lepinkainen

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lepinkainen ,

Dude is like 30 and looks 50.

Dunno what he does, but he should stop it

lepinkainen ,

Gays are people too, you know. And also among the first to be genocided

lepinkainen ,

I’ve fantasised about this for at least two decades, now it’s really happening!

lepinkainen ,

Or more generally “the west”’s fault, never their own

lepinkainen ,

Most of them moved out already

lepinkainen ,

Last time it was cornstarch.

And the stones are covered in lichen that protect the stone

lepinkainen ,

It was coloured corn starch, and the stones have lichen growing on them that has helped them survive this long.

Nobody knows what the colouring agent was.

lepinkainen ,

Or go sabotage a monument in Saudi-Arabia, they produce more oil than anyone.

Throwing orange corn starch on the Black Stone in Mecca would be amazing press.

Prosecutors say Alec Baldwin was ‘engaged in horseplay’ with gun before fatal shooting ( www.theguardian.com )

Fewer than three weeks before actor Alec Baldwin is due to go on trial in Santa Fe, New Mexico, prosecutors have said that he “engaged in horseplay with the revolver”, including firing a blank round at a crew member on the set of Rust before the tragic accident occurred....

lepinkainen ,

It’s like a bad accent.

Some people won’t notice, but for those who can see/hear the difference it takes the suspension of disbelief away immediately

lepinkainen ,

The craziest thing to me as a non-American is that Sheriffs are voted for.

Zero qualifications, just need to be popular.

What. The. Fuck.

lepinkainen ,

Law enforcement should always require training and knowledge of the law.

Politicians are there to oversee and be elected, they are accountable to the people directly and they have the power to fire police officers.

Law enforcement shouldn’t be elected and thus be influenced by people directly

lepinkainen ,

The insides are really crazy custom crap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzxW3B3_Pak

lepinkainen ,

The difference between science and fucking around is writing it down - Adam Savage

lepinkainen ,

She could make literal billions by writing a book about Donny the Orange.

lepinkainen ,

So when a country attacks a sovereign country, what is the anti-war persons solution to that?

lepinkainen ,

From a Russian fund

lepinkainen ,

Wait, is NATO Zionist or something? Did I miss the memo?

lepinkainen ,

Just like Samsung’s phones then? 😆

lepinkainen ,

This is happening outside the US as well.

Fast food places aren’t fast or cheap anymore. Big Mac and Whopper meals are about 10€

For 2€ more I can get a real burger at an actual restaurant.

lepinkainen ,

It's in the Dictator's Handbook I think. You can see the exact same thing in Russia's official communication too.

lepinkainen ,

Obviously Biden vs. Trump is more likely to result in a Biden win

The sad thing is that we're not sure. Trump voters don't vote "rationally", it's a cult like thing that was cultivated during Biden's term. They are taught to refute all facts and go by gut feeling instead.

lepinkainen ,

This would be my dream (as a non-American).

I want to see if the deep red Republicans hate Democrats enough to vote for a woman, born to Indian immigrant parents just out of spite.

lepinkainen , (edited )

I tried Kagi last fall because everyone was raving about it.

Now I’m paying $5/month for search and couldn’t be happier 😅

lepinkainen ,

And you can easily block or boost sites in the search results: I've got all pinterest domains blocked, along with a bunch of "news" outlets that don't actually produce anything good in the world.

Similarly I have stuff like reddit, hackernews etc boosted in the results if they match.

I did the free trial for a while and only used Kagi for a while, still going strong with the $5 300 searches per month tier. I don't really need to search that much because the results are usually correct the first time :)

lepinkainen ,

I'm not worried about Kagi's privacy, the only thing you need to give them is an email address (which is kind of a no-brainer if they need to contact you).

You can pay with Bitcoin if you want more privacy.

And they don't even allow you to store your own search history, because they don't want to save it anywhere.

"Save My Search History
Currently this option can not be turned on. Kagi does not save any searches by default. In the future we may add features that will utilize your search history and then we will allow you to enable this."

lepinkainen ,

The 300 searches goes pretty far because you usually get the correct result the first time.

Also you can just use hashbangs to search directly from a site like imdb, letterboxd, goodreads etc so those don't count against the 300 either.

lepinkainen ,

If privacy is your goal, Mullvad is the answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullvad

They have been targeted by law enforcement and haven't given anything because they don't have anything to give.

Mullvad does not log VPN users': IP addresses, the VPN IP address used, browsing activity, bandwidth, connections, session duration, timestamps, and DNS requests

They don't even have user accounts, you just have an account number and you can buy more credits even by mailing cash to them if you're really gung-ho about being private. I usually just use my excess Bitcoin to top up when I need to use it (they give a 10% discount for blockchain purchases)

But if you need to get past geolocking or have huge download speeds for pirating, then they're not what you're looking for. I use Mullvad on my mobile router so every time I log in at a hotel or similar, all of my devices are behind VPN automatically

lepinkainen ,

I'm at 243 searches now and it resets in 8 days. Seems to be enough for me.

I do use hashbangs quite a bit, so if I need to find a movie I go !imdb the matrix and if I'm looking for a book I can go !gr rando splicer which saves on search credits.

lepinkainen ,

The summariser works on Youtube videos too btw...

You can just do !sum and get a summary of what they're saying in seconds. Changed my life.

lepinkainen ,

Exactly. If you're not paying, you're most likely the product being sold.

People always keep forgetting that Google (or Alphabet) is an ad company, that does tech stuff with its 20% time. Everything they do is geared towards delivering more ads more efficiently.

This is why I've paid for email for years to Fastmail referral link

Similarly I started paying Kagi for searches, mostly because their results are better than DDG, which I used for years.

And, like the people I know from infosec, my phone is from Apple. They're the only company who makes you pay through the nose for the hardware and because of that specifically do everything they can not to know anything about you. (One of the reasons why Siri sucks so bad btw)

lepinkainen ,

So if a stuntman dies on set the producer should be prosecuted because they hired the stunt coordinator?

lepinkainen ,

And this is why I only buy Brother laser printers

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