Boomers for sure did, leaded gasoline began being used before Boomers were even born.

What likely leads to greater exposure is how many cars there were by the 70s and 80s. But lead exposure is cumulative over a lifetime. So I would be curious to see that research, as Boomers had roughly 40 years of exposure from 1950s to 1994. Gen X wouldn’t have that much by decades.

Yeah, their WWII PTSD really boosted the canned food craze. But the Boomers (no pun intended) ate it up, and carried it along and put it all in plastic.

These people were obsessed with eating canned food. They thought that they could make it palatable with stuff like slathering it in mayonnaise or suspending it in jello.

Boomers are sociopaths. Years of leaded gas exposure gave them lifelong cognitive decline and propensity towards erratic behavior.

No, sorry, we can’t flirt. You are only allowed to send blast DMs calling yourself the Fediverse Chick/Dude/Person.

You’re a baby made out of sugar? What an incredible job.

I guess that explains being the Gulf region, it doesn’t rain much there. Otherwise you’d melt.

It was because that was mentioned by the original post as why they picked all blue. Which was largely about the GDPR specifically. So I went for it on that one item.

I appreciate it, and I threw this together in about 10 minutes, so it’s just a spitball idea. Rather than seeming purely disparaging to the other person and their design by saying I don’t like it and not offering anything else constructive.

I mean, I can think of a few black flags that are iconic.

Not to mention the band Black Flag.

I do like this version better than the other one with the detailed hand. That being said, to your point about data security, it’s more so that we’re sort of splitting a finite set of motifs. Even the icon for this community is a shield and an eye. The eye being the threat, not the community represented by the flag, IMO means minimizing the eye, though I can see how you would feel the “stop” hand in the eye does the same thing. I just don’t agree with that.

Also, just me personally, the all-blue just seems boring to me. This blue is slightly bluer, so it doesn’t give me the BSOD vibe at least, but this just seem closer to a logo for a data removal subscription service than a flag. Not that mine isn’t exactly far from that either, but still.

Well, if anything, the dove just goes away as being too cheesey.

I was going to bet anything I was going to click and it would say “More cowbell!”

Pleasantly surprised, thank you.

I loved the idea, but I object to the symbology.

First off, we’re against being seen. Why would we want a big creepy eye as the definition of success? Did Pirate flags show shackles and gallows? Of course not.

What are common pictograms associated with privacy? Shields. Locks. Locks on shields. Privacy is about defense and control.

Second, the blue gives me BSOD vibes. I get the EU reference, but black is super obvious here. Black it out. Redacted. Blind. All right there.

My suggestions? A shield or lock with dove at its center. Because the mass surveillance state is one of fear, not freedom or peace. Black field with blue and white stripes, white representing freedom, blue as you have it, and I guess giving a nod to Estonia’s leadership in EU tech. Not that we need to rep Estonia, but I also liked their Eurovision entry this year.

And just like that, 200 redneck women said in unison “huh, that’s a real pretty name. Schardonayegh. Ooooh, even better -Schardonayegh Lynn. I love it!”

It’s far far worse than American TV. TV commercials are a scattershot hope that you show the ad to 2 million people and 10,000 see it and buy your product.

With Google fingerprint tracking, advertisers are selling hyper-targeted ads so a company buys only ads to show to the right 10,000 people over and over. It’s a literal dream for advertisers. But it’s a fucking dystopian nightmare for us.

Praise be

This 100%.

Followed by drinking ditch water and getting dysentery.

Edit: no sarcasm. I personally do fasting and keto, and highly recommend them.

I also know someone that would drink a liter of water from a well they knew would give them dysentery a week before they went anywhere fancy to lose an easy 5kg. I don’t recommend it, but it does also work.

Partner had one once.

Can confirm it works, bit takes awhile to really get going.

Freetube or Librewolf (preferably via DDG search)

Cycle through VPN locations until you get a winner if you get a block. It’s annoying, but the purpose of a VPN is to let you look like you’re anywhere. So find a good spot to watch YT and then just settle in.

Is this the syllabus of African Studies 101 or something? Total amateur hour. At the absolute least where are:

Dahomey kingdom

Kanuri Empire

Toubou knifesmithing

Tuareg people

Sarrounia Mangou and the use of traditional religion in the resistance of European Colonialism

Ouidah and use of traditional fetish altars

Afropop

If you look at it without tons of light and air pollution, as the ancient Greeks would have, there are so many stars you can make a constellation look like anything you want.