My issue was not that Andy Yen made the comment he did (as much as I disagree). My problem was the Proton account making an official statement doubling down on it.

He did make a subsequent post trying to clarify and apologize, but at this point, the cat is out of the bag, IMO. I’m switching to Tuta for email, Mullvad for VPN, and self-hosting Nextcloud for storage.

It is pretty much just scaremongering. Marijuana, like any drug, can put a person in a mental state that can serve as a trigger for a psychological condition that someone is prone to, like if someone with a family history of anxiety gets way too uncomfortably high. It’s not necessarily the drug that’s at fault - it’s having a stressful experience of a bad time. I’ve never heard of psychosis induced by cannabis though.

Marijuana is just about the safest drug there is, and I think most people could safely try it with no ill effects.

I wasn’t going to try it in the first place, but good to know I guess

No, I don’t think so. Most of the video is a surface-level, but generally accurate, description of anarchism.

Boogaloo Boys are a far-right accelerationist organization/movement that are named after their desire to launch a second civil war in America (“Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo”). They’re closer to being Proud Boys or Three Percenters than they are to reading Kropotkin or organizing with Food Not Bombs.

I would say this is similar to how “anarcho”-capitalists try to lay claim to anarchism while espousing right-wing ideas. They might try to claim the name, but their ideology is far from anarchist in actuality.

I’m in the same boat. SimpleLogin is a nice feature, but if this is Proton’s position, they don’t get more of my money.

Firefox Relay seems like a good, free choice?

At first, I thought it was a pretty good video aimed at people unfamiliar with the ideas of anarchism. Then they said that Boogaloo Boys are anarchists, which is not at all accurate. Crash Course is misinforming their audience here, unfortunately.

So he’s walking back and watering down what he said because they’ve gotten so much backlash?

I could handle it if it was the CEO’s personal position - still gross, but whatever. To have this be the company’s official political position, though, I think I’m out.

Recommendations for alternative email and cloud storage providers? Mullvad seems the way to go for VPN

Ah yes, we need fewer nationwide gatherings of solidarity to build connections and prepare to work together over the next few years, and more fruitless calls for violence. That will definitely work.

When I was in high school, I excelled in math and science, so I was pushed super hard to go into engineering for college. I ended up changing majors eventually, but holy shit did I not understand just how strong the engineering school -> “defense” industry pipeline is. They recruit engineering students hard

It was an eye-opening experience, realizing just how many people were comfortable working for these companies as long as they got a fat paycheck

Cool, thank you! I’ll have to give it a read :)

It sounds like we have similar long term plans! For what it’s worth, I’ve heard that homesteading can be great for folks with ADHD, since there are such a wide variety of ways to approach it and tasks that need doing, that it sates our need for novelty to stay engaged with things.

Oh, sure! The other comments did a pretty good job of explaining things. In my case, I struggled a lot with procrastination and getting sidetracked easily, which led to the lazy descriptor. And as for the sensitive, I tend to feel my emotions strongly and quickly, and I also have rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD), so I tend to easily assume I’m being socially rejected

Especially when you don’t have the hyperactivity part (used to be ADD, now it’s ADHD - inattentive type), this makes so much sense as to why I was just called lazy and sensitive as a kid and teenager. Getting diagnosed in my late 20s made so many things make sense in hindsight.

lol yep, at least one person in particular comes to mind

I would say so, yes. If solarpunk is the aesthetic vision of the future we hope for, social ecology provides a political critique and path towards achieving that vision.

Ecology of Freedom, The Next Revolution, and Post-Scarcity Anarchism are all good

You are not as strong as you think you are. Lift with your legs, not your back.

4 days a week, 4-6 hours per day. Having a third weekend day is wonderful, and it really helps with running errands and making appointments. And I have a hard time doing anything for more than 6 hours in a day tops. Unless I’m on my meds, I’ve got about 3 hours of focus before lunch and three after, and that’s it. Which isn’t much of a problem in my current role, where I usually have more time than I need. What I hate the most is the obligation to sit at my desk for 8 hours a day, every day, even when there’s nothing to do