Maybe I’m weird, but I don’t avoid any of them, I just take them for what they are, and some are total shit. That said, sometimes you’re looking for shit, so it makes sense to go to the shit farm.

You know what, scratch that, I avoid whitehouse.gov and foxnews.com.

If it’s something serious, yes.

Good, then it is a bit less of a bad tool in this instance. Just don’t lose the habit of checking your sources—it’s a slippery slope.

Do you ask for the sources every time?

But you can’t see the source of the information, which means it could be a reputable source, or it could be Joe-Sucks-His-Own-Dick from Reddit. In another comment, I pointed out that AI was telling people to put glue on pizza to keep the cheese from falling off—if you can see the source, you are much more likely to understand the veracity of the information.

Not trusting Chat-GPT results, which are known to hallucinate false information, as your primary search method is a silly take? AI was telling people to put glue on pizza to keep the cheese from falling off. If you can see that the source of that information is a Reddit shitpost, you are way more likely to make a good judgment call about the veracity of that information.

If you want searches without sponsored results, use SearXNG or an equivalent that strips out the ads.

Talk about being part of the problem.

4:20, ayoooo! /s

I no longer work with them. Everyone’s biology is different—you should see a hair loss doctor and get their advice for your own scalp.

There are a lot of prescription treatments for balding these days that seem to work. I have never personally used them, but I know people who have, and they seemed to stop going bald.

So you want to sleep with your fiancée? I feel like I’m missing something. That is pretty normal.

It hits different when you’re the torturer.

Watching Mac and Me on repeat is officially a Guantánamo Bay torture method. /s

You are correct, they have infiltrated exit nodes, but it is still one of the most secure privacy tools available. If you are Al Quaeda, don’t use tor. If you are an average person preserving their privacy or subverting censorship, use tor.

So you read some articles but don’t have an understanding of what the weaknesses are? That doesn’t seem like a solid foundation to form an opinion on.

Ok

That is the anus of an adept.

You would have more than half the population of the country plunged into abject poverty. West Virginia would look like an apocalyptic hillbilly hellscape.

Define self sufficient.

California is not self sufficient in my opinion. They may have a lot of money, but they rely heavily on interstate commerce and trade routes for their prosperity. Taxes and cost of living are already high, and those things would explode if cut off from trade. The federal government won’t hesitate to use their leverage to keep other countries from supporting the newly declared independence of California.

Texas is not self sufficient either, but I’m not advocating for their secession.

Put simply, we need fewer borders, not more of them. Any state that thinks they can take their money and run will find themselves brutalized by the federal government, taxed to oblivion by neighboring states, and experiencing an exodus of companies who are based there. It is the path to destruction, not liberation.

What you are proposing would start a North American war deadlier than any that has ever been seen. Everyone thought Texas was dumb for talking about secession, but now that other states don’t want to be part of the union, people act like it is a serious idea. It isn’t. Never has been.

In the words of Ben Franklin, “we must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”

That’s what asking for admin support was for—they wanted help to be able to save it. They didn’t get help, so it didn’t get saved. If there was a magic person out there willing to take it over, then why weren’t they willing to join the admin team when asked?