Some do. Sexuality isn’t a choice. Nobody requires sex itself, though.

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Are you being paid by e.coli?

When I was a teen it wasn’t the government I was afraid of, but digital devices were just as likely to be read as paper. What I did was keep anything I needed to be private at school, work, a friend’s. Is any of that an option? Would a super old laptop with a fresh OS that you never connect to the internet be safe in your home?

800 CAD is like 400GBP, to be fair. So this garage thing would be like 2000 CAD.

That sucks, didnt know charging by the minute was still a thing at all in some places.

Anyone who uses Facebook messenger as their only messenging app will need to text or call me. Fuck that. I do, however, use WhatsApp and discord for work and uni group chats. If or when that’s no longer the case, people who only use those will need to text me, too.

I’m curious, what do you do when you have the flu or covid or the like and are too sick to shop? I mean, I know some places have affordable grocery delivery, but in places where that’s not the case?

That’s a city thing, people only really do that if the shop is on the way. You’d still usually have a supply of cans, pasta, rice etc. either way.

Oh absolutely. It’s just that the opposite is frustratingly common: people who care about fair treatment, bodily autonomy, etc but aren’t vegan. It’s heart breaking to know a bunch of their reasons for that describe me as well.

You seem like a great parent! I’m personally leaning towards giving them dumb phones once they have to take public transport to school, for the convenience of them being able to inform me when they miss the bus or want to have lunch at a friend’s. But who knows if or when I’ll even have kids, lol. Maybe things will change in that time.

When I was kind of strapped on cash, the 2016 iphone SE was the most best choice by far. The android phones I’d had before that usually cost a similar amount and they all broke in less than three years. But that 290€ bad boy lasted until I lost it in 2023. Shame they’re no longer making those. But I guess the silver lining is that people don’t make fun of me for having an iPhone anymore.

My highschool PCs had XP for as long as at all possible. They switched them to some beginner friendly Linux after. Way to go.

You could literally just save a copy to your desktop before you’re going to do something sensitive.

Very important addition: do this AFTER SUBSTRACTING STANDING EXPENSES FROM YOUR INCOME. So, take your monthly income, substract rent/mortgage, insurance, electricity, phone bills, wifi and everything else you can’t help paying once a month. Then divide the remainder by 31 for your daily budget.

Not a solution to all your problems of course, but the only way to buy something and preserve your privacy is to pay cash. Everything else will get your info to someone. Lots of good suggestions for lesser evils here for when you have no choice but to shop online.

What about the libre office version?

If it doesn’t require the patriarchy, why is it gendered? Surely, it’d be even more profitable to not give men usable pockets either.

If it makes you feel any better, we have a joke in Austria that we might as well not have an army, because we border 1) NATO, 2) Switzerland, and if either of those become a threat, we might as well capitulate immediately.

I’m currently working with some code that partly was written in the punch card era.