I would suggest looking into other instances that host ActivityPub OS software for people who want free speech purism but don't want to give up the Twatter format. Gab is "marketable" but is not 100% free speech.
Here is one instance. Also admins just steal and fork the source code already
Session is a FOSS fork of Signal that does not require a phone number. I would recommend it over Signal since it's basically improved and truly under the user's control.
Why do they breed near bodies of water like mosquitoes?
Obviously the rational answer is "port money," but, you know, what's the social answer? Every "expert" has already concluded that history repeats itself because people won't learn and apply empiricism to societal design.
Good. Stop sucking from the teat of commodification.
Ah yes, according to them "New Zealand is on the right path, surely their token measure of raising corporate taxes will actually stick it to my dad this time like it has for the past twenty centuries."
I'm just frustrated at people taking "the path of least resistance" yet again when, if they had exercised a little bit more effort, they would have had more impact. Posts like this give the wrong idea of being proactive.
I also brew root beer and cream soda.
Self-sufficiency fuck yeah. This should be the top post.
It's been really disheartening just seeing how little gratitude Armed Force veterans receive from the public besides coupon booklets and a monotone "thank you for your service." Can't imagine what shit the current enlisted are undergoing. I can fully emphasize with and understand why you imbibed, since society at large is still largely unsympathetic to the plights vets undergo as they are discharged. (Really, I view modern society to be incredibly psychopathic in general as our ability to put ourselves into each other's shoes diminishes. I get looked at weird when I mention that I'm upset at the Syrian conflict being re-escalated, or suspected of having ulterior and selfish motives. Instead of, well, being upset at human life needlessly wasted. "Don't think about it," I receive from others as "advice.") I can't approve of your method of dealing with it, since your health suffered for it, but I can understand that your life could be swung off balance from this development and you should have had in-person support available for you in place, the lack thereof which probably was the impetus for your alcoholism.
Everybody hollers "GO TO THERAPY" as a convenient deferment to collective responsibility. "Just see a therapist" as a nice-easy catch-all, don't think about those iffy details like if the therapist is sane him or herself, if your coverage can manage without raising premiums or impacting your social standing, if the therapist is even sympathetic to your plight and doesn't spend the entire session talking down to you for not taking their putdowns to heart. Naturally, rehabilitation is the first step and it always helps to find sufficient support but the trouble is getting that high-quality support in the first place.That's the part nobody wants to discuss because nobody wants to address the elephant in the room, human nature.
I can't be physically there for you (there goes the old human desire of "wanting to be everywhere at once"), so all I can offer is my positive reinforcement and my sharing in your grief. I cannot guarantee that your health will improve, but I certainly want you to have the strength to get your life back on track and for you to be able to live on and honor your friend's memory in better health, even in these troubling times. And I WANT more individuals out there to understand your situation and assist you properly instead of being dismissive.
There are too many who seek chemical imbibing as acceptable escapism from their issues and lifestyle. I get ragged on by weedheads all the time for pointing out that their consumption is just as much a social ill as other commercially appealing drugs.
Because honestly, if their substance was so beneficial to society, why is weedhead culture so narcissistic and hedonistic? Where are their contributions? Why do they treat libertarianism as a cynical means to their desired end that they see as disposable, rather then being genuinely interested in the philosophy? Where's the thought put towards the health of the commons?
Substance abuse is just one head of a many-headed hydra from a society that has forgotten moderation in its shortsightedness, and induces depression through supersensory overload from indulging in vice.
Conversely the fact that the telecoms were so hard on Trump helped keep him accountable even as they overstepped their boundaries out of malice for globohomo time and time again.
Pepsi
You mean the same company that gladly provided the USSR its cola when the regime failed to create its own?
Fucking consumerist mindset, thinking that supporting the biggest multinational rival instead of the actual little guys will change everything.
For fuck's sake, Pepsi funded a Black Lives Matter Kendall Jenner ad that was memed and mocked on years ago, and NOW they're the "anti-woke" soda?
"Voting with your wallet" isn't changing anything until the consumer gains standards and a memory.
Buying cola at Dollar Tree would have been more effective.
It's not even an "alternative," it's just adopting 30% of what was already proposed, which doesn't even exclude all the obvious graft that's locked in.
Path of "least resistance" as always.
Because they defer to others to think for them.
The society they've grown up in has always commodified their every need and circumvented every motive to improve and develop. Why farm and practice husbandry when you can go to a supermarket? Why generate your own power and running water when utility companies can just send you a bill? Why create your own culture when you can just partake in the most popular consolidations and consensuses?
Why think for yourself when you can take up others' thoughts as your own?
Acosta, who was CNN's chief White House correspondent during the Trump years before becoming chief domestic correspondent, also spoke on moving forward from Trump's presidency
I'll believe it when I see it.
That'll be a mercy in itself.
Although that scenario...knowing human nature and how all the elites and les collaborateurs have faked receiving it, they would have a failsafe they would reserve for themselves to preserve their own genomes.
In case you ever wanted proof of our country's legal system and its "priorities."
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You don't have to use Twatter directly, if you won't use alternatives at the very least use a Nitter instance like https://nitter.dark.fail Add another person who Dorsey can't rob for data and profiling to the government.
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The term for the modern medieval priest is "scientism."
We're definitely in the shittier branches of the time divergences. I would have taken four more years of progress and Trump-Hitler comparisons for the sheer amount of advancement we would have collectively experienced instead of the house of cards collapsing for the entire U.S. hegemony we're going through now.
Syria didn't "need our involvement" but TPTB/the Kabal just see too much profit in the matter to deem it worth artificially stoking.
I always wanted history degrees to be taken seriously and given enough monetary value as a profession but 1) too much potential for corruption through revisionists and 2) collective consciousness has already spoken on the matter for millennia.
Slow motion car crash except everybody who sees the vehicles and drivers and tries to call out and warn everybody gets labeled a "racist" or "conspiracy theorist."
BuT dRuMpF wAs A rUsSiAn PuPpEt
You know what has me infuriated? That people about me are still pretending that "life has gone back to normal" as "vaccine passports" are being formulated, the "Great Reset" becomes a casual conversational topic, innocent Syrians are dying after several years of "Drumpf" rightfully deciding it was a useless and meaningless farce that preyed upon them for forced profit, the entire American legal system and economy is subverted and decomposing, and China the communist-in-name-but-fascist-in-reality regime plots to take over Taiwan once and for all.
Because, oooh look, their fragile mental health can be alleviated by not being distressed over our global problems being resolved and Hollyweird putting out the latest and shittiest product to consume and distract them from their mental messes and non-issues! Because that takes priority over innocents dying through their taxpayer dollars, why have empathy for those "suckers?"
Why be worried over, say, World War III, when the Internet has so much meaningful culture and distractions (not)?
Fuck.
Michelle Hackman
WSJ is owned by the Murdoch hacks who want to be "hip"
Spells out everything. It's like expecting the Koch brothers to have our best interests at heart when they are funding at least thirty percent of the influx.
Seattle
Not surprised.
Will people learn that urban decadence is unnatural to their contentment?
Telegram is a Five Eyes company based in the UK, which shares surveillance data with the U.S. NSA. It's like thinking Discuck is secure (and bizarrely enough its users get really mad at me when I point out its problems like the moderators being degenerates like Retarddit and Tencent owning equity, not to mention Microshit wanting to buy it).
Like u/PermaHandshake stated the group chat protocol is unencrypted, so it's fake security a la ProtonMail but they advertise it as the "real thing" to gt everybody into the honeypot.