Well, not entirely true. They do it in the US based on your public voter registration data, giving rise to companies that only exist to suck up and sell that data to groups looking to game the system instead of giving people what they want/need/deserve.
TimLovesTech
Hi I’m Tim.
I’m AuDHD - officially diagnosed ADHD and self-diagnosed (for now) with ASD. I also suffer from a great deal of Imposter Syndrome.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•It is now 89 seconds to midnight. Closest it's ever been. How concerned are you about global war?English
1·10 months agoOh man, the conspiracy theories that would have come out of Trump deep frying his paws. The Right wing propaganda machine went crazy when Trump had issues at his UN visit over stuff the UN said was at least partly due to his own team. If he burned himself they’d have put that franchise owner on a plane to El Salvador that afternoon.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•It is now 89 seconds to midnight. Closest it's ever been. How concerned are you about global war?English
2·10 months agoTrump marveled repeatedly about how the fries are packaged, with the aid of a scooper-like device.
“Never touched by a human hand,” he said at one point. “Nice and clean.”
Source: Trump attempts to troll Harris by serving french fries at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s
Is a small clip of him making fries between 24-50 secs of the video at the top of the page.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•It is now 89 seconds to midnight. Closest it's ever been. How concerned are you about global war?English
9·10 months agoIf he actually goes through with it, everyone will know because it shows up on seismographs, something he’s apparently ignorant of…
Remember, this is the same man that thinks the stealth bomber is literally invisible, or that you neutralize a magnet simply by getting it wet, or that you take fries out of the boiling oil with your hands (he learned you don’t while doing his pretend day at McDonald’s).
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are your preferred alternatives to Amazon?English
16·11 months agoDepending on the product, the manufacturer themselves might link you to their “store” on Amazon. =(
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Canada@lemmy.ca•A Question For the Folks at Rogers.English
8·11 months agoWell your only going to be as fast as the slowest server in that chain, with all the latency/any dropped packets/etc. driving down your speeds. Also, if it’s built for security it almost certainly isn’t prioritizing speed test traffic of all things.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Carney announces long-awaited automatic tax filing, makes school food program permanentEnglish
62·11 months agoBetter than also making them have to file taxes, although it should be something that they shouldn’t even have to bother with since they are below poverty already.
Edit - Ah, I get the catch now, this is to make these people file that may otherwise not. Sneaky!
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Canada@lemmy.ca•New York Yankees fans boo Canadian national anthem before Toronto Blue Jays playoff game | SportsEnglish
8·11 months agoBefore President shit for brains Canada was are strongest ally.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•New York Yankees fans boo Canadian national anthem before Toronto Blue Jays playoff game | SportsEnglish
20·11 months agoThe whole state, or even the whole city, isn’t all assholes. I feel any sports ball fan group is going to be one of the worst representations of America.
Google lets you ask a series of suggested questions (kinda like the auto suggested text stuff), or you can just ignore the call. I’ve never felt the need to engage any further with any numbers I don’t already have, and not sure exactly why you’d want to, but the feature has been available for years now.
Edit - I think you can even screen the call by listening to the callers reply to the robot voice, but again never really cared enough to use it.
TimLovesTech@badatbeing.socialto
Canada@lemmy.ca•Cost to clean up orphan wells in Alberta reaches all-time highEnglish
9·1 year agoCapitalism doesn’t reward shareholders for preparing for a downturn, the system demands profits must go up before any other considerations.
And the companies themselves can’t be trusted to do the right thing, that’s why taxes should help pay for an oversight group to “keep them honest”. And when caught skirting regulation they should be fined accordingly, and increasing fines for repeated offences. And if they still can’t follow the rules shut them down and have them pay for it.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Any credible right-leaning news sources out there?English
11·1 year agoI think with the right going hard right since 2016, in order to get access to any of the high level right-wing talking heads you have to be “loyal”. The second you are not Trump/MAGA will turn on you.They also make money hand over fist selling FUD that is much harder when just presenting facts.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Socially inept, introverted employees. How do you survive the workplace? Because I’m in dire need of some serious advice.English
5·1 year agoI just fake it … forever (there is no “make it”). I watch and try and adapt, and try and limit my interaction with people that are not people I don’t feel like I can blend with, like social camouflage.
Most important, and why I hit the reply to begin with is, you are not alone! Not sure where you live, but I’m the US (at least for now) HR or whoever can’t legally put your medical/mental health info on full blast to everyone you work with.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Trump slams Canada's plan to recognize Palestinian state amid trade talksEnglish
13·1 year agoTrump just wants his “Trump Gaza Riviera” resort, and he’s not going to get it if Israel actually stops killing/displacing the people that live there.
Canada should call his bluff, and let him lose our top trade partner. If everyone had just come to a mutual agreement to call him on his shit either 1) he would have reversed and dropped this whole tarrif/trade nonsense by now OR 2) he would have absolutely cratered our economy and maybe even his base would see the light.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Can Visa and MasterCard be sued for this censorship debacle?English
2·1 year agoCampaigns like this have always been effective. And this is what the Right does, they complain en masse about everything that offends their hypocritical views. They are the ones that believe 110% in “cancel culture”, and then turn around and call the Left out when we block Nazis.
Also, MC and Visa are well within their rights to tell groups like this to go pound rocks, but groups like this also know if they grind down resources they usually win. The only way to prevent it is to ban the protesting of corporations, but then when they do the bad shit they love to do we’ll be without any recourse. It’s a bit of a double-edge sword.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Can Visa and MasterCard be sued for this censorship debacle?English
7·1 year agoSo the part that I see repeatedly missed is that a “no porn think of the children” group out of AUS has been hammering these payment processors as part of a new campaign. It’s not something Visa, or MasterCard just decided to take the “high ground” on, they have been hounded.
So really if everyone wants erotic games back on Steam and other things affected by this group someone is going to need to create a counter campaign.
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The Onion@midwest.social•Shocking Video Captures Calm Police Officers Handling Situation NonviolentlyEnglish
3·1 year agoIt makes it harder when you have people like Trump encouraging cops to be more violent.
“When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just seen them thrown in, rough. I said, ‘Please don’t be too nice,’” he said.
“When you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head you know, the way you put their hand over [their head],” Trump continued, mimicking the motion. "Like, ‘Don’t hit their head and they’ve just killed somebody, don’t hit their head.’ I said, ‘You can take the hand away, OK?’
“I have to tell you, you know, the laws are so horrendously stacked against us, because for years and years, they’ve been made to protect the criminal. Totally made to protect the criminal. Not the officers. You do something wrong, you’re in more jeopardy than they are,” he added.
Source: ABC News - Trump to police: ‘Please don’t be too nice’ to suspects
The bold section is just a super ironic “us” from the felon that calls everyone trying to hold him accountable, a “witch hunt”.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•U.S. Congress members urge Canada to deal with wildfire smoke ruining their summerEnglish
2·1 year agoYou just need megamaid!
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Truckers Freedom Convoy leader says he is seeking political asylum in the United StatesEnglish
8·1 year agoWell those white South Africans needed that asylum because of the white genocide going on in Africa. /s
Also Trump has to do something to distract his base from the fact he just had his DOJ do a huge Epstein coverup after promising to bring the pedo cabal to justice for years.
Trump has had several GOP “rhinos” primaried because they wouldn’t bend the knee.
Rusty Bowers: The former Arizona House Speaker was censured by his state party and targeted by Trump after he refused to help overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona.
Liz Cheney: As the former chair of the House Republican Conference and a leading critic of Trump, she was a primary target. Trump endorsed Harriet Hageman, who defeated Cheney in the 2022 Wyoming primary election.
Doug Ducey: Trump called the former Arizona governor a “RINO” for not engaging with his efforts to challenge the 2020 election outcome in the state.
Larry Hogan: Trump has repeatedly labeled the former Maryland governor a “RINO,” though Hogan has remained popular in his state.
Brian Kemp: The Governor of Georgia earned Trump’s ire for certifying the 2020 election results in his state. Trump endorsed David Perdue in the Republican primary, but Kemp won re-election.
Mitch McConnell: Trump has repeatedly attacked the Senate Minority Leader, though he has not been able to directly replace him.
Lisa Murkowski: One of the few remaining senators who voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial, Murkowski has faced heat from Trump’s allies and activists, though she was not successfully primaried.
Ken Paxton: When the Texas Attorney General faced impeachment charges, Trump defended him and called his Republican opponents “RINOs”.
Ben Sasse: The former Nebraska senator was another Republican who voted to convict Trump. Sasse later left the Senate to become president of the University of Florida.
Pat Toomey: The former Pennsylvania Senator, who also voted to convict Trump, retired from the Senate at the end of his term.