Last time I did a major upgrade was a few years ago, got a new motherboard/cpu/ram because the old stuff was broken in some way that was causing weird problems. Glad I got that and some additional drives bought before all the current craziness. Before that it was a better GPU. So every few years I guess.

I am really uncomfortable with them, but there isn’t a clear alternative given that our computing environments are designed in a way to be inherently insecure, patching exploits as they occur is the only plan other than not using the internet. But it means that the people with the keys to the software can install what they want on your computer and probably take it over. You could check every update yourself and compile it from source yourself if it’s open source, but that would be too much work.

I don’t know, I spend a lot of time on the internet so it would feel hypocritical to limit it to a big extent, but I’m not sure if it would be doing someone a disservice to raise them to be like I am. Maybe I’d keep some desirable stuff blocked just so they’d have an incentive to go over to a friend’s house where it isn’t blocked.

From the article:

He’d like to move into construction — siding, roofing, interior work — but the sector’s downturn has narrowed his options at the worst possible time.

My source I mean, no shade

Source: conversations with a schizophrenic guy who got institutionalized, also LSD

Well sure, but this game isn’t just about cults, it’s about the quest for spiritual knowledge and ascendance and the terrible fates awaiting those who take a wrong turn. The fascination mechanic in particular feels spot on; it accumulates with exposure to the beyond, can be useful for progression, but accumulating enough risks a direct game over, and it is difficult to get rid of. Following synchronicity is rather dangerous.

Ok but https://cultistsimulator.fandom.com/wiki/Fascination

At least censor bots won’t know wtf they mean either

Conclusion:

The person is arguing that jobs should offer higher pay regardless of your educational background or specific credentials . The sentence was likely dictated via voice-to-text, which misheard terms like “college degree,” “master’s degree,” and “associate’s degree” as nonsense phrases like “fella knee,” “mister meaner,” and “salt and battery chargers.”

To clarify, that quote was not what I am suggesting, rather it’s part of the bar to be overcome.

And just accept that the company and your government gets to decide which expressions go down the memory hole? Even with totally ineffective cargo cult methods, at least they are trying.

Isn’t the solution to that problem really simple though? Just value doubt.

“all the tools constitutionally available to us” - they still can’t do everything they want, yet.

I don’t know but I want a browser layer that lies about it and then renders the page in a way that doesn’t send back more information, and I think it would probably work and only be slightly buggy.

I found a paper that seems to be arguing that you’re right about motive, but that the literate French revolutionaries were smarter about it:

It has been widely argued that the growth of mass literacy is critical for the development of modern forms of contentious politics. Recent Scholarship, however, has challenged this view. This study explores the relationship between levels of literacy in rural France toward the end of 18th century and the extent and nature of peasant mobilization at the beginning of the French Revolution. It is found that literacy did not promote rural disturbances as such but that the forms and targets of peasant actions in the more literate areas difered from those in the less literate. The less literate districts were notable for mobilization against rumored but nonexistent invasions, whereas the most literate districts nurtured attacks on the central social institutions of the Old Regime.

Some stuff has to be reported accurately for stuff to work well, like screen size

Ah yes, CSS, the famously serverside technology

How slanderous

How do you make sure the head stays secured to the handle?

Combustion products are always bad for your lungs, but cigarettes supposedly have stuff in them that is uniquely bad and especially carcinogenic.