I think I went on a rabbit hole reading about this island online awhile back. IIRC they speak creole Portuguese, while EG speaks Spanish, and have been punished by the government for wanting independence for years. This Internet shutdown is just a drastic and recent punishment.

It does seem like a nice life there. But very different than what we in the west are accustomed to. They lack many basic necessities, there’s shortages of everything that’s imported.

It would be important to not be a burden to the community. Starlink isn’t available there, so I’m not sure of another way to work remotely from there. And unless you have a skill they would benefit from, you might be a strain on a community already stretching it’s resources. But I do see the appeal of an island like annobón.

Yahoo Mail has AI summaries of received emails. Don’t ask me how I know.

What email service do lemmy people recommend?

The three leftist commentators that I watched over the past day were Hasan Piker, Krystal Ball (with her conservative cohost Saager), and Kyle Kulinski. All of them humanized Kirk, and reminded the audience he has children, and acknowledged that they are in the same business as Kirk, while they are on the other side, and have very strong disagreements with his positions.

I don’t dislike any of their reactions, but I was frustrated with Kyle today because he spent a long time discussing current conspiracy theories, and then discussed inflammatory right wing reactions. There’s not complete information available yet because the suspect hasn’t been caught, and it just happened. It felt like he was grasping at conspiracy theories, giving them too much credit without the evidence to back them up. And I didn’t enjoyed most of the reactions on social media, including lemmy, yesterday, so I was pretty exhausted to hear him go over the worst of the right winged reactions.

By “given recent events” do you mean which leftist commentator did I not like their reaction to Kirk’s killing?

So does everyone else

Creampies!

This is the policy of “America first”

Marriage, homeownership, baby. No big deal.

I got all the games. Thank you!

“I didn’t shoot a baby, I neutralized a threat!” - the IDF

I got a Rx for zepbound and lost a bunch of weight.

That would annoy me and I’d spend too much time looking at it and thinking about it. I can’t live under those conditions.

My coworker’s commute is almost an hour on the train, so she can read a new book every week! My commute is only 5 minutes on the train, so I just listen to one or two songs. I wish I could read as many books as she does.

Thanks for the “minimal” aid asshole

“I can’t go on trial for my corruption charges, I have food poisoning”

I love project zomboid. Totally recommend it. It’s so customizable that it can be as challenging or easy as you’d like. I just wish it was easier to save games!

I don’t think Joe’s on truth social

I’m confused because with the Air India crash, everything I read so far indicates there was no malfunction with the fuel control switches.

I think I have a good balance of eye contact and eye aversion for most social situations. And can gauge quickly what someone else’s comfort with it is. I do frequently look to the ceiling when thinking (literally looking for answers or a response) so it doesn’t look like I’m staring or glaring at someone while my mind buffers.