I mean “企” character by itself isn’t really a word, but maybe the person thought of 企业 (Enterprise/Bussiness), which I would say technically that person isn’t like lying, just a misunderstanding of language.

But then again, I’ve only attended primary school grade-levels in China, so I’m no word expert either.

Tbf she was an alien-worshipping cultist (cult wasn’t technically founded at the time, but she had the mindset of a cultist)

In Chinese (I mean like most dialects), North Pole is just 北极 (“Northern Extreme”), South Pole is 南极 (“Southern Extreme”). Arctic is just 北极 with the extra character 地区 meaning area (“Northern Extreme Area”), Antartica is 南极洲 (“Southern Extreme Continent”).

There’s no weird etymology involving bears lol

Maybe we should let someone from China or Taiwan contact the aliens?

Under normal circumstances, they can’t. But if they actually want to target you and they want to spend the time and resources, they could potentially send instructions to the backdoor to secretly sabotage the backup process:

Basically showing you that the backup is working, while in the background, it has been encrypting the files to a key they control during that backup process, and essentialy act as ransomware. (Modern computing has made hardware encryption so fast that it would be seamless, so it would be hard to notice that happening.)

So every time you check the backup’s integrity, it uses the key to unlock the files and show you “everything is fine”.

But when the time comes, they would nuke the keys from the Intel ME / AMD PSP then next time you try to access your files, you get an error message, then you try to plug in the backup drive, also shows errors. Because they already nuked the keys, you have a bunch of encrypted data you can’t access.

Sounds far fetched, but theoretically its possible.

Is your CPU open source? I bet you have a Intel ME or AMD PSP on your computer.

I think the right wing uses “B. HUSSEIN Obama”; they really want to invoke that Islamaphobia (Obama is Christian lol)

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I just realized I haven’t watchrd porn for like months, maybe a year. I rarely do that anymore. When I was a teen, I did because hormones, but then I kinda didn’t care anymore. Perhaps its being asexual.

Still haven’t figured out how to masturbate. Yea I’m definitely asexual by the way I describe it.

My jurisdictions doesn’t have age verification, but either way, I’m always VPNed into Iceland or Switzerland; Except like banking and online purchases, in which case I use real IP since there’s not point hiding when its already linked to my identity.

I mean it’s technically permanent as long as your organization continues paying for the license

Of course, they could downgrade your license or revoke it at any time. And they definitely will revoke it when you graduate (so they can reallocate the licensing costs to new students).

Your work/school accounts don’t belong to you.

The thing is, we really don’t know what’s in the hardware, how do we know there isn’t a “Intel ME” on your phone that is just hibernating, waiting for the right kill signal?

You don’t have sex partners.

I don’t even have friends.

We are not the same…

Well unless you count my cat as a friend, but that seems one sided. (My cat doesn’t see me as a friend, just a dumb monkey)

Is local storage even safe from big corp just remotely nuking your files? I’m sure there’s a secret button somewhere to mass delete photos from people’s phones incase they start rolling in the tanks to crush a protest.

From what you’ve described, polonium flavored cupcake is the most effective treatment

-Sincerely, ChatGPT’s Sibling 😉

This is why I hate when the libs on Lemmy/Reddit keep advocating for gun control. You have no leverage if you give up all the guns to the state.

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They already have them:

trump, putin, xi, the unholy trinity axis of evil

Well, if automation replaces people, no one would have to work, we can all benefit from UBI funded by robot manufacturing.

Instructions unclear: Bought a tomato and ended up in The Bad Place.

I think the Lemmy userbase is too small and its easy for a few vocal voices to dominate the conversation.

There are often contradicting points that the Lemmy hivemind holds.

Like Lemmy wants to abolish the police but also wants to empower the police to take away people’s guns??? (Talking about the US btw)

Lemmy loves their doublethink

you know what ACTUALLY protects from powergrabs by payment processors? A fully centralised, government backed form of digital cash that is fully equivalent to paper money.

Only if the government is democratic, many governments seems to be autocratizing these days, which wouldn’t help when they start enacting puritan policies and refuse payment transfers. Not to mention, even some democracies banned porn (South Korea, for example).