• 0 Posts
  • 40 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: August 4th, 2023

help-circle




  • MiDaBa@lemmy.mltochapotraphouse@hexbear.netThe Expression
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    3 months ago

    If Biden or the Democratic party really cared about the country they’d pick a new candidate. It wouldn’t take much to beat Trump and if Trump is such a threat to democracy then why run the worst presidential candidate of my lifetime? Why run the only candidate that Trump could possibly beat?





  • MiDaBa@lemmy.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyzLightning bugs
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    25
    ·
    5 months ago

    I was into my 30’s by the time I discovered fireflies were real. I was well aware there were bioluminescent creatures in the world but I thought fireflies just reflected light until I moved to the Midwest. They are an amazing sight when you’ve never seen them before.









  • I’m split on this concept. Assuming we can’t get away from tracking I would prefer a company like Google over a company like Meta. Google doesn’t sell your data, they just serve ads based on what data they have. Meta and other data brokers will sell your data to whoever ponies up the cash. I’m not happy about being tracked either way. I just recognize one system is considerably worse than the other. Also, if (and this is a big if) Google honors your request to delete your data then I believe it would be even less of a concern. Right now I have my Google data set to auto delete after three months. Ideally that would be enough data to help with traffic suggestions etc while serving up relevant ads but not enough to build an invasive profile. Realisticly we need more laws outlining how our data can be used and ensuring that it’s not retained in ANY form after a set period of time or when it’s deletion is requested.