Age is like an onion. You get more layers as you get older but you’re still a kid at the heart of it all

This guy has it right. That’s basically my mom’s kitchen gadget drawer. Junk drawer has duct tape, 3 leftover zip ties, some loose AA batteries and the big screwdriver everyone seems to have

Was just looking at something like how to execute on that this morning as my morning coffee dive down an internet rabbit hole.

There’s this guy named Michael Bazzell who used to make a podcast about stuff like this, and he also wrote a book called Extreme Privacy that I thumbed through this morning. He talks about where to go to get a ghost address, how to buy and set up a cell phone to be virtually anonymous, how to buy a house anonymously or how to re-title your car to a trust or LLC, and pretty much everything in between. Even talks about what information to not divulge when you go to the ER and details what to consider you put on your kids birth certificate.

So if anyone is paranoid enough to know how to avoid getting suicided, I’m going to bet on this guy’s advice

Somewhat recently I was car shopping and looked into towing capacity for a Prius.

No Prius stateside is rated for towing at all, but in Europe where they sell the same damn model it is rated for a light trailer going a max of ~65mph. It was my understanding from digging into it that the US version doesn’t officially have tow capacity because of the legal speed limit on our highways being above what it’s safely capable of.

So at least in this one case it’s due to liability avoidance even though Prius can tow a light trailer if you drive like a grandma on the highway. If it’s true for that it’s probably true for other cars with more oomph

Have an angry upvote. Literally true.

Baby steps.

Yeah I’m sure there’s a new CEO now, but consider that whatever schmuck ends up in that chair next knows he’s taking over from a predecessor that was deposed for wildly unpopular policies at the helm to hold profits over people.

Mr schmuck will definitely be sweating it when faced with similar decisions because fear of it affecting him personally, e.g. catching a bullet, is a real possibility. I guarantee you that thought has never crossed any of these CEOs minds before this happened.

All the assassin did was force them to understand they have skin in the game.

How badly do they want more money? How does the calculus shake out with this new variable of self preservation? Is it worth looking over your shoulder every time walking down the street?

This is why people are arguing it’s the trolley problem

Do you have the dry eye problem I’ve been hearing about after Lasik?

This is how I use the vote arrows too.

I think I’ve gotten a little idealistic since moving to lemmy because I definitely used the votes as agree/disagree on Reddit, because it was clear that was what the hivemind decided it was for, who was I to argue.

Pulling out your gun and shooting the brown skinned dude going for a jog is a little bit different than packing it in and resolving to do yoga another day

You got me, this is what I’m referencing.

If the topic of books comes up in conversation with random people I always recommend it if that’s the only book they read in their lifetime

Lots of people giving advice here, but I’m not seeing the most important advice being emphasized.

Always trust your gut. Listen to that uneasy feeling and act on it.

We developed this intuition over millennia for a reason. Your subconscious will pick up on cues even if you consciously aren’t catching it.

Good argument for encryption and servers within a privacy respecting country

I know it’s not the answer to your question, but you should really consider getting a bidet installed to not piss off your hemorrhoids.

Speaking from someone who also has them and who got a bidet during covid. Life changing for my cinnamon ring.

Train whistle and the sound of the train rumbling by in the distance is deeply relaxing, doubly so if after nightfall or if I’m drifting off to sleep.

Thanks for making a great app purple man

Alright! Dystopian nightmare timeline is a go!

I especially like the part where cops are reported to heavily abuse these databases for personal agendas or to share with criminals. Truly ACAB

This is a very good reason to maintain the appearance of neutrality while facing your local community

This might even be an argument for putting those smoked opaque covers on your license plates even if it’s questionably legal. There’s more than a few people out there with definitely not legal smoked covers to the point you literally can’t read their plates unless you’re tailgating them, and cops don’t give a shit because nobody is ever pulled over for illegal mods. I’d wager that the cameras can’t read them either if you can’t at 10 yards

About god-damned time someone did something about that.

Not great that it had to be California legislating it for the rest of the country but we’d pass out if we held our breath on Congress doing anything useful

I would downvote this if I could.

This kind of shit is what’s actively making the internet a worse experience.

No human wants to read generic drivel written by a machine, let alone being fooled into clicking on this asshole’s website because they gamed the search engine to get their garbage ranked higher on the list

Oh that’s why no videos would load.

Damn it

Oh my god, thank you for this. You solved a year long sufferfest for this internet stranger because of that greyed out button. Every god-damned guide online points you towards that button and I could not find the solution for it. What the fuck Mozilla