tetris11

He's so eloquent when he speaks, like listening to a butterfly's wings wafting over a boiling toilet

We need more people like you, thank you

"Most powerful semi-functioning democracy" ==/== "Leading democracy"

Isn't one of the privileges of wealth that you can live where you want to, not where you can afford to?

So if you like living in a first world country, why not just pay the extra tax and stay there?

Words paraphrased from a Mitchell&Webb sketch

We had a fight club in our school. Broke a few windows, loosened a few teeth, but teachers definitely were not involved.

If you use a VPN for official or login services, access those services from the same VPN endpoint.

If you use it for anonymous stuff, go nuts.

Oh fair. I guess Google peeked into a suspicious account, saw messages, and alerted the police. Yeah dark.

You try to login to your google account with the right credentials from several different locations? Yeah that's suspicious.

1-3 regular locations per account is a bit more normal

Completely agree. The people I found online in those early days were just random people without any motive or incentive to sell me on an ideology. There was a trust back then, because opinions weren't really worth anything and no one could access your wallet.

Finding that some community now is a total minefield for users, young or old. So much of the internet has been gamified for a profit/scam at any cost.

I wish that kids could just connect with other random kids across the world like I did, but I think those days are likely done.

I developed an inner life, it was the only peace I could find from the daily assault that was my outer life. Sure in the past it was more visible habits like reading a book, but letting kids have some autonomy over their lives is important I feel

They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents,

Uh...

Wow, finally graphene has been cracked. Exciting times for portable low-energy computing