Notices by Nick (nickiquote@mstdn.social), page 2

@MediaActivist @openrightsgroup This “pay or consent” model was adopted by Meta and others when it was held that they could not rely on contractual terms for their tracking cookies. All regulators in the EU are pushing against it but IIRC there’s yet to be a definitive court ruling on it. The UK is separate but you would expect the Information Commissioner to have the same attitude, as the law is identical. It’s not compatible with GDPR-based consent.

@bmacDonald94 Say what you like about Nixon, but the man had a proper thumb.

@selzero Maybe Streets of Rage 2?

@gothodile @davidpnice @selzero I think this whole thread should be preserved by the Smithsonian for future generations to understand this site.

@AnarchoNinaWrites It’s likely, based on the exit poll, that we’ll have our first trans MP, at least. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Brothers

@InternetEh The scolding of voters will continue until polling improves.

@stavvers I once pissed off a herring gull on a beach by refusing it ice cream and shoo-ing it away. It responded by flying up into the air and then dive bombing us with bird shit. Fortunately my wife and kid were under cover in a beach tent.

@stavvers I may adopt the “first day in prison” approach to going to the beach and just immediately pick a fight with the biggest, meanest gull to show the others I’m not to be messed with.

When you die, nobody will remember:
- Your salary
- Your fancy title
- How ‘busy’ you were
- How stressed you were
- How many hours you worked

People will remember:
- Your shitposts

- Frogs do not allow you to gradually boil them.

- Lemmings do not commit mass suicide.

- Ostriches do not stick their heads in the sand.

- Newts do not confuse weather and climate.

- Moose do not get their news from Facebook.

- Naked mole rats do not kid themselves that they live in the greatest democracy in the world when in fact they live in a two-party oligarchy with every representative dependent on huge donations from the superrich.

- Cassowaries are not particularly impressed by AI.

Ok, maybe Google isn’t completely evil yet.

@TheBreadmonkey Trivia: Huge Thatcher fanboy and friend Jimmy Savile claimed to have invented the “two turntables and a microphone” DJ set up. Unsurprisingly, this was a lie.

I feel stupider just reading this quote from a US voter.

This is not a drill.

@TheBreadmonkey I think you might find that some Sunday Sport articles are difficult to verify.

I came here to do the crossword and kick ass and I’m stuck on 7 Down.

@TheBreadmonkey I’m wondering whether it’s possible to be almost infinite without being infinite, because like infinity you can’t fix a number as almost infinite.

Anyway, David Beckham’s 18 goal Premiership record from direct free kicks is less impressive if it turns out the goalmouth is larger than the universe itself. I always knew he was overrated.

@stavvers benelephant dictatorship, more like.

@thomasfuchs God knows what they’d make of it if they raided my house.

@MediaActivist I once went to a Jarvis Cocker gig in Sheffield where he had it projected above the stage.