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If you judge the way someone talks to a dog (no matter how weird), then you're the one who needs to be judged

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@trevorminer @RyeSammy43 Just tagged them as well

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@RyeSammy43 @crowdhealth

[DMV Adventures @DMVAdventures]

Before: Wings were 25 cents each for MNF
Now: Wings are $20 for a Dozen

Before: Beers were $2.50 Drafts for MNF
Now: Beers are $8 for a Bud Light

Before: Bar Open til Midnight
Now: Bar closes at 10pm

Those are 3 of the main reasons

[Ron Nehring @RonNehring]

I just bought a $1999 refrigerator.

It would have been about $1649 if not for the federal tariffs tax which I (not “South Korea”) paid.

I also paid $155 in sales tax.

Total cost $2154. Of which 25% is tariff tax and sales tax.

To pay for it, I had to earn $3,420 in gross salary, of which $1266 went to fed and state taxes.

So for $3,420 in labor I got a refrigerator worth $1,649 (48%).

52% went to the government in taxes.

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

there has never been a better time to pull out this image

[Ayo O @ayoships]

I reverse engineered tiktok

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Tonight’s outcome isn’t about placing faith in Democrats or socialist principles; it’s about holding Republicans accountable for betraying their promises.

All Republicans had to do was:

1. put Americans First
2. not start another war
3. prosecute sex traffickers

[𝗚⃪𝗿⃪𝘂⃪𝗺⃪𝗽⃪𝘆⃪ 𝗚⃪𝗻⃪𝗼⃪𝗺⃪𝗲⃪ @Gnome4308]

Dave Smith called it

[Matt Couch @RealMattCouch]

This guy said the quiet part out loud and you can feel his anger and disgust…

I couldn’t agree more..

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

In 50 years, one of the most common deathbed regrets will be “I wasted my life on short-form videos” and the darkest part is they won’t even remember a single one

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

yeah i have a gambling addiction. i can’t stop betting on myself

[Not A Number @myhiddenvalue]

Wow

[TheRealChrisCockrell @CHRISTO29669187]

Anyone self disappearing?

[Tristan @Tristan0x]

If you've ever wondered why smart TVs are so cheap, this is why.

@log4j rooted his Samsung and found an always-on hot mic, automatic content recognition, geolocation, network mapping, ad targeting and user profiling, shared with Samsung's "400 partners".

A lot of it can be blocked in <15 min, wrote a basic guide below.

What your TV is doing

The main culprit is ACR (automatic content recognition). Your TV screenshots what's on screen, fingerprints it, and sends it home to build your ad profile. Samsung does it every 500ms, LG every 10ms [1].

What is insane: it happens on connected devices too.
Plug in your laptop, your console, your work machine, and your TV can fingerprint that via HDMI [1].
He also found that if your Samsung doesn't have a mic, it'll look for one from a connected soundbar or bluetooth device.
https://t.co/vNdTnIQ6KF
It's on by default, and you likely agreed to it on the setup screen you clicked through in 10 seconds.

Step 1: Turn off ACR

Samsung: Terms & Privacy → Viewing Information Services
LG: Live Plus
Vizio: Viewing Data
Roku: "Use info from TV inputs"
Sony/Google TV: Samba Interactive TV

Menus vary by model, but those are the names to look for. While you're in there, opt out of interest-based ads, reset your advertising ID, decline every optional privacy agreement, turn off voice recognition, and delete apps you never open.

Step 2: Give smart devices their own network

Put the TV, cameras, speakers and vacuum on your router's guest/IoT network. The logic is simple: these devices rarely get patched. If one gets compromised (getting drastically more frequent with AI), it shouldn't be able to see your other devices or home network.

Step 3: Block trackers for the whole house with DNS-level filtering

NextDNS (cloud-based) is easy and has a solid free plan. Pi-hole is a little bit more work if you prefer self hosting. For simplicity we'll focus on the former.

1. Sign up at https://t.co/IwhafVWVM8 (free tier is plenty)
2. Privacy tab: add a blocklist (OISD is a good bet) and turn on Native Tracking Protection for Samsung, LG, Roku, Amazon (see attached image)
3. Setup tab: copy your endpoint
4. Paste it into your router's DNS settings as DNS-over-HTTPS/TLS (or use the IPs + "Link IP" if your router only does plain DNS)
5. Bonus: block outbound port 53 except to your router. Some devices hardcode their own DNS to get around you

Then open the NextDNS logs and watch how often your TV phones home. It's eye-opening. If an app or update breaks, find the domain in the logs and allowlist it.

Why they do this

TV prices are down 97% since 2000 [2]. Most of that is better manufacturing and brutal competition. But once margins on the hardware hit zero, the cost moved to you.

In Q3 2024, Vizio lost $6.7M selling TVs and made $115.8M in gross profit from ads and viewing data [3]. They've said on earnings calls that they keep TV prices low to grow the audience they sell to advertisers. Walmart bought them in 2024.

This isn't a conspiracy theory either. Vizio paid $2.2M to the FTC in 2017 for tracking 11 million TVs without consent. Last December, Texas sued Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense and TCL over ACR. Samsung and LG have since agreed to stop collecting that data without explicit consent [4].

TL;DR
1. ACR off
2. Ads + voice off
3. Smart devices on their own network
4. NextDNS filtering on the router

Sources:
[1] ACR study: https://t.co/S1IS8lXNbA
[2] Cost of US consumer goods: https://t.co/nclXELXcbd
[3] Vizio Q3 2024: https://t.co/CrVbwc9ZXk
[4] Texas v. Samsung: https://t.co/wFOUdeh1if

[Heatbit @heatbit_com]

Introducing Bitwater: the water heater element that mines Bitcoin.

It screws into the electric tank you already have.

Physically decentralized mining that runs no matter what 🧵

Heat water. Mine Bitcoin. Same tank.

[Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit @drawandstrike]

Guess why someone never shows you this?

[Murray Hill Guy @MurrayHillGuy1]

I’m so confused by this whole debate.

Sydney Sweeney gets naked in an ad and people scream about women being sexualized.

Then Shane Gillis jokes about women wearing basically nothing at the gym and suddenly THE SAME WOMEN are saying women can wear whatever they want.” Which…they absolutely can.

But if wearing minimal clothing is empowering and your choice, why is simply noticing that it’s sexual suddenly objectification?

We need these women to pick a side…

[Mike LaChance @MikeLaChance33]

Shane Gillis is a sexist and misogynist.
Now here's a few jokes about how Trump's new press secretary dresses.

[Ewgi @Ssaasquatch]

Immediately they found out it was a trap, nobody cared anymore about the food. Life

[Tanishq (tk) @tanishqk]

wtf. never leaving this site