I admire the students that are setting up book clubs for banned books. They are recognizing that they are being given a list of what they should read.

Right, blame the customer for the business not holding up their end of the bargain after the fact.

Sounds like it was a cult. I escaped from the Mormon Church once upon a time and for a long time I didn’t really see that church as a cult until I examined it using Steven Hassan’s BITE model. I also started relating to a lot of experiences from former cult members like this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldTMLhTMZAc

It can also be bipolar with hallucinations and a number of other things but I get your point.

It’s not so easy to just replace your job when you have a specialized skill. It takes months of applying to other jobs, doing interviews, coordinating with recruiters, etc. Not everyone has the time, patience, or ability to do that.

That being said, I am constantly looking for a better position. It takes time out of my day but it’s worth it in the long run.

EU might hit them for it. I have no faith that the US government is going to do anything.

As a VIM user, I don’t want you using VIM on my system unless you know how to use it. I don’t want you borking fstab or the passwd file or some other important config because you don’t know how to quit without saving.

Telling Google assistant to add items to your shopping list and them being added to a keep note titled “shopping list” was the original functionality in Google keep. I used this feature all the time which is great for someone like me who has ADD. Then without warning, Google decided to change the functionality so that it added the items to Google Express instead. It was a small change that caused a lot of inconvenience and headaches for me. There was a time I would have really cared about this change but considering the inconsistency of Google’s products, I really can’t get invested in them anymore. I try to degoogle my life as much as possible these days.

What would help with sex trafficking is legalizing and regulating prostitution and destigmatizing it.

No one can remove all risk but the security threshold between intercepting an initial connection and compromising a CA are vastly different. The latter would be much more difficult to pull off which is why we use them. Sounds like this EU rule is going to put a ceiling on that though.

A lot of them do end up dying from this, yes.

I feel like that is also by design. If your account is compromised, you wouldn’t want them to be able to pull messages from your existing devices. It kinda defeats the purpose of them not being stored on the servers.

I have to use that garbage teams app every f****** day and I hate it. I’m glad I have an android phone and actually have some choice with regard to my browser.

Lawyer speak

Newsom is too much of a corporate Democrat for my liking. Even worse than Biden IMHO.

🎶This is America🎶

I would rather people don’t use it at all if you don’t mind and I gladly censor myself when it comes to other slurs. I can’t convey the mental anguish and self hatred that I’ve suffered all because of an immutable characteristic of my sexuality. You can treat it lightly because you haven’t gone through that suffering. It’s one thing for someone to make fun of you for kicks. It’s quite another for entire groups of people to hate you because of what you are.

You obviously haven’t had it used against you as a call to violence have you?

I’ve been using obsidian and signal for a while but I’m thinking of setting up a nextcloud instance and using the notes app in that.

There was a time that I actually would have cared about this. I used to use the shopping list feature in keep all the time and I would use Google assistant to add items. When Google randomly decided to switch to adding items to Google Express instead of keep when asking Google assistant to add items to my shopping list, it was such a small thing but it made me realize that I didn’t want to give control of my digital life over to Google to manipulate on a whim. Since then, I have nearly entirely degoogled my life and I can’t really say I’ve been inconvenienced.