https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_toxicity

** The banking industry, hiding in the corner looking sheepish **

does he ? when did this happen ?

I'd be interested to hear your alternative.

Genuinely, the law system is suspect at best, in many places.

The science is the means, not the truth.

Well, the scientific method is, not sure if that also applies to the definition of science as s singular word.

That would be covered by the

and we sure as hell don’t appreciate pre-compliance to the demands of increasingly fascistic states.

part.

That's actually an interesting question...is grass political ?

By touching it, would we be signalling some sort of political stance ?

Something to ponder.

Pointing out potential hypocrisy isn't homophobic, that you think it is, says a lot more about you than them.

So porn involves copyright, a legally distinct category of activity.

Which i did in fact already know, i didn't realise you were referencing something that you hadn't mentioned in your reply.

I'll assume you don't actually have a basis for claiming that prostitution involves copyright then.

I get that it sounds like splitting hairs, but we are commenting on something with a legal context, the legal distinctions are relevant.

Taking a step back: this is c/declineintocensorship not c/piracy. The fact that these are copyrighted means these pictures had even more protections than if not, legally speaking. Even ignoring the sensitive nature of these pictures, it is reasonable for the owner of content (the actresses and or producers) to enforce their copyright protections on these.

Indeed, as seems to be the case here.

Depends on how debilitating it is, if its bad enough, therapy might be a useful option.

Body dysmorphia about weight might need a bit more help than you can give as an individual.

It might not meet the criteria for that, but worth consideration.

Edit: to clarify, dysmorphia like this is where the brain refuses to acknowledge the relatively objective reality of a "normal" weight.

It's often one of the underlying causes of bulimia/anorexia and the converse.

Sure, but I'd wager that pales in comparison to the gain from being able to conveniently 'default' users to the options that grant MS access to the largest amount of data.

In addition, a somewhat plausible excuse to then hide away the ability to turn off all of this 'guidance' under the pretense of looking out for the end users.

This is the telemetry and monetisation equivalent of "we have to ban encryption to stop the criminals and terrorists, won't somebody please think of the children" only much more successful

If you’re using windows you’re already giving Microsoft data so may as well

While technically correct, to me this sounds like "You haven't managed to stop some of the tracking, why not just give them everything?" which is personally not my approach.

Not to say that my approach isn't effort and is even effective, but I'd much rather limit the damage in the ways i can rather than give up entirely. I can see why someone wouldn't want to put in that kind of effort though and i don't fault them for it.

Edge uses chromium not chrome, I would hazard a guess there’s much less data harvesting going on in base chromium given it’s open source and people can see exactly what they collect

Open source yes, but not necessarily free from data-harvesting.

The fact that un-googled chromium (and others like it) exist implies that straight up chromium being open source isn't a guarantee they aren't doing consumer-hostile shit anyway.

Though, yes, it's almost certainly less than full-fat chrome.