If you do you should be actively running them. One thing that annoys me with the fediverse is I feel a bunch of communities get created and abandoned. Its like folks are doing the if you build it, they will come and no. No. They will not come. It just pollutes the topic. Similarly if communities around the subject already exists see if that does well enough for you or see if you can become a mod and help it grow. For the same reasons. To much of the same thing. Don’t get me wrong I like there being a few different communities just for redundancy purposes being instances can blow up or become abandoned. Honestly people real serious about thier community should really think about having a backup ready for it on another instance. Anyway I block things I don’t care for like sports or memes. OMG. sometimes it feels like people make new meme community just so they can have a personal community to post their memes. At times they pop up like crazy and there are a ton already and I get there are different meme subject type things but you will see the exact same subjects. Ok. yeah soapboxing a bit there. Anyway do it if your serious about something and will put the time in.

Im the same as you. Yeah there is all sorts of nasty stuff but it always seems like there is more to loose than what it gains. Besides loss of rights there is the whole things going underground which just makes them harder to track or know how much of a problem it is. I want laws to be more about actions than art, writing, speech, and thought. I mean do all sorts of crazy searches regularly for weapons or poison or some other nerd thing that goes through my mind at some point. Does not mean im going to go kill someone. Now if I get picked up as a suspect I totally get it being something to point out in court if it showed I searched for something specific to the crime Im accused of recently or such. Not that I think peoples info should be available willy nilly but the subpoena system is understandable.

Its funny because I only have a smarphone for when im working but I have found it as a handy camera. So I think it might be worth it as long as you don’t use it for stuff you can do on your laptop. Its like you have to use it minimally. Like not using it for social media or games will cause you to barely use it. or it least it does for me.

yeah but good rough. especially that happy ending sound.

I doubt I will delete most of my social media because I never used them. They are just placeholders with some limited use do to certain things like communicating with family. I deleted reddit because I actually had used it a lot but thats not the case with facebook, xitter and such. Linkedin I would love to get rid of after I retire if that day ever comes but then I have responsibilities to younger folks I have worked with for references and such.

remember clinton wanting to be known as the education president. So many options for this guy. The litigious president, the graft president, the unqualified president, it just goes on and on.

I too moved over during the api hulabaloo but I only used the website. I just was pretty sick of it and when I looked at the federation I was like. this is fine. Many folks want more numbers but I can take it or leave it as I like the sorta in crowd we got going.

I don’t see how anyone can get by without one nowadays. Now online vs something local is a big deal. I use online for unimportant passwords and local for important passwords. With important being financial mostly but some other things. Unimportant are things that if I lost access to and ended up never using again would not like ruin my life.

Yeah I will totally watch a playthrough over playing sometimes. There are many games and I only have so much time. Many playthroughs the person already had completed the game and then to boot they will edit out going back to save games. Heck back in the day we would hang at arcades and we did not have enough money to constantly play so we would watch each other or strangers play neat games. Someone who is good might regularly get a little crowd around them. And money is another thing along with time. Games cost money. I have not played deaths stranding or the last of us but I know the game.

EDITED - so I did not really answer the question. no its not the same but yes its an acceptable way to enjoy a game.

This sounds a lot like this board game where you win by being the last one to die.

Makes sense. How do they know your a male looking for hetero pic unless you send them your penis to prove it.

exactly. don’t stop taking drugs kids.

Nothing. Your better off.

Everyone should have total rights to all their biometrics. Its ridiculous to have it otherwise. Even parody and satire should not be an exact thing it should be similar like someone dressing up like them.

Im talking about the concept of insurance in general. Im just comparing it. You pay more to handle and event that you can’t economically handle at the time. Like losing your house to a fire. Im just saying the value is worth the cost much like generally these things are.

I mean I know you could take classes such that you could graduate early but that might get you 17 or 16 if you were enrolled in school early enough with a birthday at the right time of year. Im not sure if you can drop out without parent permission but you can emancipate at 16. For my area at least.

Work full time? When does mandatory school end over there?

maybe. the us is odd in that if you literally cannot walk out on your own they usually keep you while the bills rack up.

You would have lost your job and likely be on medicaid and disability and it would be very unclear if you have or lost your house and possessions but keeping hold of them moving forward would be almost impossible unless you could find a new job which is also highly unlikely.

I liked these and was put off by the lampshade ones but those grew on me as the ability to put the screen whereever you want is pretty great.