But who else is going to micromanage and bully the employees and strut around self-importantly doing jack shit? /s

Yeah, not good of them to not share that information.

But for anyone who’s wondering, here’s a decent article that goes over the shady companies that discretely own most VPNs apps.

Amusingly, and kind of in counterpoint to the guy who you replied to, this article concludes that Proton is actually a solid VPN option that isn’t beholden to one of those sketchy VPN-hoarding companies. Though they don’t talk about any Israeli influence in Proton TBF. But still, on a general level (excluding the Israel/Palestine thing), Proton seems like one of the better options.

They also recommend Mullvad as a good option. I’ve never used them, but I’ve seen mentioned positively in other articles about VPNs.

ETA: Clarity.

Genitalia (supposed to be gen-Italia - an Italian electricity company. They got rid of their web domain they they finally realized.)

It’s the ExpertSexchange of the 2020s!

Was gonna say… my kids keep accidentally using my profile to watch their videos. YouTube is going to think I’m a teen/child with peak gen alpha brain rot.

Agreed. This is more a combination of naive people being exploited by a sexual predator, and the tragic ripple effects of that.

But that said, I just looked up a history of Evanescence, and there appeared to be a lot of problems in their first incarnation. Some of that might be the effects of the abuse their male band members and management suffered. But there was also a lot of bad blood between Lee and Moody that seemed to predate Tait’s abuse.

I put my IMEI in and it said I was eligible. But then it gets stuck in an infinite loop of support links with no option out (at least when I selected to get a replacement battery). Edit: I got free of the loop, but the nearest place to take my phone into to get the battery replaced is 100 miles away!

I think I’m just going to get a new phone and move on. Not a Pixel though. Fuck this noise. My wife had a Pixel 5a and the motherboard fried itself after a couple of years. Google sent her a Pixel 6a replacement about 2 months later (long after we’d found her a non-Pixel replacement). So I upgraded to that replacement for in a 4a. But now this battery/fire bullshit? I’m done with their shitty products and their shitty support!

On the regret thing, we don’t know what the future will hold for individuals or collectively. Yes, things aren’t looking good overall. But what if your kids make massive positive changes to the world as they grow up? (And from what you’ve said they are heading in a good direction for this.)

I totally understand how some people feel they are improving the world by not having kids. There’s a lot of merit to this choice, and I respect that decision. But likewise, a next generation is arguably still needed. And when raised with the right guidance and attitude they can be transformative and help reverse or at least negate some if the bad past generations have done to the world.

Thanks for the link. I put my phone’s info in and it told me I’m eligible. But the color of the phone was completely wrong.

I’m done with Pixels. The first one was amazing. But the quality has been going gradually downhill for both the main series and the A series phones.

This one seems very applicable to this topic:

c/rareinsults

I came so close to switching over to them at the start of the year. I was in the middle of planning that change, then their founder or CEO or whoever he is started going political. So I held off. And now just like everyone else they’ve jumped on the AI bandwagon.

Farewell, sweet prince (of darkness).

You know exactly what he’s saying. Stop putting words in other people’s mouths and making disingenuous arguments.

Having managed a reasonably large MMO guild for several years, this game sounds about as appealing as getting an eye gouged out.

Both I and my book feel personally attacked by this cartoon.

Anal Pilot

I’m middle aged.

Yeah that was my assumption because he looks middle-aged to me. Found out after I wrote that he’s like 35? How the fuck can you look that haggard when you’re a 30-something content creator raking in the money from your parents’ basement!

It’s the natural progression for a 20-something piece-of-shit gamer edgelord. When he hits middle age he pivots into being a miserable racist piece-of-shit bore.