While I can also say IRC, wasn’t anything like proving someone wrong, just keeping up with the speed of the conversation required being able to type without looking at the keyboard.

Sure. It’s possible you may. However, you sound like a 12 year old boy claiming something grandiose. If you really have a relationship that you cannot disclose, don’t go telling people that. No one will believe you, unless they’re the type to fall for Alex Jones level nonsense. Claims require proof, or at least common or searchable knowledge, otherwise who can take your claim seriously?

I could claim I also know a billionaire and claim the opposite of you. Or that the billionaire you know is just a moron. Many of them are.

Edit: Also, why do people always assume everyone would do the same thing as themselves? Just because you wouldn’t carry a cell phone doesn’t mean everyone has the same paranoia as you.

Having grown up in a religious cult Well…

Principality of Sealand?

They blame AI, but what if this was one of those aggressive encrypt everything malware attacks? Why are the backups accessible anytime except during a backup? I know, I know, convenience. But all of the backups?

Not all of us will do it to the same degree though. IT security has always been a sliding scale between security and convenience. The most secure data is stored in a locked safe without being turned on or connected to anything. That’s not very practical, so we make concessions based on how often we need such data and other convenience metrics.

I’m not as paranoid as the OP, though I agree with some of the stuff said. Reasonable security measures are fine; you don’t need to look like a digital version of a prepper with a bunker, for most people.

Edit: for instance I don’t use my TV all that much, but it is a “smart” TV, meaning it has apps that connect to Internet, and I have some online libraries.

Eh. The copaganda says they are set up for that, but they’ve always been tools to protect wealth and power. The 6 part series Behind the Police with Robert Evans and Jason Petty is good. There is some implicit bias involved, but they do provide citations to back it up.

Ahh, right Acts/Luke, not Peter. Thanks.

Wasn’t the pork thing in the Peter books?

It doesn’t really; it’s hyperbole by comparison. The distance from my home to the moon is vast and unwalkable, but if you compared it to the distance between the earth and the center of the galaxy, someone might say it looks like a short walk in comparison.

It obviously still is not possible, but it’s a way to stress how big the comparison is.

Doesn’t Stardew have timed days?

Please don’t insult fine upstanding sex workers like that.

Which is operated by the winch wench. Who runs on Linux.

I’m not loud and outspoken, but I don’t really celebrate. Though in my case I grew up JW so I never had the habit. I’ve heard arguments from outspoken atheists that religion doesn’t get to claim holidays, because you don’t have ro believe in something to enjoy the festive aspects, plus those holidays were stolen or merged from various religions anyway.

Civic? Maybe they got more expensive while I wasn’t looking, but the Civic is supposed to be entry isn’t it?

Actors make movies and thats it.

That’s the thing, if that’s all they did a little opinion difference wouldn’t matter. I also wouldn’t care. That’s not what they do though, they use their money and fame harm others. He went on Glenn Beck to support his 9/12 movement, was outspoken about being anti-lgbt, and donated money to those causes. Similar to JK Rowling, who some say to just ignore, then she also started donating her wealth to bigoted causes as well.

Assuming rich and famous people’s opinions can’t cause actual harm is just ignorance.

Did you like him on his Alex Jones Infowars appearances?

Hey, I’ve seen this one before https://youtube.com/shorts/B4APOBUpLAs

My brother has also had the same thing happen. We both worked in the same company and at different locations, and the company had been performing successive rounds of layoffs. On the 5th round he and I were let go about 5 mins apart, but in less than a month they had to rehire him as a contractor and higher pay than they were paying him before. Mostly I think because his prior boss would claim stuff my brother did as his own accomplishments and I don’t think my brother cared. He was able to contract til he got a better job.

I haven’t spoken to him recently, and I no longer use Facebook which was the way I spoke to him in the past, but the only military person going for office school I was friends with was a boom operator on a refueling aircraft. Maybe that’s why I never experienced any bloodlust from him. Mostly if we discussed his service it was about the boom, about physical training he has to do anyway, etc.