WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]

Depends on your threat model. But given more people using these things normalize it for those who can justify the need for such software (like whistleblowers, those organizing illegal direct action), it makes it easier for them to use it without it gaining too much suspicion and makes it easier for them to use it more consistently even outside talking about things that more obviously need that extra security.

Those are super easy to change, so no one would know that it’s you across different addresses unless you specifically tell them.

Or they recognize your writing (granted, unless you admit to it or do things like tell the same story on both accounts, it is basically just a hunch rather than solid evidence). I’ve accidentally done that with someone across websites once based on primarily based on how they wrote (granted it was a very niche community, making that cross-website different-username identification based on solely writing style much more feasible). If you write generically and avoid things like unusual emoticons (or intentionally write differently with different handles), its a lot harder to do that.

Part of me wonders if it’s a recession, or if the ultra rich have finally squeezed everyone to the point it feels like one

What’s the difference?

Accounts whose profile page have urls starting with reddit.com/u are also sus.

Probably none that aren’t like someone’s personal self-hosted server intended for only them. I doubt I’d want to join such either. And any that don’t probably get blocked by other comms anyways, so it wouldn’t really matter.

I think that one originally was started for conservatives, but then it got abandoned and someone asked the admins if they could have it to make it a satire sub. Also, your instance does block a fair bit of comms, including ones that are for right-wing (like communities with taglines or website names about being racist and misgendering people) or tankies.

Even 10 years ago, disc drives seemed to be out of fashion. But if you laptop was 5 years old, it likely have one anyways.

Of course! The celebrity lemmies have them at least. I hope I don’t have one, because then maybe people would recognize me.

Making comments on here.

Seems like a pretty clear answer though. Just like asking if you asked if free will exists, the only response I could give is “WTF is a free will?” Even if my answer ended with a question mark, I know you know what I mean.

If you invite nazis to your table, guess what you are?

People street racing at least don’t typically seem like they’re distracted by things like phones; I almost trust them more than the average driver.

One of the few ways into private thoughts is to get someone blackout drunk. But even that is not 100% reliable.

Curious how being blackout drunk vs general anesthetic vs ketamine (when used in doses that allow it to be an alternative to anesthetic) compare. Never been drunk, but have experienced the latter two. Any part that I can remember, I had enough selfawareness to avoid answering anything I’d want to answer with a clear mind and I’ve never been told about me saying anything I don’t remember actually saying.

my sister had commented, “He’s so weird.” Strangely, that was comforting to hear. It’s not that I see being different as a bad thing - it’s more about that unanswerable question of whether I truly am different, or if I’ve just always felt that way.

Seems like other people think my weirdness stands out as well. In particular, things like friends either asking or asserting that I’m autistic, for example.

and I recently asked if they feel normal. They said yes.

I wonder how much the person asking the question affects that answer.

Did you not see the comm?

I used Zorin back in like 2014 on a cheap laptop that didn’t have a good enough battery or much RAM, so windows was pretty annoying on it. The hotkeys didn’t work, but that was still better than dealing with windows on it.

A few years later, I tried dual-booting for my work laptop with Mint and it would break frequently. After reinstalling both OSes for like the 4th time in a year, I just gave up and went back to windows only due to specific software I needed windows for at the time.

Been meaning to give Linux another try, but been procrastinating on it like lots of other projections.

I wouldn’t boycott someone for performing here, but I think performers should boycott America.

Never heard the term before. Based just on the wikitionary definition, seems like a weird way to say “people like feeling hot and desirable” but while seeming like they are trying to pathologize it. Also, the one quote they give of the word being used doesn’t really seem to fit the definition given?

Perhaps its they’re just trying to make a neutral word to refer to something they observe. Like “heterosexual” wasn’t invented to pathologize heterosexuality.

Most plants, mold, mildew, cockroaches, milk, and nickel are the ones I can think of. Was funny when I got a prick test, they were training someone, so they were sorta happy I was so reactive to so many things because it meant they got to show how to rate the severity of all the dozens of bumps.

Same. Is surprising how people assume that given milk allergy is still one of the more common allergies.