I tried to use a gift certificate to donate to dbzer0 last night. It didn’t work because of a zip code field. I just want to look at cat pictures and make a snarky comment every so often without a facist paramilitary kicking in my front door. Fuck me, right?

Zenni now has a lens you can order with their glasses. They do both prescription and non prescription.

TLDR; know your job, get off big tech, vote with your attention/data/purchases, use privacy phone and carriers, stop buying shit from assholes, learn how to be alone, save tiny amount from paycheck and don’t touch

Learn your job better than anyone else. Good ole boys club, affirmative action, and nepotism can’t make up for incompetence. I’ve overcompensated for being from a poor family my whole tech career by going above and beyond and learning more and more skills. After 20 years, people listen to me and I have an insane amout of leverage in my workplace.

No google, gmail (almost 100%off), Amazon Prime, reddit, Facebook, Instagram, youtube, or Spotify. I am using several emails in Europe. Amazon and Facebook were easy to remove. Reddit was replaced with Lemmy. I also use Mastadon and Pixelfed. Make a personal threat model first so you don’t go nuts implementing countermeasures. Get NextDNS on your phone and filter trackers if tracking is an issue for you. Good luck on this long journey.

Instead of Firefox, I use Libre and I started using Tor browser and FOSS browser for Android, and with my new phone a native fork of Bromite that was preinstalled.

Instead of my Samsung phone, I bought a Fairphone 6 with e/OS already installed and am using Murena as my carrier. This just became available in the US. I’m transitioning to it all now. So far customer service is slow through email, but they responded over night and no issues with coverage.

I started voting with my attention, but also with my wallet. No Target. No Ticketmaster. Absolutely no Coors ever! There are a few things I refuse to buy.

Also, I have a bit of each paycheck go into an emergency account of a bank that does not exist in my state. If I have to withdraw, I either need to cross state lines or find a local co-op participant bank. After several years, I have not only a huge emergency fund but also 6 months of living expenses that I transferred to a money market account when the emergency account got too high. I have made withdrawals for auto repairs and to hospitalize my pet.

I don’t buy too many things. Mostly just clothes that are durable and video games. Saving money means you can tell your boss to kiss your ass if you need to. Your vote might not count as much, but your wallet, data, and attention can be used to vote every day.

Also just be by yourself. Stop going out every chance. Do your own thing. There are worse thing than being alone. Be very careful if you date. Watch for red flags like love bombing and people who constantly speak negatively about your friends / family.

You don’t need all this stuff!

You could use a live linux boot disc and don’t save any info. Just need another disc to write the pics, or you could use it on top of another installation. Boot to live until you sell and get one of those extra numbers that forwards phone calls to your real number. All this could also be solved with shitty burner phone.

That I was able to retaliate against the billionaire class that made my people suffer. Can I throw rubbish at them while their spirits are chained in the bad place?

I wish I was better at regex stuff for sure. I just wish I had a job that paid where I could do that stuff. Everything that pays my salary is either devOps or requires a top secret clearance. Makes me miss being young.

People know what makes babies. Now a kid you can’t afford due to a dyatopian world is doomed to 80 years in the dystopian world. How is this just okay with everyone?

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Me too. What district?Is it a senatpr? I’m drowning in hopelessness over here.

Curious about yhe use case for this. I used Free-BSD ages ago.

Can someone please help me with this? Any hacks? I can’t even force it for 5 min without seeing squirrels.

Gamers don’t need Windows.

I might be the dumbest person here, but even if this is made up and supposed to be satire, this is exactly what I would expect him to say, because he would think using women rather than having a relationship is preferred. I would honeslty be shocked if he didn’t think relationships with women were gay.

I switched to AMD 5 years ago over this nonsense. Cheaper, just as good except maybe for CAD engineering and a few other niches. I can’t tell the difference with the bajillionth of increase of whateverthefuck Intel has. Arch Linux running games with no issues. No regrets here.

Nope. It was a way to give them time to modify and deny the content of the Epstein files. Bunch of pedos.

Capitalism seems to turn into cronyism. Maybe the issue is that none of the above can lead to a permanent or long term solution that is without abuse or unnecessary hardship. David Graeber fought the idea that authority and governments have to exists by giving examples of ancient civilizations that had no ruler. What if all the modern forms of government since then are just a huge transitionary period for humanity that exist until we reach a more civilized state in our evolution that doesn’t include paralysing greed and constant war?

I thought about this too. People are sick of this shit.

I know you were trying to be sarcastic, but I have a Trumper friend who thinks the dem elites extract adrenochrome from babies. Not sure but I think that means the babies are killed afterwards. It can’t seem to ever get ridiculous enough.

I mean, at least nobody is getting a buzz from a gummy anymore. Got to think of what is important.

Why would acceptance be any different? Do we have any faith in these people? Only they can make themselves stop being assholes.