Both but I believe to a certain degree a person can have a certain amount without it corrupting them. Beyond that point, everyone is corrupted. There are no truly benevolent billionaires because a person must engage in various questionable practices to keep growing their wealth at such an exponential rate. Basic market economics dictates that a business entity competing for a limited market share must repeatedly find new ways to make more profit by using strategies their competitors aren’t. This includes but is not limited to skirting around regulations and laws, and somebody inevitably runs those companies.

I also think most people massively underestimate the impact that conditioning puts on a person’s outward demeanor, but that leads into a deeper tangentially related discussion. Regardless, people are complex creatures.

—To put it simply, to become a billionaire or even a typical megamillionaire a person must invariably step on someone else.

It’s easier to steal, copy, or alternatively subpoena a fingerprint.

Biometrics, huh? You know- passwords are more secure…

We’re not the moral police. There are many Americans who are diehard pro-genocide. There are others that are implicitly pro-genocide. They just don’t hang out on Lemmy. Also, our media is focused on Israel right now. Most Americans don’t know what our military is doing elsewhere in the world and the media doesn’t cover it. It’s hard for a populist politician to take a stand against our military industrial complex when the population doesn’t know what that Complex is doing. That industry fights back.

High energy usage and a smell of cannabis. If they got a warrant for this raid then there was also a judged who fucked up.

Also according to the article she was alleged to have continued conspiring over recorded phone calls with her codefendant (after she was already charged)

Judges don’t like when alleged crimes continue after a person is already charged for similar crimes.

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Life imprisonment is cheaper than execution in America.

The first and ONLY season of Altered Carbon. I love the dystopian cyberpunk sci-fi film noir style.

I love it!

The schadenfreude, I mean.

Here you go, I just double checked this one:

https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/A91018A4-EA4F-4130-BF55-AE270180C327/44710ECC-10BB-48D1-93C7-AE270180C33E/podcast.rss

They’ve changed parent companies at least 4 different times over the years. This is the one found on the IHeartRadio website.

I would but much like somebody else’s recent post I have in the past nuked my install by blindly agreeing to some recommended software removals before. These days I like to double check what packages are being updated and replaced.

For Debian based/descended distros:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

And technically I also regularly use

redshift -O 3000

all of the blue light filter programs try to align themselves with a user’s geographic location and time, but I don’t keep normal hours

The users most likely to complain are also the users least likely to stop using their products.

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Anti-democratic propoganda.

I agree but this logic cuts both ways.

The people that disliked the courthouse lady shouldn’t be too surprised or upset now that the shoe’s on the other foot.

Apparently duck eggs (but sometimes chicken eggs) with a developed embryo is a delicacy in some countries referred to as Balut eggs.

As Proton made evident, VPNs can be legally compelled to start keeping logs on specific accounts as the result of a court order. So if you’re gonna do something incriminating, then I guess you should create a new account each time.

'not like he has much of a choice.