What? I was watching the protests live and the Waymo vehicles catching fire wasn’t caused by smoke canisters, lol.
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13 years ago I moved to Los Angeles from the middle of nowhere (Iowa). I fell in love with the city and now it’s much more my home than where I’m from.
The problem is that lately I feel like I belong somewhere fast-paced. The people here move at a snail’s pace with zero self-awareness. It’s enough that just going outside to do simple errands drives me crazy. It feels like it takes people a long time to simply respond to a green light.
I recently came back from a vacation to Mexico and while they definitely have a host of problems (many which also drive me crazy) I always come back feeling like I’ve lost a sense of purpose and being: Mexico has so many more third spaces and things to do, and everyone seems to be outside actually living.
Not sure what my point is, but I know what you mean. I also think some of us are simply meant to travel more and just don’t feel satisfied doing the same day to day tasks.
What the fuck is a parasol?
Edit: I looked it up and now I understand. Does the word happen to come from Spanish? Parasol would mean “for the sun” much like other words like parabrisas.
I always get stuck with the cursed cart but I roll with it. In a crowded store on the weekend nothing is more fun than power walking and doing extreme maneuvers with a loud as fuck cart.
I spent the entire day on the Citizen app.
This is one of those things that if you really want to do it, you’ll have to live with the consequences.
I’m an American that VPNs everything first to my VPS then down a double hop commercial VPN tunnel that finally exits in Switzerland. DNS traffic also travels over that VPN tunnel so you’ll rightly guess that my DNS is rather slow too.
What I do is I run a resolver on the VPS (physically near me) that aggressively prefetches commonly queried DNS records. After years of using Unbound I found Blocky to be much, much faster (especially with huge blocklists). It’s to the point now where sure, it’s slower than a “normal” internet connection but it doesn’t feel slow to me anymore.
Oh yeah, forgot about this. Each time I rotate accounts I’ve got to go on an anime blocking spree. Nothing against anime but the fans are creeps.
Don’t they generally live in pollution-friendly states?
Rather, let’s read and write about it.
That’s true and that all makes sense. I guess I kind of forget because generally the IP address is physically very near to where I’m testing from.
I just switched to a Swiss DNS resolver regardless. I like Quad9’s malware blocking but it’s more important to me to keep the DNS server in Switzerland (despite it needing to query outside the country regardless).
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Because for whatever reason people need to find more ways to fuck with animals. Despite animal agriculture completely destroying the environment, causing deforestation not to mention an array of health problems people feel the need to find more uses for dead animals.