I thought it was REALLY well made. The timescales involved are good for perspective, that the GD was basically only 100 years ago, and WW2 only 80 years ago. Given that the USA is failing under capitalism NOW given our debt being so high and fascism right at our doorstep, but also things like AI and Climate Change here and now, no capitalism as we know it won’t survive my generation.

Not the red plumber either. The other one

I know it’s difficult but just call a friend who is on facebook in the group for updates.

Enough people start doing that and the group will realize there’s a demand for off Facebook communication.

Even mastadon would be sufficient. But a signal group or even sms is enough.

I think it’s a big overexageration that leaving meta is social suicide. Call your friends.

One thing we do need to replace though is meetup. I thrive there but organizing on meetup is terrible and expensive.

Oh I didn’t get that “no” element. Clever.

Old jokes can be hard to follow. I was expecting more idiom.

Can someone explain the red hot stove joke? Is it just implying he would steal it if it wasn’t hot? Like being hot is the necessary requirement for him not stealing it?

My one other media type is “the cloud”.

I use hard drives, I can’t imagine trying to put something on a disk or something.

One thing I do recommend, I keep one unencrypted hard drive copy in the safest most hidden part of my house. This is in case encryption software disappears, or I just forget my encryption keys or something.

Other than that, one encrypted copy of files in a thumb drive in my wallet (selected files, not everything). One in my car. One in my firesafe. Then daily cloud backup.

Necessity can be disproven if there is any possible way to overcome legally. A single shitty shelter with minimal food and a huge set of behavior requirements is plenty to say “you could have gone to the shelter and survived”.

Good point.

This is NOT a condemnation of USAID, more of a contradiction: isn’t it crazy our government is giving free healthcare to foreign refugees in foreign countries and not its own citizens?

Ideally, we should do both.

It got out. My parents thought it was a rat, so they called my dog to get it. He did so gladly. When I woke up they told me the “bad news.” I was happy with it. That hamster bit.