Haha whoops. I’m leaving it.

Is nothing scared.

I agree. I protested the war when it started, but it did start, and it did continue, and Trump’s move to free all those Taliban prisoners and basically give the country to them was one tmof the most shameful things America has done in a long time. But Trump loves fascists and the Taliban are fascists.

This is not an area of law I stay up to date on, but that did not used to be the case. Is that a rather new development?

Last I knew most courts were holding that since customers are sharing this information with third parties (sharing with their phone companies, Apple and Google, Facebook, etc.), giving everything away anyway, most individuals have waived any claim to an expectation of privacy. The right to privacy is founded upon reasonable expectations. I did hear about some pushback on that, more recently, but not from the Court of Appeals from DC, which has jurisdiction over appeals taken from federal agencies, prior to the Supreme Court. I’d be grateful to be shown otherwise. About time, if true.

Search and seizure, the Fourth Amendment, only applies to State actors. The only exception is when a private entity is acting as an agent of the government, such as in the case of private prisons.

Congress needs to pass consumer protection laws aimed at privacy in the digital age. They haven’t updated this sort of thing I believe since 1996. It used to be legal for adult video stores to disclose the tapes people rented, but Congress passed a privacy law forbidding it when some journalists disclosed some of their rentals. The scandal had some cool name. I forgot what.

I can feel it coming in the air tonight.

And it was also the day that the skeletons came to lifeeeee.

Dan Carlin called fascism, among other things, an “intellectual contagion.”

Hardest in the game right now.

Spittoon.

He’s never tasted it. He’s so deep into ranch dressing it’s all theoretical.

That is 100% the truth.

Dumbass do you realize that in 2015 they completely restructured Google specifically to avoid claims of antitrust?

What happened illegally between 2015 and now that thwarted Google’s plan?

That first step for me was big early on. When you feel like a fuckup regardless of how successful you actually are, it’s hard to take time to rest. I found myself in cycles of sleeplessness during crunch time followed by damn near hibernation after completing a large project. Reframing has helped: the reward for hard work is not rest, but momentum for more hardwork. It gets easier to force yourself, to motivate yourself.

Echo that, just for music. Having some decent noise squelches out some of the anxiety noise.

Decide first think in the morning so you don’t suffer from decision fatigue.

Even when you pick your outfit, I bet it’s autopilot. I think most people can only conjure up the willpower for a few real command-level decisions every day. Make them count by doing them early, because xecisions will be foisted upon you if you wait.

Mantras have been really helpful with this.

Use them to challenge that narrative. You’re an effective human all of the time, first of all. And that’s true as long until your metabolic and neuroelectric activty stop altogether in which case you are an effective corpse all of the time.

Right at that part of the comic where the text grey’s out, that’s where the effect of the mantras kicks in naturally.

Like I don’t know you or what you want to do or what you do, but I know you can take five minutes in the morning to tell yourself how effective you are, even if you don’t believe it, you will find yourself thinking so much less. It won’t feel like such a heavy lift to get started on something, because you’ve already sat your subconscious down and said “listen bitch, I’m effective as fuck.” It’s not going to challenge you back as much. That your subconscious. You tell that bitch what’s true and false, literally.

Didn’t Google already break up? It’s called Alphabet now.

Do you also find it hilarious to use the word techno whenever somebody mentions EDM?

One time this dude who is maybe a little autistic, possibly very autistic, made this super detailed post about all the different genres of electronic dance music. If you know anything about it, you know there’s some hyper-specific sub genres out there, and this dude took the time to not only list them all out, but verbally describe what made a piece of music fit into one genre versus all the others.

Obviously I replied with something like “Man, I love techno.”

Oh well it’s already a better app. without them.