I do the same, but primarily to get their headlights from blinding me through the side view mirror.

I learned way too late in life that no one likes a know it all. Pretending you don’t know stuff makes people more willing to help you.

Sea turtle

My dad regaled me with tales of the 60s/70s once. The JFK assassination, Vietnam war, the gas crisis, hyper inflation, 20% mortgage rates.

The older you get, you realize everything isn’t a world ending crisis. I think our 24/7 outrage-based media is responsible for a lot of FUD.

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I’ll just leave this here.

https://studyonline.uts.edu.au/blog/how-surveillance-technology-changing-our-behaviour-and-our-brains

Slightly off topic, but I used DansGuardian when my kids were young. Works great.

But never the guy who’s absolutely Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend in the whole world, Donald Trump.

Bringing up trans people out of the blue.

BG3 was my answer as well. I DNFed the Divinity games because they felt tedious; like I was being punished for every unresearched action. BG3 just had such great sound, gameplay, and character development that I couldn’t put it down.

Killing the API, ads, astroturfing, AI posts, reposts, generally selling out.

Wasting resources on data centers is egregious enough, but an xAI one just adds insult to injury.

Reddit removed free API access and simultaneously became more corporate than Walmart. Is fully enshittified now.