Not entirely sure where my cousin gets his information. He may be mostly getting it from social media. But it is possible that he still watches traditional news. Although, the traditional news in my home country reports about the US here and there. My mom still mostly watch news from our home country, but even she doesn’t know about the ICE arrests.

I know Lemmy is gonna say “stop being addicted to your phone” but like I’m asking this question with more of a like “fuck corporate” attitude

I gained a reputation in my work as someone always glued to the phone, even when walking home. Not that I care much about what others think, but in my defense, I am trading stocks. I toned down using my phone because I got called out by my supervisor as it had affected my work performance. In my role, we have lots of downtime in between the tasks and using phone is allowed so long as we do the job properly. Anyhow, not that I mind much what they think of me because my plan for early retirement is more important than my company needs who could eventually throw you under the bus 😝 I know companies don’t always appreciate long time employees so why should I give 110%? Some people give too much to companies but not me.

Yup. End of an era. I mean, it’s inevitable, it’s just the fact of life. Many countries rise and fall. Not all countries go extinct but many powers don’t regain their previous status. And that’s okay. It means being humble and not wanting to expand like a cancer. Just look at small countries like Switzerland, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Scandinavia, Canada etc. They haven’t been in under any threat of a self-collapse since their inception. But big players such as Britain, Russia, USA and France, they either lost their status as powers or on the way to lose theirs as the case with USA. Like in any betting, the big players got too greedy with so much winning instead of quitting while ahead. (So, much for winning magats).

I am not American so it is easier for me to say this bleak outlook, but we have to prepare for what may come. Stay strong my American brothers and sisters.

I will play devil’s advocate, it is not necessarily that people have bad excuses, most of the time it just hard to break from habits. It doesn’t help either that in the case of digital privacy, most people don’t give a fuck. Tech companies know that people prefer convenience.

The only way I see how people will migrate to more ethical services like Fediverse and Signal is if enough people are convinced to go, that it will start a FOMO sentiment on to each person. That is the real boulder we are rolling up the hill.

Of course, this is in Asia of all places lol. Small shops there love making play on words.

Nothing says ‘circular economy’ like Microsoft stranding 400 million PCs

This might be a silly question but would this not be a good idea for a start up company that recycle computer parts?

Dabbling in stocks and as I grow older and working longer under a corporation, I realised it’s hard to be ethical in a capitalist system.

And we’re going to have Sugar Bombs coming to a store near you!

Band of Brothers. I’m not obsessed with per se, but it is a show etched into my brain forever.

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Hi fascist! I’m guillotine!

The case revealed Google continued gathering user data via Firebase, a monitoring database embedded in 97% of top Android apps and 54% of leading iOS apps, even after users disabled data collection

This is why we can’t have nice things.

I think somewhere, deep down, a small dot of intelligence is trying to come out of Trump’s fat, orange blob of a body.

After watching Breaking Bad, I felt as if a part of my life had been torn away from me and I have been left with a hole.

X is X not ✝️

I have a bigger respect for Emmy than the Oscars. But I am surprised as well that it took so long for Emmy to award a black man for best supporting role.

I searched for my topics of interest and hobbies but barely got any hit.

Oh yeah, it is worth noting that Nebula doesn’t have as many options as in YouTube, I’m afraid. That is the limitation of platform. New content creators do come in to Nebula but not as often as it would be on YouTube.

Personally, I love nebula because it does have the topics I am interested in, which is mainly history, news, video games and politics. There are also long form video essays on variety of topics. I would say that Nebula is more like nerdy because of prevalence of those topics. I haven’t come across Nebula videos that are more niche like, let’s say, woodworking or metalworking etc. I do photography but I think there is only one Nebula content creator that does photography.

Iirc, I think the FBI themselves said that most of terrorism in US soil is from right wing extremists.

What about Nebula? It’s paid subscription but you can pay for once off lifetime subscription for $300, and the content creators even encourage users to opt for the latter. Edit: wording

I often read “Europe needs the US military to defend itself” online, but is it actually true?

For now at least. Europe doesn’t have the same size of military industrial complex that US has at the moment. Europe needs more time to gear up.