I don’t know, the only thing stopping me from getting 150 billion is the threat of having to pay an 800 million fine on it.

If it weren’t for that

I was going to say, it’s starting to sound more like the EU is just taking kickbacks in a circuitous legal manner rather than via a shady under the table deal with men and trench coats exchanging packages of unmarked bills.

I mean, in the last 5 months how many times has the EU fined meta or google?

If you really want to make a message that sticks, you ban the danger sites from operating in your collective and then fine them for their past misdeeds.

If you want to be seen as lenient, you then set down a list of objectives that the site must adhere to in order to be reinstated in the collective.

Anything short of that is just lining your pockets. I mean, what is the money being used for?

This is more like a parfait because everybody likes parfait

Remember, the rule is “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish”.

Threads is doing this. Kicking them to the curb regardless of the cost is the only solution.

I don’t know what normal people do but people like me don’t see ads because they use the appropriate protections from the invasiveness of the internet.

Pihole. Firefox. ublock origin, privacy badger, decentraleyes…

It also helps if you don’t participate in systems that attempt to intrusively shove ads down your throat, but you do you.

I kind of disagree with that being not caring about you. It’s kind of more like they are helpless to help you, but they still want you to be better because they want you to be happy.

So, a lot of people default to giving useless advice. It is still an expression of care and love and support, just an ineffective one that is insulting and annoying to someone who’s currently going through it.

I would much rather have somebody whom I’ve known for years tell me to try doing things that improve their mental health than to have nobody or for everyone to just look the other way while I am suffering.

I’m with you. I make mid-100s myself and as a single homeowner with no children I still can’t afford to go on funky vacations.

My take home after 401k and taxes is like $7,600 a month and my mortgage, heloc, car and student loans eat about $5,000 of that.

But, car will be paid off in the next few months, student loans should be done about 2 years after that, he lock will be done about 2 years after that so 5 years from now it’s only going to cost me like $2,500 a month to keep my home.

I have been told that I fit into the Henry class, “high earning, not rich yet”.

I just wonder if I can keep going for 5 years to accomplish that or if I should just finish up the house and sell it and pocket the 200k in value it’s accrued, pay off any other outstanding debt, and then go find an apartment or something or go travel.

I guess it’s a quality versus quantity thing. It’s a lot easier for 4 billion people to coexist happily than it is for 8 billion people in the same space.

Our food air and water quality have all dropped dramatically over the last 50 years even though the protections for them have increased.

If half the population did not reproduce then those of us that have grandkids might live in a better world.

“DO i’T”

Number 3 won the gold star for the day

I used it for a while. It honestly was a really good browser for a long time but since everything started going this shit it quickly fell from my good graces.

The only time I even think of missing it is when I have to open a page that is optimized against Firefox on purpose because the developers decided to use some janky Javascript plugin and didn’t test.

I miss my games being on solid media that I can trade with my friends or sell at a game store.

But I would not give up the seven seas to have that back again.

Yeah I’m 6’1 but I’m native American so I don’t think I will fit into their thing cuz they tend to prefer white guys

I’m definitely a jack of all trades, but I have a bachelor’s in IT and like 10 years of work experience.

I feel like the competition is pretty high for people in that category though, but I could probably handle a couple hours a week of berry picking and English teaching.

I guess my only question is, if I sell everything and liquidate all of my assets I would probably have like 30 grand, maybe more maybe less.

How long is that going to last me while I’m wandering, and what options are there to keep money rolling in?

I’m seriously tempted to sell all my stuff and just become a nomad.

Sounds pretty dreamy all in all.

Originally it was used as a hex to dispel demons.

Using it on a person is telling that person that you believe they are a demon that needs to be cast back into hell.

So how offensive it is honestly depends on who’s doing it.

The tatted out meth head with four teeth? Not offensive at all.

Kindly old church lady with a heart of gold and an apple pie in every pocket? 100,000 out of 5 offensive

There’s the line about the beast that was wounded unto death and yet lived that seems vaguely apropos

13:3:

And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

I feel like you’re overlooking the death of the culture.

That’s what colonialism is really about.

If it were just sharing space and technology and advancement then nobody would have any problems with colonialism.

Colonialism extinguishes culture.

Every single space that has been monopolized by a billionaire has had its culture extinguished.

But it is colonialism. There are virtual spaces that are currently occupied by native inhabitants and deep pocket billionaires are literally bulldozing their way into the space, evicting the current tenants, and then exploiting that space for its resources.

I don’t think there is a better term for it than colonialism.

Would it matter if it were communist colonialism? I don’t think so. The result is the same. The space is disrupted, the native inhabitants are displaced, the resources are exploited.