Tbf at this point it’s well earned. The Republicans are still not switching positions about Epstein, the 25th and other things and their voters sure as hell did, so one can only conclude the more cynical position, that is, there is so much corruption it takes more than an elite sex abuse ring for the Republicans to finally do something.

Nuzlocke tourism

I kinda want one now

You should be proud of yourself indeed

I’m an IT guy and I get mad anxiety with anything soldering, welding, …

I am incompatible with anything less digital than a PC so I got mad respect for this sorta stuff.

Non-binary PC is just a quantum computer innit?

I watched quite a few videos and read some articles on this.

There are multiple things at play.

1. Protests make opinions known. This is basically what you outlined.
2. Protests make the government and / or the police blink. If a protests picks up enough steam, it puts governments and military and police on notice that any escalation might be dangerous. It signals volatility, and this is basically a dare against a government, and it creates rifts of dissent within government.
3. Protests signal power to a populace. Imagine you’re at home, you hate the government but you feel unsure about making your opinion known. Some part of it is personal consequences, but some part is also just that you wanna know if others feel the same. Imagine a crowd of millions of people outside saying what you thought all along. Even if you’re not joining, you sure as hell feel strengthened in every small thing you do against the government, even if it’s just talking about it with your friends an family.

Especially if there’s still such a crackdown on protests, the second and third point are valuable goals. The point of a protest is almost never immediate action but an intentional display of pressure. Everything suddenly becomes high stakes and another opinion enters the streets, disinfecting the halls of power one sun beam at a time.

Yes it is.

If it’s not, that has to do with you becoming an explicit target of 3-lettter agencies beforehand. Look, it’s legally risky and expensive to collect data from people, evaluate it and draw conclusions. You can become a big enough target for those agencies to reason that it’s worth it, but you gotta work really hard to get there.

In fact, the most likely thing for any given random person is either getting caught up in phishing attacks or getting chased by a PI at the mercy of family or a former partner that is holding grudges.

What I’m saying is yes, there’s a tiny chance that it’s not safe but if it really was dangerous for you to speak, you would probably already know.

Famously at Edward Snowden’s first interview the NSA was tapping him and he was chased around right up until they lost jurisdiction and so every TSA checkpoint became dangerous for him. But everyone who thinks they are just as endangered as Edward Snowden is most likely just paranoid.

13 drive-by quick-access points

The more I hear from you the more it seems your mom is completely oblivious to your world and your thoughts. I’m glad you are talking to us, and I hope you also have friends who can give you even better advice (and maybe a therapist when you can get there).

Just know you’re doing a truckload of things rn so if you manage to make it, that’s incredible, and if you shut down and need to take your time, that’s completely understandable even if your mom doesn’t get it.

My dms are always open if you need to talk to someone ^^

Everyone in here talking about science and my stupid ass thought this was a reference to the song Scarborough fair

“you should listen to some real music, not this new softie garbage” type beat

Music changes, there’s some I don’t like but I’m still not gonna be a dick about it. I don’t like jazz, but you can have your jazz. That’s fine by me.

Yeah boring.

I guess it’s almost past the “not this again” zone where it becomes transformative meta humor, but for that it’s not self-aware enough.

Dude it’s the rules. If you don’t like them, make your own community. If you want them to be changed, be forthright about it and maybe make a meta discussion about it once to get a feel for it.

If you wanna post in this community, you need to follow the rules. It’s actually pretty simple.