nah, all the US government has to do is ask Apple and Google to delist the wero app and it’ll be cooked

digital sovereignty and mandatory locked down rectangles are fundamentally incompatible

I haven’t stopped masking to avoid giving/receiving COVID to the best of my ability, but i noticed that during summer i can actually breath normally while outdoors with a mask on, and in winter it helps keep my face warm, so I’ve never had a reason to stop since starting and have no incentive to do so even if COVID goes extinct somehow

so not quite people related (tho cars, which are driven by people, are probably involved), but stench is definitely around one way or the other

covid vaccines mostly help reduce the gravity of an infection and mortality, but they don’t do much in terms of protecting you from long covid (which you can get even with an asymptomatic infection, and each infection makes it more likely)

FFP2/N95 and comparable masks (and ventilation technically but cleaner air is something society has given up on) are what helps prevent spread on either side

fwiw mask quality can vary (especially if you only get the absolute cheapest ones), and some are more breathable/comfortable than others

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In a way it’s almost surprising (but not really in how society at large seems unable to act in self interest), given how there’s so many neurotypicals that love to say that autistic people lack empathy, with a negative framing, yet as a community we apparently love casually throwing anyone with NPD (usually armchair diagnosed fully on the basis of unethical actions) under the bus just as much, not realizing we’d be next anyhow

it’s also really strange for her to say that, it’s not like she could realistically know what you went through yourself. a lot of abuse (especially psychological) doesn’t show (clear) signs, especially as victims will tend to need to hide it for self preservation. looking “lucky” to an outside perspective doesn’t make it so.

would like to hear about how NPD (or NPD + autism, if you don’t feel like they’re separate) affects your justice sensitivity, and what masking NPD looks like

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

not quite, by 2020 the part of Google that cared about the quality of the results fully lost to those who only care about maximizing ad revenue

so they made it worse on purpose to get you to search more, and set the stage for the SEO abuse takeover

that’s assuming the stock won’t go up regardless of the price increase outcome long enough for shares to be sold

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-caught-paying-nazis-to-post-on-facebook

genuinely impressive given how lots of apps (and increasingly more of them, but afaik messaging apps generally still fall behind?) seem to require iOS 16 or later nowadays

even taking the pretense at face value, this would just be adults damning kids who are queer, autistic and/or in abusive households/communities (among others) and patting themselves on the back

always scrambling to “protect” kids without ever considering their needs or why they engage in the behavior they do at all

(assuming they’re not just seen as defective goods to be either “corrected” or disposed of, of course)

Normally I keep a phone until severe hardware failure (spicy pillow, broken digitizer, not charging…)

The only thing that has gotten me to upgrade was the Boox Palma 2 Pro for it’s e-ink display specifically, due to eyestrain from reading on LCD, and my Galaxy A23 5G i received as a gift having its display start falling out (and fear of future storage/ram prices)

(technically almost a phone due SIMs only being supported for mobile data, but i use a flip phone for SIM-based calls/sms anyway)

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with windows 11 it depends a bit, there’s cpus you were able to install win11 with some workarounds but that due to missing cpu instruction sets can’t run newer builds

so the latest win11 major update running on a machine below official system requirements is no guarantee of the next one doing so as well