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Most people are easy to manipulate, religious or not.

1. Why do you think fake news are a thing? People are willing to believe whatever will suit their narrative without actually doing the (real/hard) work of cross-referencing and checking said news (edit: aka, without using their brains). More importantly without ever daring criticize their own beliefs—aka the ‘we’re right/we’re the good guys’ vs the ‘they’re the wrong/the bad guys’ type of discourses that seem to prevail in our (manipulative and manipulated) societies.
2. What could explain those almost instantaneous gathering of large crowds based on anger or fear? Most people are willing to use anything as a pretext to let their anger/fear free to express itself and wreck havoc (back to point 1)

People being religious just tells us the type of things they’re more likely willing to believe in/act upon. But the gullibility is the same with or without religion (edit: and that is real major issue in everything that’s going wrong nowadays), to me at least.

Obviously there will be backups, but I also don’t want to lose anything on it as much as possible.

Don’t rely on a USB stick for that, no matter the brand, at least based on my personal experience.

I started fencing, because I enjoy poking tall guys in the belly with my rapier.

the guy’s belly is just really close to my eye level and also larger since the guy is bigger). I like how exposed, soft, fleshy, juicy and vulnerable a tall guy’s belly looks and feels.

sometimes also jokingly push my rapier deeper into the guy’s belly and twist it there 90°.

What do you think about that?

I think you insist a little too much on the enjoyment you feel and how fun you think it is… But it may also just be me not being able to appreciate your sense of humor to its full, I willingly admit that.

Reading your post, I’m surprised you don’t know already for sure if it does indeed hurt, or not, to do what you ‘jokingly’ like to do to these men? I mean, were every single one of those tall dudes you ‘jokingly’ stabbed in the belly kind enough with your person to not let you experience by yourself what if feels like? How nice of them.

If I had to pick one, the Nobel. I don’t care much about awards.

Wouldn’t be surprised if it has a flux capacitor somewhere in there too

Wasn’t the last (working) one destroyed in a train accident somewhere in the 80s? Not that I’m old enough to have first seen this movie back when it was released. Absolutely not.

Thx!

Would love to read a few pages out of his journal. Also, if you have not clicked the links embedded in the first post, this is worth reading too: https://news.wsu.edu/news/2024/10/28/endowment-supports-cataloging-of-worlds-longest-diary/

What is, in your opinion, a necessary set of minimal restrictions on freedom of thought, speech and expression?

• Liberty of thought?
  What the fuck?! Anyone should be free to think what they want, no matter how ugly, dirty or stupid, or even criminal, that could be. That’s thoughts, ffs.
• Liberty of expression. My stance is that we should not tolerate call to murder or to direct violence against anyone or any group of persons (be it physical, or otherwise). That also means, we should not tolerate any call to the ‘I feel offended’ argument to try to shut anyone we disagree with (we’re all free to not listen to anything we don’t like, that doesn’t mean we have any right to censor it), and no tolerance towards any call to ‘vengeance’ or to ‘cancel’ anyone no matter how much they ‘deserved’ it (judging and then, maybe, punishing someone should be the exclusive job of justice not of an angry (and stupid) mob of people).

For the rest, the liberty of expression and the liberty of discussion are fundamentals to any working democracy—and to any working educative system too, looking at you (way too many) colleges and universities. Their absence being key to the creation of any kind of… dictatorship you can think of.

I’ll let anyone pick the kind of political regime they want to live in, I’ve made my choice and it’s not a dictatorship even one controlled by the ‘good guys’. Fuck that.

Edit: if you feel like downvoting this, by all mean do it but keep in mind that this won’t teach me (or anyone else for that matter) much of your reasoning in doing so. So, if you want to help me (and anyone else reading this) realize how wrong I am, maybe explain why/how in a comment? Otherwise, your downvote won’t mean much if anything, to me at least.

Thx for explanation :)

Thx a lot for sharing.

I’m a 50+ non-geek Linux user myself, and selfhosting is the one computer ‘thing’ I would love to be able to setup one day but I’m too afraid to seriously start doing as I’m way too afraid of being that ‘low hanging fruit’ you mentioned in your post.

I said I was not a geek in the sense that, after almost 40 years using only Apple computers, I’ve switched to Linux to use it like I used… my Mac. Sure, I’ve learned to understand a little bit of Linux workings and I would not want to go back to the Mac, no way, I can also write simple bash scripts (with a lot of trials and errors) but that’s about the full extent of my computer ‘expertise’.

So, even though your post is well written and informative, it was still way beyond my limited skills, I’m afraid. I’m not saying that as downer, it was a really interesting read and very informative with all those useful links, but hopefully as away to let you know there are… extremely… odd users like myself that are very much interested in the idea but also are as clueless as an oyster comes the time to buy a pair of sneakers :)

In regards to self-hosting, my conclusion so far is that it’s a much safer choice for someone like me to not do it. The risk is too real to get into some serious issues. And that I’m better off using the few paid services I rely (all in the EU, many of them small companies I can have have direct/human discussion with) as I know by experience I can trust their expertise a lot more than I woudl ever trust my desire to ever become not completely in competent in those fields ;)

Fingers crossed.

Vite, vite je réinstalle Windows car je voudrais pas faire faire des mauvais rêves à Bill… Heu, ah ben non, j’étais sur Mac moi avant, pas sur Windows.

Tu vois Bill, la bonne nouvelle, c’est que je ne t’ai pas quitté ! La moins bonne nouvelle, enfin si on veux, c’est que je t’ai jamais vraiment trouvé à mon goût. Désolé, mon grand.

It’s not owned by Reddit. Aka, freedom.

Seriously, Reddit can and already has changed its policy without anyone being able to oppose it in any meaningful way. And that also goes for the website/app design. That sucks. With the Fediverse no such thing is possible because no corporation can own it and decide what its should be and how. If i don’t like a change, I can switch instance.

Quels bande guignols. Leur mot de passe aurait été bien plus sécurisé s’il avait été jusque 10, voire 12 pour être encore plus tranquille.

Quoi?

Congrats! I did the same, just moving away from macOS instead of Windows, a few years ago and never regretted it.

Moving more and more of my activities offline, back to analog even.

(any)One that would not change as quickly as ours is changing.

Thx a lot. And, once again, real nice job :)

Not really my kind of ‘design’ but I quite like that nonetheless! It’s very interesting and original. The tree one would be me pick if I had to pick one.

May I ask how you do that? Is it just painted on the fabric?

Seems rather fitting to me, considering TikTok and its too many ‘Social Media’ siblings have ushered our societies into a new Dark Age.

I would say:

• Reading books
• Playing chess

Both can be done on a phone I suppose.