no, actually they are not. Protesting the Trump administration and its policy actions and goals are different than protesting the United States government writ large. Being the current president does not make protests against him protests against the united states government

Every article explains how to activate this, but I have a Google phone and all my apps are up-to-date, but I see none of this in my settings

you know how your reduce entitlement spending? reduce poverty that necessitates it. How do you reduce poverty? EDUCATION AND ENTITLEMENTS!

exactly! "but why do I have to pay taxes that fund public schools if I don't have kids or I have kids but they don't go to public school?" uh...because quality schools raise your property value, so there's that direct ROI that benefits you. Also a well-educated population is a more competitive, employable population and attracts jobs to your community which also benefits you. It also reduces poverty and all the issues poverty creates (homelessness, crime) which consume money that could go to education and lower property values. You literally have everything to gain and only a small amount of money to loose if you adequately fund education!

Reddit is not the government. The first amendment only protects your speech from the government. Reddit is under no obligation to give hatespeech a platform to amplify it. Also hatespeech is an implicit threat. If you can't respect another human's right to exist or their civil rights as a citizen, your beliefs are inherently threatening to any demographic targeted by it

all this does is add an additional hoop to jump through. You'll just get "opt-in or else you can't/won't be able to use our (full) service" message that everyone will just click through like every EULA ever

for facebook? because when you tap to record and post a video, it needs camera and mic access. There are innocuous reasons for it to need that permission too.

its absolutely confirmation bias/delusions of grandeur. I think people don't realize how much they reveal about themselves via means other than being listened in on, but when they see targeted advertising, they assume someone monitors their conversations rather than making predictions based on other things you do online. My ad profiles on social media are skewed heavily towards things I do at work because that's the only place I can't aggressively block and disable tracking technology. Almost none of my ad profiles contain info relevant to my personal life which I would assume they would pick up if they were actively monitoring my conversations. They are basically deprived of that information because I actually care enough to know how to and actually block and limit their ability to track me. It's actually hilarious how off-base some "targeted" advertising is because of this.

Seriously, though, what does google stand to loose if people using custom ROMs want to voluntarily use their software??

you're not obligated to use systemd. You're free to use whatever you want. Use your freedom to pick or develop an alternative

Even if they were, as long as they comply with the terms of the GPL, they're within their rights to do whatever they want no matter how much you piss and moan about it. I only see it as a good thing. Instead of insisting "all servers should be Microsoft servers", they've acknowledged that Linux is more popular and is doing what they can to adapt.

most of my friends and family who can't afford medical care forego medical care entirely. My niece is losing her CHIP because congress can't get its shit together and will lose access to the mental health services she needs

bureaucratic overhead or bureaucratic overhead+a mandate to make profit for shareholders. Tough choice!

What do you mean their lawsuit was ineffective at fixing the root cause of the problem!? I thought lawyers could fix anything! Seriously, though, if Angelfire could block direct linking of their assets, Getty Images can to. Google should have de-indexed their images for this fuckery!

I'm surprised that excel is the industry standard for this type of work though. Excel Macros seem like an afterthought bolt-on to a product that wasn't meant to be used like that.