Obd2 software so I can diagnose and repair my car. This is more than a dtc scanner, I need to be able to trend values and flash/program modules without a $15k tablet with $50k of yearly software.

He’d drive a truck fogging asbestos dust out the back

We congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs.

Bite, salt, repeat.

Hooters goes tits-up.

Even still, the ‘flag’ could be enough damning evidence for some people to take action. We’re in the cultural ‘guilty until proven innocent’ territory, where a mere accusation ruins lives.

Measuring cup from Walmart. Packaging said dishwasher safe. It was not.

Better Homes Food chopper that couldn’t be disassembled to clean it. Potato chunks got pulled up into the housing by the blades and just rotted there with no way to access it. The exact same model is still sold in stores.

One of these is wage theft. Don’t enable that shit.

Maybe talk to and raise your kids to think for themselves, while making sure they don’t endanger themselves on the Internet?

There are plenty of things my friends were doing that I wasn’t allowed to join in growing up.

Book cypher. 2 copies of the exact same book. The cypher is an agreed upon system of indicating letters or words.

This is also my take: any person can set up an image generator and churn any content they want. Focus should be on actual people being trafficed and abused.

People don’t have to work. This is the assumption the entire house of cards is built on. Those at the top need you to work so they realistically don’t have to.

“everything we gave up for you, and you still act ungrateful.”

So how does one person, not born into the starting conditions that make gaining this level of power easy, gain sufficient power to prevent or deter use of power against them?

Take the job, fail upwards.

A reminder that assuming a government speaks and represents it’s people is a major falacy. Our government is shit, and our media loves punching down by showing the worst people and attaching “you” or “US” to the headline.

But most people are reasonable and willing to help where they can.

Was an X-Files episode

My truck dun gone left me

The mowers laughing at me

And now I walk

Because my truck could talk

And left me for a mazaritti.

This isn’t just limited to people of Mexican ancestry. If you (or anyone else) can fill in the following blank, you can be targeted under the same process: “My family has _______ heritage.”

Oh well, was worth a try.