speckofrust

Exactly. I’m so damn tired of many USians assuming that Trump created this madness from scratch in 2016. They have to read their own history….at least glance at it.

I was with it till the last sentence. As if the US didn’t have all these failings for centuries.

“American values” are a myth, and a popular one even among liberals, it seems, who somehow believe the US was a force for good prior to Trump.

I spend much of my year in a country where fireworks start in early December and go until mid January. Random pops at 3am on any given day of the week are entirely normal. I’m convinced that people who can seemingly be perpetually amused by “haha it go boom!” again and again and again are fucking simpletons.

11/16 of an inch

Seems to me like a critique in reverse about sex in regards to women’s anatomy. I like it.

Chef’s kiss that his rank was Stabschef and he died on the night of the long knives

“the recent events”

Newpipe is amazing. Forgot to mention that one. The others I’ve heard of but never tried. Thanks!

It’s still YT based of course, but I’ve been using Nebula and Invidious for years to access vids coming from YT. Also watch Curiosity Stream.

I haven’t seen ads in a long long time. I even paid for a lifetime subscription to Nebula because I’d prefer to support through Nebula than through Google.

I’ve lived in several authoritarian countries in which surveillance was constant and intense. I told my family and friends many years ago that I was using Signal and they could find me there. It’s literally the signature of my email. Then I proceeded to slow walk all personal non-Signal communications. I’ve found that starting various friend and family groups really helps people get immersed in the app. So does encouraging group video calls to hang out online.

For many years now I’ve had my entire family as well as dozens of friends on Signal. It’s not a quick process, but it can be done.

Even for professionals like lawyers, accountants, tradespeople, real estate agents, whatever. They’re all on Signal if they want to work with me.

Everyone can choose not to use the app. No guilt trips from me. I just use Signal daily, so if someone wants to finds me quickly, they always have the option to do so.

Great post. Thanks a lot.

I’m not from the US, but I’ve had similar experiences in half a dozen or so countries all over the world. I couldn’t even imagine my life if I’d never moved away from where I was raised, nor do I ever wish to go back to that time or place. The world is so goddamn full of excitement and opportunities. I never tire of new experiences.

I may get responses to this post saying “must be nice to be rich,” but I was raised poor. I literally just got on a plane after giving away whatever was in my apartment. A day later I was working a job making the equivalent of 300 usd a month and having a fucking blast. I met my future life partner quite literally the next day.

I have so many good friends from my childhood who are drowning in money or stress issues, yet when I try to entice them to make a significant change, each of them finds reasons why it’s “impossible” while continuing to complain about their lives. What I’ve come to realize is actually impossible is convincing anyone to step outside their comfort zone.

Edit: a word

Whenever it’s drawings of children, no, I don’t think it’s odd at all to worry about that. I just called it creepy, which I think it is.

No one’s getting hurt, and I’m very open to whatever people want to do to feel pleasure, but I’m also entitled to find it creepy, especially if the girls being drawn are clearly young.