Also why my home gym beats my old gym membership. Higher investment up front, better returns. Well done.

Yeah, VPN’s are unfortunately essential. If I hadn’t made it a project to request deletion of my info off the top 30 background check sites, I’d be using something like DeleteMe too.

They’ve been enshittifying it for over a year.

Use LibreOffice instead. It’s available on both Windows and Linux.

Unsubscribe from all the things.

Yeah. Keep finger wagging. Worked wonders for you in electoral politics.

This is followed by a collapsing market that creates a dip in share prices or private valuation

I am not a billionaire, just an average joe lucky to be able to borrow a few thousand from my Roth 401k in order to buy oil stocks in March 2020 at 90% off.

I earned between 15x and 20x what I invested and paid off my student loans when the market recovered.

It’s not just for the billionaires, but you’re right, all of this is intentional and the wealthiest will profit the most.

As an American, I just may do the same.

Love to see it.

Anything that diminishes Visa and MC’s power is probably a good thing.

Bleak.

Huh, wow.

Could be I’m wrong.

It makes sense that it wouldn’t be story on corporate news sites though.

I am so glad I never got into Ring. or Alexa, or voice assistants, but I have a roomba so I’m well aware that there’s a minor surveillance appliance in my home too. I regularly go into my privacy settings and wipe my data on Roomba because of it, but unless you’re putting your phone in a faraday cage/bag or storing it securely when you’re not using it, you’re being tracked too.

What’s wild to me is that I’m not on corporate social media, and the outrage has absolutely exploded on Mastodon and Lemmy. I wonder how bad it has gotten on the corporate media sites, because there’s no way the algorithm hasn’t noticed it.

It reminds me of when OnlyFans (stupidly) told us all they weren’t going to allow porn anymore, as if that wasn’t the core of their business.

Ricky understands that part of his business is looking good, and good on him for taking good care of his body and staying in great shape. That’s teen idol stuff.

Kid Rock, well, he’s just a walking dumpster fire and always has been. If he hadn’t broken into the music industry he’d be an incel.

He did his best work in Time Bandits.

I would like to kindly invite this person to lodge their head in a deeply recessed part of their own anatomy.

I’d love that, but I don’t think (at least here in the US) that there will ever be a meaningful change to how killer cops are managed legally, especially after there was zero accountability for Uvalde.

There are only two ways to fix this that I see:

• Settlements need to be paid out of the cops’ pension fund.
• Send more cops to prison.

Neither of which the US is going to do, because here, the cops and law enforcement are a civic religion. Therefore the best most Americans can do is keep their heads down and avoid the bastards as best you can manage.

My brave browser still blocks everything. Very pleased.

No shit, Sherlock.

This is why I am glad that social media is slowly becoming age gated in other countries.

Absolutely, especially when other capitalist countries are doing universal health care and college.