Class reductionism is largely unhelpful. Class war requires a genuinely united working class, and racism is one of the primary weapons of capitalism used to keep the working class weak. Dismissing racism instead of directly working to dismantle it hurts the cause.

Race, Class, and Marxism — SocialistWorker.org

I deleted my Meta accounts when Zuck became openly sycophantic towards Trump.

If my friends want to talk to me, they text me. Some even got Signal because I told them it was my preferred messaging app.

If they want to send a social media post/reel to me, they can text me with the link to it and I can view it in browser.

You can’t force your friends to care about surveillance, but you can choose to do what you believe is right, and your real friends will accommodate you, even if they don’t understand.

Yeah, I’ve only changed numbers once and it was because I was trying to break off from a high control religious group I had been raised in. That was enough of a hassle, I hope to never have to change my number again.

It should, since even Deflocked identifies all ALPRs, not just Flock

I know quite a few open straights if the Trump admin needs some suggestions

While I think studies like this are bunk, I think it’s a mistake to assume that there is no real effect on cognitive health.

We know that using LLMs is addictive. I can’t imagine that long term use is going to be as benign as long term use of a calculator.

Almost everyone in the family and community in which I was raised believes that human-caused climate change is not real. They believe that all climate change is a wholly unavoidable phenomenon that is just part of the earth’s natural cycle.

You can imply that no one has actually been fooled by the oil industry’s propaganda all you want, but it’s both incorrect & unproductive to do so.

If only there was a way we could satisfy both your desire and knoxvomica’s desire simultaneously

In my personal experience, especially in recent years, cashiers are often not even faster than self-checkout (though I’ve often experienced bagging pressure, lol). They’re either chatty extroverts who slow everything down because they’re socializing too much, or they’re new employees who don’t seem to know how to do their job yet (I assume this is prevalent due to high turnover, which is increasingly common).