You say “apple” to me and I’m #1, glossy skin, insides, all that

And how in the hell does one navigate life, or enjoy a book, if they’re not a #1?! Reading a book is like watching a movie. I subconsciously assign actor’s faces to characters and watch as the book rolls on.

Yet #5’s are not handicapped in the slightest. They’re so “normal” that mankind is just now figuring out we’re far apart on this thing. Fucking weird.

EDIT: Showed this to my wife and she was somewhat mystified as to what I was asking. Pretty sure she’s a 5. I get frustrated as hell when I ask her to describe a thing and she’s clueless. “Did the radiator hose pop off, or is it torn and cracked?” “I don’t know!”

EDIT2: The first Star Wars book after the movie came out was Splinter in the Mind’s Eye. I feel like I got that title. What’s it mean to you?

  • REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    I’ve been using imgur to save random images for what feels like a decade and not a single one has been deleted

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      1·
      2 hours ago

      It wasn’t all old data that they deleted, but it was a lot. Why trust a corporation with your memes? You’re on Lemmy for a reason. You know how this ends.

    • tankfox@midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      You’re not in UK. UK banned imgur because the crown is trying to build a database of internet users to oppress and imgur said no.

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        1 hour ago

        No, imgur isn’t banned, they were threatened with a fine, and it wasn’t because of the online safety act, it was because they were tagging user data with suspected age range, and selling browsing habits of children. The ICO said that they had to come up with a plan to exclude the child data from sale or they could be liable for a fine. Rather than implement a simple filter on the database, they implemented a complicated geofencing filter because they took offence at being regulated at all.

        • tankfox@midwest.socialEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Wow that’s a lot of pointless words. They were told to implement an internet user tracking system or be fined, but since they have no desire or obligation to do so they chose to cease operating under those rules. This has nothing to do with children and everything to do with tracking adults, there’s your ‘simply’. Trying to spin this as ‘protect the children’ is completely worthless word garbage.

            • tankfox@midwest.socialEnglish
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              1 hour ago

              I understand that you believe what you’re saying but I don’t think you’re factually correct. You’re parroting the propaganda of a censorship and tracking regime that has no sincere desire to help children in any way.

              The good news is that this is already teaching a whole new generation of UK citizens the value of VPNs and encrypted paths out of the ever-tightening information noose the UK has been trying to create for the last 41 years.

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                1 hour ago

                You think I disagree with you about the OSA. I don’t. I disagree with you about imgur. Imgur is a greedy corp who deleted a bunch of old posts but excluded ones with a subscription and sold child browsing habits and blamed it all on the OSA when the investigation predated the OSA. It was already illegal to sell children’s data without parental consent in the UK for years and years. They’re not the good guys fighting for internet freedom they’re painting themselves as.