Actually, your kids will be taught dependency on proprietary corporate software that spies on them and conditions them into corporate vendors walled gardens in order to a create lifelong customers (+ data mining sources) in order to enrich giant tech corporations.

Ideally, your kids would be taught genuine computer literacy so that they can be digitally self sufficient but that is never going to happen in a school setting.

Here’s an unrelated picture of a North American wood ape:

I would consider major centralized social networking platforms to be equivalent to television today as it holds captive the masses in much the same way, but with even finer grained control.

I never believed in power outages until I came face to face with one

If I threaten a politician to kill them

Implies that the threat itself is what kills them. Or that the intention of making the threat is that they will die as a consequence of receiving the message.

English is a Subject-Verb-Object language. What you should have said was:

If I threaten to kill a politician

You won’t do it.

Privacy Badger has historically allowed tracking until it successfully identifies a domain as a likely tracker. Like the air bags going off after you’ve already wrapped your car around a telephone pole. But it’s now been changed and is now closer to a list-based tracker blocker (enumerate badness):

Privacy Badger no longer learns from your browsing by default, as “local learning” may make you more identifiable to websites.

They’ve since corrected one of the core issues with PB by doing so, but it still it is very weak. To see why, please glance through The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security.

uBlock Origin in advanced mode, with default-deny rules (only allow assets by exception) is going to be much stronger at blocking crap.

Personally, I use uMatrix with pretty much all asset classes blocked by default. I never see popups. I never see banners begging “please allow our cookies, pleeeeaaase!”.

Because I frequently use mpv, yt-dlp or a combination of both, the value I find in Invidious is in being able to conduct video searches against Youtube. And luckily that still works on public instances.

We have noticed almost everything everywhere doubling in price. But that’s more to do with the federal reserve devaluing the dollar, which will continue to happen no matter which tribe takes up residence in the white house.

Ah, the beginner loadout.

Life will go on regardless of who gets elected.

In fact, if you unplug from the oversocialization machine, you might never know who won or lost the election.

What, you don’t want audience participation voting?

The goal, as ever, is to present to the public an accurate reflection of what the people as a whole think about candidates and issues.

Can this not simply be harvested from the endless volumes of online posts made to the public internet? Why do they act like they need to go on the hunt for something that is normally difficult even to avoid?

Animal Crossing

This is my ‘prepare for battle’ jam ngl

Ideally, one plans vacations between jobs. You just need to safe up some fuck you money.

Even they don’t realize that what they spout is just a safe proxy cover for the real issues they are unable to articulate.

No, that would be weird.

I sit facing the toilet so that I don’t have to turn around to push the flush handle.

The same country that has mobile euthanasia vans?

Is the part about being able to socialize also a mythic fantasy? Where ever do people work that they find the time to have conversations?