Thanks a lot!
Just activated it, and a short test on two of the news sites I visit regularly confirmed it to be working! :-)

Now I am interested, what book would that be?
Wikipedia banned books list shows me nothing currently still banned?
I see a bunch of expected ones for my home country Germany, mainly Holocaust Denials, which is illegal here, but that’s not the case in the US.

How does uBlock Origin help here, though?
I don’t think it blocks Cookie banners?

Mainly the pure sexism.
While this is also present in the earlier films, Moore adds a slimey cheeziness I really just can’t stand watching.
Especially after having seen Lazenby’s Bond just before, which was a move to a much more serious type of thriller, which I totally loved.

I recently did a rewatch of all the James Bond movies.
The Moore ones from (especially) the late seventies made me cringe away really hard.
Tried to watch them for completeness sake, but made me physically uncomfortable so in the end I skipped large parts.
Didn’t age well at all…
I really like most of the older and newer ones, though.

I think the Eurovision Song Contest has lost the innocent magic it once possessed.

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Nah, I don’t think so.
At least not today.

The posted content is pretty high up on the US-cliché-meter, and I also have blocked the communities that poisoned my “all” view too much with US domestic squabbles.

On multiple levels, most US American thing I read today…

There are also e-scooters, (motor-)cycles, agricultural heavy machinery, … , all of which have drivers, but are not cars.
So your shower Venn-diagram doesn’t venn correctly…

Not the first time, they seem to do that like once a year in my experience.
On my (Android) device, the recent blocking is already gone again, having lasted about two weeks.

It is a common strategy: first fix them on, then make life inconvenient for them to push for the next stage (be it app installation, more screen time or paying for stuff).

Seems like Reddit has moved on to the next “fixing on” stage again.

On other news:
Water is wet.

Screw you, Google!

Drill, baby, drill!
Nothing better than a healthy dose of prehistoric heavy metals and climate active trace gases!
And if you omit the costly filters, sulphuric acid from the rain might even corrode some those nasty windmills and photovoltaics!

I guess so.
Mullvad would probably one of the last to fall.

No.

AI can be superior to medical doctors in some areas when used for the right purposes / prompted in the right way, that’s correct.
But I am not in the position nor competent enough to do either.

I do use it to diagnose the symptoms that my house plants show, though.

A fun presentation, although I like the EFF’s Cover-Your-Track page more:
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

It’s bullshit.

Yes, you are right, it is.
(although the “children can’t buy internet” argument that turns up every time this topics are discussed, is also bullshit).

it’s identity verification

Yep, totally. End of anonymous use of the internet is the wet dream of some (primarily conservative) politicians.

But this has not been the point of my comment.
Rather that distributing fake news (“want to ban VPNs”) doesn’t magically become the right thing to do because the cause is a righteous one.

Add another proxy, and even a nuclear fission power plant is just using stored stellar fusion power.

So, let’s just use it directly instead.

Yes, I totally agree with you there.

The more important it is to keep our stuff together and not distribute false facts, as this will just let people think “oh, just another lying clickbait post on lemmy”.
That was the actual point of my comment.

It doesn’t sound as if they want to ban them, but to introduce age-verification for using VPNs.
Which also would be bad, but not quite so ridiculously insane as your post heading states.

That’s true, but the main reason I occasionally would like to access reddit, is that sometimes relevant search results point to reddit posts.
It’s just Inconvenient, nothing more, at least for reddit.