I’m privilaged to not have to do manual farming work
We all are.
There is a reason people flocked into cities even before we had electricity and civil sewage systems. Subsistence farming is even worse.
“If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.”
-R B Fuller
I’m privilaged to not have to do manual farming work
We all are.
There is a reason people flocked into cities even before we had electricity and civil sewage systems. Subsistence farming is even worse.
Honestly everything since electricity. The number of people we now support at a level of comfort that was unimaginable to even a king 250 years ago.
Waking up at night in the middle of winter in a warm house instantly lit, getting up to poop on a warm comfortable indoor throne with fresh spring breeze scent in the air. The poop flushes away effortlessly and your hands and bum are quickly fresh & clean with running warm water scented soaps and dry with materials 10x more soft & absorbent than the famed Turkish towels. You decide to eat an orange (despite the fact they don’t grow within 1,000 miles of here) and heat a frozen snack in the microwave before heading back to bed.
And, unlike most households for most of history, neither you nor anyone in your family currently has tapeworms


Honestly it’s nice to see the government doing things like prosecute corporations for violating people’s rights.
Are these companies run by Democrats or something?


stochastic parrot
A phrase that throws more heat than light.
What they are predicting is not the next word they are predicting the next idea


“Centaurs”
They think they are getting mythical abilities
They’re right but not in the way they think
Exactly how Tor Snowflake works
https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/snowflake/browser/
Tor Snowflake is virtually impossible to block


if that’s working, it means your browser search bar is configured to route thru DDG


Only if you are a good netizen and using DDG ;)
Also, it works at the start too: “!w buffalo buffalo”


Use the DDG bang :
!w <your-search-here>There are bangs for “image search” (!im), “github search” (!gh), “search PubMed” (!pm)
You cannot live without this


They don’t know the URL but they know the IP address so … yes, they also can get the URL


in support of childlike sex dolls in opposition to making feel-good legislation without evidence-based policies


It’ll never be normalized
Woody Allen, Sleeper, 1973, dinner party scene

Note: Woody Allen is Jewish. The film was released 25 years after the Holocaust.


Society would probably actually benefit from a non political purely objective science-based commission to review published data, make recommendations for new studies, and come up with an evidence-based recommendation to governments about whether virtual CSAM (no actual children harmed or in AI training data) and lifelike child sex dolls result in statistically more child predation.
I haven’t deep dived on this so maybe it’s already well known among sociologists/psych pathologists. But the key is a trusted science-based policy. We did it for violent video games and found no correlation. Not at all obvious to me if that also holds for pederasty.
Yeah I know, the trusted scientific commission is not going to happen


Then why are they not offering at least a low cost subscription? Why are they spending money on infrastructure and support but getting no revenue in return?
Either they are okay with losing even more money, OR they plan to enshittify.
For this and many many other reasons, it’s time to switch to a privacy fork like LibreWolf or WaterFox


assume the VPN provider is adversarial
now re-run your analysis


If you have to install any closed-source software to use the VPN, the answer is oh hell yes, they can install a root cert. If they are clever they can remove it when you disconnect, so it will not be noticed by most people.
Even if they require no proprietary install, by definition the VPN knows every IP address you connect to. Even if you use DoH. Even if you use Quad9 DNS. The VPN knows you visited midwestsluts.com
If you want privacy, either spin up your own selfhost OpenVPN, or use the Tor nodes myself and other volunteers pay for, to make free for you to use.
Tor node operators can’t tell what site you are visiting (if they run an exit node they can see the site – but don’t know your IP; if they run a Guard/proxy node they can see your IP, but can’t tell anything about what sites you visit or what data you get)


and the certs lapsed again after volunteers built tooling to Prevent That
but somebody never set up the cron job to run it
It is my Calling to spread the Good Word