I prefer your list aside from
#2 UBI or not, we should be honest and admit all work is not equally meaningful, we shouldn’t pretend that my office job is as important as the paediatrician nursing a kid through Lukemia.
#3, it’s better to start from a position of everyone is worthy and be proven wrong.
#8 “I will not let society define what success looks like to me” sounds a bit less harsh.
Being able to pay for for therapy, or being financially secure to admit to yourself that you have a problem is a privilage.
Source: would like to do therapy but life/raising 3 kids is in the way.
Perry Bible Fellowship is the best Web comic. Been reading it on/off for what must be 20 years now.
Same pirated the first few seasons, but bought the box sets as Christmas presents for older family members. They made their money out of me.
Anecdotal, but I don’t see the rush to downvote legit opinions because people disagree with them. Lemmy seems a lot more chill at present.
Oh I agree. My original comment was adding to the one preceeding mine, not a direct response to the article. Yes, the US needs GDPR, despite it making aspects of my job annoying I am glad it exists.
From the article: “Firms say this data is anonymized but the truth is that it can easily be de-anonymized. The data brokerage industry is pretty much totally unregulated, allowing for an assortment of unsavory customers to buy Americans’ data willy nilly.”
Isn’t this the real issue and not the headline? US really needs GDPR.
I can’t comment on that! Just that phone data is very valuable for transportation modelling!
Unfortunately, I am the boot in this case.
74 page document about mobile phone data and transportation modeling.
Origin destination data from cell phones is useful for fairly obvious reasons.
Americans: we will cry foul online until we get an adequate transportation system.
Also Americans: we will cry foul online if you try to collect the data that you need to plan a transportation system.
Just one example of how phone data is useful.
On connect. Once I changed my settings it’s very comparable to the RIF setup I had.
It’s from an episode of Pingu. I only know this because it terrified me as a child and still haunts my nightmares as I approach my 40s.