TacoSenpai

If I can't buy it and keep the data on it to myself, I'm not interested.  Privacy matters.
 
Yes, I know I'm the minority, which is sad.

VeggieTales pfps are superior to your shitty generic anime pfps

I prefer the maniacal stare of Leon Trotsky 

There simply isn't a better avatar for forums, games, discord, or any other non-professional setting where a smug anime girl does not make the perfect avatar.
 
Look at the derision on her face. It already lets you know that your opinion is not valued, you automatically feel defeated in arguments against the sheer SMUG.
 
The absolute dismissive nature of the Smug Anime Girl tells you that any attempts to engage in argument will be futile as the giga-chad energy being radiated from the wielder of the smug is simply too much for any jimmy rustling to occur except in the case of a smug-er anime girl appearing.
 
YouTube comment section got you down? Smug Anime girl is there for you to let you know only your opinion matters
 
Going to a forum just to have a good time, but feeling personally attacked? Smug Anime Girl is there for you to attack back
 
Want to do some light trolling? That's right, Smug Anime Girl is there to give your online voice the perfect level of disinterest and mockery necessary
 
Smug Anime Girl 2020: The Smuggining

A couple of thousands of years of education existed before cellphones, and the modern ones really are mostly distraction devices. So, at one level, they get in the way. On another level, they actually serve the major purpose of modern "education", which is really just housing students for 6+ hours a day.

If you end up not having any luck finding them online or direct from the manufacturer let me know. These look simple enough and have the tolerances to be 3D printed.

You don't by any chance have a 3D printer do you? ?

Cloudflare is 100% in their legal rights to drop 8chan as a client. 
 
but they might want to delete this. July 09, 2017 4:29PM We at Cloudflare strongly believe in network neutrality, the principle that networks should not discriminate against content that passes through them.
 
Just as Samsung has deleted the ad's making fun of apple removing headphone jacks. 

I think you are missing the mark here.  We need full dive games with anime harems and ass pull powerups.
 
 

I think you are missing the mark here.  We need full dive games with anime harems and ass pull powerups.
 
 

How about we devolve back to CRTs and play everything at 1024x768, 80Hz?

Just in time for Half Life 3.

Yeah I guess you could say they...
 
 
 
really nickel and dime you...
 
?

IMHO, Google has been broken ever since they removed the option of disabling the search-bubble and removed the ability to do SQL-like syntax for searches. *grumble grumble*

I get my news from linustechtips.com anyway. 

Sorry can’t hear you over DuckDuckGo. 

and the outright ban of the "Dissenter" plugin, dissent is literally in the name

It's not just Google, it's happening across Silicon Valley.
 
My mother works for a county a hospital (not gonna say the name) and top executives are just bailing left and right. It's gotten so political that people have forgotten that at the end of the day, this hospital is still a business. Despite all of its write offs and government subsidies, there is a lot of fraudulent behavior happening due to political standing about immigration and whatnot that is hurting this hospital. The people being replaced are incompetent and are only being hired for political reasons too. It's a sinking ship and very sad to see this type of behavior being practiced.
 
Anyway, I hope Silicon Valley has a reset. Too many dumb people playing dumb politics.

The fact they put it there in the first place screams "this is going to end badly". And it has.
 
Though, as a practical matter, the really important Google products they listed in the quoted piece are all very "old" at this point. That's actually been Google's biggest problem for nearly a decade: they are just finding more ways to monetize things. The company is no longer in a market where they're exploring new things, thus they are fighting over internal sources of power & money. Frankly, it's the life cycle of any Empire. The conquest & expansion phase has ended, thus the "long knives" are out for everyone because it's about internal political divisions. 

Pepperidge Farms 'members

Googles motto has always been  'Don't get caught being evil'

Good let them destroy themselves. If no one wants to work for them they can't continue their spyware

We need Captain Alex and Uganda Knuckles to show us the whey more than ever.  Call the commander

The long term effect I think we are about to see (if we haven't seen the short term effects of it) is that the whole purpose of higher education in a centralized institution was that you had to go to these places because they almost exclusively held the knowledge.  With the internet as big as it is and online learning as prevalent as it is (also cheaper mind you) I'm not sure that is so much the case anymore. 
 
I can think of very few things that outright require a 4 year college degree (i.e doctor, engineer, lawyer). 

I think the government has these things planned for a long time and then just waits for opportunities (or creates them) to use as excuses to put them into practice. Putting Facebook under the official (as in, no longer secret) monitoring of the FBI could just be phase 3 or 4 in a series of implementation stages that have been planned since Facebook launched in 2004.
 
Edit: @Taf the Ghost appropriately brings up the US government's Total Information Awareness program - which wasn't in-practice ended but morphed into the basic operational philosophy of US intel agencies, and which I would say that all the tech giants are willing participants in.
 
 
Facebook already is an extension of the US state and NATO, with its content policies being directed by Atlantic Council, which is the terrorism-endorsing information warfare (AKA propaganda and disinformation) branch of NATO.
 
I also think that Facebook's parallel's to the US government's Lifelog project can't be ignored.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_LifeLog
 

 
 
 
Google isn't too different:
 
Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance
 
How the CIA made Google
 
 
As I mentioned in this post, all data harvested by US tech giants is ending up in US government servers and in virtual profiles of every person to create a god-view over society.