Agreed. Roll up the sleeves and get to work.

If you have a competent anti-monopolistic government, you can make positive change faster than the market makes negative change.

Well the important thing is to make sure everyone knows it’s impossible to make any sort of positive change, ever.

Clowns lol

Jesus Christ what a pathetic outlook.

Youtube is owned by Google (technically Alphabet).

Man, there’s such a long line of companies that need breaking up, I can’t see the end of it. The entire global economy is currently controlled by monopolies and oligopolies.

The idea behind breaking up a monopoly is to allow competition. So if a competitor to YouTube arises, then both companies will have to offer better service to entice more users.

You think breaking up a monopoly won’t do anything? What?

I know we need to draw a line about what police can do with that sort of info so it’s not abused

A bit off topic but there is never a line. Once the government has your info, any of your info, it WILL be abused.

Does this though? Or does it reduce the demand for real CP?

Common misconception. AI can take an image of a child and an image of a naked woman and produce an image of a naked child (who does not resemble either the child or the woman). There’s no need for actual CP in the dataset.

VPNs are 95% about privacy, not security. So all encrypted DNS does is security? What I want from a VPN is fewer companies accurately spying on me.

So why not teach people about it, instead of promoting VPNs?

Ok then, in the meantime the rest of us will use a fucking VPN? I don’t know what “encrypted DNS” means, and I’m 99% you’re going to respond with either “whaaaaat you don’t know something that 99.999% of other people also don’t know? Clearly you are too dumb for the internet” or else “oh sure I’d be glad to explain that! It’s real simple, see when you have a Rosendin gembal, it befrazzles the gesticulators of your brangles (link to a Wikipedia article on brangles). So you just have to re-delineate the scanditrons to break the tensor lines in your scintrins! You can code a fairly simple app from scratch to do it, and there’s a FOSS program someone made to help you identify the cabangs in your computer’s lenticles: (link to a github page that is literally just a transcription of an eldritch god screaming in binary)”

VPNs are extremely user friendly and they are happy to explain in layman’s terms exactly what they do and how they work. If there’s a better way, it’s locked behind years of techie knowledge.

And it fucking SUCKS in the beginning, because for a very long time it keeps getting wiped out by emergencies. But the more emergencies you weather, eventually the fewer you’ll have, and your buffer will grow.

Emergency funds are the most important tool for financial stability (after securing a living wage).

The point is it’s bullshit that’s not available on the Lowes website.

I have a rule of thumb for financial stability.

Level 1 - just buy groceries and pay for them without stressing

Level 2 - don’t worry about when payday hits

Level 3 - don’t worry about getting laid off

Add the 1% there. Generational wealth people. Private jets, multiple mansion homes, etc. They’re far above the upper class. Totally different plane of existence from everyone else.

I’m paid by the hour, I don’t care

Personally… I do

I could request a new one, but why? This one works, it’s just slow as all hell.

God I hate biometrics