Bonus round, reverse the party and do the same with Trump and see how it compares

I use libby to read a bunch these days thanks to my local library. It's crazy how much time I'll dump into social media nonsense if I allow myself to.

I see reading as a more productive waste of time if that makes semse

I'm shocked. Shocked I tell ya!

Ah yes the two industies that can sign their suicide pacts together

There's a significant divide between how pepping is percieved and how it actually works

You don't need bunkers, barbed wire or have to change your personality to be isolated and scared all the time

You just need to understand that sometimes the goverment or companies you normally rely on may not always be able to provide their service and to have what you need to fill those gaps.

https://theprepared.com/prepping-basics/guides/emergency-preparedness-checklist-prepping-beginners/

I think it's a lack of consequences. If you stood in your town center and said something dumb, people would call you out and shame you for it. It would change your reputation too, at least for a while. If it was really that off the rails you could get arrested or beat up, and you may never want to show your face there again.

Having a global communication system is amazing. Some guy I never met can show me how to fix my house or see things from a different point of view.

BUT there are way more people that are willing to say something dumb, not only in their local chats and posts, but everyone else's. There can be public ridicule, but there is little chance that someone will find you and kick your ass. Not only that there isn't really a way for victims to walk away either, which makes cyberbullying so unrelenting.

Only in how much space the songs take up

If it wasn't for the lack of requirement the same exact thing could happen and nobody would care

When the movie shows anything to do with your job/hobbies

When your nation falls apart and your city becomes an extensive warzone for years, the main power grid probably isn't top notch. But the sun works just fine!

If it wasn't for oil making the middle east insanely rich, imagine what they could do with solar

In my experience people who are against more Ukraine aid think that the dollar amount we send is actual cash that can be spent in other places, rather than pallets of munitions that don't keep forever anyway.

Idk how common it was but it's a good example of a "third place". A spot that isn't work or home where you can meet and socialize

Good, glad it's getting some main stream attention. If more people start taking advantage of these settings and alternatives it's going to hurt Meta's bottom line eventually

The "we did it reddit!" phrase comes from redditors trying to track down suspects of the boston bombing. Redditors found a guy they strongly suspected, then found personal info on them and began harrassing him and family, including death threats.

It was the wrong person.

Imagine being that person accused! One day just living life, the next experiencing a horrible bombing, the next being tracked down by a misguided internet randos on a manhunt.

This is why having some basic privacy is important before you need it

AI is a distruptive technology...just not in a way most people can use in a positive productive way. As entertainment it's a cool toy

But its best use right now is manipulating public opinion and creating convincing but non-legit material. As a propaganda tool it is a dream come true

I've seen Amish:

Burn chemicals and paints in a pile behind their shop

Have dumpsters full of plastic "sawdust" from a shop that makes plastic furniture

Rebrand cheap chinese electronics and batteries to sell in their communities (MillerTech)

Zip around on a one wheel

Ride electric scooters

Log out relatively pristine forest to make more farms

Log land that isn't theirs, without permission, for weeks before being discovered and confronted.

Vote down school levies repeatedly until the local schools shut down

Open a retail store in a mall

These days the amish button isn't nearly as great as you might think....still funny to think about how everyone would react though

So the corporations that make their money on mass surveillance are still spying on people?

I'm shocked, shocked!

With an AI image lol

CIA/Pentagon/White House workers have lives. When something big goes down like ....oh I don't know....Iran getting spicy and launching hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel overnight, those lives get disrupted.

People work overtime and order takeout or aren't able to go out on the town like they normally would so that makes changes to the usual data patterns in the DC area. So they say ramp ups in US military activity can be predicted by detecting those changes.

Yeah I'm not scanning an unknown QR code on a grungy bill