ace
9hr ago
People making closed-source software that requires connecting to their server (rather than yours or one you choose) hate you and hold you in contempt. Minimize your contact with these parasites as much as possible because they will always eventually try to fuck you. I've gone through that same process with my Matrix/Element chat app and it works a lot better than what you're describing.
ace
1mo ago
Is it a priori plausible that IQ is so sensitive to a naturally varying element which is sometimes found in much greater concentrations?
You mean like lead? Yea, I think that's plausible.
ace
1mo ago
Out of 150 days here, you spent 10% of that waiting in DMVs? Good God man. You'd be incarcerated less time had you been caught driving without a license.
ace
1mo ago
I doubt you'd be able to find any signal like that, because inflation affects everyone similarly.
ace
1mo ago
You're overthinking it. It's the economy, stupid. Inflation was the worst ever under Biden, and when pressed, Kamala couldn't identify a single policy difference between herself and Biden. In the counter-factual where everyone feels richer than 4 years ago, we'd have president Harris.
I don't know what to take away from this other than that you like Trump, written in 10,000 different ways. (I admit I skimmed it after a while.)
ace
1mo ago
Just make the ID free!
Lord knows we pay enough in taxes to expect some very basic services to be complimentary.
ace
1mo ago
I had two jobs in the 90s that I got W-2s for and paid taxes on that don’t show up on my SSA work history. I’m currently in the process of trying to prove I worked these jobs for the SS benefits when all the paperwork has long since been shredded. Totally plausible to me that she worked there and can’t prove it.
ace
1mo ago
Not listing a job on your resume is not “lying”. It’s totally normal and acceptable to omit meanial labor jobs when applying for professional jobs.
ace
2mo ago
Acupuncture works by placebo effect. If you tell her convincingly that you believe it will work, it just might.
ace
2mo ago
Do you smoke? I couldn’t stand the attitudes towards smoking there, and I couldn’t wait to get out. The only place in the world that was worse was Montenegro. Beautiful country, though, once you get away from the people.
ace
3mo ago
You have a lot of trust in the kiosk mode. I don’t know where you are, but I see the relevant difference as the fact that US cops and courts cannot compel you to unlock your phone, whereas in most of the rest of the world they can.
ace
3mo ago
We now have recognised digital drivers' licenses on your phone
And you’d be a fool to use it. Are you planning on handing your unlocked phone to a cop?
Nah, Red Pill stuff is a great antidote to the lies that everywhere else in culture is pushing: that women are wonderful and to put the pussy on a pedestal. It’s helpful for a class of guys who can’t figure out why being nice doesn’t get them a date or get them laid. The criticism I’d level against it is that the skills that get you laid are practically unrelated to the skills necessary to maintain relationships and build families. But you have to crawl before you run.
ace
3mo ago
My takeaway is that he would have gotten away with it if he had the restraint to not go around confessing to murder. Probably would have helped to not steal from the house after it's a murder scene rather than a robbery, but it sounds like no one would have bothered to look in his trunk if he just shut up about it. The implications are discomfiting.
ace
3mo ago
I really have no idea what you mean. What is DR3? What are you saying in plain language?
ace
3mo ago
The one who would likely win in a physical fight is the alpha.
Sorry, I stopped reading your wall of text here. Humans form alliances. We use these big calorie-hungry brains to navigate social systems. The winner in a fight is not the bigger, stronger man, but the one with the most allies.
There are still ads and tracking in MacOS and iOS. The only claim is that it's less than Microsoft's and Google's. A difference of degree, not kind. To your other point, GrapheneOS and CalyxOS are options.
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