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With lots of land that could be generating solar power instead. The solution to high oil prices is accelerating electric car adoption and reducing oil dependence, not bandaging the problem for short-term gains.

A military dictatorship isn’t particularly representative of freedom.

simplify Reddit and improve Home feed personalization

AKA collect more data for advertisers.

Not in any meaningful way; that makes it less energy-dense, leading to gas needing to be refilled more often.

Not unexpected given how inactive it’s been, but still unfortunate.

Alternative to CBS.

Child abuse is not free speech.

Any form of age verification is a violation of user privacy.

They have everything to lose if other countries provide support to the U.S. Iran is already infringing upon Oman’s sovereignty by stopping ships from transiting the straight through its territorial waters. Not allowing neutral third parties to use the straight bribe-free incentives otherwise neutral countries to side against it.

The U.S. is in the wrong for starting the war, but Iran placing a toll on 30 percent of the world’s oil will only further convince other countries to side against it.

Every APK installation from outside of the Play Store gives an installation warning. It’s unnecessary and deliberately trying to make such installations seem less secure in comparison.

A beneficial warning would highlight the many privacy risks in installing apps from the Play Store instead of privacy-respecting alternatives from F-Droid.

Alternative to CBS. Also, a bit dumb that a murder gets more attention just because the murderer is an amputee.

The APK installation process is already more inconvenient than it should be, and now it will be getting even worse. There should be no difference in installing an APK via Google Play versus any other method.

The fact that the process will still have a ‘security’ warning each and every time after the 24 hour wait period shows that even for “advanced users” they want to make it as inconvenient as possible while claiming to still be keeping Android open.

People should be switching to Mastodon with how clear the coming enshittification is. User data is valuable, and the way ATProto siloes data from multiple platforms using the protocol encourages them to entrench the dominance of the official Bluesky PDS to maximize data collection. With $100 million in venture capital, Bluesky is in no way incentivized to meaningfully decentralize its platform.

Before subscriptions or advertising turn it into just another Twitter clone, users should be migrating to Mastodon.

Making users wait 24 hours doesn’t improve security; it’s an anti-competitive change designed to make the Google Play store seem like less of a hassle in comparison.

Penalties that are lower than profits encourage companies to rob consumers again in the future.

We’ve known Trump is a liar since long before he ran for office, that’s not news.

Truth Social is not indie, and an indie Nazi is still a Nazi.

Because it’s still officially called the Department of Defense; only Congress can rename it.

More broadly, it illustrates the administration’s use of illegal boat strikes and regime change as foreign policy tools.

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