Perfect. What games?

My wife and I are basically attached at the hip. She’s my best friend and we do so much to support each other on all fronts.

Meanwhile in our friend circles, it’s the total opposite. People that are clearly with the wrong partners but refuse to change or grow; one that continues chasing a relationship they’ve admitted is toxic for them; couples that are married out of what seems like trauma alone or they’ve simply drifted due to never communicating; a few with the weird “wife bad lol” boomer mentality; a now-acquaintance that used to always give everyone unsolicited advice, has now started expressing misogynistic views after being perpetually single. Just no capacity for introspection and self-reflection.

My wife and I are by no means perfect, but we are open with each other, we cheer each other on, and we talk through things that bug us. The building blocks are simple but some folks refuse to adhere to them, while constantly wondering what went wrong.

Women have always been the strongest leaders throughout my life. My wife is my world and I personally think that women make better leaders. I’ve never been interested in any of the dumb humor and thought tropes that come out of male circles about women, even dating back to high school. All of that shit has always felt weird and makes me lose respect for the men that lean on that kind of lazy punch-down humor.

I need an emotional support kitten in my pocket at all times.

There is so much far better content out there to absorb other than Harry Potter. I can go without and be perfectly fine. I think we already have some of the books and DVDs from ages ago. So if my wife or I suddenly have the desire to revisit, we’re not consuming anything HBO or anyone else can even remotely trace.

There’s a realtor that puts them in everyone’s yard around 4th of July with his business card on them. My yard is always the first one to lose the flag, as well as one house a couple doors down.

Stremio, TorBox, Real Debrid, and qBittorrent = never subscribing to any of these ever again. The one freedom we all have left is that we can still speak with our wallet on a lot of things, and streaming is one of them. Let’s do our best to make these greedy fucks lose their shirts.

This could be shortened to

US being left behind

This country doesn’t give a shit about doing anything good or right.

Once you see that even a single slice of America is a scam, you realize it’s a scam from end to end. Insurance, taxes, corporations, charities, illegal online casinos, illegal taxi services, illegal rental services—it’s just fucking endless. America is one giant prison used to extract as much wealth from its population, while actively stripping them of every single benefit.

I saw a dumbass NEWSMAX ad while I was at a bar the other night. The only good thing that came out of it was that I connected with someone to make fun of it together. Unity.

It’s not a bad plan at all and I touch more grass with every new thing that enshittifies.

Anyone have recommended alternatives?

I think this is also tied to a decline in mental faculties. My mom had dementia and I had to dig her out of various situations, like having multiple car warranties, and destroying her inbox by clicking on literally anything. She hit a point where the gates that would validate or invalidate a decision vanished entirely. If a salesperson came to her door, the chances they left without landing a sale were slim to none. They just had to be charismatic and sound positive. It’s the reason she got stuck with one of those whole-house water softeners.

I think AI slop hits similarly. It’s made to tap into their most basic hooks. Religion, family, cute stuff, etc. Their brain drives past any of the gates that we have where we ask why anyone would watch this over actual videos of animals, people, etc. They’re a deer in headlights being entertained by the rudimentary dopamine hits, while all of the technical details go over their heads.

Excuse me, let me clarify:

In my limited personal experience

They literally don’t what?

I have AdGuard running on my router. GL.iNet routers have it as an option right out of the box.

“Am I free to go?” is one of the lawyer-suggested phrases you give when a cop pulls you over (that and exercising your right to remain silent). So in this case, you can ask all you want, no cop is even present, but a robotaxi run by a corporation can apparently detain you and I guarantee it’s somehow considered perfectly legal because it’s in some fine print. Fucking unbelievably clear collusion between the state and capitalists, while also being a violation of constitutional rights. The robotaxi is acting as judge and jury, while not even being able to solidly prove what’s happening.

Ask these folks if they have a better idea. They never do and always fall back to capitalism, even though we’re all witnessing capitalists fuck up the entire planet. They won’t even entertain the pieces of a whole as good ideas. It’s either all or nothing. They’ve already skewed the argument in their favor because of capitalist propaganda influence.

And Axon already has a long history of supplying cameras to police, so this is going to lead to an even worse enemy holding the mass surveillance reigns.

I don’t follow their personal socials (don’t have social accounts anywhere anymore), so thanks for finding these.

Yeah, gotta start somewhere. It’s just crazy how Meta got their claws in with WhatsApp.