It’s important to identify that prayer in the traditional sense is still useful. Giving in just a little bit to your universe, if only for a short while, to let your guard down and express your innermost thoughts to an outside entity is incredibly helpful to the brain in reframing the challenges in life. Even if you don’t believe in a “higher power”, expressing these thoughts to the universe can help process things in ways that pure action or meditation can’t.

Here come dat boi is my favorite meme of all time. In my eyes, it fully encapsulates the perfect meme. It exists solely to bring joy, but is also a complete shitpost.

I guess it made more sense back when people didn’t catch every episode. Still glad it’s not the norm these days.

The idea of doing a clip show only 6 seasons in is diabolical.

That’s worth tipping for in a Waffle House considering you weren’t directly involved in the murder.

I’m just amazed they haven’t misplaced the log after all these years.

I’m your penis, I’m your fire, your desire.

Better than John Bud I suppose.

Wouldn’t GrapheneOS have the Linux kernel and therefor also the same age restrictions? Genuine question here.

They credit the image to David Slater, but I’m on team Monke. I am not on team AI. Monke will always make a more interesting picture than AI.

You are correct that this is normal for the OS. The OS will use this data to determine your location. What is not normal is abusing the Bluetooth permission to send a list of scanned devices to app vendor. They should only be collecting the location, not the raw Bluetooth list. I don’t know what the app is to confirm, but the way they said it, they would be handing all of the local device data along with the standard location permission. This is the extra data that can be used to isolate you more than just a location could.

This is similar to browser fingerprinting, but worse because your phone goes with you everywhere.

One final mention is that the app is likely not collecting that list once, but rather regularly, so they could build a profile on what devices you’re in range of and by extension where you are regularly, even if you chose to disable your location, since they’re using Bluetooth MAC addresses as their workaround.

Except that it sounds like this hooked into an app and sent all the info about those Bluetooth devices to the manufacturer, which some data collectors can use process of elimination to isolate you. Normal (privacy-respecting) Bluetooth devices do not pass this info to the service provider and only your phone uses it to pair with the device.

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I actually did not. A lot of those who have spoken great wisdom unfortunately have.

I’ve always enjoyed his lectures. He seemed to have such talent in navigating life itself.