems that the worst thing the data collecting raised in this post could do is manipulate an algorithm to show you ads or social media content or other website content (most concerning, political propaganda).

That’s to say, okay - this is weird but you have to tell people why they should care if you want them to raise concern. WHY is this “terrifying”? I mean, I can speculate but even the worst case scenarios I’ve told people about have barely raise an eyebrow.

None of the alliance members, including the US, currently spends 5% of GDP on defence, according to NATO figures. Poland is the highest spender in GDP terms at 4.12%, followed by Estonia at 3.43% and the United States at 3.38%.

I’d like to see people respond to a headline that reads, “Trump demands US increase NATO funding”.

Anyone here old enough to remember the Exxon Valdez?

Great. Then we agree you can just remove it. No harm done and you can easily move on with your life.

If you’re just “using an app”, the whole thing would be meaningless to you.

Do you also send thanks to abusive partners because they force their spouses to learn to cook for them?

I mean, yeah. It’s great that homeless drug addicts get to know how to use the public transit system so well 👍

You are delusional. You’re fitting your narrative into the situation without the ability (or desire) to step back and observe the reality.

People are learning mandarin because they are so addicted to this form of social media that they are choosing to learn a new language over using other forms of social media.

LOL Good job injecting your narrative into something completely unrelated.

These platforms would not be as successful if they were just about offering a nice place for friends to congregate. If that were the case, Myspace would still be relevant and forums would still be more active than FB and Reddit.

Here we are on Lemmy - free of ads and algorithms and corporate control. If it was all about people searching for means of connection, what aren’t more people here?

Because the corporations have created an algorithm to maintain engagement to show you ads. Engagement is driven by strong emotions. Strong emotions are created by chemical reactions in your brain. What you’re being shown on corporate controlled social media is what they know will keep the chemicals flowing aggressively around in your grey matter.

People have been alienated for millennia. The internet has existed and has been embracing outcasts for over 40 years. I would suggest that you take a step back and consider why people are choosing one platform over another and what differentiates the platforms from one another.

This is a case where people are so occupied with a platform proven to threaten their nation’s national security and their own perception of reality that they would choose to embrace that foreign adversary over their own country. If that’s not an addiction, I don’t know what is.

I hope you find a place of peace to congregate with others who make you feel known. Corporate controlled social media should have never been that place.

Dude. How do you say “addiction” in mandarin.

I think you bring up a good point about college and high school classmates. I don’t personally care about this but I imagine millions of others do. IMO, these groups should maintain their own social platforms. If you want to keep in touch with your classmates from Harvard, Harvard (or a private student counsel board) should maintain a forum for you.

Right - you want to post a picture of your kid for family, classmates, friends, coworkers to see all at once. Well, that’s (supposedly) where the fediverse comes in.

The fediverse, of what I know of it, is still lacking a lot of these tools that would be useful to people. People are pushing it really hard but it is not ready for the masses.

Personally, as someone who hasn’t had a FB account for well over five years, it’s super weird to me that you need it to “keep up with family and friends”. You’re using a data harvesting, advertising, and propaganda platform to conduct personal communications. There was a time when this was done using nothing more than the United States Post Office and the telephone. So, we probably have the technology to keep in touch today while excluding Facebook.

In response to your concern with privacy controls: it’s not federated and I can only assume they’re being honest about privacy, you might consider looking at Vero. It has up-front tools to control who sees what.

Still, I would encourage people to minimize their reliance on any platform owned by someone else to maintain relationships. At someone point, something will break, will be hacked, will go out of business. Do you think Facebook will exist for 25 to 50 years from now? When it goes, all your photos and videos and conversations go with it. When someone dies, all the memories they’ve captured are gone. Hashtag: bring back photo albums.