The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time to plant a tree is now

Your digital footprint is an extension of yourself and how much effort you put into it is up to you. In the same way we encourage people to not eat junk food made by shitty companies, we encourage people to manage their digital presence and support non-shitty companies.

But its hard to eat healthy in the same way its hard to set up accounts and tech that you control, its a concious effort. Do not let perfection be the enemy of progress, anything done to improve your footprint is progress in not feeding digital dragons.

Those who willingly do not participate in the civil process give up their right to complain about it (voter supression is a thing, there is a difference between able and willing) write in Batman for all we care, if you feel no options are deserving of your vote. Showing up is the important part, even if you just intend to spoil your balot.

Yah... Thats too much, if they cut that in half I would ignore it not being up to the repairability standards of fairphone, but if I cant expect that device to last 10 years then ill just wait for the next one...

But a lot of apps and sites do not display total profile votes, its a lot healthier to no chase those metrics anyway.

I have, not in education (I have relatives who work in higher education and they claim as such, but both of these are anecdotes anyway) but the interview process. My work has struggled to hire anyone and its driving me bananas. They either get candidates who used AI to pass the non-technical phone screen and show up for the first interview clearly asking AI about industry standards and they flunk almost immediatly. The second group are full on tripple threats, they can sing, dance and act, but balk at the first talk of pay (my business daddy has not kept up with the competition in a narrow field, they can get a lot more across the street).

We are looking down the barrel of the last cohorts of classically trained professionals working through their careers, the world is about to be a much weirder and worse place because of [gestures broadly to everything] but mostly AI.

Can we settle on the best one under the Disney era? (The correct answer is E5 and my favorite is E6)

I do actually like that one, when introducing people to Star Wars, I do suggest starting there with a double feature into E4 in the same sitting. 1) because if someone has not seen Star Wars, they are very young or have been avoiding it for 50 years, giving them something modern feels like a good idea 2) the trasition from a 2016 film to a 1977 film (even with the remasters) is jarring and I like tormenting my friends :-p

OP has a point, if a cult shows up at your door selling their beliefs, you can take the opportunity to do some deprogramming. A few of the basics:

• Dont flat out deny interest, feign insterest and try and draw out their selling points.
• Be polite, they need to not view you as a threat, offer them tea or something.
• Attempt to address all questions or as much of the conversation to the younger of the pair (JW travel in pairs).

The point is to show that dispite being antithetical to their beliefs and not interested (your friendly neightborhood atheist) your not out to villify their group. They are trying to show the younger person that the world is out to get them, by doing the opposite, you break the illusion a little bit and are likely never going to see them again as they will not want to revisit the house talking about Kierkegaard.

Everyone head for the hills, Barrens chat is back!!!

Seconding, in the US, most states and the FCC have protections for amature radio equipment, there are a few introduced bills that would encourage emergency radio preparedness and extend the protections to federal law.

Which OS? If your on linux, setting proton to 11.0.2 fixed it for me.

Its an altered-carbon bit, yes.

This would be an ideal I would love to attempt, but im too plugged into the matrix. Having the option to tell the world to go pound sand, even for a little while, and just stomp into the woods and hang with some chickens sounds more like a pipe dream.