I Hate Seeing People Now Making Fun Of Those Who Care About Privacy Online. I've Seen People Saying Things

Hey, look at me. Look at me. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: you need to condition yourself to being okay with being inconvenienced by things. The first time I spoke about this I meant it in a mental health way- it is good to go out to the store and see people versus just ordering alone at home- but there is another more pressing societal issue you should be more concerned about as well.

Any service you rely on for convenience can be weaponized against you the moment you begin to rely on it. Streaming used to be a cheap and convenient way to see movies at home. It is now exorbitantly expensive, you need multiple accounts just to get what you want, and any of those movies can be taken from you at any time. And unless you have gotten used to going through the “inconvenience” of owning physical media, you can do nothing about it. Same goes for buying things on Amazon. Same goes for any service like DoorDash etc. These companies WANT you to be reliant on them for convenience so they can do whatever they want to you because, well, what else are you gonna do?

Same thing goes for the uptick in AI. If you train yourself to become reliant on AI for doing basic things, you will be taken advantage of. It is only a matter of a couple years before there are no free AI services. Not only that, but in the usage of AI’s case, it is robbing you of valuable skills that you need to curate that you will be helpless without the moment the AI companies drive in the knife the way they have done with streaming. Delivery. Cable. Internet. Etc. It will happen to AI too. And if you are not practicing skills such as. Writing. You are not only going to be at the mercy of AI companies in the digital world, but you are going to be extremely easy to take advantage of in real life too.

I am begging you to let go of learned helplessness. I am begging you to stop letting these companies TEACH you helplessness. Do something like learn to pirate. It is way more inconvenient at the beginning, but once you know how, it is one less way companies can take advantage of you. Garden. Go to the thrift store (older clothes hold up better anyway). These things take more time and effort, yes, but using time and effort are muscles you need to stretch to keep yourself from being flattened under the weight of our capitalist hellscape.

Inconvenience yourself. Please. Start with only the ways you are able. Do a little bit at a time. But do something.

Y'all ever make the mistake of trying to buy a taco and going to O'Tacos?

For a while in my life I legitimately considered moving to Germany. There’s multiple reasons I inevitably ended up staying in the US but one of the big ones was that one time when I was in Germany and wanted some salsa the closest thing I could find was basically just tomato sauce.

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found a baby turtle in my sewer and used AI aging techniques to work out what it would look like as an adult and used google reverse image search to find images of its parents who were in a nature documentary in 2017 and used harsh economic sanctions to encourage them not to lose their baby in the sewer again

spin this list of all of the pokemon. you are now that pokemon.

the most aggravating fans are the ones that become huge fans of a villainous character but just can’t handle the fact that the villainous character does villainous things and instead said fans invent a million assbackwards headcanons about how the villain is TOTALLY not a villain at all and is some tragic blob where nothing is their fault even up to and including murder and genocide

i am just so baffled by this

Prague is beautiful, and on my list of cities still to see as we travel around Europe.

This is just me adding to the list of people telling everyone- if you're thinking about closing a padlock onto a bridge as a cute forever keepsake, don't fucking do it. So many people do it, as you can see in these pictures, that historic sites all over the world are facing costly and time-consuming renovations to undo the damage. Not to mention, at this point maintenance crews will just cut the locks off anyway.

There are plenty of great ways to show your love for your partner(s), or for the cities you visit- focus on the ones that won't be a pain to undo.

Lonely Planet

Why love locks are seen as littering - Lonely Planet

Love locks can be found on bridges, lamp posts, fences and monuments worldwide; so why are destinations falling out of love with them?

Prague’s Old Town is a time portal back to the 10th century and has remained virtually untouched since those times. If you can manage to avoid the tourist shops and restaurants the city is among Europe’s most treasured. The famous walk through the Old Town to see the Astronomical Clock, The Gothic Church of Our Lady before Týn that towers over the beautiful center square, and various other Gothic churches, towers, and buildings will leave anyone in awe, but simply wandering aimlessly around the charming cobblestone streets, across the Charles Bridge towards the Prague Caste complex, and discovering some of the most pleasing side street architecture in Europe is what puts this Czech town over the top for me. Nobody complains about being lost here.