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Moved to a very conservative area in the US relatively recently. Had to go by the police station for some forms new residents need to fill out. Passed about a dozen Trump flags on the way, surprisingly a few Harris signs as well.

Front and center behind the receptionists in the station is a giant thin blue line flag. It's one thing when some dipshits in the neighborhood have it out, but this is state government property. I hope to never encounter anyone from the station ever again because that was such a disgusting sight after also spending a very stressful 2 hours at the DMV.

I keep getting whiplash between "they're just humble hard working folks like in King of the Hill" when somebody makes goofy conversations at the grocery store and "I'm surrounded by people who want to murder my friends" when I see their yards.

They gotta recover some mana. It takes a while.

i can do 1) eerectile functionary 2) heat of hte moment love extensions 3) cast away nameless mist (anti virgin spell god) 4) gaydar 5) make you rboyfriend better shoot at boot camp 6) anticonception spell

My time spent sitting in Discord calls or scrolling for hours is significantly lower recently because somewhat ironically, the quality of posts here (outside of bad posting, DOWN with beanis) is higher so it takes less for me to be satisfied and for a while. If not higher quality, less mentally draining or bad vibe generating. Has been good for my mental because I've spent more time doing things I actually enjoy.

The Greens haven't gotten a president but they absolutely do campaign and win at the local level. And PSL isn't on the ballot everywhere so they're the next best option. https://www.gpelections.org/greens-in-office/

People were shit talking Bushnell in the original thread when it happened. But I think it can arguably be more effective than fragging folks in the building or something. Obviously, encouraging suicide isn't good as a standard. The people in charge won't care either way. But if voters work mostly on vibes, which they often do, this paints a picture of "peaceful person harmed only themselves to protest the government's evil actions" instead of letting people handwave them away by focusing on them hurting other people instead.

People don't generally know what Thích Quảng Đức was protesting, but given images of a burning monk, they assume the people who let that happen and that prompted the action are the villains. Of course, there's tons of people who handwave away people like in the OP as just those with mental illness already prone to suicide. So it could really go either way.

If OP is another Bushnell, I wish they hadn't died and had lived to continue fighting alongside other comrades, but I respect they care enough about something to go to these lengths because it often feels like nobody cares at all.

I was looking for a specific ebook the other day. Not on private sites, not on public sites, can't get it through my libraries. Finally checked out book piracy IRC for the first time. Still not there.

Oh, Graphene is great. It's just that you can only install it in Pixels. There was a recent info leak showing that Graphene was one of the only operating systems aside from newer iPhones that couldn't be cracked by the fancy new Israeli hacker software that the US government uses. But they're focused on security, not privacy. So if you're not concerned about the govt getting your phone, most of the benefits can be replicated by using open source software, a private DNS, etc. Graphene sand boxing apps by default is sometbing that should definitely be a standard though.

As for Pixels, if you look at benchmarks, they are always significantly behind comparably priced and even cheaper phones in every category. You might say 'oh well thats just benchmarks and doesn't carry over to every day use' but they're still selling people objectively worse hardware for flagship prices. They also have overheating issues and poor cell signal in addition to the overall subpar performance. They're better than like prepaid phones, but that's why I said they're junk.

Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks.

Yesss, I was searching the thread to see if anyone posted it first. I threw it in the mega last year. It's my own tradition with my friend group.

Is there a reason for the strong VPN recommendation? I don't use one anywhere else and if I don't use it here, I'm not sure I need to use it there.

Thanks for this link. Someone mentioned it when they did the announcement concert and I wasn't really finding any information on it except a resetera post so it was hard to verify.