Tbf, this paints the picture that the issue isn’t “the guns.” If we also have more knife attacks, “guns” can’t be “the reason” Americans are more violent than their oft compared counterparts. I’d wager it’s something in the absolutely well known cocktail of economic disparity, general hopelessness, social isolation, instability abound, the pollution from chemical plants that led to our past serial killer problem (no really), and all the other factors that we know can contribute to more violence in a region.

It’s also more helpful to compare a country to itself, it’s possible factors other than “guns” can be the real reason. For instance, Japan may be less violent because they don’t have guns, or they may be less violent because they’re quietly an authoritarian police state that has police in your district inspect your house once a year “just in case” and they can hold you indefinitely if you’re simply suspected and can force confessions leading to a suspiciously high conviction rate (spoiler: false convictions). Without being able to force people to confess to crimes they didn’t do (legally, it does happen but it isn’t allowed), who knows how that’d work here.

So with that in mind, comparing America now to America then, violent crime in the US has dropped steadily since 1993; and gun ownership has only gone up in that same time, in 2004 our “assault weapons ban” expired and violent crime is still falling, despite public perceptions fueled by 24/7 news media and their “if it bleeds it leads” scaremongering for ad revenue, of course.

That’s not being neurotypical. That’s just having poor communication skills.

I won’t even bother replying to him, that’s what I’d have said, thank you.

Based on the actual women in my life, “blame partner for own communication failures” is the divergence rather than the norm.

YMMV. In mine it’s about a 50/50 split, probably edging on the “blame others” side. I do also know guys that expect you to read their minds too though, mostly middle managers, and plenty men and women who can’t take responsibility for any of their faults/actions (which is in essence the same issue, just broadened), it’s not really a gendered issue, it seems like there’s a general accountability problem these days.

Nope.

That’s what “nope” means? I thought it just meant “nope.”

I figure something like “No I just want to cuddle with you and have a nice chat” would be a more descriptive way to say “nope,” maybe we should look into that.

If “she wants to talk to me” then she should use more than one word.

Then she should tell me that, ironically, because I’m neurodivergent and can’t read my own mind sometimes, let alone hers.

I don’t want an attack dog, I’ll protect the cats just fine.

The cats won’t run down range and get in my way.

I have to be in, but I’m not gonna take the time to find out.

Just in case,

HEY TESSERACT GUY:

YOU A WHOLE ASS BITCH FR

Good.

That’s legal, fuck you. It’s my data, and I want it (gone) now!

That isn’t a hallucination, that’s Scribbles! He’s chill.

Death Jr. 1&2

Work Time Fun

Idk, I don’t use any of them, but I’ve definitely heard people say facebook is for the olds. I thought the kids had all moved to TikTok tbh.

Good to know.

Second question,

Which one is more likely to spend demographic money to try to court younger white men from a low to middle income bracket?

Are young people still on Facebook? I thought it was just “for boomers” now.

I may be wrong (I left the algorithmic social medias when they abandoned linear timelines [kept reddit until about a year before the exodus, since only fedi]) but:

Is that not because that is the content you interact with (argumentatively, likely, but still) or hover over longer with their eye movement sensors, or all the other ways they track you, and so they think “ahh he ‘likes’ (hate engages with) this content so send more!” in a loop to keep you engaged and keep making money for them through advertisements?

Like, if you ignored that shit (and iirc there’s often a way to “reset” your algorithm in some settings, after all, they want the data they sell to be accurate, it’s more valuable to sell…) and started only liking/lingering on family shit and cats (how can you ignore the kitties after all), they’d send primarily that, yes?

I could be wrong about that, this is my understanding as an outsider, but I’m curious. At the end of the day I’ll forever advocate for the end of such algorithmic practices entirely long term, and the end of one’s individual involvement with it in the present moment: “Bruh get off that shit it is rotting your brain. Like actually, by design, and it wants to keep you locked in. Don’t look at the Basilisk.”

Some jobs ask for your social before you can even submit.

Pffft I ain’t got one. Deleted that shit in 2014, keep up managers.

And all too common, sadly.

Not to mention they do have something to hide. When someone says that I say “ok let me in your phone right now, I’m gonna read your texts and emails and look for nudes in your camera roll” and not one “nothing to hide” person has taken me up on that for some reason…

It’s one of the opening events of the Summer of Ludd, a weeklong series of talks and activities like how to flirt and date offline, mending, and learning to fight against data centers, all focused on getting people off their phones and into community.

Somewhat paradoxically, I hope they film and post these somewhere so that people like me who can’t afford to travel can still benefit from the knowledge. Like, I know how to flirt and date offline (actually don’t know how to online) but am too neurodivergent to understand where is appropriate now beyond bars (since I stopped Honky Tonkin’ that is), mending is useful af and I could use improvement over my current skillset, fuck a goddamn data center, and I struggle to find cool things/events in my community now that everything is on facebook (beyond nature, but nature is a solitary pursuit and not conducive to meeting anyone besides other stoners, not that I’m complaining too hard but I don’t only like other stoners.)

I’m somewhat of a luddite myself, but still recognize the value of the internet in spreading information (like posting the videos of those talks) and communication (which is just packet radio assisted by infrastructure, really).

A dude I know lit off a smoke bomb in the school bathroom “back in the day” and almost got me charged with Arson (I ain’t no goddamn snitch).

Point is that isn’t new, it has been a “bad idea” since the 90s.

Go with the old classic “ketchup packets folded up under the feet on the toilet seat” instead. Less criminal.

Yes, but I’d still prefer not to have to spend the like ~2h reinstalling and replacing my files.

That said this seems like a pretty low stakes trial which is why I’m looking at it first. Worst case a reboot (or recovery through live booting) should fix most issues, I think, if I understand correctly. I don’t plan to autostart the docker container so if it fucks my system up a reboot should put me back to normal if starting it breaks my sys right?

I do have some old laptops and an unopened router waiting for me to figure out openWRT. I could install some linux OS (deb?) on one of those and use that for docker, get off my ass and install openWRT on the router, and then use that to connect both devices (and I’d have to figure out which to hotspot but that is easy), if that’d be significantly safer for my daily driver. Then I’d have to figure out how to point my browser to that too though.

Thank you! I’ll check out the docker docs before I try spinning this up as my first trial run!

Same here lol, I will for sure!