ITT people seem to assume that but no one has yet offered any amount of proof. I hope my company isn’t relying on everyone clicking “Maybe later” to prevent spying on professional messaging. That would be a huge lawsuit vector for Microsoft if that were the case. And if your company is cool with MS spying on messages, MS is going to spy on messages no matter what you click, and they were already doing it before any click.

In terms of “use electricity to make heat” it still trounces resistive heating. This whole thread is arguing about the definition of efficiency.

I know this is probably a repost but the self-censorship is super annoying and has entered the lexicon in ways that can permanently damage human communication as a whole.

Yeah sure censor stuff from kid shows but we’re at the point where “unalive” and “pdf file” are being used as code words. Everyone knows what they mean, even the censors.

Wouldn’t that just be calling all left wingers terrorists?

Yeah that’s the idea

I actually use it for creating thumbnails for a sorta niche application. The resulting files are quite small and the quality is fine. I do remember it being a pain in the ass to deal with ~10 years ago.

I can’t wait for the DNC to pull a 2016 and tank her campaign for someone more “moderate”

Project 2025 spelled out they are going to take over the country by any means

A bunch of streaming services removed or modified a bunch of stuff in 2020, including removing a bunch of episodes of Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia because they used blackface in a satirical way that clearly showed that you shouldn’t do that.

Meanwhile no one took down Tropic Thunder which basically did the same thing in 2008.

The big difference is there was no obvious government interference in 2020. The companies did it themselves.