And now the press are calling us ‘device hoarders’ for taking good care of our shit and not wanting to upgrade to new devices too.

Also, if anyone reads my comment above and has suggestions for books or articles or tidbits that could benefit from reading, I’d love to hear them.

I’ll give them this much.

They did a brilliant job integrating Windows into every significant sphere of the globe. I had never even heard of LibreOffice until a couple of years ago when they rolled out Windows Recall and I got serious about learning and using Linux and open-source software more in order to protect my privacy.

It’s wild to me that they have made a product that basically worked so incredibly buggy in the span of a few short years. It’s actually a running joke at my work how basic things, that functioned for decades, no longer work as expected. We all just assume that Microsoft is passing along LLM-generated code into prod without any human verification, as a company may be wont to do when they’ve laid off tens of thousands of actual humans.

And now I haven’t touched Windows except where I have to, usually for work.

It always bugs me a little when Labor Day rolls around and people just kind of ignore how workers’ rights were literally fought and died for, but as you said, they don’t teach us about Blair Mountain or Haymarket Square on purpose.

And who was basically always on the wrong side?

The US military.

The teaching of history in US public schools very specifically focuses on peaceful protest and little else.

They want to delegitimize the use of force and downplay state violence, which is why you probably weren’t required to read ‘Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee’ or taught about the Tulsa Massacre or the Battle of Blair Mountain. It’s why Malcolm X and Nat Turner are mostly ignored while all you hear about in your black history segments is MLK and Harriet Tubman. It’s why we’re taught about the euphemistically-named ‘Reservation’ system, when in fact, these were shitty, oppressive concentration camps for indigenous people and they were required to go there or be killed while their ancestral lands were stolen. (Which is not too dissimilar from what’s happening in Gaza right now with the support of both American ruling parties.)

In hindsight, it’s rather shocking to me that in my fifth grade class we were taught about conquistadors and no one batted an eye when I had dead bodies in my diorama about Francisco Pizarro. There’s probably no way that would fly today.

I’m still learning shit in my 40’s, reading history for my own enjoyment, that I should have been taught in school. Here’s another tidbit you probably never learned about: An executed slave named Mark whose body was used as a landmark after his execution, even by Paul Revere: https://www.paulreverehouse.org/mark-hung-in-chains-slavery-paul-reveres-midnight-ride/

They don’t. That is why regulation is necessary.

Just like how expecting people to recycle was bad policy.

Though I wouldn’t be opposed to there being statutory regulations against parents whose kids get addicted to these applications and end up self-deleting or causing harm to others, not unlike how we’re seeing the state start to go after parents who fail to secure their guns. But just trusting parents to parent isn’t an option anymore. There’s simply too much evidence of the harm these applications cause.

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People keep repeating these platitudes as if digital products aren’t literally harmful to kids. (And purposefully designed that way.)

But okay.

They’re both wrong.

And they’re both assholes. Fuck the Pope and his international child trafficking ring.

I’d love to see it someday.

It shouldn’t be possible. Full stop.

Billionaires are a scourge on everything good in this world.

1000000%

Just like we should punish corrupt cops way more than we punish petty criminals.

But our species sucks and that isn’t really the world we live in.

Yup.

And then someone infers something about your character because you prefer not to waste your time having a fruitless discussion.

I hope we see juries acquitting these people when their cases come before the court.

I always get a chuckle when I’m listening to 2Pac on the train to work, because I am a nerdy white dude, and if people knew what I was listening to they’d laugh.

Only rich people say stupid shit like this.

By ‘well’, I mean it helped me tremendously in managing my appetite with few side effects. (Which is why I think we should be making them easier to obtain, to combat America’s obesity epidemic.) Basically, on a GLP-1, you get the feeling of being full while eating less.

I stuck very closely to the doctor’s instructions, so for me, they’ve been a huge benefit.

I lost 130 pounds six years ago naturally, but my age has made it more difficult to manage diet and weight, so for me it’s just a huge help.

Super crummy news.

I’ve used GLP-1’s for a year and these drugs work incredibly well. The benefits are insane and the side effects are few. The US Government and the states should be making them EASIER to obtain, not harder.

That is incorrect.

I, too, want to live in a world where no one gives a damn about this shit, but that’s simply not the world we live in, and to pretend otherwise is foolishly naive. Bryon’s choices could affect Kristi Noem’s if his secrets were held over her head. (And I’d imagine they probably were, given his evident lack of discretion.)

It is what it is.

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