Also with the most recent update, the halo collar app no longer has access to Google satellite data IF you operate Graphene OS. I suspect Google is the culprit because the folks at Halo have no idea how to fix this bug

What can we do to fight this particular court ruling?

Of course that’s how they sell the idea initially. But we would be fools to think they aren’t planning on jacking up cost in a couple years to boost profits and expand surveillance to be sold to the highest bidder (fascists). History tells us that information will be used against their political opponents. Imagine how easy it’s going to be to target protestors and immigrants with a camera on every intersection

This is awesome. It makes me wonder if we somehow picked up on that through genetic memory or phonetic archetype when we started changing it back to more of a pejorative (i.e. “nice” guys)

This is so well written, thanks for sharing!

Link is paywalled. Can you post the text from the article?

That’s awesome… It looks just like the park I used to take my exes kid to to fish in new Mexico

250k is SO LOW man. It’s not that hard to get by and be happy on 60k a year if you use your money right. Your happiness and peace can’t be quantified. Do you want to enjoy life, love people, and make the world better? Or just be another parasite who makes everyone’s life just a bit worse every day

Saṃsāra is a Sanskrit word that means “wandering” as well as “world,” wherein the term connotes “cyclic change” or, less formally, “running around in circles.” In the context of Indian religions and philosophies, saṃsāra is the concept of all beings experiencing an ongoing cycle of life, death, and rebirth.

In Hindu Philosophy and some Indian religions, samskaras or sanskaras are mental impressions, recollections, or psychological imprints that colour one’s thoughts and actions, and form the basis for the development of karma theory. In Buddhism, the Sanskrit term saṃskāra is used to describe “mental formations,”

This guy is a badass. He is an individual. He is not the Catholic church, but is an individual person within that church. It’s extremely bigoted to say “none of it matters” because of what other members of the Catholic church have done. It’s like telling a Catholic person, you refuse to be their friend or listen to what they have to say because of what their church has done

The terms are used almost interchangeably in Hindi. And used to describe something similar in Buddhism. I wonder why there’s so much overlap

Buddhists call this samsara or samskara. Our habits (whether good or bad) are the most difficult thing to break and breaking these cycles is also the most important skill to acquire

This is the solution, but to help wean them off their addiction, maybe we could send them all to addiction rehab facilities, just to give them an out so we don’t have to get violent. They are addicts and compassion is the best way out of this mess. Fight fire with water

It’s hard to predict who you will fall for in 2,5, or 10 years. You will want to be honest with that person, and it might turn them off to know your history. Luckily, after enough time has passed, and you’ve really worked on yourself, it shouldn’t really matter what you did 10-20 years ago.

In my opinion, you are better off finding yourself a consistent fuck-buddy for in between relationships. A mutual arrangement, rather than a bunch of one night stands, is much safer for your mental health (assuming no one catches feelings).

This is coming off as defensive, which I expected after making a comment like that. Could it be that I said something you weren’t ready to hear?

I have known men and women with 10-20 body count who have no issues in relationships because that’s just natural exploration. But spending more time focusing on sex than working on your self DEFINITELY has an effect on your ability to maintain a LTR. You have to feel the loneliness and embrace it, sometimes. You have to use your excess energy to workout, volunteer, make friends, go to therapy, learn a trade, and meet yourself, instead of putting it into a bunch of random (or toxic) partners you don’t really want to spend the rest of your life with.

If you can’t focus your energy on constructive things, your soul suffers. You get weak/soft, and uninteresting as a partner. It took years for me to build up real inner strength again and women notice that shit. This is not just advice for women, it’s advice for men too. It takes months to know someone, and even longer to get over them if you’ve had sex with them. There’s a limited amount of time we have in our 20s, and if you have sex with a bunch of people too early, you’ve probably wasted that time.

I have no problem with them doing it, I just probably would never date anyone who has had an only fans. It’s something young women/men should be aware of that they automatically exclude themselves from a huge part of the dating pool when they make a decision like that. If they are ok with that, more power to them! Kind of like having 30+ sexual partners. It seems to take pieces of your soul, and it takes decades of work to get those pieces back together in my opinion. Most people are inherently turned off by that for a reason.

I agree, man. Let the tots axe whoever makes over 10 million and keeps it!!

Cuz it’s one, two, three… What are we fightin for? Don’t ask me I don’t give a damn! Next target is Iran!

Me thinks the lady doth protest too much. Did something like this happen to you or someone you know? It did indeed happen to a couple of my family members, but that doesn’t make it excusable. Growing up in a military city has taught me there is no end to the amount of technical mumbo-jumbo an organization will come up with to dodge accountability for an immoral act.

They assist their grunts in this accountability-dodging too, for better compliance (so they don’t go home and shoot themselves). The better part of them choose to drink themselves to death anyways because they know, deep down, that what they have done is wrong regardless of how many loopholes you try and bake in to the process.

This is why the PROCESS needs to change. We need to find some way to give them the information they need, the accountability, AND the permission to deny orders without repercussion.