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[–] Cyv_@kbin.social 123 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Weird christian shame shit aside, here's a nice security concern to top it off:

“A US Congressman is allowing a 3rd Party tech company to scan ALL of his electronic devices daily and then uploading reports to his son about what he’s watching or not watching….,” Receipt Maven wrote. “I mean, who else is accessing that data?”

[–] iamtrashman1312@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

You'd think this obvious hole in cybersecurity would be a big deal to the "but her emails" types, if they had absolutely any moral consistency

[–] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

the 3rd party tech company maybe? or the people they sell the data off to?

[–] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com 119 points 1 year ago

Mike Johnson goes to the doctor for a checkup.

Doctor says, "Mr. Speaker, you've got to stop masturbating."

Johnson says, "Why?"

Doctor says, "So I can examine you."

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If my parent asked me to monitor their porn intake I’d tell them to talk to a clinical sexologist because what the actual fuck‽ And if they asked about mine I’d honestly be concerned that there’s something incestous there.

Like I’m super pro sex ed and parent-child communication on such things. But there are things that you’d like to keep private from that relationship unless it’s important. I’m so grateful I don’t know anything about my parents’ masturbation habits

[–] EddyNottingham@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you for using the "interrobang" you classy human ❤️

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Is that one of Mike Johnson’s favorite porn categories?

[–] relevants@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I set up my phone to auto-correct "?!" to the interrobang. That makes it so much easier to remember it's there!

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[–] TheJims@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there anything not weird about this guy?

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's weird about notifying your kid when you beat off?

Preventing this is the future liberals want.

[–] stormtrooper@sopuli.xyz 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s the era of the house whack jobs.

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[–] satans_crackpipe@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is not a joke, although I'm laughing pretty hard

https://www.covenanteyes.com/

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

$17 dollars a MONTH lmfao maybe I'll slap together some shitty malware-as-a-service and charge saps 12 instead lolol

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

(sigh)

Unzips

[–] Infinity187@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago

I'm gonna go ahead and say it....white evangelical people are fucking creepy and not normal. AND YES, I will generalize with these fucks.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I did not need to know that. Thanks Rolling Stone.

[–] Fester@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IN THIS ARTICLE: Mike Johnson, porn

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[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

That is so psychopathic. The GOP are a bunch of sick mofos.

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Knew before I read the article that it was gonna be Covenant Eyes. Aka the same software "monitoring" Josh Duggar, that he got around with a partition. Super effective stuff. I'm guessing about 90% of fundie men that use it also have partitions, because you don't pay for software to monitor your every move unless you know you're not able/willing to control yourself.

[–] PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Huh? That's so ridiculous it can't possibly be true.

Can we get another source?

Edit: yeah. This is also reported by plenty of other sources.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

If you read the article, they link to a tweet where he discusses it at length on video.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

You probably already know this, but you need to keep a lookout for where the articles are actually sourced from. Just because multiple sources are reporting on something could simply mean they are affiliated outlets publishing the same story from the same original author.

This saves time for affiliate outlets, but it's a practice that is vulnerable to the rapid spread of misreporting or intentional misinformation.

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[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

Man, evangelicals are weird.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

The real problem is people that should be our leaders don't want anything to do with all the bullshit involved with politics. So we end up with weirdos and crazies instead.

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I just tilted my head to the side in confusion a full 90 degrees.

[–] MelodiousFunk@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

xantoxis's chiropractor liked this comment

[–] fosiacat@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

imagine knowing how often and to what your dad jerks off to

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This guy looks like an AI generated cunt.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

He looks a bitmoji of a possessed marionette.

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[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

On the one hand that's weird.

On the other hand, for a Republican these days maybe not that weird.

Call me when the inevitable mutual masturbation video surfaces.

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[–] zib@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

There's a lot to unpack here and I'm not sure I want to.

[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I mean, there's endless trolling material there.

[–] ApeNo1@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

A lovely father son ~~bondage~~ bonding moment.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

…what the fuck.

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