Actually, what’s happening right now in the US would indeed have been stopped with votes. You don’t vote to make the perfect world, you vote to minimize the damage. You can do all those other things that you imagine are more impactful the other 364 days of the year in addition.
They only block some Mullvad servers, if I hit the change location button once or twice I always get through. At least on Swedish servers which I usually use.
Apart from when search engines take me there, I stopped Reddit cold turkey the moment they started giving warnings simply for upvoting comments that are hostile towards billionaires.
“Our favorite thing about PCBWay has to be their shared projects. This week we’d like to highlight the one about using old cat6 for trapping and the best places to scavenge for it”
Are you sure you weren’t looking at some patron’s profile? As far as I can tell the .world profile pics are just blue and green letters or a lemmy logo.
Haven’t seen a YouTube ad on TV in years. SmartTube works great.
Since you’re into philosophy now, you should look into the fact that free will doesn’t even exist. Where does that leave your beliefs? Did you learn about people fooling themselves with comforting, self-serving illusions in therapy school?
I’ve been listening to the various microbe.tv podcasts for probably 15 years at this point, This Week in Virology and This Week in Parasitism being my favorites (RIP Dickson Despommier). Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe even longer. Some people seem to only be aware of hollywood celebrity podcasts.