New pipe is great, especilly since my alterative was a hardened firefox in android. Much more feature rich by comparison.

Hope for the generation, that’s tough. I think they’ll get through it,though I don’t have a real clue how. I think things are going to get worse before they get better, but it’ll be an “out of the darkness and into the light” kind of thing.

And on a more personal note, I think my daughter will cope well with the world. She reads the most in her grade, last I heard. Her exposure to the algorithms is minimal and we are teaching her to be warry of ai. Sure she gets metered screen time, and regularly exspesses joy, creatively, and imagination.

She gives me hope, that there are other children like her.

I’m always using a proton vpn. As well as a hardened librewolf and default ironfox. I definitly get more captchas and there are some sites that don’t load up, but I have yet found a site that blocks me that I’d turn the vpn off for.

Somethings to note though:

I have been suspended from esty after buying stuff, likely from the vpn. I appealed but nothing has really happened.

Youtube can be a pain, I no longer use google accounts and I don’t bother using their captchs. I just shuffle around on my vpn until I’m no longer a bot.

Streaming; netflix is fine, though I stick to my home country normally.

I tried a couple of other with limited success, nowadays I only use netflix on my compy with a vanilla firefox

I think I tried Paramount and it wasn’t working out. But it may have been because of it not available in my contry or something.

Disney was givin me a lot of trouble, but I think I did get it to work on my phone with the vpn once. (Had to restart the phone with Disney+ disabled first, the it worked.)

Honesty it’s not that bad.
Also as I was writing this I was going list out my privacy set up, but I realized I think I’ve become meme.

I would do this too. Often would microwave the milk a bit to warm it up, mixes better so isn’t lumpy. Maybe add some hot chocolate mix and cinnamon if I was feeling fancy.

Shamiko needs more love❤️

Now thats a good philosorapter.👏

Nah, I see what you mean, but wholly disagree with the LLM idea. I believe it’s just the auther doing there thing. I’ve writen long winded messages,rereading and changing things tgat didn’t make sense, the changing the back after reading it again because now I realize why I wrote it that way.

I’m not saying that’s what they did, but I did have to reread a few sentences to understand what I was reading.

Thank you, I appreciate it.

Love everything about this

I looked into it, and it seems like southern Illinois gets hit by residual hurricane/tropical storms often, which may cause flooding. Personally i lived in chicagoland, so I can’t speak for the south or really the middle. But where I lived it was definitely as safe as you described.

What I want to know is, can you promote Harry Kim?

As a parent, screen time was a mistake.

Reminds me of myself and my daughter.

I saw a goose like this years ago, maybe when I was a kid or young adult. it hung out with the Canadian geese, but was only tolerated and unwelcomed to get close. I think I only saw it the one year. I looked around for answers but only looked for birds native to NA. I had decided that it was a hybrid between a Canadian goose and snow. goose. Thank you for the post and solving an old mystery.

genuinely put a smile on my face, thank you

Tomato pie is already a thing.

And it is indeed suspiciously similar to deep dish pizza.

“tell that to the clock”

Finally! Some good fucking news!

literally me

Yep, bandcamp does all thoes things. Either that or go to their website and buy a thing. You may even try asking the artist directly as how best to do what you want.