The only way is a data only SIM card.
It won’t have a phone number for anyone to call or text.
Of course you can’t make calls or texts either. You have to setup some kind of SIP service if you need to.
We’re not talking about individual people, but whole corporations and organizations.
For example. Instance.social is shutting down. Now the whole Org needs to migrate 150 accounts to someplace else. Oh and the old posts are being deleted, can’t migrate those.
And the support community you created on there, is going away also. Again, can’t really migrate all the old posts and comments. But the FAQ documentation we put there when people asked about it, can be manually copied to the new place. So that’s something
That’s not a situation any company would want to be in. Better to have their own social home, that they control.
Hard disagree.
Running your own social media server for official accounts, so you’re not beholden to the whims of other providers, is kind of an obvious thing to do for online organizations.
The most profitable league in all of sports…
Is being killed?
I don’t think that means what they think it means.
I looked at both of those.
The first is conflating Sex and Gender. As I said, sex isn’t defined by chromosomes and specific genes. It is partially determined by them, and other factors, such as in you temperature dependent example. But again Male and Female are terms used throughout all sexually reproducing lifeforms. Not just Humans. The terms are defined by the reproductive role of the animals gametes; not their genes or anatomy or anything else.
The Beyond XX & XY chart you provided shows a whole host of genetic disorders that can result in a range of outcomes that mix male and female traits in humans. Then it tries to assign genders onto those mixes of traits. But gender isn’t determined by genes, or anatomy. It’s determined by society and social convention. Do you see what I’m saying?
The statement “She is male” is consistent with a separation of gender from sex. It does leave an open question as to the use of Man and Woman. I’m torn on that one myself. Traditionally Man and Woman are terms of sex, while Masculine and Feminine are terms of gender. My first impulse is to maintain that. But calling her a man, seems different than calling her a male. So I can see changing man and woman to terms of gender, while keeping male and female as terms of sex. I’m not sure we really need a separate word for “human male” anyway. Most of the time there’s plenty of context to indicate if we’re talking about humans or other animals.
Biological sex isn’t defined by beards or breasts.
It’s defined by the reproductive roll of an animals gametes. They apply through all sexualy reproducing species on earth.
You can’t in one place, say sex and gender are unrelated; Then another place use them as synonyms.
I’m all in favor of trans rights. And I believe seperating sex and gender is great! But it needs to be consistent. This inconsistent selective misuse of terms is infuriating. And I think it’s a big part of the hangups otherwise liberal people have with this movement.
comes with their school districts’ decision to install AI-powered monitoring software such as Gaggle and GoGuardian on students’ school-issued machines and accounts.
That’s kind of standard practice on any company issued devices I’ve ever used.
Unless they’re being given for the kids to own. If they have to give them back at the end of the year, then they don’t belong to the kids.
Hypocritical for sure.
Not really unexpected, so not ironic.
they say giving their biometric data to an unaccountable company crosses a line.
The company is unaccountable‽
That’s some projection.
Not really. One can be dealt with if needs be, since they’re US companies. The other can’t because it’s the Chinese government.
Nobody cares because they are US companies.
First, it’s not a TickTok ban. It’s a ByteDance ban. ByteDance could sell TickTok to another company outside China and TickTock would be fine in the US.
Second, it was never about protecting user data. It was about preventing China from tweaking the algorithm to try to subtly influence public political opinion, instead of maximizing generic rage and political polarization, to exploit for ad dollars.
It doesn’t help any one else unfortunately.
But I subscribed to Google Play Music All Access during the original promo in 2013. Part of $7.99 promo deal way back then, was that it was a Lifetime Subscription. Even after raising the price on all the 2014 YouTube Red promo users at the beginning of 2024, I’m still locked in at $7.99. I’ve de-Googled nearly everything else, but I’ll hold on to that subscription till I die, or YouTube does.
If there aren’t workers, there is no need for unions.
But that doesn’t happen anyway.
UBI doesn’t replace work. People still work. Pilot programs and tests show, people might work less overtime, or call out when sick more, so they can go to a doctor, spend more time home with a new baby, and stay in school longer gaining higher degrees. But they don’t quit their jobs. So there will still be plenty of workers to join unions.
How does it take leverage from unions?
It would effectively be a permanent strike fund.
Wouldn’t that help unions?
It’s also not so much “taking” power, as it’s not giving power you feel is your right.
Which, is the same kind of thinking that let’s copyright holders claim every count of piracy is theft of money they never actually had.
Have you tried the “Stealth” protocol option ProtonVPN has?
It’s intended to bypass VPN blocks. Sometimes it works.
As far as I can tell, looking into her, she’s a standard politician. She tells anyone whatever she thinks they want to hear.
So we just have to hope, and wait to see what happens.
Commercial monitors or digital signage displays are out there.
B&H has a good selection.
They are a bit more expensive, but not crazy.
Sometimes people do the right thing, for the wrong reason. While not ideal. I’ll accept it.