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Proton let me delete the payment information between charges, but they certainly made it a painful process. I had to email support

The platform is enormous and highly successful solely because it is a monopoly in the Apple ecosystem I guarantee you if other app stores were allowed on Apple devices, they would take significant market share with a far smaller cut of revenue

It's also an option many people would be fine with. I'm okay with Google having my money. Paying companies for products is perfectly fine. I just don't want them to have my data and invade my privacy

These blocks look very different as a person on the street. They mostly only look bad from above where you can see all of them together We have some burtalist apartment buildings in Minneapolis. They’re generally desirable apartments

The USSR collapsed entirely in the early ‘90s Safe to assume everyone is aware they had severe societal issues

I hate it. Feels so restricting. Cant go anywhere without driving, and even driving a block is a huge pain in the ass because of all the traffic and traffic control

I’m kind of surprised Lemmy allows duplicate comments like Reddit. Super easy to prevent the issue, because there really isn’t a case where a person would want to post the same comment multiple times

I’m so confused why so many people think a VPN is the best solution. It’s easy to implement, but hardly optimal, and certainly not the only solution

Do less drugs.

you don’t know to use AI. no one here does. I do. That’s hilarious. Everyone thinks they’re some kind of savant while using LLMs. The reality is quite different AI is a useful tool, but people who misuse it, primarily due to overreliance, end up creating more work than AI is solving

It’s a coalition of groups with different purposes One group wants to ban porn entirely One group want to collect data on everyone. Your porn habits can be valuable if you’re a future political rival Some people believe it will prevent children from seeing porn Others use it as a way to assert control over sex workers, especially female sex workers Probably a few other smaller groups too. End of the day, none of them have your interests at heart