Yeah, they do. AIUI there’s some nuance about what constitutes “legitimate interest” so it’s possible (probable in fact) they might only delete pictures where you’re the main subject but not e.g. group photos from events

Even their own website makes them look like evil assholes

https://1789capital.vc/

I’ve always obsessively kept my photos off any cloud provider for years only to discover that the entire rest of the family have a treasure trove of fully tagged pictures of me uploaded to every major provider out there. In most cases I think it even ties the tag to my phone/email/birthday entry in their Contacts list.

That grammar begs to be read in a Russian accent

Either they’re A/B testing, or you’re on the wrong page

Wait I think I’ve already been here

Trump administration once again showing a total lack of self-awareness or basic nous. As though they think doing this will remove all suspicion from them, and not make them look totally guilty.

Giving them money to spite them is an interesting gambit. If you want to fuck with them in petty ways you’re far better off just buying and returning bulky items until they cut you off.

nah fuck that, the episode you’re talking about is where they lost me.

“There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism… therefore we’re going to rewrite the rules of the cosmos to give you a pass for it, and now you’re not obliged to fight it any more. You can go back to being happy little consumers now, all your guilt is absolved. Fremulon. NBCUniversal, a Comcast company.”

I found it on the UK web version but I had to use the browser’s search function to find it on the page.

It had nothing, which I’m hoping because I’ve previously opted out of analytics?

CEOs are often hired to perform layoffs

Yeah that’s why I went out of my way in my description to specify everyone within the last year. Stops them being able to work their way around it by just hiring someone to get fired. Also the word ‘package’ already covers all forms of compensation.

Also when I’m King, if a company wants to make layoffs, anyone who has served as CEO within the past year also must be laid off, with the same severance package as all the workers that they failed.

where it can backfire is when they reveal that they also knew it wouldn’t help

The supermarket I went to in the 90s boasted in their adverts about how if there were more than 3 people waiting in a lane they’d open another till. That’s how bad the general standard was.

The best time to mention it is 10 seconds after you’ve peed on them

In the mailing list and usenet days, people would tell you to RTFM if your question was answered anywhere in the documentation, and Linux was a thousand times harder to install back then. Never mind DMAs and IRQs, you had to manually write config files specifying the geometry and refresh rate of your monitor.

I’m not sure either. Is the joke porn?

OpenAI and Sam Altman are being sued by British Columbia over claims that the company could have prevented a mass shooting in the Canadian province.

Not sure how to feel about this one, on balance I’d say probably fuck British Columbia as well as the rest of them? A government suing someone for not snitching is major Stasi energy, even if mass shootings are horrific.

What country is “you can’t close your account unless you go 90 days without using it first” legal in?

Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman pleaded in a 3,000 word blog today with communities to embrace data centers

Who the fuck is reading the blog of some Amazon executive who isn’t already on the kool-aid?

(also, lol at job title inflation finally reaching the “CEO” level. I see Amazon now has 3 CEOs and an “Executive Chairman”.)