TIL that loneliness is as lethal as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. A meta-analysis of 148 studies found that weak social connections increased the risk of early death by 50%, making loneliness more dangerous than obesity or physical inactivity
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1rzvrs5/til_that_loneliness_is_as_lethal_as_smoking_15/
The goal isn't to protect children,
the goal is to de-anonymize every comment and action on the internet, associating it with a legal ID, by eventually requesting official identification from every adult using a computer.
Some politicians have already stated this plainly.
This leads to censorship of anyone criticizing their government.
This leads to repression of marginalized people, especially immigrants, people of color, and trans and gender diverse people.
This leads to self-censorship of any comments or actions that could be interpreted against the system. Such as speaking out against fascism and authoritarian surveillance, or defending human rights publicly.
This leads to total control of the population and its tools of communications.
This leads to the end of democracy, centralizing power even more in the hands of a few.
Do not let them do this to us.
#MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #Authoritarianism #HumanRights
馃摳 **Graffiti 2024 im STRAAT in Amsterdam**
馃懁 Photographer: [email protected] (pharoahsax)
馃摑 pharoahsax has added a photo to the pool:
Streetart-Museum STRAAT
Das Museum: www.straatmuseum.com/en
Die Kunstwerke: www.straatmuseum.com/en/collection
Artist: Farid Rueda (Mexico)
Title: Theft and love
Size: 9 x 5 meter...
馃敆 [View on Flickr](https://www.flickr.com/photos/pharoahsax/55158513245/in/pool-49503134345@N01)
A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date.
This is being done rapidly by people with questionable justifications and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved.
It's an optional field in the userdb JSON object. It's not a policy engine, not an API for apps. We just define the field, so that it's standardized iff people want to store the date there, but it's entirely optional.
Lie by omission here. Clearly the reason for this being added is AV. Imagine it was a "sexualOrientation or "ethnicBackground" field that just got added because $government suddenly made that sort of thing a hot topic... "oh it's just part of the JSON schema, it's not up to us to decide how people use those fields! Fuck off. systemd should have no knowledge of any of that. It's irrelevant to the operation of the system.
Playing into the hands of fascists and he knows it and doesn't want it discussed or highlighted.
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