The same bad actors have muddied the lines through limiting online discourse and pushing their message consistently enough to drag some well meaning, but lacking in critical thinking skills, people to join the cause.

Like algorithms for social media, they’ll feed you little bits that become normalized, and sudde ly the stuff that was crazy 5 years ago seems tame and pointless to fight against now.

Funny how hearing a message associating someone with a movement, true or not, swayed your opinion. Almost as if it proves my point.

Because people with money told the actors they hire to pretend to inform you of current events to only say that he’s bad because he represents a threat to their class.

The correct way to ask is,

“I need another worker, are you willing to come in today at time and a half?”

Lots of people here say Proton, but I’d also consider selfhosting my email on either a home server or the cloud, whichever meets my criteria for redundancy to stay online vs cost

The photos I take on my cellphone are instantly catalogued, scanned for metadata, and synchronized with my gallery. The app then gives me fun photo displays and reminders of my past daily.

I do nothing but take photos and pay a small fee.

I’m particulay looking for.the functionality of Google Photos, not just a cloud storage solution but a photo catalogue integrated with my camera among other things. Does Proton offer this?

I wonder if this correlates with my recent desires to de-Google my life. I’m steadily growing less happy about daily using their services and them holding all my info.

I’m open to suggestions for cloud photo storage/management on par with Google Photos if anyone has some. I’m looking into FOSS but would rather pay for the service in the long run. These days I’m too busy to learn to be an effective server admin and keep up with the technology.

I don’t have a lot of sympathy for any of the idiots that buy these idiotic things.

How you view death impacts how you live life. You now have a feeling shared and contemplated by all of humankind before you, and all the humankind after you. This is the human condition.

Embrace it, come to terms with it, choose to live today and enjoy rather than worrying about that which you have no control over.

Those words are very easy to type but much harder to live.

Best of luck.

Calamari night at the buffet

If we could stop hating people for things that don’t really have anything to do with our daily lives, that’d be great.

A Palestinian cuurently in Gaza, or a Jew who lost family on Oct 7 may have a different justification for their thoughts and concerns than the person sitting comfortably in Starbucks and glaring at the brown person or the person with the slightly larger nose.

Fucking lunatics.

I turned off ECO mode to fix that problem.

Hey if they want to set that precedent, so be it.

This is a moment in history like Ford releasing the Model T. The horseshoe industry took a massive hit, as did anything related to horse transportation. The winners saw it happening and pivoted themselves.

Right now, one person with AI that makes prompts replaces an art department. Gig work will dry up as many people learn to ask ChatGPT to write their excel macros, instead of hiring it out. Audio engineers can be replaced with one person doing QA in some finished products.

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