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So I'm going to toot my own horn here lmao but personally? Mine lol. Sure, technically doesn't precisely fit the bill for 20 years, given it's changed domains, content and the such while I was ironing out my interests in life and future expectations.

But I've had variations of the site for different projects, purposes, employment needs, and more recently the whole starting my own organization thing lol. All in all however, I'd compare it to those 3 generation soups that are a big selling point in family shops throughout the Asiatic, sure nothing of the original exists per se, but the spirit is there.

I do have such a soft spot for the old ascii and plaintext site design, I've never really left the scheme since I first learned html. To me, the more basic a site has made it's web design the more likely I am to trust it. Something about corporate web design just never sits right with me.

Lmao sure there are folks with all kinds of expectations of relationships, but that's part of the fun of getting to know someone.

I've personally seen things from many sides, my exes have been first generation Americans, deeply religious one way or another, girly-pop fanatics or outright amazonian greasemonkeys. Way I see it, enjoy the process of meeting someone new, enriching your life and or course you enriching theirs.

Of course being online alot doesn't do you any favors, try dropping into a few mixers, ask friends to set you up with someone, just put yourself out there and see what sticks.

Good old boy's club after all.

Ah, guess whatever cabinet member or intern that's assigned to him finally remembered to mention Canada to him again.

Shame, really hoped he had forgotten for a while, our good friends up north at least deserve a break.

Connectivity breed hope. For much the same reason why internet access is considered a part of human rights in the modern world, they know just how big a threat access to new ways of thinking, of possibility can be to their control.

And they say taking up D&D as a hobby is weird lmao

Man? Lmao this isn't the lucky chance of single person.

This is decades worth of work by thousands upon thousands to bring about political change and opportunities for their varying ideologies, albeit central around profiteering, control, and unitary power.

Not even nearly the end of their work either.

I like a challenge as much as the next guy but damn is it disheartening at times.

What did anyone expect anything different?

I've been lucky enough to see the real deal in deposition layering testing and research for chip making. From clean-room methods stricter than bio and radiological test lab standards to seeing the wafers with a shimmer even more gorgeous than diamonds to me. It's so far beyond

We just ain't going to manage to make that a nation-wide mainstay. We might be able to have started to approach the technical side of things if investments and education were started in the early 90s, but our culture just isn't up to snuff to keep it going. So much of a society's culture bleeds into business, and damn do they have it locked down where it needs to be.

Personally I'm quite big fan of self-hosting, but if you want less a hassle, def try some of the other suggestions.

Since you're interested in anon file sharing, I'd really recommend you take some time to really think out just what your personal definition of anonymous is, and how well it fits in modern digital infrastructure. True anonymous activity is nearly impossible, you can be fingerprinted by even writing a file to a drive to hand to someone. Every action taken online has some trace to it, while IP is generally not precise information, with enough data overlap you can be reasonably guessed depending on how much effort someone is willing to put into it.

So you know, good luck finding a balance lol.

I used to run in consulting circles, long enough time around execs and you start to see just how well the good ol boy clubs, and know-a-guy chains can make business deals between firms. Once you get the ball rolling on a project as a large enough entity, it doesn't take much to consult the digital equivalent of their rolodex to find vendor upon vendor for this part, this data broker, etc.

Cheaper in bulk too.

Lmao

Could anything else ever be expected with these guys?

I'll always be a major proponent of voting. I make it a priority to try and work the polls when I can.

But damn, does voting with your wallet work every time. From civil rights to free speech, it just works.

So you know, the next obvious step is to really kick them in the balls and outright replace their businesses on the free market. Bit harder a step but the real ultimate irony would be a resurgence of local communities stepping up utilitization of rebroadcast stations to better inform their populations and improve overall broadcast standards by ensuring proper "free market discourse" as they so often put it.

Let's see:

On one hand, you could put money into new and nearly well established technologies that get more per dollar return on investment.

Or...

Just keep patting your buddies on the backs and continue to give people black lung. Not-so-fun-fact, modern coal industry workers are getting black lung and retiring faster than the older workers in more senior positions in the mines. Why? The newer machinery is so much more powerful and efficient at the job, the younger works literally cannot avoid literally getting black lung.

Are they going to be investing in more remote controlled robotics and ppe for this? Lmao who am I kidding of course not.

Really makes you wonder just how absolutely vile these folks are behind closed doors if this is what's facing the public.

You know, from a policy and leadership standpoint I can sort of enjoy the process behind working to combat racially prejudiced policy, adopting new and better cultural shifts in existing organizations, being able to foster real appreciation for the American ethos of appreciation of our neighbors, the real melting pot our society is.

Being able to meet someone where they are and enrich their lives through real exposure of different ideas, these their beliefs, and work with them to bring themselves into the modern world is an honestly wonderful experience. One of my favorite memories was a student I had helped to learn half a decades worth of missing reading skills. Young man went from constantly belligerent to anyone and everything around him, slowly to being self confident, more open with people around him, and just be himself. Sure, not the universal experience with the ignorant, can't teach and old dog new tricks and all that.

But this shit? It's just so deeply demonstrative of a small man.

If I was a writer having a political administration encourage literal toxic sludge pits, and yet further paying for those toxic sludge pits to be increased, and poisoning wells for miles around, I probably would have ever publisher I even glance at drop my number.

I recall something I recently overheard from a very excitable young man the other week: "Bro those cop shows were psyops for real"

Not quite the way I would've put it, but considering the change in attitude towards automatic presumption of guilt, and simple guilt by association, I think there's strong merit.

I'm as patriotic as the next the next loud-mouthed American, and damn do I love seeing the whole American Exceptionalism mythos in action. Sure, I can also totally get the whole this money should be spent on more important things in life.

But like, damn can't they at least pass an audit this decade? Even just one?