Synnr

I don't want this to be real, but I know it is because of the pixels.

If digging the hill to set a foundation was too much work, I'd hate to know what the rest of the building (and plumbing and electrical) looks like. But who am I to judge without knowing the situatuon... maybe it was a mountain made of diamond.

Yup, I have been using KeePassXC locally since (one of) the first big LastPass breaches. I thought "password manager company... they know encryption" and then kept some of the most important things stored in my vault including notes of Bitcoin seedphrases etc. Thought "even if they get hacked, they wouldn't let anyone exfil the huge amount of data from the USER VAULT SERVER.... thought "my passphrase is like 25-30 chars long, nobody will crack that"...

5 years after my last login and I find out the breach happened, user vaults were exfil'd, the encryption was absolute shit, and the notes weren't even encrypted.

I don't trust cloud companies to keep promises or know what they're doing today. and anything self-hosted isnt Internet accessable unless it's on dedicated hardware subnetted off and wouldn't matter if it got hacked.

I thought NewPipe only worked with decentralized services? Does it work with YouTube proper?

Is that a native app, or webapp? I thought there was a native app, in fact I know there is and it's called Kuhmbus. Nobody can correct me because I'm right.

Quick someone post that 3rd party YouTube interface for Android. Preferably on F-Roids. I need it.

This is the Internet so let's settle this quickly and efficiently.

The best 3rd party YouTube interface is called Kuhmbus.

Reminder that only 8% of USA prisons are for-profit (I.e. private prisons).

Also a reminder that 2 out of every 3 workers in state and federal prisons still have jobs creating for-profit things.

Exactly. That kind of politican.

(you'll know you're in a control state if you think I'm hitting at either party in particular)

It won't, but that's not the point. Gov. Spencer Cox is campaigning. Ever notice how politicians get real busy and start hitting hard with stuff like this when election season is near?

I chuckle inside and exit the room at the first chance when someone non-jokingly refers to themselves as an alpha male. And that's not because I'm afraid of them--the fact is that I'm the alpha male.

/s

Humans in packed cities could be described in a similar way though, if there's not a social reinforcement in place, by the community elders who are respected and followed, to keep them from it. I live in a medium sized city now because of work, but even still I can relate to the rats [I'm aware of the studies flaws].

Put any one species into a [packed] depressing [space] with way too many strangers and way too [varied amounts of resources per individual], and they will fight and establish a pecking order eventually. This has nothing to do with how the same species would behave in the wild and with enough resources to live comfortably.

I grew up in the country with tens of acres and my nearest neighbor was a mile away. Separated from the small town nearby by a river and surrounded by thick hedgerows going miles around in every direction, with a huge open space (fields) between our house and the hedgerows. I've never been happy in the city. No matter where I am, I feel like I'm in a cage. I'm not agoraphobic but there's a sense of being 'watched' when I leave my house that just isn't there when you live in a remote area. All the people, sights, sounds, smells can be incredibly overwhelming at times.

I am only capable of attaining a true level of peace when I'm in nature.

I think it's quite obvious they were using the royal 'you', as in America (almost every American assumes everyone else is also American in the internet unless otherwise stated).

And they're right, American soldiers did unspeakable things in Afghanistan and Iraq, but that doesn't mean all Americans are responsible for the decisions those soldiers made.

All good points.

Links out of order but are the sources. I'm short on time right now. You'll notice the US IC still thinks it was not a lab leak, while the FBI and DoE think it is from their research, but China won't cooperate in the investigation of the source of COVID-19 so that makes things hard.. Biden is attempting to get the IC to declassify and release their info about the origins. Right after the reports from DoE and FBI, China released data showing it appeared to come from wet markets again. I'm happy to be proven wrong but my understanding from people discussing the experts is that the lab leak theory is most likely. The article about the toxic debate is full of info and I believe newest iirc.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/origins-of-the-virus

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/27/1159630271/energy-department-assessment-low-confidence-china-lab-leak

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64806903

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/21/newly-released-chinese-covid-data-infected-animals-wuhan

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64819965.amp