True, 2010-2012 was when people thought you were weird for not having a Facebook account.

Check the info on the GoodRx cards and compare it to the given info on the TrumpRx cards. It’s exactly the same. BIN 015995, PCN GDC, that’s the info that actually matters to the pharmacist. But yes it is also somehow also worse since it seemingly doesn’t cover generics.

It’s literally just a rebrand of GoodRx.

Me going outside:

Session at least has a foundation behind it as well to try to seek financial support and drive development, and I’ll give it that.

However, personal opinion incoming, I think another underappreciated aspect of the “privacy” conversation isn’t just routing but also hardware ownership. We can rely on other people’s routing services all we want, but in the end, that’s still other people’s property we have to traverse to make connections. Especially for groups that function within a small community, I think locally hosted intranets are really important. Sure, some metadata leakage may happen, but most of the metadata leakage that happens (if I recall correctly) is to the service host/admin. So if you’re in a small, local, tight-knit community you may not be worried about your best friend who is a technical wizard knowing small bits of metadata for your localized interpersonal communications. Especially if you use the Matrix protocol but decline to federate and keep it an “internal” tool for your group/organization. I think “ownership of the means of communication” may be the 21st century equivalent of Marx’s “ownership of the means of production” in terms of importance to the proletariat. If we continue to just use large organizations network pipes to communicate, there are still unfortunately ways to target and block our traffic, even if our privacy is otherwise secured.

I mean… That’s why it’s called theater, because its theatrics to make you feel secure but doesn’t actually secure anything at all.

So what those other countries are doing is simply called “security.”

Is he though? It’s probably tariff money he will use.

Hmm I wonder what significant thing happned in 2008 that broke racists brains?

The US: “We can ignore shooting a puppy in the face, but being a woman is a step too far.”

I’m sure they’re banking on international consumers having as short of memories as US consumers.

Remember “Freedom Fries” and rejecting Heinz ketchup for them because John Kerry was married to an heiress of the Heinz fortune and he had the audacity to run against Bush in 2004?

Yeah, most people completely forgot, especially the people who claimed that the would boycott Heinz forever.

Trump has done damage with specific partners like Canada, but I don’t think people in the UAE, South Africa, India, or Brazil are going to sneer too much at taking products from people in the USA who used to act superior to them.

I don’t know if you’re ready to hear this, but international trust in US news was in the shitter before 9/11 and got flushed after 9/11.

Or did everyone forget the lies about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction repeated breathlessly by US media without question?

TSA sucks too, though. Security theater that strips travelers of 4th amendment protection against unlawful search and seizure. Tons of shit that isn’t supposed to get past the TSA does and people are chosen at random for enhanced screening where they have to open their bags for no good reason. Also those X-ray machines were never proven to be necessary or safe.

Nah for real fuck the TSA too, they were an overreach during the Bush era that never got put to bed. It was a stealth jobs program to help cover Bush’s shitty economy.

So for real I don’t feel bad that privacy invading TSA agents aren’t getting paid for their 4th amendment breaking jobs.

I can’t believe I have to say this, but… USA isn’t the only country with a viable middle class to sell shit to anymore. There’s Canada, most of Europe, Australia, Japan, South Korea, China… Other countries may not have as large of middle class citizens to pull from, but they exist as well in places like Brazil, India, Egypt, Israel, Iran, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates as well as others.

Sometimes I am dumbfounded by my fellow US citizens still somehow thinking we’re the center of the fucking world when all that good will from the rest of the world was flushed down the shitter after 9/11. Trump is just the final stages of no one giving a flying fuck what happens to our middle class anymore.

300 million people in the USA are the bottom 90%, that’s a fucking drop in the bucket of the worldwide population. Do you really think that they’re gonna be hurting by not selling to just us anymore? Just, christ, USA’s economy doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

The goal is to reduce the quality of life of the average US citizen to match the low quality of life in poor countries so our labor can “compete” in the market by vastly reducing our pay and purchasing power.

It’s part of why Trump is pushing the “return to manufacturing” angle so hard. He doesn’t want people in other countries being paid pennies a day to put together $300 Nike shoes, he wants people in the US being paid pennies a day to put together $300 Nike shoes.

I mean, it’s a long time coming. The wealthy have clearly thought for a long time that US workers are too coddled and demand too much and deserve far far less.

Exactly, the depraved and cruel sex acts (such as rape of children) usually come from sexual repression from religion and lack of education on consent and boundaries due to religious repression.

It does not come from healthy adults exploring with other healthy adults in a consensual environment with healthy boundaries. That comes from sexual education and freedom.

EDIT: What’s even more infuriating is the first sentence of that statement is still correct when it comes to rampant child abuse: “I don’t think this country has, or even will, come to terms with the sexual corruption of the boomers.” The whole statement is real “they had us in the first half” material.

That’s one of the most insidious aspects of depression, really. It saps you of all energy to do anything joyful or to even just take care of yourself.

It seems backwards, but one of the only ways to really fight it is to force yourself into a “schedule” of things. Make sure you’re cleaning up your surroundings and taking good care of your personal hygiene. Make sure you’re eating at least relatively healthy meals. Make sure you’re making yourself do things that you used to enjoy, even if they currently bore you. At first, it feels pointless, because it feels like you’re just going through the motions, and in many ways, you are. But over time, just keeping yourself busy and making sure you have small, specific, easily achievable daily goals somehow ends up relieving the depression if only a little. So make sure you do some drawing every day. Make sure you do one crossword a day, even if you don’t finish it, just have a prescribed time limit for doing it in and stick to that. Same with reading, force yourself to read for an hour a day, even if you find yourself tired of it. You have to have the minimal goal of “I did this for the amount of time I set for myself, bare minimum.”

I know, it sounds stupid, I know it does. It feels stupid at first, too. I’ve had depression for decades, and it’s the only thing that consistently works to at bare minimum make life feel bearable and still worth living. Small, easily achievable daily goals that you consistently follow through on. I am at my worst when I am not doing my daily goals. It’s not always easy, either. Sometimes big draining, difficult events in life send me spinning and unable to achieve my daily goals, and that’s okay, because having depression isn’t easy. It can be so hard to start back up and pick up where you left off after life has kicked you while you’re down, but in the end, it still works.

It won’t make you happy, it won’t make you jump for joy, it won’t make your depression completely disappear, but it will make your day-to-day life something that you don’t dread as much. I promise. Good luck.

Funny because the UK colonized half the fucking planet just for tea and curry.

Also, for ad-blocking on your phone on the go, pair your Pi-Hole with a Wireguard VPN where you connect your phone to the VPN to pass your phone traffic through your Pi-Hole DNS. I have this set up for my phone, and it’s tits.

https://www.wireguard.com/

You’re very lucky. I lived 60 miles south of Seattle, 30 miles southwest of Tacoma, and was able to get a single channel with an antenna because my city was in a valley surrounded by mountainous terrain and so the broadcast signals from the TV towers were all blocked by the terrain. No local stations, no local towers. Seattle actually has plenty of stations, but unless you’re in the right areas, they’re nearly impossible to access.

I also worked in local television for a long time in the early 2000s and 3 out of 4 of the stations I worked at no longer exist and there are fewer and fewer rural stations, so unless you live in the big city or unless you’re in a very flat area where the big city signal can get to you, you’re shit out of luck.