CupcakeOfSpice

It would probably depend on the person and their symptoms. My voices have mostly been threatening, but when I get delusions of conspiracy and such, it's on a literally cosmic level. When I'm psychotic, I'm rarely concerned about the state of the US apart from worrying something is coming for the whole earth. But different people's symptoms come up differently. Experiences are probably too varied to be generalized like that very easily.

Ah, so everyone else should work 60 hours a week for minimal pay, but he, since he gets his pay through stocks and such and therefore gets no regular wage despite making loads more than the average worker, shouldn't have to work at all.

A few eldritch abominations here, but charm has to be me.

There is some precedent for this sort of thing. Being some in ham radio, I've worked with and learned about a few different emergency communications systems. And some that are unrelated to ham radio. An interesting project is I2P, but it mostly just piggy backs onto the main internet. Mesh networks are closer to your "our own internet" idea, but they would need to he fairly widespread to be effective. There's Meshtastic which is an existing mesh network using LoRa tech. Each channel has its own encryption key, and for peer to peer, comms are end-to-end encrypted. There are public channels (which just uses a null encryption key like AA== or something) but if you specify a key, only users subscribed to the same channel with the same key can use that channel. You could technically set up a TCP/IP network over Meshtastic, but it'd be ridiculously slow. But an upside is that there's already a lot of people and infrastructure using Meshtastic, so you already have a difficult part of building a mesh network done. Unfortunately to guarantee full coverage, you'd have to use an internet gateway to link distant users. There are other mesh networks, but most of the ones I know about use ham radio bands which, legally, need to be unencrypted. (at least in the US) And if you were to try to encrypt comes, nosey hams will be able to track you down and report you. And that's not a vague threat, a lot of hams are just chomping at the bit to track down violators.

Would Pac-Man be considered art? In its day it would have been a technological achievement, but was it created to be art or to extract money from players? If the latter, then that's its politics. If it was made with the intention of being art, then maybe it has to do with unlimited consumption? Not sure.

Musk suddenly discovers that his "cost-cutting" task force was convenient to get voters, but ultimately did not serve the fascist cause. He did get rid of a lot of public services and programs, though, so he wasn't an entirely useless pawn.

But I love moving big ships in three dimensions. Partly why I love Space Engineers so much!

I have so few friends I've fallen into this shit before. It's gotten better since getting on here but gee willickers I'm lonely.

I think Ars Magica has a note where they basically say "We'll throw around masculine and feminine pronouns and differently gendered nouns completely at random." They use a lot of Latin, so there's a lot of gendered nouns. Unfortunately they never seem to address genders or lack thereof outside the binary, but then again, neither does Latin.

I remember being told when I Duolingo'd Arabic years ago that people would think I was a terrorist. They complain about thought police when they're the ones policing everyone's thoughts.

21 million million people? Are there that many people in the world?

This looks uncannily like a guy I met in college. I don't know the guy's politics, but that's interesting.