not “possible”, that is certain

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2025/08/02/trump-says-he-will-get-drug-prices-down-by-1500/

Trump Spoke Of 600%, 1000% And 1500% Reductions in Drug Prices

Trump mentioned those, umm, interesting percentages in a July reception with members of Congress, when he declared, “This is something that nobody else can do. We’re gonna get the drug prices down. Not 30 or 40% which would be great, not 50 or 60, no. We’re gonna get ‘em down 1,000%, 600%, 500%, 1,500%.” You can see him saying this in a video that’s posted on what used to be Twitter:

It sounds like AI slop

what makes you say that? 😂

This modern solution offers an unparalleled experience

it’s not your memories which define you

it is your behaviour what defines you and if you lose the memories, it will affect the behaviour, so i am inclined to say yes, you are different person then.

it is similar to when you lose a loved one to a cult, be it maga or some religious cult. they are no longer the same person. you want to get back the person they were before, but right now, even if you kidnap them and lock them in your basement, they are not the same person.

or imagine some scifi future, where we have mastered the ability to transfer your consciousness into another body.

your spouse died, and they use their body as a vehicle for some other person, who suffered terrible accident, got hit by a train and only body part that survived was their head. after emergency surgery, their consciousness is now in your former spouse’s body. is that still your spouse? no, it is the other person.

as a very minimum, it would make sense to demand safe-deleting the photo immediately after the verification process, with fucking prison time to someone if it is found they did not comply with that.

but that is clearly not the direction the society is going 🤷‍♂️

yeah, except according to my understanding of the topic, there is not much adult alternatives. graphene will have the same problem.

I don’t like framing things in terms of doing a bad thing = being a bad person.

premeditatedly doing bad thing = bad person

it turned out that there are, in fact, stupid questions…

what prevents someone from downloading and installing the apk to their phone

google.

https://www.androidsage.com/2025/08/26/google-blocks-sideloading-of-android-apps/

what i have seen it on so far was pure slop, some random images from photobank, sometimes even with the watermark, accompanied by generated voice, so these are the ones that should really go.

might it have something to do with this?

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14328491?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid

i have already seen some “synthetic content” labels attached to random videos

lol… “breaking news on jimmy kimmel and autism”

giving about 5 clear indications that you’re from Ireland

now i am really curious, you wouldn’t be able to put red circle around these 5 clear indications, would you?

i am “this person”, you clown. is ireland the only country you know, or why did you decide to place me there? whatever ireland did to you must have obviously been something terrible to trigger you so much :D

my friend doesn’t get the joke. why should we care you are irish?

i have not found single dns that would resolve the domain (tried google dns, opendns, opennic.org, among others), so maybe it is just a config error.

$ host catflix.su 94.247.43.254
Using domain server:
Name: 94.247.43.254
Address: 94.247.43.254#53
Aliases: 

Host catflix.su not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

hm… i am not sure if this can be config error, or some censorship child protection is happening here.

i am in eu, in a relatively liberal country where no one cares about a torrent (yet), but i am in the vodafone network, so the latter would be not out of the realm of possibility.

$ host catflix.su ns1.ddos-guard.net
Using domain server:
Name: ns1.ddos-guard.net
Address: 185.129.101.200#53
Aliases: 

catflix.su has address 186.2.163.75

or it could be it is not delegated at all…

domain:        CATFLIX.SU
nserver:       ns1.ddos-guard.net.
state:         REGISTERED, NOT DELEGATED

$ host catflix.su
Host catflix.su not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

i have always wondered how this works from the legal point. what if you disagree, should you sue to get your money back? you are buying product with some expectations, they can’t just change that after you paid, can they?

it is similar with cars, what if you buy new car and the car’s infotainment asks you to accept some outrageous terms and conditions, you do bother to actually read them and then decline. can you get your money back? has anyone ever tried?

the headline sounds fucking scary, but i wonder what the reality really is. i am in my fourties, i remember news being printed on the paper, and i understand the media world and what the difference is between trustworthy media and tabloid.

still, lemmy is often times the first place where i see specific news, esp. regarding us politics (i am from eu) - but i choose links to reputable sources (which is not that hard, because lot of times the same info is linked 5 times from the different sources) and verify if needed.

so “gets news from social networks” would sound more ominous than i think my reality is. i don’t have tiktok, so i have no idea what the reality is there.

I can see you’re going through something really significant and distressing. While I understand you feel certain about what you’re experiencing, some of what you’re describing - the sudden overwhelming perception of hidden patterns everywhere, the intense paranoia about who to trust, and feeling like you can’t determine what’s real - are things that mental health professionals are trained to help people work through.

I’m not saying your observations about systems or power aren’t valid, but the level of distress and the way this realization hit you so suddenly after being ‘suppressed for 10 years’ suggests it would be worth talking to someone qualified to help you sort through what you’re experiencing. A therapist or counselor could help you process these feelings and thoughts in a safe space, regardless of whether this is a mental health concern or just a really overwhelming shift in perspective.

You mentioned feeling isolated and unable to talk to family or friends - that alone is reason enough to reach out to a professional who can provide that support.