Rediphile

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[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

Haha same despite not being active at all for months now. In any case, the email explains only residents of the USA are eligible.

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

Hard to call them stupid when they got to use it for free within the return window. Seems like a good deal. I agree with all the other points though.

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Yes, that's exactly what I said.

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

I'm not in any way shape or form doing that. This is abundantly clear from what I wrote.

I was only comparing cosmetic skin whitening to cosmetic skin darkening, since they are completely comparable and I have already explained how.

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Your take away from what I wrote was that I think people should never expose themselves to the sun/UV? The benefits of moderate UV exposure are completely irrelevant to the point I was making.

I just explained how they are comparable and really don't know what else to tell you. Maybe someone else can give it a go.

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (25 children)

Skin whitening is not unlike tanning in the west, an indication of status/wealth. In India lighter skin shows you don't need to work outside. In the west tan skin shows you can take vacations.

And in both cases people fake it with creams and tanning salons. And it becomes so entrenched people don't realize why they are actually doing it. Just like makeup and clothing choices.

Yes, there are problematic racial undertones...and in general is definitely fucked up...but I think it's more complicated than just a race thing. I mean, people in the West are literally exposing themselves to cancer causing UV to fake the look of having recently taken a trip to Hawaii or whatever, which is also kinda fucked up.

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 46 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Just ordered one. I had no real interest, but once you tell me I can't have one....I must have one.

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Those intact icicles seem out of place

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If Google specifically denied tracking that's definitely misleading, but I'm unable to find a source for it and don't recall it myself.

Saying that the sites you visit track you would absolutely lead me to believe that search engines sites are included. Since it would not be possible to provide results for the search without knowing what was searched for by the user. And where would they send those results to without knowing the users IP or other form of network address? It just doesn't make any sense to think a search engine would not know who searched for what, since it is required for them to function.

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I always saw Google as a website too. So if I type 'giant donkey dicks' into the url/search bar, then Google is obviously going to know my preference for large donkey dicks. Since I googled it.

Or are these hypothetical common folk typing in full urls themselves or something? If it's auto-filling in any way, that's thanks to Google and they can only provide it if aware what has been typed so far.

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Yep, I never switched from torrents as I never found anything more convenient.

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Aww man I thought I found one! Guess I'm back down to zero people.

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