Wait, ChromeOS was explicitly created to support the institution of chattel slavery? Who knew?!

Mushroom hunting; most people think the only mushrooms you find in the woods are magic or poisonous

They do like in that Starfleet Academy episode where they fake a war to satisfy everyone’s honor and just pretend everything is OK

Oh yes, “trees of the same species” is the key piece of missing information in the meme

Has no one ever been in a forest before? Trees 100% grow all up into each other all the time. They compete for sunlight and try to choke each other out by design. These pictures honestly don’t look real

In Luke, Jesus tells his followers to sell off some of their clothes to buy weapons so this is not totally out of the realm of possibility

If you have ever thrown away junk mail that was not addressed to you, caught certain types of fish, or possessed certain plants or fungus, congratulations! You have already broken one or more federal laws

Aurora is also a good substitute store if you don’t want to use sandboxed Google Play, but anything that uses Google Play Services will likely be borked

There are no bad plants, only bad locations

Generally a mistake to blame individuals (lawyers) or people who trade their labor for money (working class) for systemic problems (capitalism corrupting a judicial system)

Could have a single picture of it that isn’t a render, to start

I do civil engineering work, mostly related to soils etc. I have a computer for work but that’s about as far as it gets for me professionally.

Engineer here, but my technical expertise is about as far away from computing and technology as you can get and still be an engineer.

I was a kid in the 90s and the first album I bought was Metallica’s black album. I spent over $18 in like 1999 so with inflation that’s like $300 or something now. Then the drummer of what was then my favorite band says hey, if you’re downloading our music on Napster, then we don’t want you as a fan. That hit teenage me pretty hard and basically radicalized me to find “alternative methods” for every piece of digital media I could, if that’s how the people I looked up to were going to treat me for not having as much money as them. Everything I host now started at that inflection point, from picking up Linux as a hobby to learning about networking and security. Turned out to be a pretty good path to follow though seeing how Microsoft, Netflix, Spotify et. al. turned out in the end.

I still download and share all of Metallica’s discography out of spite, but haven’t listened to them since.

Some non-polotical reasons:

If you live in the US there’s a better chance than not that your ISP is selling your personal data. Outside US idk, maybe still though. Either way you’re putting a lot of trust in a telecom company.

Since net neutrality was removed your traffic can be throttled based on what type of traffic it is, so having it all encrypted for the first hop at least has it treated all the same.

Two political ones I haven’t seen mentioned yet:

You don’t actually know you don’t have anything to hide. Again, assuming US, the amount of federal laws there are couldn’t fit in a pickup truck if they were all printed out. And if someone’s looking to make an example of you then you shouldn’t make it easy for them to find a reason. My favorite example is that throwing out mail that isn’t addressed to you (like junk mail for a previous tenant etc) is a felony.

You also could be falsely accused of a crime. For example, your phone gave out it’s location info near a place where coincidentally an actual crime had taken place. Best to not give that information freely to everyone and have to pony up $10k for a lawyer for nothing.

So where does the ‘Biden was a so-so president’ sentiment come from, anyway?

It’s because the things he did were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. When there’s an insurrectionist running for president who’s promising to break every law that’s been written, you don’t clutch your pearls and ignore it.

Started a mutual aid group in our small town. Mostly deals with some local agriculture etc but hoping to expand it to more community needs etc. Trying to make the local community more resilient in turbulent times

I can’t think of any artist more divorced from their work than Orson Scott Card

Team Debian

Is there some tool that turns like an eBook or PDF into this format?

Yes/yes

The benefits far outweigh the downsides and it’s my personal belief that this is a gateway conspiracy theory