I use it for marketplace. It’s like a little buying and selling community in my area. I figure it’s good for the environment and I make a little cash so I guess Mark Zuckerberg can spy on me all he wants. Weirdo.

If we can’t exercise our first amendment, maybe it’s time to exercise our 2nd?

How was it? I am pretty introverted but realistically going without human contact for an extended period sounds difficult.

Fugazi

Apparently gpt-5 is much worse, or so the subreddit dedicated to it says. I wonder if that loop has already started?

What was your experience in getting those prescribed? Was it a matter of just being overweight? Did they go over lifestyle changes as well? There was a guy at work that was going to get them prescribed. He was very overweight, but he ate horrible food, a lot of candy, and drank three monsters a day. I’ll admit I got a little judgemental when he mentioned the medication. He was a good guy and I cared about him, but hard to help him see his lifestyle was probably the cause of a lot of his issues. I ultimately didn’t care how he got healthy, if its a pill so be it. But hopefully the lifestyle changes are tried as well. I also think we really need to focus on the mental health aspect of it. He was really hard on himself and I found myself regularly trying to steer him away from that.

What you do when you don’t have to, makes you who you are.

I followed disclosure for a while and it seemed to be mostly grifters. The big reveal never comes, meanwhile they are raking in the cash writing books and attending conferences. Some of them even have ridiculous shows on the “history” channel.

Gave it up about a month ago. The only reason I miss it is marketplace and getting local community news. Also local events are advertised there as well. I was trying to think of a way to get it back in a very anonymized way and block as much of the app as possible. I have adguard DNS, and a throw away email so I may do that.

I can think of two possibilities, either they think don’t get in the way when your enemy is making a mistake. If they can get to 2026, maybe it will be a democratic landslide. Or he knows where the bodies are buried for both sides, if there ever were two sides and they are terrified of getting exposed.

Those scare me quite a bit. Seems like you would more control with a drill attachment, although not as much power/rpm obviously.

These companies are revealing their true colors now that they think it’s acceptable to do so.

Fringe

I second Battlestar Galactica. I keep meaning to rewatch it. All of this has happened before, all of this will happen again.

What country do you live in?

I want to do this but really the only thing holding me back is my phone.

We cancelled Amazon Prime, and I won’t buy on their platform anymore. I bought something off Ebay, and sure enough it came from Amazon anyway. I guess they either dropped shipped or they fulfill their orders. I’ve bought a few things straight from the company and the price was the same. Shipping took a little longer, but I’ll gladly wait if means not supporting these companies that grovel to dictators.

I was about to pick up an a1 mini. Are there alternatives for beginners in that price range?

Thanks!

Do you have some suggestions?