Find a community you like. Be a member of it and you figure out more regarding subcommunities. It’s easier than on the big ones.

You must be really likeable. People downvoted the shit out of me on Reddit. I always hoped people didn’t hate what I said enough to downvote that much in real life.

Trump’s election is what did it for me. That and Reddit’s user experience had become so watered down with slop and bad content presentation in general. I’ve unsubscribed from Amazon, no Paypal, deleted Facebook, stopped using Gmail mostly (still working on that), deleted Instagram, stopped watching CNN, stopped allowing tracking and fingerprinting as much as possible. If your site tracks, I’m using another unless it is reasonable for the application.

Since then, on my phone, I use FOSS browser, NextDNS, Eternity for Lemmy, Pixelfed and Mastodon. For all my searching, I started using Swisscows, but now I am searching with SearxNG. Also, I am trying Proton, Tutanota, and kollabnow for email. Got Arch Linux on laptop because Microsoft tracking and snooping is so far out of control it should be illegal 50 different ways.

Fuck those techbros. This is now our civic duty.

I see what you did there. ;)

No, I need to kick balls because I need to buy multiple sets of tools instead of one, and if you’re integrating systems, and another engineer didn’t read the unit requirements, shit doesn’t work and we have to stop and troubleshoot. Check the other conversions. If I asked you how many feet in a mile or slugs in gravity, can you tell me off the top of your head? Nobody wants to stop and look up crap to get stuff done. What is 12C in F? Who the fuck knows. Do I need a sweater on my trip? Let me go back and find my phone to see. Oh shit it’s not charged. Let me open my laptop because some fuckass with balls intact decided to troll everyone with arbitrary bullshit.

Oh. I didn’t know that. Most folks there are not active duty. Thanks for explaining. That guy must have been a new recruit to get out.

I’m an engineer in the US, and I can tell you that the Imperial unit system is a major pain in the ass. It’s makes no sense at all. 1 meter=100cm=1000mm vs. 1yard=3 feet=36inches. I’ll not even get into slugs for gravity, miles, and pounds. Whoever invented the English unit system needs to be kicked in the balls. It’s probably one of the worst mathematical blunders of humanity.

Also, why does nobody here know that their mindless nationalism is weird? I’ve seen military guys stop traffic to stop their cars in the middle of the road and stand with their hand over their heart towards the nearest flag when they play the trumpets at the end of the work day. ( on a military base) But seriously, why would you stop rush hour traffic to virtue signal your worship of an inanimate object. Those people should not be allowed to use firearms. There is seriously something wrong with that. My coworkers did the same thing, but not while they were driving. It’s beyond bizarre.

It makes you wonder if peaceful societies can ever exist without threat. It’s almost like the most greedy and psychopathic people always endure. That’s why the liberals in the US and Europe will not win against the violent right wingers. The indigenous folks in the US have a word for the white greed sickness. I think they call it watika.

The world wars didn’t even really happen there. There has not even been a war there in the last 100 years or something.

Why does everyone dislike snap? I just didn’t want to use Canonical products, but I was unaware that others didn’t like it.