We both know he was using the broken tail light as probable cause for a stop. He wanted him to pull over because he suspected he was drunk or on drugs or simply because he was black with a broken tail light.

As soon as the man didn't pull over the cop got his hackles up and now he was definitely going to stop him. Escalation is the way with cops.

Well I think it does, because they don't know literally everything about us yet. But they will one day if we don't fight back.

As Doctorow points out, 'Saying security and privacy don't matter because you have nothing to hide is like saying freedom of speech doesn't mater because you have nothing to say.'

It's a very short-sighted view. Those rights will be taken from you if you don't protect them.

I read that stuff a few weeks ago. And the responses and discussion on Kagi's Discord. I'll continue to monitor Kagi's behavior, of course, but for now I prefer Kagi. I get far more relevant results with no advertising noise and as much or as little "AI" assistance as I want.

Google is a cesspool and DDG is simply inferior - worthy, but inferior.

There's a reason Primus' Les Claypool mentions the 7 Layer Burrito in "Wynonna's Big Brown Beaver".

The shit was good.

McDonald's Beef tallow fries. One of the great losses of my early life.

Try Kagi. Paid search engines are the future in order to extract yourself from the enshittification of "free" search engines.

Steam has to be worth a lot more than 12 billion.

“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”

• Clarence Darrow

Years ago at work we had a office type coffee machine with the filter carrier you pull out and dump.

The water flow to the filter got slower and slower until it was taking forever to make a pot. I finally broke down and took it apart to clean the calcium deposits out of it.

Turned out there was a dead cockroach blocking the hole from the reservoir to the filter.

140 decibels. I'm sure some applications exist but it won't be a 3D TV soon.

Not surprising. Sync has made Lemmy a near-seamless change for me.