You don’t have a authority that decides what is useful and useless, what gets produced and what doesn’t.

Well sort of, the “authority” in the case of a truly free market is The Market (or The People, if you will.) If it sells it sells, if it doesn’t it doesn’t, The Market will decide.

That said, I agree with the rest of your statement and realize that you meant authority in a truer sense, and I in more of a metaphorical sense.

Duh. They use phones mostly. A lot of the gen z people I know are just as bad as boomers with tech. Millennials and gen x had that sweet spot of “actually having to learn how shit works not just iphone go brrr.”

Something like that, yeah. They don’t all notify.

I know that, you know that, many know that, but many don’t. Imo they should be required to inform you, preferably with a splash screen on boot or something similar that says “monitored by XXXXX” or something. Especially for things like schools where it’s more likely kids won’t know it (and will be more likely to become privacy advocates for life from knowingly having theirs violated.)

That said, where there’s a will, there is indeed a way. Japan for example has abysmal suicide rates, they have a huge shame culture and it’s culturally (more) accepted with the seppuku and the suicide forests and all, and they also have virtually 0 gun ownership. Suicide is still very easy without a gun, and a gun is not even the most effective method statistically (though I hesitate to say what is because it’s literally accessible to most of the world’s population within a 10-20min walk at all times. Don’t do it, seek help, keep fighting.)

That’s how it starts. Gabba gabba we accept you, one of us, one of us.

RFK Jr. is an independent, iirc he was considering running as a Dem before that. The Libertarian candidate this go-'round is Chase Oliver.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/10/1097482967/roe-v-wade-supreme-court-abortion-period-apps

You may not have anything to hide right now, neither did these women at one point in time. Things change. Privacy matters.

Oh good to know! Maybe I’ll give it another shot, thanks!

They still have to prove it! They can suspect I’m lying but I’ve never gotten a cash tip in my life good sir!

Cash tips. You have to claim card tips kinda. In many places they’re auto-claimed, and in others you don’t “have” to but if the IRS wants they can get proof of those tips unlike cash (or weed) tips, so you could get fucked.

Ok cool thanks, I’ll probably go with something on this list then. My other things I was looking at were the Turris Omnia and the Peplink B-one, but tbh a lynksys with openwrt will likely serve me fine.

Thanks! Just to be sure, the router company becomes inconsequential when I install openwrt, or am I mistaken?

As in say I buy a linksys router and install openwrt, linksys can no longer spy on my traffic, so I shouldn’t worry about that, right?

It’s quite possible those tankies are the very same people excusing his transphobia, they already simp for Castro and Che, who rounded up gay people and put them in “totally not death camps” for their “mandatory service” where they were starved and worked and beaten to death, and they totally excuse him for that, too.

Yeah yeah, “later he said he was sorry he had all those gay people killed in concentration camps.” Uh huh.

What’s a good router one can use for openWRT? I just so happen to need a new one. No expert mode for me.

The point is we all generalize, the problem is not knowing how to apply it, and whether or not the generalization is perceived as good or bad is highly contextual. Feel free to not get it all you want, doesn’t hurt me any.

You demonstrated the ineffectiveness of the approach by assuming I’m a Democrat or even American.

Actually I assumed you’re a lemmy user, of which I’ve yet to meet one who doesn’t generalize republicans whether the poster is american or not. Not without reason, mind you, many republicans are say, racist, though many are not. It serves as a damn fine example of exactly what I’m referring to and is also a generalization in and of itself, which doubles back to make my point again. I understand the process, and in fact at times see value in it rather than simply nature at work, the trick is knowing what to do with the generalization. Should you hate X because X usually Ys? No, but if Y is an undesirable behavior trait in X you should at least find out if they Y before becoming entwined with them somehow.

Well, there does keep being more reasons by the day…

Well get used to it, generalization is what people do, they love it, I’m doing it right now, it’s a function of the human brain seeking patterns. They’ll decry it against their group and use it on another group in damn near the same breath, welcome to the world. We even have phrases for it, “one bad apple spoils the whole bunch” and all. I bet if I scrolled through your comment history (I’m not gonna, but if I did) I wouldn’t have to go too far to see you generalize about a group commonly perceived as “all bad,” I’d guess it’s republicans, probably say they’re all racists or all nazis or all X, it doesn’t really matter, point is the odds that you do are higher than the odds that you don’t.

And the guy who died, his chest just spontaneously developed a hole containing lead and copper?