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When I think of all the horrible shit that goes on in the world, the thing that keeps me going is that Greta Thunburg is responsible for the Tates getting arrested. Life is wonderful sometimes.

Bro I literally just used 2 of my cables from the cable box today. Never giving that up.

I use proton VPN for torrenting. It doesn't show I've downloaded anything. I think that means my VPN is working? 😅

I used to keep a long one in my car, and used it to walk my dog if I happened to forget his leash. Upcycling!

anyone who has seen the news on this and kept their Disney+ subscription should be, for moral purposes, treated as someone who condones murder

Bro, not gonna lie, this is a bad take. My grandparents just want to watch their soap operas, my parents really like star wars.

It's like global warming. Blaming individuals for not recycling is not the move - taking action against huge corporations is the only realistic way to make change. By blaming random people, we end up looking like crazy people.

The people here who 1) think a breakup of Google will actually happen, and 2) think that a paid subscription model for a search engine have all been spending too much time in their Linux bubble.

If Google did this, everyone would just switch to Bing, or open AI's new thing they are making. The general public will not be on board with that.

Met a girl while being an English teacher in China. She was originally from New York. She had a very distinctive voice, very hard to forget.

Fast forward 10 years. I'm at the Santa Monica Pier playing Pokemon Go with my brother. Suddenly, THAT VOICE. I'm like... No... That isn't possible. I keep on walking.

We reach the end of the pier, and turn around. And BOOM. There she is. We make eye contact, and are both like wtffff.

Turns out she moved there to do a podcast or something.

Anyway cool shit

Incredible work. This is indeed buried treasure.

When people say things like this, I wonder if they understand how impossible it is. Google is not just a company. It is a 2 trillion dollar entity. Even if Google search entirely fails, it will still persist. At this point, you may as well say, "The wind needs to be ended." You don't end the wind. The wind already won. It will outlive you, me, and our children.

What we can do is protect against it. We can deal with it. We can contain it. We can redirect it and repurpose it to be helpful. But ending it? That doesn't happen.

Give the dude his cupcake recipe yo

Is China's reduction in birth rate caused by the same thing? Or Germany's? I'm just saying, this seems to be a phenomenon of wealth and prosperity, not any specific coordinated effort.

As for multiculturalism... My opinion there is it's all relative. Technically the land belongs to the native Americans. Europeans are the new culture.

Interestingly, the majority of Canada's new incoming non permanent immigrants appear to be from Ukrainian, another European country, to escape the war.

If I understand you correctly, are you saying that there was some coordinated effort to lower birth rates over the last 40 years? What would the point of this be?

According to most sociologists, the lowering birth rate seems to be an effect of higher incomes and education, and is affecting most first world countries, not just Canada.

I think I agree with you, however, that wages in general should go up at the expense of the super-wealthy elites.