A former GOP donor, who once made headlines after calling former president Barack Obama the N-word, fatally shot himself after attempting to kill his wife, according to reports.

    • @Illuminostro
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      1511 months ago

      You’re delusional if you think you’re a “ghost” online. You can make it harder to track you, but you’re never, ever invisible.

      • @Gabu
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        -111 months ago

        You don’t have to be - all you must do is have the value of selling your data be lower than the cost of acquiring it.

    • @yrnttm
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      911 months ago

      I would say Lemmy is a form of social media.

    • Flying Squid
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      -1311 months ago

      Good luck getting a job that pays anything but starvation wages.

        • Flying Squid
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          211 months ago

          A lot of jobs ask you for social media contacts. They also advertise via LinkedIn and Indeed, which require personal data. So you don’t have to be, but you’ll be lucky if you get one. And, like I said, once you get one, the company could easily just sell the data you give them. Are you going to refuse to give them your information too? Why would they hire you? Why would they keep you?

          This is the same “everyone can do what I did” nonsense I get from rich libertarians.

        • Flying Squid
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          -111 months ago

          “If I can be a system engineer, everyone can be a system engineer!”