I was in a zero speed motorcycle accident with the ground. All I had to do was let go of the handlebars, but I didn’t. I had a death grip on the thing. Twisted my wrist pretty bad and it took months to heal. Somehow, twenty years later, I have re-injured it and have been waiting for it to heal all over again. No healthcare of course because lol america. Probably never healed right the first time. Probably won’t heal right this time either. Life goes on I guess.

Takeaway: Don’t try to “save” heavy things from the laws of physics. Just let it go!

I don’t get the privacy angle on this when it’s scraping public comments. If people don’t want their information known, they shouldn’t post it on public forums.

FYI: Signal stores all of your messages on your device. If something happens to them there, they’re gone. In not saying that justifies an update nuking your messages. Just explaining for anyone who it’s not understand that There’s no central database storing your data long term. Which is a feature.

Pirracy is a service issue. People gladly pay when it’s not a shitty experience.

I’ve been involved in the BDSM community for roughly 15 years in the US. Tons of LGBT people, and I can say a large percentage are into IT either professionally or as a hobby. As for trans specifically, I’m not sure I’ve ever met one who wasn’t technically minded. That’s just what I’ve seen. Could be different elsewhere.

I’m no longer convinced they have any homeless. Maybe hidden away somewhere like their slaves. It’s nothing close to the scale of the US though. I’m not saying utopia, just eye opening.

I’ve been looking but no not yet. Maybe now that this thing is so huge someone is working on one. The official app has built in translation.

You’re right, it’s not perfect over there for sure.

Rednote. Seriously, I’m getting so much more news from that community that I don’t see anywhere else.

There are protests happening right now at the White House, LA, Arizona and soon to be every state capitol. Native Americans have taken to the streets on horseback. Tens of thousands of Mexicans and their supporters have shut down hwy 101 in CA. The United States already had mercenary boots on the ground in Gaza days before Trump announced the takeover.

Not to mention the culture shock of seeing China having solved all necessities of a civilized society while Americans struggle to exist.

Edit: Not sure where the downvotes are coming from. People that don’t like additional sources of information in a climate where two guys control nearly all social media?

My most social years were in my 30’s!

In many ways, China already has surpassed the US.

For the past week the people of China and the United States, as well as other countries have been comparing notes. Debunking propaganda on both sides. Realizing that much of what we’ve all been told for years/decades, has been lies.

This is amazing!

Bro you can stop that narrative. The truth is out now.

True but he’s got a point. If the internet suddenly went away, there are likely bigger problems to deal with.

You are the dog surrounded by fire saying “This is fine”.

I’m in too much pain right now to locate the image.

I can’t stay on the path I’ve been on the last couple of years. This path is a damn circle, and that’s no good!

Yeah I got two or three sentences in and just closed the window.

Not no tiny ones either, or they’ll still walk up to you with their nonsense. Get some bigass highly visible headphones.

They when they start yapping at you anyway pretend you can’t hear them. When they start waving around frantically in front of you, and this is the important part, slowly take off the headphones, look at them sideways and go “huh?”. Make them repeat themselves. Don’t engage. Get back to work asap with the headphones again.

Eventually they’ll tire of this song and dance every time and move on to someone else. Hopefully.

Die Hard.