you felt that the big brother ad for the ring cameras was interesting and fun?

Not just personal mind poison, but societal poison too.

i came to realize this when when my home built router died a few months ago.

it was based on pfsense and i had setup publicly shared advertisement blocking; so i hadn’t see any ad at all for years.

i became annoyed when i started seeing them after the router died and then i actively became angry when i was bombarded by them while watching tv as i was visiting family, yet they didn’t think anything was wrong with watching the same mcdonalds advertisement 500x in a single hour.

that shit has an impact on your psyche whether you know right away or not.

I don’t know how long I have before I need to start searching for a new job, so I just leave it there unused

linkedin has never been useful for me, but i keep it around for this same reason.

however i wonder about it’s effectiveness because i have similar profiles setup on all of the other job sites like indeed, monster, echo, etc and not a single one has yielded any leads at all since 2021.

it makes me question if having it there is doing anything at all.

madeline pendelton described trotskyism as effectively useless because they’ve never been successful historically and i guess i took that to mean that they were useless in general.

“blocked” as in you’re not allowed to post?

Michael Hudson

i’m surprised he’s made the list; i thought he was a useless trotskyist.

i’ve already done the browser stuff you recommended leveraging container tabs on firefox.

but it doesn’t seem matter: i recently discovered a facebook account that i forgotten i had created 15ish years ago tied to a secondary gmail account that i don’t use anywhere besides firefox in private mode a dozen or so times per year at the most on a vpn. while using that facebook account, i got an event reminder for a party that i bought a ticket to a few weeks back using my somewhat recently created proton email address along with an almost equally recent debit card & bank account that i opened a few months ago.

it makes me think that server side tracking is now more effective than anything you can do at your end.

I had one google account that would be 19 years old by now

mine is that old and i rue the day i became so dependent on it; so i suppose it’s a good thing that i can’t tell exactly when that happened. lol

And sometimes they make controversial super bowl half time shows to give the optics of resistance the placate the masses calling for it.

He honored them; there a look to the interview where he says so elsewhere in this post

This is really something to complain to government about.

You have to be invited to Epstein’s to make an impact like this

Linux has become captured by the US empire

astroturfing

both the epsteing files and gishlaine maxwell case files have proven this to be a dramatic understatement.

they literally identified reddit as a high value platform and used words like “narrative management” and “suppression protocols” to describe their efforts.

fwiw, it’s really common in shops where windows is the most common os.

i learned recently that the actualy george lucas modeled the ewoks after the vietcong and that’s all you need to say to about lucas’ political beliefs.

And it makes it feel like less of a safe space for LGBTQ+ people

definitely so, queers have very few public safe spaces while straight women have plenty and it’s the height of privilege that it’s okay to “slum it” w us like rich people “slum it” in poor neighborhoods and end up gentrifying it.

the t60’s in particular never stopped surprising me at how much abuse they can take.

and engineer had accidentally run over it with her car and it still booted.

that odd phrasing is what’s funny to me because it struggles to find a neutral tone for a clearly authoritarian policy.

i didn’t look at the dw article.

only from liberals because non-us liberals are roughly the same as the us liberals.

i was wondering if it came with snaps enabled by default and you’ve answered it.

how about the desktop environment, is it still stock gnome/kde/lxde/xfce/whatever?