In South Africa, where I live, everyone is assigned an ID Number at Birth. You need an ID number, thumbprint scan AND proof of address to get issued a SIM card number due to a law introduced called RICA. It was meant to help fight crime. Worried that the government could listen in to calls or read their SMSs, the criminals just switched to WhatsApp, which also happened to become cheaper than SMSs and gained popularity in this time.

The cops never seemed to crack WhatsApp. The only drug busts that happen are when an open secret becomes laughably too open and when they harass every person arriving from South America at O.R. Tambo international airport just to catch the decoy mules carrying 12g of cocaine (total). Every dealer I ever organised with was over WhatsApp.

So now, woopsi, RICA stopped nothing and just became a liability. That treasure trove of fragile data made its way to scammers and spammers. A total net negative.

I’d encourage everyone else in other countries to apply major pushback to any government proposals in this direction.

I hope this email finds you

• before I do
• while you’re watching porn
• when you’re in a bad mood

I imagine there are game devs who were laid off by the studio of the game they are playing getting extra pissed.

Like, they may know why a game breaking bug is happening and how to fix it, but they can’t, because the dipshit CEO wanted another yacht.

The only ads I get are from temu vaguely aligned with my interests

I do not sell drugs, I’m on the other side of that market

flute kinda looks like a fancy penjamin

I like using shotguns in videogames sometimes. I’ve only seen a real one a handful of times.

I forgot which community this was lmao

Edibles sends my consciousness to the ĕ̶̢̜̭͚̃i̸͍̍̀̕g̷͉̺̔h̶̦͓͒͋ť̴͎͙̗̀e̸͓͈̔e̶̘̼̺̺̓́͒ͅn̴̞̭̂͌͌͝͝ṫ̸͖̲̲͊̊h̴̟̥̱̎̔͘ͅdimension

I prefer herb/vape. Means I can still play videogames or more deeply appreciate music or shitpost on Lemmy right now

oh fuck

That’s horrific. I hope your relationship ended amicably?

Both the pronunciation and the literal sounds of “Two Buffalos violently dropping dead with a single shot fountain” are consistent with the other stories I’ve heard about Taco bell

Why do people keep eating there

When Bobby Kotick read this he probably aperture clenched his asshole so tight it burst his prostate.

how much security clearance would I need for a u.gov rickroll

Say “Thank fuck, finally” and take a nap

taxonomy

shit

Is that the right word

I’ve been using “ontology” when talking about item classification to sound smart

I guess it worked bc no one said “You mean taxonomy, right?” yet. My illusion of pretending I’m not a dumbass to people IRL isn’t broken yet I hope.

Walter and Jesse have unsimulated anal sex with each other.

It was the most graphic 235 minutes of the entire series.

When does the thrill start

Please don’t floor it when you see my indicator light telling you that I would like to merge

you must only consume piss

No one whoever drank piss died because of it

I was meant to be doing something but I got distracted

I have no idea what I was meant to be doing because I smoked the mystery joint

I think most of it was probably blue cheese

A company who wants kernel level access to your system for “anti-cheat” is being run by psychopaths with no concept of personal boundaries

adds up

Yes

Never put your fentanyl in such a big syringe

It will fuck you up

Friend sent me a video of a still image of a man on public transit who uncannily looked like pregorollzhin, set to that song in the MGSV opening credits.

The man who sold the world

I think